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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 21:04 27 Jan 2026
And yet in our least challenging, least competitive game of the season, the worst team that’s going to play in this league for years - 4 first team players off injured by half time including the top scorer and most sellable asset out until March. |
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Reply | Frey
at 20:15 27 Jan 2026
Until you watch him play over the last 6 months. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 19:51 27 Jan 2026
So just throw our hands up and say that this time every year we’ll be missing half our squad? |
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Reply | Driving
at 17:01 27 Jan 2026
Yeh everybody basically having open access to dig it up whenever they like and the lack of joined up thinking doesn't help.
They spent months pedestrianizing and cobbling the road outside our office in EC2A and actually did a nice job of it. Literally one week later Virgin Media came and dug trenches through it and covered them with tarmac. |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 16:39 27 Jan 2026
It's irrelevant.
If Ipswich get nine or ten players injured they'll cope with that a lot better than Oxford will do. Likewise Southampton v Sheff Wed.
If you run your finger down the list of the division and say "well everybody is missing nine players this week" it might make you feel better, but it doesn't solve our problem.
When you're a) operating on a budget like ours and b) hanging your whole reason for being on developing players to sell, you can't afford them sitting in the stand.
We were a win or two off the play-offs this time last year after we beat Blackburn, and fell apart from there because of player availability.
Once again this year we've played our way to within three points of the play-offs, and are now risking falling away because of player availability.
Rumarn Burrell was already on ten goals, if he'd stayed fit it's reasonable to assume he'd have got to 15-16 minimum, at which point you could probably have flipped him straight away this summer for quite good money to a Middlesbrough/Birmingham type. Instead he's now injured, at the end of a period when his form had declined and he was obviously tiring.
The key to being better next year is coping better with this period of games. What shall we do differently to make sure it doesn't happen? And if it's happening to everybody, rather than use that as an excuse let's ask what do we do differently to give ourselves a competitive advantage? |
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Reply | Three-game weeks
at 09:24 27 Jan 2026
We've got more double aways than most this season, and more long distance double aways as well, but it's not new. We've had Plymouth-Hull Saturday-Tuesday weeks in each of the last two seasons, now we've got Hull-Southampton.
And it's not going to change either. Nor is the Christmas period. So, what are you doing about it...?
I swear if they sit at the next fans forum and talk about "the narrative" around our fitness and injuries when "actually the data shows..." I'm going to burst into tears. |
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Reply | Frey
at 09:22 27 Jan 2026
I am astonished at that. |
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Reply | Disappearing threads
at 20:04 26 Jan 2026
We're also not having these threads any more either.
These backwards and forwards arguments and sniping. Antagonising.
Day after day.
Line in the sand. Everybody leaves everybody alone. Everybody treats everybody with respect.
Tolerance level really, really low at this moment. |
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Reply | Frey
at 18:30 26 Jan 2026
Really nice statement from Nourry there, over and above usual departures. Clearly been quite an important character in the background. |
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Reply | Four minutes of madness – Report
at 17:10 26 Jan 2026
Walsh should definitely do far better with both the injury time goals.
But before we even get to the shot for the third, look at this screenshot and tell me how we turned that into a goal against. How do you concede from here?
You look at that and you would say the favourite is a big Jimmy Dunne right footed clearance down the field. Second favourite is Walsh calls and falls on the ball. Incredibly, neither of them get to that ball first. Our lad to the left (Bennie?) beats them both to it and chips a terrible left footed clearance barely to the edge of the box. |
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Reply | Disappearing threads
at 15:05 26 Jan 2026
Short story - I'm basically not having this message board look like it did after Stoke every time we lose. |
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Reply | Four minutes of madness – Report
at 13:59 26 Jan 2026
I don't think you're the only one mate, it's lagging about 1,600 views behind the report of the 0-0 at Oxford as it stands  |
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Reply | Julien speaks
at 12:29 26 Jan 2026
Also, if you go massively out of your way to stress that he's not the manager he's the head coach, and it's a collective effort, then that makes just sacking him when results go wrong rather problematic. Or, at least, it should. |
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