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Reply | Where have the goals gone in the Championship?
at 13:54 21 Nov 2024
Pleased to see us doing our bit.
In all seriousness I think the Burnley and Leeds away games were pretty instructive to this. With the state we're in Burnley really could and should be winning that 2-0, 3-0, and Leeds should be putting four on us. Both of them instead content to waste vast amounts of time in the game just rainbowing around in front of us. Side to side to side to side and back again.
I get the theory. Team sits back and you have to draw them out to create space. But in football now so often the away team has no interest in being drawn out. They've no ambition other than to get a draw in the game. So they'll just sit there, and you'll rainbow around in front of them.
Even when it does work, it's so fcking dull.
Football trends are cyclical and sheep like.
Arsene Wenger was revolutionary, suddenly everybody was eating pasta.
When Mourinho won the Champions League with Porto saying he didn't want the ball, we then went into years of teams not wanting the ball. Grim period of football. Actually it was Ian Holloway going into the Premier League with Blackpool and showing you could get somewhere in that environment by having a bit of a go, even if you've got Alex Baptiste, Ian Evatt and Gary Taylor-Fletcher in your team, that seemed to snap teams out of that phase.
There was a while when Pulis and Allardyce types were getting big Premier League, and even the England job.
World Cup in Brazil, everybody played three at the back. Suddenly, everybody's playing three at the back. Like in 1990 when everybody played a sweeper system (except England of course, which Robson got it in the teeth for until he switched).
Unfortunately for the paying public the current trend is set by "Pep" and followed by Russell Martin types and it is FCKING HORRENDOUSLY DULL.
It's ripe for some Chris Wilder type to go through the divisions again playing 4-4-2 with a lot of pace and width and a big man little man strike force, because nobody else is doing it and therefore nobody else can play against it, and frankly that moment cannot come soon enough because football is incredibly boring at the moment. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 11:38 21 Nov 2024
Is the 'expertise and experience' in the room with us now? |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 11:19 21 Nov 2024
So bugger all, then, in fact. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 09:19 21 Nov 2024
Good job it wasn’t nine or we’d never see the little fella again. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 23:01 20 Nov 2024
So you knew Clarke-Salter was out for the Sunderland game did you?
Wish you'd told the rest of us. |
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Reply | Communication
at 22:09 20 Nov 2024
That would be incredible if they took it down.  |
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Reply | Madsen
at 21:30 20 Nov 2024
Steiner is better than anybody we've had up front for the last three seasons. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 18:09 20 Nov 2024
Agree.
And also what's happening atm is we all go towards Saturday and spend the day thinking "well if JCS/Colback/Chair/Frey is back then we might have a chance". Then the team comes out at 2pm and there's this collective disappointment and frustration all over again. I mean you literally heard it in the Crown last home game when it came out and JCS was missing again. Groan, lots of "for fcks sake" lots of people shouting back and forth.
It's expectation management.
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 17:49 20 Nov 2024
Oh yeh, but we knew that anyway and it was silly them trying to pretend otherwise. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 17:34 20 Nov 2024
Look at the immediate reaction around socials and stuff though - it's mostly 'ooooh they're talking to us' not 'oh our squad is completely fcked'. That says something in itself. |
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Reply | Bluesky
at 17:33 20 Nov 2024
We should dig down beneath them.
No team wants to go to a subterranean lair on a cold Tuesday night in February. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 17:18 20 Nov 2024
Well if this is basically a tacit admission that the coms strategy under Nourry has been complete bolox from the start and they've realised that and will now try and unwind it then that's good news. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 17:08 20 Nov 2024
Yeh I've taken the fluff at the bottom as basically an attempt to clarify the situation with BW once and for all.
Whether we're getting value paying for a DOP to work via Zoom from somewhere else in the world is another debate. |
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Reply | FAO clive
at 23:07 19 Nov 2024
This should be fixed.
Please let me know anybody experiencing issues. |
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Reply | Madsen
at 22:54 19 Nov 2024
I like the thinking, but a 6ft 4ins individual currently showing short for corners doesn't immediately suggest to me like he's the next Heider Helguson in waiting. |
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