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Reply | Celar - Nothing Again
at 13:02 3 Nov 2024
Think Celar will benefit from us playing the 433 formation we did yesterday. He isn't equipped to play the same lone striker role that Frey can.
But he has just got to be more aggressive with everything he does imo. A ball curled into the box after 5 minutes by Madsen, and he is ambling in after it rather than busting his bolx to get on the end of it. A ball played in near post in the second half and he's got to be doing everything he can to get in front of the defender, but hardly a flicker of interest. God knows how many times a ball played to a Sunderland CB on the deck where it was begging for him to get in and make a challenge and at the very least put his mark on the oppo.
Never known a striker who was any good that was "nice". |
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Reply | Solid Midfield
at 11:08 3 Nov 2024
Yeah, I thought 4-3-3 actually worked much better for us than what we've seen the rest of the season. Crucially, it suited the new guys much better. Varane, Madsen, Morgan, Celar all looked much more comfortable. And despite us missing so many, what that line up gave us was a slightly greater physical presence. Quite encouraged by yesterday, and if Sunderland are a top six side, there really isn't that much to fear. |
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Reply | Can this team play Marti ball?
at 11:38 22 Sep 2024
Think this is spot on. In a world where everyone expects everything now, it's worth reminding ourselves that sometimes you have to work for a long time to achieve what you want to achieve.
I am reminded of watching Liverpool 20 years or so back trying to transition into a passing team, and how uncomfortable and alien one and two touch football looked to them. But it needed to be done, because that's how the game was going. We need to do what we are doing because that's where the game is going. |
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Reply | The spine is there, the rest is not working
at 18:46 21 Sep 2024
The points about being static and too cautious are key. While the back four are trying to play out, look beyond them and our lot are often just stood watching. It's no wonder the back four look cautious. The midfielders have simply got to move the opposition around and look to create space for others. That's not just a problem today but for a number of seasons imo.
On the plus side, I thought our goal was absolutely the best thing about the game today, quality from Dembele, Saito and Frey, the sort of goal I can't remember us scoring for a very long time. Frey's movement and finish were just top drawer.
Like a few others on here, I feel this season will all be about how we finsih, not how we start. |
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Reply | Utterly Sick of It
at 23:53 17 Sep 2024
Got to say I felt there was complacency in their play all night, and I never felt we were out of it until the last few minutes. Yeah it felt like a chance missed, but as already said, it just feels like you are playing for the right to be absolutely torn a new one by one of the big boys, and I'm not sure I find that terribly tasteful either. |
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Reply | Utterly Sick of It
at 23:42 17 Sep 2024
I think that's broadly how I see it. The big teams generally couldn't care less about this competition, but one of them will still win it.
I'm not sure the teams in Europe would be the slightest bit bothered if they were removed from the competition, and it would probably be the best thing that could happen for it. |
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Reply | Gavin Ward … discuss
at 20:29 25 Aug 2024
I mean on that, I can't actually imagine what it is the referee is saying there - "don't do that or I'll give a penalty"?
The answer surely is, stand back let the set piece be taken, and if a foul is committed, give a pen. Why have simple "rules" got to be so unnecessarily complicated?
On your earlier point about Mr Ward's, how should we describe it?....confusion, over whether to book Cissoko or Gyabi. I said it yesterday on the 4 minute thread, that was really beyond appalling, and he ought to be brought to account for that alone. |
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Reply | 4 minutes.
at 17:17 24 Aug 2024
Gavin Ward, love child of Keith Styles and Gurnam Singh. Absolutely f@cking useless every time he gets a game. Make sure everyone knows the game is all about him early on, then stand back and watch the game descend into anarchy.
Forget the ridiculous four minutes of injury time. Forget the cluelessness about anything that was going on around him. For me, the absolute low point in the history of refereeing was him trying to book their number 7 instead of the number 18. They all look the same eh Gav? He needs arresting, and with a bit of luck , the courts sending people down for inciting violence can have him behind bars by Monday. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 17:21 22 Aug 2024
In fairness, that article makes not a lot of sense.
Boavista threatening to take the case to court (which makes sense as it's about breach of a legally binding contract), but it's FIFA who announces it's decision.
Cannon has to pay compensation, but Boavista have to pay a net amount of unpaid wages (net of what? Tax? Net of what Cannon has to pay in compensation? Not clear). Boavista also have to pay an additional fine. For what?
QPR responsible for covering part of compensation - why? Presumably the transfer must have been rubber stamped by EFL, maybe also UEFA, maybe also FIFA?
None of that makes any sense whatsoever? A legally binding contract has either been broken or it hasn't. You can't just break it "a little bit". I'd be amazed if that could be settled anywhere outside of court, though I've no idea which jurisdiction. |
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Reply | All-Irelands 2024 Thread
at 19:04 28 Jul 2024
You are right about the game and about the result. It's nothing we haven't seen in soccer many times, but it can't be right that a team with such limited ambition comes away with the title of Champions.
I can appreciate the job that Armagh did in defence, they really did a number on Galway there imo. But they got through Galway much more easily when they did attack, and it would be great to think Armagh might have been confident enough to go toe to toe.
The difference in quality between what the hurlers routinely produce compared to the footballers is night and day. |
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Reply | IT Outage
at 18:31 19 Jul 2024
If there's a genuine risk of non functioning turnstiles, the club needs to be getting details of alternative entrance arrangements out tonight. Tomorrow morning will be too late for many. |
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Reply | Armstrong
at 18:28 19 Jul 2024
Honestly, not sure what else the club could have done here.
Like others, I liked him and would have wanted him to stay. But the club apparently offered him an extension, he wouldn't agree to it. They triggered his further year as they were entitled, and they've gotten a much better deal for him than almost anyone expected.
The only criticism I'd have is that he ought to have been on a season long L1 loan in 22-23. But that can't really be held against Nourry and Marti.
So however he develops, it's an excellent deal for us imo. |
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