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Reply | Yang min-hyeok
at 21:18 6 Aug 2025
He had his flashes but I don't think he was consistent for us. Hopefully Dembele, Smyth and Poku stay fit as they all suit us better. Also Burrell might have more about him when played down the middle.
Now if he was a left back .... [Post edited 6 Aug 21:19]
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Reply | Knob End Match Fred
at 13:40 6 Aug 2025
I'm glad we aren't playing a big club who would have sold out the upper tier of the School End and who would out-sing us.
I don't think it will be a repeat of QPR 0 Swansea 5 on the first day of the season in 2012 but I've got an ominous feeling that we might fluff our lines.
Please Rangers, don't let us down. The PA can be shot, the water in the toilets can run dry and the beer can be flat, but please don't let us down on the pitch. |
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Reply | Sam Field - Centre Back
at 16:32 3 Aug 2025
I want to see the centre backs doing the job they are paid to do. Not just one of them but 4 of them, and Sam Field as the CDM in front of the back four. Other 2 CMs' can be a toss up between Varane, Morgan, Chair, Madsen and Vale. |
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Reply | What have learned ?
at 00:48 3 Aug 2025
Not sure what we have learned is the issue (particularly as we pretty much knew it already).
More important for me is what Julien will have learned and hopefully that is that we are not good enough to play without a centre forward, probably we will be best off picking up points counter-attacking, we don't really have the defenders and midfielders to play it out meaningfully from the back and Steve Bould is going to be needed to work double time.
Hopefully if JS has learned the above in the 5 weeks that he has been here then we might pick up more points in our first 15 games than we did last season. [Post edited 3 Aug 0:57]
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Reply | The season 25-26 squad thread
at 20:14 1 Aug 2025
In other news, Pape Meisse Ba not playing for Shalke in their Bundesliga opener v Hertha tonight
Joining us ? Not rated by the Manager ? Or both ? |
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Reply | The season 25-26 squad thread
at 20:10 1 Aug 2025
I would need to see the video.
They could be trialists. There were 5 of them in the last Devt Squad friendly. |
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Reply | Who will spearhead our attack on Saturday Aug 9 ?
at 13:28 1 Aug 2025
If the MIchael Frey is going to be spending half the season on the treatment table then I don't want Alfie Lloyd to be loaned out to a League One team. He is my replacement for the Unicorn.
Furthermore, I don't want to spend 10 minutes of my time every week checking an 'Alfie Lloyd watch at Bolton thread' only for him to come back in June and then be sold in July. [Post edited 1 Aug 13:30]
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Reply | Next weeks fans forum
at 08:57 30 Jul 2025
I wasn't convinced by the Fans Forum. Nourry came across as having it all mapped out, but you can be sure as hell, if things don't work out in the first 3 months, then heads are going to be on the block and the talk of nurturing our yougsters will soon change to needing wise heads. Also, there was quite a lot of vagueness over the methodology/operations side. One moment we were being told that all the teams are expected to play the same way - but then it seemed that one team might play with one formation and another with another. How does that work ? As for the figures relating to player availabilities. 85, 91% ? Sorry, but those were just nonsense. And disrespectful to Marti too as there were clearly periods when he had 5 or 6 1st teamers out for long periods. |
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Reply | Burton’s Burrell added out of the blue – Signing
at 16:56 27 Jul 2025
I think this is a good signing. Something else I have noticed about him in the video reels is that he seems to pop up all over the place up front - down the right, through the middle and on the left. That unpredictability is going to be really handy . If Frey can do his one hour shifts and Kolli, Lloyd and Bennie can come on and make nuisances of themselves then we're going to have a bit of ammo up front (I'm excluding Celar as he is pony) |
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Reply | Paul Gascoigne
at 13:28 21 Jul 2025
I also think you are right on this one. |
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Reply | pre-season injuries
at 23:40 20 Jul 2025
I'm not too worried about these injuries, so long as we have got cover, which we have for Madsen and Dembele - less so for Frey and Varane.
But I don't want to see us loaning out our youngsters who are on the fringes (Tuck, Sutton, Esquerdinha etc.) on the grounds that we have a record of always having 4 or 5 players injured at any time.
Keep those players in a squad of 25 with at least two players in every position and I think we will be OK, if the injuries are shared around the team. |
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Reply | Madsen interview
at 20:42 16 Jul 2025
It's a really interesting interview. I'm not in the dismissive camp perpetrated by one individual on here who has said that the proof is in the pudding, on the pitch. My take is that he knows he has under-performed and it has been something which he has not been able to get on top of. I'd be quite interested to know if his self-esteem was gauged when we sourced him and also if this is something that we have someone attended to. The question of a sports psychologist comes up a lot but as far as I know, we don't actually have one. Seems a huge black hole to me. What do others think ? |
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