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Reply | Dembele has had a free ride this season
at 01:04 5 Apr 2025
Just turned 22, his first season in the Championship, coming off a near season ending injury that required surgery, back into a team that is massively flailing and missing key support, attack and leadership where he's being asked to play a number of different positions to cover others. |
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Reply | So another game with no striker…
at 18:44 4 Apr 2025
In the same vain, but nowhere near as suicidal, we play Dunne up top and get players around him. He'd be a great target man if nothing else. |
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Reply | So another game with no striker…
at 18:43 4 Apr 2025
I'm reading it that maybe he had a reaction in training, so was in the pics but maybe had a reaction that means he won't be risked tomorrow? Either way we could do with him ASAP.
Whatever the situation, Bristol Preston and Swansea could have Frey, Kolli, Saito & Field all back in the mix, which would be huge. |
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Reply | an early SHEPHERDS (bush) v SHEEP match thread....
at 17:02 4 Apr 2025
I agree that he should start, but we have no idea what Lloyd we'll get tomorrow.
In cameos this season he's been a physical prescence and hard worker, away at Hull he made a big difference and was probably ahead of Kolli at that point. Other times he looks like Sunday league would be a stretch... Big opportunity tomorrow and I hope he has the game of his life |
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Reply | So another game with no striker…
at 16:50 4 Apr 2025
Whilst some of the signings may come good in time, recruitment has killed any potential for achieving something this season, and I include the backroom staff in that.
The physio/medical team have massively failed to keep what little resources we do have on the pitch and you'd like to think the club are looking to address that in the summer. |
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Reply | Ice Ice Baby
at 12:45 2 Apr 2025
That's the iconic Val Kilmer role for me - stole the show in a film with an incredible cast.
He was also technically my generations Batman too, being 10-11 when Batman Forever came out, but Tombstone, Heat and Top Gun were the ones.
Shout out to Top Secret, a film I watched with Clive over lock down that neither of us knew much about and instantly loved. |
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Reply | Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read?
at 00:23 2 Apr 2025
Funny as I just bought Blood Meridian as part of 3 holiday books to read and that is the only one left. I'm not sure I'll rush to read it with that description in mind, American Psycho was similar for me and it kind of ruined all other books for a while. |
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Reply | Injury hit, on the beach and checked out, QPR soundly beaten – Report
at 18:23 31 Mar 2025
The worst part for me is that this feels like another step towards Marti not being here next season, and that would be a killer. Not to say he's been perfect dealing with the issues but as the report suggests, he's been asked to cook a michelin star meal with a bag of ingredients that would be laughed out of the ready steady cook studio.
All this means is Richie Rich given further reign to football manager search his way to more stats signings, and bring in a head coach that will accept it. A complete and utter waste of the best manager in over a decade. |
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Reply | Injury Update
at 18:46 4 Mar 2025
In all seriousness, this might be the encouragement to give him a run of games regardless, especially once we're mathematically here next season. We can't just give up on him with the contract he's got...
In the meantime I hope we stick with Chair in the middle alongside Varane and Colback/Morgan - esp at home (except Leeds maybe). |
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Reply | Blades' cutting edge too sharp for Rangers' toil and chug - Report
at 18:42 3 Mar 2025
Varane looks the next best option for that - clear MoM and the only player that looked at the same level of the best Sheff U lads.
I'd like him to turn out into play more too, but he did some of that and took the ball from Nardi even under heavy pressure, alongside his main job which is to break up play and recycle possession. I'm not sure why all other CM's seem to get more of a pass over Varane for being ineffective in transitions when he's still young / new to the league and has otherwise shown massive improvement relatively quickly. |
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Reply | Forever R'SOLES.
at 19:10 26 Feb 2025
Not sure I fully get the hate for Robinson, was it because he was injured a lot then left when he was finally on the recovery? |
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Reply | The pïss stain coloured kit
at 22:15 24 Feb 2025
I remember when it was first announced and I was told I was wrong to call it absolutely dog chocolate...
Between our home and away kit we won't be clashing with anyone, so get that gold shite binned immediately. |
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Reply | The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield
at 22:07 24 Feb 2025
100% agree with the Madsen point btw, we are crying out for the player we assumed he would be, and are having to try and moneyball it as an alternative. We have to hope he takes a massive leap forward in his second season - a big call to make in the summer about him and that position. |
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Reply | The Morgan - Varane - Field midfield
at 22:00 24 Feb 2025
Well we've won 2 and lost 2 with a system that has Chair more central, and whilst I think it's clutching to suggest that change is a key reason for those losses, Blackburn should have been by far more and Derby was emphatic and kickstarted by Chair - who also has 3 assists and 2 goals in that run.
Did we not get soundly beaten (esp in midfield) by Sheff Wens just before this with the Varane, Field, Morgan three? We lost Saturday because we couldn't deal with their press and Frey was a useless direct option. Cov was a late set piece. Both of them bang in form teams playing at home.
I don't think there's a perfect system or personnel group for every game atm, but I think there has to be more to life than stodging up the team for a midtable finish, and I'd much rather work on a system that gets more out of Chair and Saito than a trio that has 5 league goals between them all season. |
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Reply | Known knowns – Report
at 21:09 24 Feb 2025
Of the ganes we've lost in the last few months I'd say this and Swansea away were the only egregiously poor performances, and even then we could have got a draw Saturday.
It's a shame to give 6 points to a team as limited as Portsmouth, but these results happen multiple times a week to the middle 18 teams in The Championship, and we've struggled a lot against this kind of organised high press set up. I've been boring myself by repeating it, but a player that allows us to play through the middle that also isn't a defensive liability would be priority 1, 2 and 3 on my list for the summer, for exactly these kind of games.
In the meantime I maintain my stance on the Varane OR Field option, never Varane AND Field, and once we're mathematically Championship next season we should start to make some adjustments. |
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