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Reply | Cookie on today's defeat
at 19:49 26 Oct 2025
For a team supposed filled with quick, clever, skilful players, we didn't look any of those things yesterday. |
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Reply | Gaffer on Derby Game
at 00:21 26 Oct 2025
25 minutes' training and a video session between Swansea and Derby probably wasn't exactly tiptop preparation with the benefit of hindsight. |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's defeat
at 22:37 25 Oct 2025
Right now, I'd settle for him just getting us starting games with as much energy as the oppo and playing for more than half the game at best. And not telling us (contradicting his own skipper) that 'travel' was an issue - give me strength! [Post edited 25 Oct 22:37]
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Reply | Dembele?
at 21:15 25 Oct 2025
Yes, but almost never to a QPR shirt! |
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 21:10 25 Oct 2025
Interestingly, on the Offish, Cook (who tellingly preferred not to engage properly with a direct question about how he felt about the goal) said tiredness/travel definitely wasn't a factor, whereas JS, depressingly, tried to insist it was part of the explanation. I suspect this type of expectation-lowering ('they had 24 more hours to recover than us', 'our players had to sit on a luxury coach for a couple of hours', boo hoo) only started happening within the last 5 years or so. Funny (like a lot of things in modern football) how it was never a mitigating issue before. [Post edited 26 Oct 0:14]
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 18:36 25 Oct 2025
It isn't though, is it? We got one dismissal-assisted win (which could even then have been a draw at the end, because, as we know, we're not 'efficient'), and two similar, disspiriting defeats. That's why I'm justifiably glum tonight. [Post edited 25 Oct 18:38]
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 17:29 25 Oct 2025
You talk about the evident lack of motivation at the start, not to mention nous and effective game plan, and then give the manager a free pass? Bizarre! [Post edited 26 Oct 0:16]
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 17:24 25 Oct 2025
Dembele has gone 'phutt' like a cheap firework.
Varane hasn't regressed - he's been more or less consistently underwhelming since he arrived. Talking of fireworks, the guy needs a rocket up his arse.
Nardi is becoming a liability, and Cook is almost as worrying prone to losing his bearings just in front of him, as if they're both making each other worse. Right now, I'd take them both out. Sadly, Dunne is turning into a kind of popular, sub-par piece of furniture who runs like he has a peg leg - and his throw-ins today were utterly pitiful.
Frey is f*cked.
Kone is increasingly resembling the training variety of his name - he looks like he needs/wants a month off!
Vale works hard, but plays like a trainee. He shouldn't be starting.
Where's my nurse - I need some healing! [Post edited 25 Oct 17:26]
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 17:12 25 Oct 2025
We weren't nearly good enough in either box, and could/should have lost 0-2.
Only Burrell and Saito for me did OK - and then no more than OK.
The manager doesn't seem to be learning, does he? Worryingly. |
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 17:07 25 Oct 2025
He still improved things (from a low bar) and had our only shot, so I'd be keeping mum if I were you, as your 'tactical' comment was pointless. |
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 17:05 25 Oct 2025
Despite the win at Swansea (where we got lucky/help with their red card - and even then could have dropped points at the end), it's been a pretty cr*p week for the team. The manager needs to get his act together and bring some wit and vision to our approach. Sadly, I fear, the likes of Varane, Dembele, Frey and Nardi for starters just aren't/won't be good enough. Kone, Vale, and Dunne also all really poor today.
Worrying! [Post edited 25 Oct 17:08]
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 16:58 25 Oct 2025
Disagree - Derby hit the woodwork twice, and were more dangerous throughout. We couldn't even muster a proper goal attempt. 2-0 or 3-0 would have been fair. |
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 16:56 25 Oct 2025
Which, to pick up a recent point by Northern, is more fuel for the fire that this manager makes the same mistakes again and agan and doesn't seem to learn. |
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 16:52 25 Oct 2025
First shot on target from Chair, who, according to Wilkins who carries water (which might account for why he takes the piss), was mystifyingly brought on when we needed a goal. Apparently, I know nothing about football, though. |
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Reply | Ramming up the M1 - Match Thread
at 16:44 25 Oct 2025
Our shot-shyness is neurotically pathological. Most of the time we seem to be running down the clock trying not to score.
(And when it isn't, up pops Varane to send one into Row X.) [Post edited 25 Oct 16:46]
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