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Reply | Corners, why do teams bring all 10 players back for a corner?
at 11:10 30 Sep 2024
Which is a particular shame because Ramsdale is a very good long passer of the ball. His long kicks invariably find their man. All we'd need to do is put Dibling on the halfway line and have Ramsdale kick the ball to him.
Talking of accurate long passes, I remember Le Tissier in a pre-match warm-up, standing on the halfway line and kicking the ball against the crossbar so that it came back to him, then repeating it twice more. [Post edited 30 Sep 11:25]
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Reply | Team for tonight
at 10:43 30 Sep 2024
Newly promoted teams usually perform better in their first 10 games than they do later in the season so you'd expect things to get worse anyway, and, according to the Premier League stats for all promoted teams over the last 20 years, if we don't get at least 8 points from those opening 10 games, relegation is inevitable.
We really need to win tonight and if we do, on a more positive note, it's worth noting that 70% of promoted teams that got 11 points or more from their first 10 games stayed up. But, if we lose, it's probably best to forget about it.
Martin does seem to be getting closer to selecting what most people would deem to be our best starting XI. It would be great to see Amo-Ameyaw starting tonight, but it's not going to happen, is it? Hopefully, he'll at least come on as a sub to set up a goal or 2 for Dibling. [Post edited 30 Sep 11:04]
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Reply | Liam Delap
at 07:35 30 Sep 2024
And in our own half. |
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Reply | Corners, why do teams bring all 10 players back for a corner?
at 07:43 28 Sep 2024
Against Ipswich, we were under siege from a stream of corners simply because we had no outlet. If we'd left Dibling on the halfway line, he'd not only have given us an oulet but also probably have got at least one chance to score.
If you leave one forward on the halfway line, the opposition leave 2 defenders back because 1 on 1 is considered too risky, so it's doubly effective because it takes another man away from your goal. But as all of our players were back near our own goal, Ipswich didn't need to leave anyone back at all, which effectively gave them one man more in attack than they'd otherwise have had.
But it seems that our passing stat man isn't interested in anything like this. One of our main tactics, even in open play, is to pull all of our players back towards our own goal, simply so they can make short passes to each other with less interfence from opposition players, which, without an attacking outlet for a counterattack, is just passing for passing's sake. [Post edited 28 Sep 8:20]
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Reply | Cup draw tonight then
at 18:59 26 Sep 2024
He's a bit like Jack Grealish: his ball control is so good that the only way you can stop him is to foul him, and the opposition are already doing that. |
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Reply | Tyler Dibling song
at 18:56 26 Sep 2024
Quite a few football chants use songs from the 60s.
Fair point about the rhyme though:
Come on and shout
Come on and sing
You'll see nothing like Tyler Dibling |
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Reply | Cup draw tonight then
at 17:40 26 Sep 2024
I don't think we even see the best of Dibling stuck out wide. |
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Reply | Tyler Dibling song
at 15:59 26 Sep 2024
The Mighty Quinn is simpler and louder:
Come all without
Come all within
You'll not see nothing like the mighty Dibling. |
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Reply | Do we agree with this prediction??
at 15:45 26 Sep 2024
It's obvious: Opta are using the wrong stats, like goals, when they should be basing their predicted final league table on passes in own half. They don't know what they're doing so we shouldn't take any notice of them. |
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Reply | Everton Announce New Owners
at 11:51 24 Sep 2024
In the 60s and 70s fans of every club sang, "You'll never walk alone." It used to be one of our best songs.
One of the most popular songs in Serie A nowadays is "Yellow Submarine", which is another one that used to be sung at the Dell. There is also an Italian version of OWTS being sung in Serie A this season. They don't care that we sang it first; neither do Spurs fans or those of any of the other clubs that sing it. [Post edited 24 Sep 11:57]
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Reply | Boscombe
at 11:33 24 Sep 2024
There are a few players it would be good to loan out (no othe club would pay a transfer fee for them) so that Martin can't pick them any more. Aribo is another one. They were OK in the Championship, but they clearly aren't good enough for Premier League games. |
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Reply | 5 Things About The Ipswich Game
at 11:19 24 Sep 2024
I agree. It's a proper home end now. Before it was effectively an away end because the big group of away fans in the middle drowned out the sound of the home fans in the corners, where the acoustics are much worse..
"Bouncing off" the away fans must be a euphemism for "being drowned out by" them. It used to be embarrassing. |
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Reply | !!!!!!!! RM OUT !!!!!!!!
at 23:09 21 Sep 2024
I'll change that to made to look 2nd best but it felt like a defeat. |
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You obviously were watching a different game.