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Reply | Gab Sutton Championship Previews
at 10:11 31 Jul 2024
Think Burnley will be in Play OFf's, but Parker isn't a great manager and Luton seem better placed to go back up.
Leeds and Boro probably the strongest right now I think. WBA could easily finish top 2 as well |
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Reply | Next England Manager
at 13:19 18 Jul 2024
Carsley is my first choice.
The thought of a 'big name' fills me with dread. We had multiple trophy winner Capello completely sht the bed when he was manager. Italy have the previous winner of Serie A as their manager and they were awful.
Scaloni just won the World Cup and Copa America, bloke had never managed a senior team before getting the Argentina job, same for De La Fuente at Spain.
International Football is all about culture. If you bring in Pep, Klopp etc then it becomes all about them and not the collective.
Carsley fits the current trend of International Football well |
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Reply | Armstrong
at 11:38 18 Jul 2024
If we've managed to get £2m for him that's an incredible piece of business.
Maybe he will go on to be a world beater, but across the 2 years he's had here he's looked very far off being ready to lead an attack for a Championship side.
Our 2 worst performances under Marti in 2024 (Stoke a and Sheff Weds h) were when he started up front. |
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Reply | Next England Manager
at 14:26 16 Jul 2024
Funny thing is, if he'd seen out a season at QPR and then left to do an adequate job anywhere at a slightly higher level he would be very close to it.
Even if he'd left QPR with any sort of class and managed Rangers with some level of humility he'd have a shot
Instead the idiot torched his reputation. |
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Reply | Did Southgate's tactics cost England?
at 16:21 15 Jul 2024
I'm not sure how you play Spain. Press them and come out swinging and they'll pick you off. Give them the ball and they'll kill you with 1000 passes.
The plan last night was obviously to keep it tight and use the subs to alter the game. Where the plan fell down was that Kane is obviously injured so we couldn't relieve any pressure with long balls up to him and we decided to start the second half 2 minutes later than Spain did.
18 months ago in Qatar we were phenomenal, I've never seen anything like it in a tournament from England. Absolutely swatting aside competent sides like Senegal and running a sword through fodder like Wales and Iran. Yet all anyone remembers from that tournament is Kane's penalty miss. International football is funny like that. We'll all remember Euro 2024 with our overhead kicks, last minute winners and The Killers yet we were awful for the majority of it. They nearly did it as well, nearly won the bloody thing in arguably Southgate's worst tournament.
Basically, tactics schamctics. International football is mostly about vibes despite the endless tactics blogs on The Athletic etc. |
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Reply | Willock
at 12:22 6 Jul 2024
Decent Championship winger at this point and if we can keep him on our terms then useful to have in the squad.
If not then no big loss really |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 09:40 5 Jul 2024
But Labour are in power and that's all that matters right now.
You can't do anything from the sidelines and Starmer realised this very early on.
Take Gaza, his stance has torched the Labour Muslim vote but that's concentrated to fewer seats than people who either don't care or support his views.
That's the game
Like Derby fans coming away from the Play Off Final moaning about their higher xG than ours |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 08:14 4 Jul 2024
This seems like a few thoughts before a rant about why we can't be mean to Jews.
I'd say Gaza has barely been a factor in the election whatsoever. There's a few Independents in inner cities who are standing on a Pro Palestinian platform, but none of them are going to win (maybe Corbyn squeeks it) |
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Reply | Sky Games
at 13:04 3 Jul 2024
They've published it now
Plymouth h is 12:30
Luton a is Friday at 8:00
Millwall h is 12:30
Blackburn a is 12:30 |
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Reply | Who is going down this season?
at 16:27 27 Jun 2024
You'd imagine Oxford, Plymouth, Pompey, Watford, QPR, Derby, Sheff Weds will be down there.
Also hadn't realised Sheff U start on -2 points. Not absurd suggestion to really see them struggle |
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Reply | Begovic
at 13:31 27 Jun 2024
He did a job (just about) for a season. Now very obviously time to move on |
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Reply | England v TBC last 16 Match Thread
at 14:00 26 Jun 2024
Doesn't matter what iteration of what formation with what players we play, we won't be winning.
The magic that Southgate had at the previous 3 tournaments has gone. I wanted Southgate to stay after the World Cup as I thought we were superb in the tournament and unlucky to go out to France, but you can see now it's a tournament to far and his judgement has completely gone (something that was so sharp 8 years ago).
The squad he selected was ridiculously unbalanced and the no back up to Shaw is an absolute crime.
It's a real shame as he made watching England exciting again and tournaments something to look forward to. Now it feels like a compete chore |
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Reply | Denmark 🇩🇰 v England 🏴 Match Thread
at 08:19 21 Jun 2024
It's all very Sven 2006.
Bellingham/Foden the new Lampard/Gerrard.
There's really nothing wrong with bringing Foden off the bench because a better player plays in his position.
Also the no left footed left back call looks like such a bad one for Southgate |
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Reply | England 🏴 v Iceland 🇮🇸 Match Thread
at 10:28 8 Jun 2024
I worry that the shape of the team is wrong.
Am sure Mainoo and Wharton will be great players but they aren't ready yet to go deep into a tournament.
I'd like to see us move back to the 433 that worked well at the world cup with Rice, Bellingham and Gallagher in the middle behind Kane, Saka and Foden.
Gordon, Eze, Palmer, Bowen are completely untested at this level and need to be wildcards from the bench |
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Reply | Departures in the development squad
at 11:35 5 Jun 2024
Eze, Chair, Dieng, Manning all came in this way.
Meanwhile the 'been with us since a nipper' route has yielded Furlong and Kakay |
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Reply | Eze for England!
at 09:25 4 Jun 2024
Reckon Eze is in after that.
Feel the 7 to miss out will be
Trafford - Obvious
Quansah - Too soon for him and Gomez/Konsa more versatile
Branthwaite - As above
Dunk - Not as versatile as Gomez/Konsa
Jones - Won't take both him and Wharton
Maddison - One attacking midfielder needs to miss out and he's in worst form
Watkins - He's played 12 times for England now and never impresses. Doesn't fit the style |
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Reply | Club crests
at 16:20 30 May 2024
Always wondered what's underneath the guys fist? Is it another a picture of someone doing the same action? If so what's under his fist? Another guy?
Just endless men beating their chests (ooooh eeerrrr) |
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Reply | Don Goodman
at 09:57 27 May 2024
Lads, it was 100% the cruelest. We were absolute wnk that day, held on by our fingernails against a much younger, fitter and far less expensively assembled team.
We had one shot on target which went in in the 90th minute.
That Derby team were fantastic to watch and for a neutral it was a shame they never got a crack at the Prem ahead of our stinking lot.
However, don't give a fck  |
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Reply | Happy Zamoraaaaaaa Day
at 16:27 24 May 2024
My legs literally collapsed beneath me when it went in. I basically blacked out and came round with my girlfriend pulling me off the black of a random bloke in the row in front.
Magnificent |
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