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Ollie and the coaches were continually discussing the formation as the match unfolded. Birch was holding a large open folder which they kept referring to and I could see them discussing how to block gaps, refresh the play and what subs might be needed. It looked very professional and something I never saw under JFH. Gives me real confidence that there is a transfer plan as well. Did anyone else spot this during the game?
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 07:02 - Jan 3 with 6749 views
Alternative interpretation being that under JFH they players had a system that they had been trained in, and currently we're flailing about a bit playing so many different formations and game plans with a tombola picking the lineup.
Now, I don't think that's right either, but having a big book of tactics that you're constantly looking at is a bit amateur.
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 08:51 - Jan 3 with 6489 views
JFH was constantly consulting with David Oldfield on the touchline and got criticised on here for it as apparently then it was a sign of not knowing what to do!
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 09:59 - Jan 3 with 6286 views
p sure I saw Juan Mata being prepped to come on yesterday with a big laminated binder of tactics. Play books are pretty common across sports now aren't they?
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 10:45 - Jan 3 with 6166 views
Technical areas are big enough to accommodate them, so it seems stupid to me that teams don’t set-up war room type operations in front of the dug outs. Tony Fernandes could second some of the Air Asia stewardesses to move the players about on the table with croupier rakes, whilst Holloway and Bircham bark out instructions in semaphore and morse code. Who wouldn’t enjoy that?
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 12:43 - Jan 3 with 5843 views
That is brilliant Konk - guess who works across the road from Churchill's wartime bunker in Uxbridge. Yep, that's right - I do. I'm on to the club now.
This could be shoving marvelous.
Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 12:56 - Jan 3 with 5780 views
I saw that too. It was quite funny. At first I thought it was a card that the bench wanted the players to sign for someone while they were playing!
I thought Hall was back to his absolute best yesterday. When he moved forward to break up play we kind of got the midfield back, because he crashed into everything and in the end, it was the Ipswich midfield bottling the 50 50 tackles. Hall got every one of them.
Make it happen, Mick. Out of the bunker and into the Technical area — let’s embrace this technology. “Mayday! Mayday! Bandit at 12 o’clock, Smithies!”
You could get a Churchill impersonator to sit on the bench and wander about giving it the old Victory signs and smoking a cigar when Rangers score, and a bugler belting out the last post when you concede. Play recordings of Churchill's speeches over the tannoy before games, have an air raid siren wailing, flash the flood lights on an off with a few fire crackers going off. If I was a player, playing in that environment, I'd be off my tit s on inspiration.
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 13:58 - Jan 3 with 5599 views
I believe the folder contains a number of football phrases in different languages. I'm pretty sure I heard Bircham shout at Sylla "Mettez la balle dans le dos du sac d'oignon" just before he scored.
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 19:02 - Jan 3 with 5217 views
yea I saw that the note was being passed around the defenders and I was saying to myself don't let the ispwich players see it ......then one made a grab for it off hall lol wonder what would have happened if he got it
Oh, Terry, please tell me they haven't banned gin based cocktails too?! Okay, the Churchill impersonator can wander about vaping with a can of Fanta. It's a compromise we might have to make.
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Something I noticed v Ipswich. on 20:05 - Jan 3 with 5096 views
I have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected, and if the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our Penalty area, to ride out the storm of midfield probing, and to outlive the menace of tricky opposition wing play, if necessary for years, if necessary alone. At any rate, that is what we are going to try to do. That is the resolve of Ian Holloway and the rest of the dugout. That is the will of Tony Fernandes, Les Ferdinand and Lee Hoos. The Rangers defence and the Rangers midfield, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death the integrity of their goal, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of the pitch and many old and famous Players such as Karl Henry have fallen or may fall into the grip of the opposition and all the odious apparatus of Fulham/Derby/Preston rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in our six yard box, we shall fight down by the corner flag, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength In the technical areas, we shall defend our goal, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the benches, we shall fight in the tunnel, we shall fight in the mixed media area and in the dressing rooms, we shall fight in corporate hospitality; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, our penalty area or a large part of it were subjugated and struggling, then our Players beyond the touch line, armed and guarded by the Fourth official would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the substitutes, with all their power and might, step forth to the rescue and the liberation of players such as Sandro, who visibly begin to tire after an hour.
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