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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 14:06 9 Jan 2025
It’s relative isn’t it. The likes of Allen, Naughton and anyone else in our squad could play local football 5 days a week.
The lads who work 60 hour weeks at the steelworks, go out on the weekend, smoke and still play Saturday and Sunday are fit enough for the level they play at. It’s in no way comparable to competing against elite athletes who are at their peak fitness.
Nor is it comparable to bring a miner. |
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Reply | Brendan mentions us in his press conference
at 08:46 9 Jan 2025
This is what we try to do now, albeit less successfully and with inferior players.
We often try to go down one flank, get crowded out, go back to the fullback, then centre back, across the back line and forward down the other flank. Obviously this is 30 seconds or so of unchallenged possession and affects the possession stats.
It’s essentially what he’s describing.
The difference is we were much more incisive when we got past halfway with the likes of Rangel and Dyer playing triangles with our midfield. The bit about starting again and changing the point of attack is the same. |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 08:37 9 Jan 2025
I don’t know how seriously they will be taking this, but their first team beats ours quite easily. They finished 4th last season and spent £100m in the summer.
I’m not sure that going there with our best eleven would get a result anyway. Our players looked fried against Portsmouth and Luton (I’m sure Williams’ comments didn’t help matters, but they were clearly fatigued anyway).
I’d be using this as a chance to play the likes of Abdulai and Lloyd. Keep the lads who play every week on the bench or out of the squad. Grimes and Cullen have dropped from their usual levels lately. I’d be resting them, but I don’t think Williams will. |
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Reply | Is Peart Harris available to buy,?
at 18:03 7 Jan 2025
Relax. I’m just saying it’s.a fair point.
The trouble with not watching games and just looking at numbers, is MPH compares favourably to Franco in your book. |
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Reply | Is Peart Harris available to buy,?
at 17:29 7 Jan 2025
I think what WR is getting at, is would Resolven ask that question if he’d actually seen MPH play?
It’s a fair point |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 10:26 7 Jan 2025
It’s just a stupid notion. Even if he was frozen out, clubs would still want him on a free in the summer.
We had the exact same scenario with Manning and a similar one with Piroe (one year left but valuable). They both gave 100% until their last game. |
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Reply | This new investment
at 10:22 7 Jan 2025
We were spiralling rapidly under the last lot. Insulting contract offers. League one was a matter of time.
These guys have to stabilise us before we can start looking at bigger transfer fees and wages. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 10:08 7 Jan 2025
I think it’s only Resolven suggesting this to be fair. It’s ludicrous |
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Reply | This new investment
at 07:45 7 Jan 2025
£6m of that towards the playing squad I think. Presumably wages included in that. |
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Reply | This Soton game
at 16:41 6 Jan 2025
He has to strike a balance between resting knackered players and not getting humiliated.
He’s probably on thin ice as it is. He’ll be wary of a hammering. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 16:37 6 Jan 2025
You would want us to freeze one of our best players out when we’ve only got two centre backs?
We’re safe from relegation at the moment. We won’t be if we end up playing Christie every game. |
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Reply | Swansea City v West Bromwich Albion : Match day thread
at 11:57 6 Jan 2025
Sure.
I think he makes a lot of mistakes and can be too rigid in both his tactics and substitutions. He often doesn’t react when teams change their setup to suit the way the game is playing out.
Overall, he has a very limited squad and has done very well to steer us to practical safety. He’s proved he can set us up not to concede and he can set us up to score. He’s really struggled to get both at the same time.
I thought we may be in relegation danger in the summer, so did you. If he stays and keeps us up, he will have exceeded both our expectations.
However, I don’t like bad apples at the club. While what he did wasn’t as bad as what Whittaker and Obafemi did, they are players, he’s running the show. I want him out based only on that.
Your truth? |
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Reply | This Soton game
at 10:59 6 Jan 2025
I don’t think Grimes will be rested but I think he should be. He’s been off the boil for about a month.
Will be a mixture of first team and fringe players. |
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Reply | The Harry darling rumours begin 😡
at 09:09 6 Jan 2025
There was a lot of talk of that until Luke Williams little episode.
I don’t know how accurate it was, but a lot of people were under the impression he was on the verge of signing.
Of course, any presentation about the direction the club is heading and what Williams wants to do with the squad is null and void now.
We’re probably lucky Cabango signed when he did. |
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