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Reply | Varanne
at 06:59 1 Dec 2024
If all or most of our summer signings now look like they might start to come good, a lot of us are going to have egg on our over-reacting faces. Let's hope those of us who need to - I guess I'll be one - will be willingly tucking into some humble eggy pie. |
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Reply | Jimmy D on today's game
at 22:30 30 Nov 2024
I don't understand - why would he be leaving at the end of the season? And why does the poster who thinks he's been very good for us only consider him worth keeping if we get relegated?
He's a real stalwart for us and was a big part of our revival last season, crowned with that great winner v Brum. For some reason, he;'s been getting pelters at times this season just for being JD, it seems, when there have been many more deserving targets. Sure, he drops the odd rick and isn't the quickest, but I'm glad he's in our team. |
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Reply | Marti post match
at 21:46 30 Nov 2024
Sounds and looks a lot more like himself, though some here try to tell us not to read anything into these interviews, or even listen to them at all. [Post edited 30 Nov 22:24]
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Reply | Best case, worst case – Preview
at 22:48 29 Nov 2024
Great, Clive, you have your opinion (and yes, you were there, and I was watching on a stream, as I live in Ireland) and I have mine (with my reasons, though was actually agreeing with some of what you said in my post).
Have a great w/end too! [Post edited 29 Nov 22:51]
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Reply | Best case, worst case – Preview
at 22:23 29 Nov 2024
It was a poor game, and we were depressingly low in the block, as MC acknowledged (apart from the depressing bit), but I didn't think Cardiff were bad by any means. They had 4 wins and 3 draws out of 10 games before meeting us, including a win over Norwich and a point up at WBA. Against us, they had a lot of possession, two dozen goal efforts, and umpteen corners but just couldn't finish (sounds familiar?), while we defended well, Nardi saved us on two or three occasions, and Celar pulled a couple of rabbits out of the hat with shocking aplomb.
As Marti also often says, there are no easy games in the Champ, and many of them can go one way or the other. I don't think we're going to beat Watford, but it wouldn't surprise me if we did. [Post edited 29 Nov 22:35]
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Reply | Cifuentes’ comments
at 22:03 29 Nov 2024
I'll post the article once again in case you haven't seen it, when, in late August, Marti told us he 'almost fully satisfied' by our summer recruitment and how he felt 'convinced we have signed some good players', which it was now his job to weld into a cohesive team.
https://londonnewsonline.co.uk/sport/im-very-stubborn-marti-cifuentes-provides-a
Three months later, he's now signalling to the fanbase the club need to strengthen/ support him more/do more, whatever this means.
That's my point.
I've given my reading of this shifting of his feet, with our very poor form the rather obvious factor.
Do I think the summer recruitment has been flawless? Clearly not, but it hasn't been disastrous either.
Do I think that Marti has struggled to fulfil his own self-described task as coach in moulding a team out of the personnel he has told us, repeatedly, he trusts and rates highly (and this for whatever reasons, including the injury list)? I do. [Post edited 29 Nov 22:09]
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Reply | Cifuentes’ comments
at 01:36 29 Nov 2024
As I've pointed out, Marti, speaking on the record, has significantly shifted his feet re recruitment since August, partly no doubt to kindle the flame of our support. I don't blame him as he (probably) doesn't want to be sacked, but to pretend otherwise is to prosecute a highly selective narrative. |
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Reply | A conversation with Lee Hoos
at 01:24 29 Nov 2024
I sent him an adult email, engaging him around certain specific issues, and received a bland response his secretary probably wrote. |
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Reply | A conversation with Lee Hoos
at 01:21 29 Nov 2024
In that case, as I've been insulted and maligned on this board more often than I can shake a stick at (and most recently called a pornographer), I should be an expert. |
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Reply | A conversation with Lee Hoos
at 01:20 29 Nov 2024
See my posts. MC has adjusted its feet on the topic as his team has started so poorly. |
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Reply | Huge Win
at 18:15 28 Nov 2024
I agree. In the freezing light of day, Celar's superb goals and Nardi's qualities got us over the line, though we defended well when we had to. A team with even a modicum more finesse than Cardiff would have won comfortably with their possession and stats, but you can only beat who's in front of you.
I still don't much fancy us at Watford but will be salivating if the team shove my words down my throat. |
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Reply | Gaffer on tonight's win
at 18:09 28 Nov 2024
Yes - but apart from lacking speed, strength, courage and a goal threat, we're doing OK, right?  |
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Reply | Gaffer on tonight's win
at 18:05 28 Nov 2024
Well, I am delighted, but it's qualified, which is only sensible when we're concerned.
You make a good point about my apparent inconsistency in praising us more highly at Burnley under Ainsworth (two goals, three points, ludicrously defensive) than Marti (one point, no goals, a bit less defensive), but then I'm not even the same person I was a minute ago!
As Walt Whitman said, 'do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)'  [Post edited 28 Nov 18:07]
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Reply | Willock?
at 17:56 28 Nov 2024
I agree, though also a little sadly. (I'm a 'both-and' rather than 'either-or' kind of man.) |
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Reply | A conversation with Lee Hoos
at 16:47 28 Nov 2024
If you can't see that 'an adult speaking to another adult by prefacing a highly contentious speculation with 'I hate to break it you that . . .' is patronising and therefore likely to get a reaction, I'm sorry for you. You're like someone pointing at the moon and mistaking his own finger for it, or putting the cart before the horse. Of course, the usual supects have their usujal favourites and scapegoats on here. Whatever my many flaws, I just respond and react to what's written, not who's writing it, or at least try to, and I engage on that basis.
As for my writing, I write as I see fit, just like you. If you have a problem with some of my 'long words', get a dictionary! [Post edited 29 Nov 1:22]
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