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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 21:13 12 Jan 2025
Re your first sentence, that's exactly what MC says too. As far as footballing mendacity goes, it's not quite up there with Boil's 'loyalty is a thing for me' schtick, but it's still pretty piss poor and disrespectful to the fans. I call it maanging your brand in both cases. |
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Reply | Leicester City v Q.P.R Match Type Thread.
at 21:13 12 Jan 2025
Re your first sentence, that's exactly what MC says too. As far as footballing mendacity goes, it's not quite up there with Boil's 'loyalty is a thing for me' schtick, but it's still pretty piss poor and disrespectful to the fans. I call it managing your brand in both cases. [Post edited 12 Jan 21:14]
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Reply | A bit of perspective please!
at 21:05 12 Jan 2025
Also, a plea for 'perspective' always makes me smile - as if 'perspective' were anything objective. Perspective is also someone's perspective, i.e. a function of an agenda. I'm not sure that's philosophically controversial, is it? [Post edited 12 Jan 21:08]
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Reply | A bit of perspective please!
at 21:05 12 Jan 2025
He wouldn't have been criticised by me - and nor, I suspect any number of others. I'd have thought, 'we gave it a real go, that's just bad luck'. Any player could get injured atyany time, obviously. When he does, unless Marti is grossly overrding medical advice in playing him, how would that ever be his fault? |
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Reply | A bit of perspective please!
at 17:51 12 Jan 2025
Don Masson was playing yesterday? Though if he had been, I'm sure he'd still have done a better job than our Scandi phantom. |
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Reply | Andrew Slade
at 23:59 11 Jan 2025
Sobering and saddening in equal measure, and really puts today's game into a healthier perspective. Best wishes to the family. |
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Reply | Madsen...?
at 22:38 11 Jan 2025
It's a bit like watching two bald men fighting over a comb, but I'd almost rather have Dozzell back than endure any more of Madsen. |
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Reply | Effect on Team Form - Momentum Changer !!
at 19:33 11 Jan 2025
If I were a betting man, I'd lump on that we'll lose to Plymouth and Leicester beat whoever they're playing next time out.
Meanwhile, I'm still wondering what MC means when he talks of 'learning' from today. That Ashby, Madsen and (for some) Saito shouldn't be anywhere near starting berths? No shit, Sherlock! That six changes to a winning, cohesive team makes about as much sense as a chocolate teapot? Check! That to actually progress in the Cup means focussing all your best players on the task in hand, (Nardi, Smyth, Frey, Dunne, Morgan - who apparently knew he was getting a rest during his post-match interview after Luton) not dropping them to the bench and flinging one or two on when we've lost the game. You don't say?
Perhaps another clever poster could enlighten us on today's lesson if I'm wrong about everything once again. |
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Thread | Van Nistelrooy on today's game
at 19:08 11 Jan 2025
'I wanted to continue in that development with the team and not make too many changes in that sense. I feel we are in a process where we are getting better, doing things better, and in a certain way. That's why I wanted to continue that.'
Wise words - I only wish he'd been managing us for this game. Tbh, the game was up as soon as their team sheet and ours went public! Hopefully the QPR management team is taking note, even if it's shutting the stable door after our F A Cup nag has, once again, bolted into the black!
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Reply | Effect on Team Form - Momentum Changer !!
at 18:59 11 Jan 2025
So, re (2), the fog was an asymmetric fog that only affected us, then, while, re (4), we lost today because the future must resemble the past?
Just asking for a slow friend. |
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Reply | What's your view of today's F A Cup exit?
at 18:40 11 Jan 2025
Am genuinely fascinated that LfWorders are split right down the middle between indifference and rage/depression about today's events. We're about as united on this topic as Trump's America or Brexit referendees, which is worth knowing, I think. (I agree with the poster who can't get his head around the former.) [Post edited 11 Jan 19:18]
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Reply | JCS
at 18:34 11 Jan 2025
Looks genuinely upset, and a bit bewildered to boot - as I might be if I'd lost my central defensive partner and was forced to nurse a young loanee through his first start. Feel sorry for him, but he's the least of our problems from today. |
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Reply | Effect on Team Form - Momentum Changer !!
at 18:15 11 Jan 2025
Phew! That's all right then! Changing half the team, not putting on any subs till we'd let in four or five, while telling the fans beforehand we were 100% committed doesn't come into it. Nothing to see here - silly me! |
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Reply | Ashby.
at 17:55 11 Jan 2025
Me too. Is he still without a club? |
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Reply | Effect on Team Form - Momentum Changer !!
at 17:52 11 Jan 2025
I find it actually quite scary the extent to which people try to rationalise/minimise a 6-2 defeat (in a cup game we're also told beforehand the club is all in for, yes siree, the times, they are a changin' etc.) to safeguard their image of Marti's messiahdom and keep their blue and white goggles on at all costs. Apparently, confidence isn't a thing after all, the likes of Walsh, Ashby and Edwards have done their stock no harm at all, and the magnificent 5,000 travelling fans (who I would suggest are actually being placed in the role of 'useful idiots' by the club) will understand, even if Marti's a bit sad tonight.
If I were Ilias Chair, say, a guy who bleeds blue and white (and who would get my vote for the best thing at the club every day of the week), I'd be spitting feathers after today's fiasco. I'd love to know what he feels about today's team sheet. [Post edited 11 Jan 18:07]
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