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Thread | Have we ever had a wider range of quality in the squad ?
at 10:43 22 Dec 2024
Not quality in absolute terms, but range, from our best players to our worst.
I can never think of a time when there was such a big disparity.
75/76 - all good, obviously
82 - all good
Promotion under Warnock - all good
Premiership under Hughes - all pants
Relegation under Wilkins - all pants
Gigi de Canio/Gregory (all OK - apart from the odd blip - Zesh Reyman, Bob Malcolm)
Scowuongoman years - all good
The only time I can remember is when we went down under Gerry (and Ollie) when we had the likes of Crouchie and Gavin Peacock in the same team as Wardley, Christer Warren, Paul Bruce
Can anyone else remember a time when we had players so far off the mark like Santos, Madsen, Andersen, Ashby in a squad with such quality as in Nardi, Cook, Field, JCS, Varane, Kolli etc etc ? [Post edited 22 Dec 10:44]
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Thread | Chair
at 19:02 7 Dec 2024
Going to have to work hard to get back in the side.
Not going to get in ahead of Saito or Smyth for work-rate, and potentially productivity. By the time he is back might not get in ahead of Kolli for final product.
Nice dilemma to have ! [Post edited 7 Dec 19:08]
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Thread | Paul Furlong
at 23:33 5 Nov 2024
How is he as a coach ? I know he is a model of a professional and has a very good rapport with the Development Squad players. I wonder if he could be an uncut managerial diamond for us. |
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Thread | False number nine
at 23:13 24 Oct 2024
There's no point in playing Celar up top on his own on Saturday. When the ball gets booted up to him if we ever get out he will be out-muscled and out-paced and it will not stick. Then, if we can create any chances, again he is not going to beat the centre backs. We might be better off with a false number nine ten yards deeper to link with Chair, Smyth and Dembele and try to thread one of them through. Who could play in that position ? My choice would be Kolli but maybe Andersen or even Madsen could give it a go ? [Post edited 24 Oct 23:16]
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Thread | Sam Field substitution
at 19:53 19 Oct 2024
Not going to kick the can at Marti in public but that was a strange one. Thought any one of the 3 CB's should have been withdrawn at that stage.
Saito however did well when he came on [Post edited 19 Oct 19:53]
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Thread | Food or drink that tastes like something else
at 20:18 20 Sep 2024
Semolina - Wallpapaer paste
Emmenthal Cheese - Plimsolls
Naan Braad - Staedtler Norris pencils
Papaya - Natural Gas
Coconut water (past its sell by date) - Washing up liquid
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Thread | Over-rated books
at 20:41 20 Aug 2024
OK, so we've done under-rated books, over and under-rated players, films and food. That just leaves over-rated books.
Not the most exciting of threads (not expecting more than one page) but if it saves me 3 months of tedium trying to unravel a storyline in 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez then it will make my daily commute a lot less painstaking.
Another nominee for the trash can, The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho. The first few chapters promise a magical mystery tour but then it just seems to turn into the equivalent of a journey on the Central Line, with engineering works.
Any other literary works to be given the Satanic Verses Treatment ? |
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Thread | Darnell
at 14:50 11 Aug 2024
What a fine specimen of a human being
Shame the Baggies couldn't sing about him with the same level of humility |
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Thread | Season ticket question
at 15:12 8 Aug 2024
I.T. retard here,
I received the email with the Google Wallet icon for downloading my season ticket.
Unfortunately I have an old mobile on which Google Wallet is not compatible
Anyone able to advise what I can do ? (aside from buying a new phone)
Other than that its going to be trying to scan my laptop when I go through the tunrstile .... |
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Thread | Life changing moments
at 16:34 31 May 2024
Anyone had any ? I haven't. Never got married or had kids so haven't had those honours/duties bestowed upon me. Never won the lottery and even when I inherited enough money to pay off the mortgage in '23 it hasn't made any difference to my life-style. Not really had any near death experiences (touch wood) or undergone any religious re-births. A few dim and distant bedroom sports sessions, 6 months living in Spain and solo voyages to the other side of the pond are about as exciting as it gets for me.
Behind the blue and white mask who are the Bob Champion/Robinson Crusoe/blokes with the Britain's Got Talent hard-luck stories on here ? |
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Thread | Sam Field
at 01:48 21 Apr 2024
Seen lots of plaudits for Marti, the no. 10's and back four yesterday (particularly Dunne and Clarke Salter) but the person who needs a shout out is Sam Field. This is the player who has done the most to get us out of trouble this season, in my opinion. He owns the centre of the park but at the same time somehow pops up at centre back to make incredible blocks and now and again springs good attacks. POTY for me by a long margin. He is our Shaun Derry and Ali Faurlin rolled into one. Just needs an Adel, Routledge and Helgusson in front of him and we will be flying. |
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Thread | Players you knew were never going to make it, the moment they crossed the line
at 13:52 27 Jan 2024
Luke Amos - Played every game with a permanent look of fear etched across his face. Scared of his own persona.
Karl Ready - I remember going to a B team game at HQ, he went up for a corner and the ball fell at his feet six yards out. He took a complete air shot, and fell over. Added to which when he got up, he celebrated it ...
Stefan Moore - A matter of time every game until he was put out of his misery and hooked. Think Ollie must have been having one of his mad-cap moments when he signed this one.
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Thread | Seasonal Affective Disorder
at 14:53 13 Nov 2023
Anyone else suffer from this ?
For me the onset starts around the first Saturday in August and usually finishes on the first weekend in May
Anyone else get the autumn/winter/springtime blues ? |
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Thread | Sam Field
at 18:56 23 Sep 2023
That goal-line clearance last night, it deserves a thread of its own. And it's not the first time Sam has pulled off an amazing rescue act when the oppo have looked destimed to score. And that from a central midfielder !!
We are going to miss Sam when he serves his imminent suspension for all the yellow cards.
I'm just hoping Collback is back by then as a central midfield paring of Dozell and SDM or Dozzell and EDB might not be assertive enough.
Well done Sam ! [Post edited 23 Sep 2023 18:58]
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Thread | Parking the bus
at 21:15 30 Jul 2023
Bit hesitant about posting this as my cautionary message about preparing for relegation was not altogether well received. However, it's Sunday night, there is no football on the box so I shall chance my arm on here.
Do you think we should be practicing and implementing parking the bus ?
A bit like the man himself, Ainsworth football (i.e. working it out wide, getting past a full back and getting crosses in) is a thing of the past which any Championship defence can deal with easily and it appears - for one reason or another - that we do not have the ability, set-up or collective players to play the ball through teams.
We saw that parking the bus worked for us in our last two away games last season and I am wondering if we should just throw in the towel now and resign ourselves to playing 5 at the back or 5 across midfield and leaving Dykes on his own up front all season (apart from when we are losing when we bring Armstrong on).
What do people think ?
Is it time to call up Abellio and to assimilate us playing at the Etihad every week ? [Post edited 30 Jul 2023 21:16]
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Thread | Is everyone here mentally prepared for relegation ?
at 21:30 19 Jul 2023
I seriously cannot take another season of weekly/daily rants about the plight of the club and how we should be emulating Brentford/Luton/Bournemouth etc etc etc
We are not and not only is life too short to be spending every day looking over a shoulder at Luton/Brentford/Bournemouth etc etc but there is also f**k all that we can do about it as our investment in the club (both in terms of the depths of our pockets and colour of our blood, i.e. blue and white) is insignificant in the grand scale of things.
So are we going to be realistic on here and accept our fate or is it going to be another season of angst ?
Just asking so I can manage my expectations.
Cheers [Post edited 19 Jul 2023 22:21]
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