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Reply | Where have the goals gone in the Championship?
at 11:33 22 Nov 2024
This has been a real failure of our recruitment over the last few years. BOS went out of the team, and we've never really tried to put any pace back in. Smyth's the only one we've signed who can run. |
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Reply | Where have the goals gone in the Championship?
at 09:42 22 Nov 2024
The thing I don't get with it, and I found this really noticeable when I went to Spurs Villa recently (two of the supposedly more attacking sides) is that so much of the philosophy now seems to be about slowing things down. Surely you create and exploit space by speeding it up. The amount of games and teams I watch now where the centre back or deep lying centre mid walks with the ball in their own half, or comes to an outright standstill, I just don't get.
What do I not like playing against? Pace and width. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 18:56 21 Nov 2024
Well that looks bad either way doesn't it? Because either they lied about the reasons for a second goalkeeper on the bench, or we've got a medical team that mistakes a 6 month knee ligament injury requiring immediate surgery for a touch and go injury which means he might be fine for Saturday's trip to Burnley. |
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Reply | Rangers v the Oat Cake Eaters match thread
at 17:37 21 Nov 2024
I agree, it looks and feels like a matter of time to me. Hope I'm wrong.
Stoke aren't much cop but look what they're bringing up front - Million Manhoef, Tom Cannon and Sam Gallagher. Our striking options in comparison are absolutely hilarious. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 17:22 21 Nov 2024
S'alright we always do well there. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 16:59 21 Nov 2024
Unfortunately we're not really in a position where we can burn off another 3, 4, 5 games waiting. |
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Reply | So far, so Stoke - Oppo Profile
at 16:57 21 Nov 2024
It's another with insanely rich owners but they don't know what they're doing with their football club.
Welcome to tomorrow's match preview.
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Reply | Where have the goals gone in the Championship?
at 13:54 21 Nov 2024
Pleased to see us doing our bit.
In all seriousness I think the Burnley and Leeds away games were pretty instructive to this. With the state we're in Burnley really could and should be winning that 2-0, 3-0, and Leeds should be putting four on us. Both of them instead content to waste vast amounts of time in the game just rainbowing around in front of us. Side to side to side to side and back again.
I get the theory. Team sits back and you have to draw them out to create space. But in football now so often the away team has no interest in being drawn out. They've no ambition other than to get a draw in the game. So they'll just sit there, and you'll rainbow around in front of them.
Even when it does work, it's so fcking dull.
Football trends are cyclical and sheep like.
Arsene Wenger was revolutionary, suddenly everybody was eating pasta.
When Mourinho won the Champions League with Porto saying he didn't want the ball, we then went into years of teams not wanting the ball. Grim period of football. Actually it was Ian Holloway going into the Premier League with Blackpool and showing you could get somewhere in that environment by having a bit of a go, even if you've got Alex Baptiste, Ian Evatt and Gary Taylor-Fletcher in your team, that seemed to snap teams out of that phase.
There was a while when Pulis and Allardyce types were getting big Premier League, and even the England job.
World Cup in Brazil, everybody played three at the back. Suddenly, everybody's playing three at the back. Like in 1990 when everybody played a sweeper system (except England of course, which Robson got it in the teeth for until he switched).
Unfortunately for the paying public the current trend is set by "Pep" and followed by Russell Martin types and it is FCKING HORRENDOUSLY DULL.
It's ripe for some Chris Wilder type to go through the divisions again playing 4-4-2 with a lot of pace and width and a big man little man strike force, because nobody else is doing it and therefore nobody else can play against it, and frankly that moment cannot come soon enough because football is incredibly boring at the moment. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 11:38 21 Nov 2024
Is the 'expertise and experience' in the room with us now? |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 11:19 21 Nov 2024
So bugger all, then, in fact. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 09:19 21 Nov 2024
Good job it wasn’t nine or we’d never see the little fella again. |
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Reply | Injury Updates
at 23:01 20 Nov 2024
So you knew Clarke-Salter was out for the Sunderland game did you?
Wish you'd told the rest of us. |
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Reply | Communication
at 22:09 20 Nov 2024
That would be incredible if they took it down.  |
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Reply | Madsen
at 21:30 20 Nov 2024
Steiner is better than anybody we've had up front for the last three seasons. |
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