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Reply | Ashby injured or hooked?
at 09:42 22 Jan 2025
I don't have a problem playing a loanee as such, which is why I'm OK with Edwards.
I do have a problem with playing a loanee solely to develop them for another club. If that's what's going on then Newcastle should be paying us. |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 01:14 22 Jan 2025
I think the "signed from Yeovil" thing comes into it too.
Every minute he's on the pitch, Alfie Lloyd acts like his lottery numbers have just come up for him to be there.
Maybe in five years time he'll be in non-league and Madsen will be a Danish international, but I can't help feeling that Lloyd's attitude will take him as far as he can go while Madsen's could leave him well short of his potential. And that Alfie Lloyd will have more fun on the way however far he gets. |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 01:01 22 Jan 2025
TBH for me it's not so much lack of tackling (though obviously I'd like to see it, and I don't think he should be excused it), because I don't think he was signed for that - it's the lack of stuff that I presumed that he was signed for - possession football, passes that unlock the opposition defence. Even when you're playing to hold on to a lead, there's a place for that stuff as part of controlling the game and stopping the other side from getting back in. If he can't do that either, then what's he for?
Admittedly only based on screening and highlights, I'm not seeing it, and I really don't get why it doesn't seem to bother him more. Without getting above ourselves, the Championship is higher profile than the Belgian top flight, we're a chance for him to make it big and he's running the risk of getting sent back to the same level as he was a year ago. |
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Reply | If a miracle happened and we went up via the playoffs
at 00:12 22 Jan 2025
OK, so this is now starting to seem like not a silly question, even if still very unlikely.
I'd say "No", but not because I don't want us in the Premier League.
I think it's a year too early. Kids like Kolli, Lloyd, Saito, Morgan are having fun in the Championship. If the pressure of relegation is off and we aren't fretting over promotion either, they have the chance to express themselves and grow. Follow that up with a season of being hammered in the Premiership and you might take the innocence out of them.
Give us a fun run in to May, maybe one or two good signings, and then let's go next year. |
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Reply | Ashby injured or hooked?
at 23:45 21 Jan 2025
The issue with Dunne was the potential need to play him as CB. If Fox and Edwards can cover those positions with cameos from JCS, then I make you right.
We've seen other players written off start to make an impact (Fox is one of them) but if we're hoping to do that with a player it's better for it to be Santos, who is ours, than Ashby who isn't. |
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Reply | Morgan Fox
at 23:39 21 Jan 2025
Good calls there, IMO.
That gnarly-old-pro alongside Excellent Young Boy (Glossary alert) combo is pretty decent and probably what we need until all the injuries come back. |
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Reply | Leicester defeat a disaster??
at 23:35 21 Jan 2025
What I will say is that I always felt criticism of the manager for his selection that match was completely unwarranted.
As we saw tonight, Cifuentes doesn't play Madsen, Harrison or Edwards because he thinks it doesn't matter if we lose, they are players in his squad and he can't afford not to use them sometimes.
But I suspect that we'll be seeing a lot more of Edwards than Ashby for the rest of the season. |
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Reply | Leicester defeat a disaster??
at 23:31 21 Jan 2025
Honestly I don't think anyone who was peed off at us letting in six (having been good value for 1-1) needs to apologise, I think that JCS was spot-on in his reaction to that defeat, it wasn't good enough.
What's really pleasing is that the players haven't let it knock them off course, they've picked themselves up and delivered.
So no apology from me, but a round of applause certainly. |
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Reply | Game on.
at 23:19 21 Jan 2025
Nah, balls to that.
Disappointment will turn up soon enough, let's dream. |
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Reply | Hull Is For Heroes match fred
at 23:16 21 Jan 2025
Lots of this is preconceptions, and I am as guilty as anyone.
Varane didn't have a brilliant start with us but toughed it out and worked hard when we we sh*t - that paid dividends when we started that slightly lucky run, because that sort of effort and grit can make the difference between a fluky 1-0 win and 1-1 or 1-2.
He's getting credit for that now even if he makes the odd mistake.
Madsen hasn't earn it yet. Maybe people are being a bit harsh, and I will always be looking for evidence that he is decent, because we need all the assets we can get. To do that we need more than "didn't screw things up", we need to see him change a game. For example, if at 2-0 he had been able to calm things down, hold the ball and take pace out of the game. |
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Reply | Hull
at 00:57 21 Jan 2025
The other player never kicks them up in the air either.
At least, not during the match. |
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Reply | Pat Nevin's The Accidental Footballer
at 00:45 21 Jan 2025
Yeah, Pat Nevin is one thing, with him it's just guilt by association, but I'm not having John Terry as a decent bloke for one second.
If he'd played for us I'd say the same too. Joey. Barton played for us and is a turd all the same. |
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Reply | Cian Dillon goals reel
at 00:39 21 Jan 2025
Seems happy to score while wearing hoops, including a couple against the team all in blue. |
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Reply | Summer outs
at 11:16 20 Jan 2025
It's puzzling though.
Not up to scratch at Champ level, but he had his moments, especially going forward. Attitude always seemed decent. Good fitness record.
I don't think you can assume that just because a player hasn't been picked up he's no good, if we'd taken that attitude we'd have never signed Eze after he'd been bummed out by numerous clubs.
Clubs aren't beyond making mistakes in the transfer market, God knows we've made a few. |
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Reply | Cold Water Swimming
at 16:03 19 Jan 2025
You're all bloody mad.
Just back from a walk alongside the Severn, which isn't even the sea, while wearing a big coat and a jumper, and it was already plenty cold enough. |
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Reply | Getting Edwards in straight away - now that's great work !!
at 09:41 19 Jan 2025
I don't get some of the thinking on here about this specific loan.
Of course a permanent signing is better, and saves money in the long term, but if half your defence get injured simultaneously you need a quick solution which you can afford on your immediate budget.
And if the reason you've loaned a player in is because you bloody need one right now, it means you play him right now.
Or do we think the club's response to Morrison's injury should have been to wait a few weeks, maybe hope JCS would be back soon and fit to play 90 minutes? |
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Reply | Kolli-Poodle-do !
at 09:21 19 Jan 2025
Picking up from something in the OP, one of the steps forward this season is that both Frey and Kolli get themselves in positions to score, even if they're finishing isn't always perfect - you can see both those things with Frey yesterday.
When we have a long-distance shot or maybe a poor cross, you do tend to see those two getting into decent scoring positions even though the ball doesn't get near them.
That's much less obvious to me with Celar, he doesn't seem to read his teammates well, but in his case I think his actual finishing might be better. |
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