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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 16:09 2 Jul 2024
I get what you're saying, I just disagree :)
Didn't mean to beat you down - apologies if I have. You Rs. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 16:07 2 Jul 2024
The Brazilian is right sided isn't he?
Does Paal have 12 months left? I do like him but I also think it would be great business if we could get a couple of million for him as I don't think he's any better than what we've been since he joined. Doesn't offer much quality going forward and seems to be prone to leaving huge gaps on his side of the field sometimes.
I'd like to think 'the new us' will be able to source a comparable or better replacement for less than the going rate of an established Championship player. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 07:21 2 Jul 2024
I didn’t say he is ‘worth £40m now to a Premier League outfit’ anywhere. You’re getting that from thin air too.
I’m not sure why I’m getting drawn on a debate about this with someone that ‘doesn’t know much about him’. I’d suggest that’s the issue here causing your bewilderment. Maybe watch him or read about him and it might make more sense to you. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 22:52 1 Jul 2024
Using every single one of your arguments Dortmund should never have signed Jude Bellingham for £30m four years ago. I don’t think they have too many regrets.
Not sure how you managed to twist ‘has the potential to become a £100m player’ into ‘likely to become’ or ‘guaranteed’. I quite clearly didn’t say either of those things.
Anyway I don’t think there’s any need to shout. I was just trying to answer the question you asked. [Post edited 1 Jul 22:57]
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 14:53 1 Jul 2024
He's 18, Ilias turns 27 just after the season starts. So you get 9 more years of his career.
He's English - which always carries a premium - and would count as a home grown player, Ilias only came to England aged 19 so didn't get his three years in before he turned 21 so doesn't. That basically gives Spurs another player in European squad selections.
He's played 44 league games at Championship level, most of them coming before his 18th birthday. Ilias had only played 8 league games at Championship level at age 21.
He's been capped at every level by England up to the senior squad and is widely considered to eventually get to that level too.
Gray is likely to improve over the coming seasons, he has the potential to turn into a £100m+ player over the next 4/5 seasons. By which time Ilias will be 32 and however much we love him he's unlikely to raise his standard greatly over the next couple or three years whilst he's at a saleable age.
I don't think anyone's going to redefine their opinion of his value or quality off the back of his team losing a one off game to QPR or them not winning the playoffs.
I don't think they're remotely comparable. |
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Reply | Potential update on Illias Chair...
at 17:05 20 Jun 2024
If you can’t see the difference between ‘cracking someone’s skull open with a rock’ and throwing a stone at someone I’ll abstain from debating with you.
I’ve no doubt he’s guilty. I have absolutely no idea what he’s guilty of so I won’t cast judgment.i don’t know why people would rush to judge anyone’s actions when they know so few facts. |
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Reply | Potential update on Illias Chair...
at 15:50 20 Jun 2024
You're either making that up or reading / listening to sensationalised accounts on message boards etc.
The press reported he threw a stone. You won't find a single quote from the prosecution's story supplied to the press that uses the word rock. It says nothing about a lad's skull being cracked open nor him threatening anyone's life.
I couldn't let this sort of stuff go last time we were all debating an incident we know almost literally nothing about and even what we do know is fed purely from the prosecution. Please can we all be careful with our interpretation of what's been reported?
Such a fine and grey line here but I detest how people tend to be tried by gossip and social media these days. It's quite simply not fair and I wouldn't wish it on anyone - including QPR players. |
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Reply | Eze for England!
at 14:34 7 Jun 2024
Bowen has played 3,842 minutes of football this season. 20 goals, 10 assists.
Grealish 2,114 minutes. 3 goals, 3 assists.
West Ham scored 60 league goals vs Man City’s 96.
Bowen was involved in a goal every 128 minutes in a team that scored less than two thirds as many league goals as City. Grealish was involved in a goal every 352 minutes.
The argument for selecting Grealish over Bowen is now seemingly ‘he hasn’t played so much so he’s more fresh.’ By that logic you could make a semi serious claim that Mason Mount should have been picked ahead of Ebere Eze.
For years and years England managers have been criticised for picking players on reputations rather than form. Whatever you think of Southgate he has always picked on what he sees not who he sees, yet he gets stick for that too.
The determination to dislike Southgate from large swathes of football fans kind of mystifies me. He’s always delivered and pretty much always come unstuck at tournaments at the same point every other England manager has in history. He’s encouraged and demanded a progression of our shape and style. He’s picked unheralded, inexperienced, in-form players again and again. He’s made big calls consistently by leaving out the likes of Alli, Rashford, Henderson, Grealish etc etc. He’s also a credit to himself and our country with his demeanour and class.
I find the hatred completely bizarre. He picked us up from the Icelandic floor and immediately pivoted into the most successful sustained period we’ve ever had. I’m pretty convinced we’ll regress under the next manager and we’ll be pining for the Southgate years soon enough. [Post edited 7 Jun 14:35]
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Reply | Eze for England!
at 12:59 7 Jun 2024
That's fair except both of those games were at Wembley.
England don't have a single knockout game major team scalp in the history of football outside of Wembley. Belgium in 1990 maybe the highest profile team? I won't be able to see that changing until it changes. |
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Reply | Ticket master hacked
at 12:29 3 Jun 2024
I don’t understand this. How / why would a group ‘claim’ to be guilty of what must be a pretty serious crime? Are they doing that anonymously? If so, surely if they got paid the money they’re after it would create a pretty obvious trail to individuals leaving them open to prosecution, presumably then with another hefty money laundering charge on top?
Am I thick or naive or old or all three? |
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Reply | Don Goodman
at 02:02 27 May 2024
We had 11 total shots to Derby’s 16 despite having a man less for a third of the game.
We were obviously going to be backs to the wall at Wembley with 10 men and the defensive effort for the last 30 minutes was heroic and sublime. It’s not as if they had chance after chance, they just kept whacking balls into the box and Richard Dunne dealt with almost every single one of them with ease. He was 10/10 and the best player on the pitch by some distance.
If was objectively one of the best defensive performances I have ever seen, if not the best. There are many ways to win a football match, they never looked like scoring and we did once. There is nothing undeserving about that performance in any way.
I’ll defend how we played that day as many times as I have to. We did what we had to do and we did it to near perfection. |
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Reply | QPR New Deals
at 13:10 9 May 2024
I know this is all stating the bleeding obvious... But Dykes' return of 7 goals wasn't THAT bad considering how many shots he had - 60. Chair meanwhile led QPR with a whopping 115 shots, almost double that of Dykes and only scored one more goal.
Now part of that is playing time and another part of that is perhaps Dykes' reluctance to shoot / lack of confidence but ultimately Chair scored a goal with 6% of his shots whilst Dykes scored with 10% of his.
Taking away set pieces over the last few months of the season our most potent goal threat by some way were shots from around the edge of the box - almost exclusively from Chair. I'd like to think Marti will try to address that with pattern of play installations or whatever Nourry would call them in preseason.
When you compare our top goalscorers amongst the league's top goalscorers, Dykes does ok in terms of goals per shot conversion, he just takes nowhere near as many shots as an effective player. Meanwhile Chair is right up there in terms of shots but didn't score from many of them - relatively.
This has to change next year as you'd imagine this is completely unsustainable over another season. This year if you shut us down from set pieces and you shut down our edge of the box shots, you can chalk up a clean sheet with little outlay.
Anyway I found this marginally interesting so thought I'd share!
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Reply | National league
at 08:31 3 May 2024
THey're not allowed an artificial pitch in League 2? So England can play international qualifiers on artificial pitches and teams can use them in the Champions League... But the EFL couldn't possibly allow them in League 2?
Between that and the Gateshead mess you have to wonder of the EFL take themselves a bit too seriously. It's pathetic. |
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Reply | New Kit Annoucment Due ??
at 12:27 25 Apr 2024
Bit meh. Quite like the three blues but the collar and sleeves are very bland.
Here's a pic for those in a rush!
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Reply | We are not safe!!!
at 13:41 22 Apr 2024
Because that's how life (and this god forsaken season) goes. Nothing more than that! |
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Reply | We are not safe!!!
at 11:43 22 Apr 2024
Birmingham will obviously beat Huddersfield.
Sheff Weds wining at Sunderland on the last day also feels like a total inevitability to me.
That means Birmingham only need a point at home to Norwich and Weds only need a point this weekend at home to WBA.
I can see Plymouth wither winning at Millwall or at home to Hull on the last day when they need it.
Weirdly the teams I'm most confident in finishing above if we lose our last two would be Blackburn losing to Leicester and Coventry or Stoke losing to Southampton and Bristol City by more than we lose to Leeds and Cov.
It just feels like these teams have been pulling results out of the bag since Christmas when we've been desperate for them to fall away.
Just beat Leeds and it's all immaterial. |
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Reply | Millar of Preston
at 11:34 22 Apr 2024
Hopeless? He tore both our fullbacks to shreds. Every time he got a one on one there was danger.
I know he's a bit of a fan favourite and he's probably the least of our problems but am I allowed to criticise Paal? He so often overpersues to cut out a pass and leaves a gaping hole behind him. He also seems to switch off and let attackers run off of him too. Happened countless times on Saturday.
I think our fullbacks have generally asked a lot of our centre halves this season (Dunne probably excepted). Fortunately since Marti and Calm arrived both JCS and Cook have been quite remarkably good. |
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