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Reply | Ivan Jurić
at 14:14 20 Dec 2024
I’ve just asked the Croatian woman at work (whose English is so good that she used the word “perplexed” earlier) about this. She doesn’t like football but says it shouldn’t be a problem as Croatians are used to picking up other languages. Modric speaks a load of different languages and English is very widely spoken in Croatia, especially in the tourist areas. I’d be surprised if the language was a problem for this guy. |
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Reply | Wonder goal last night.
at 07:37 15 Dec 2024
He used to try that on an almost regular basis for Saints but I don’t remember it coming off very often. He wasn’t great but is still better than what we’ve got now. I was happy to see the back of him and thought we could do better but obviously not. |
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Reply | Ryan Manning
at 07:19 8 Dec 2024
I’m probably being overly generous to Rusty when I say he’s a Championship manager with Championship players as his favourites. I’m starting to wonder if someone else at the club insisted on the signing of Taylor to give us more PL experience and Rusty has been sticking two fingers up at them by playing KWP or Manning at left back instead.
I was watching on TV yesterday and when he came back on the pitch after HT he seemed to be more concerned about what the wind was doing to his hair than anything else.
Branfoot was a terrible manager but never struck me as a horrible man. He was just intransigent. Rusty, on the other hand, seems like an awful egotist. The alarm bells were ringing for me soon after he was appointed when I read him complaining in an article that no one recognised him when he was on playing duty for Scotland. It’s not all about you, mate.
I wouldn’t mind so much if he had any reason to be egotistical (as people like Hoddle, Podgytino and Koeman were probably also up their own arses - with more justification) but he’s got nothing going for him except overconfidence. He’s a narcissist and should be questioning where he’s going wrong and trying to fix it but I don’t think he is. He’s just trying more and more wacky approaches instead of going back to basics. He sidelines players he doesn’t like and over-promotes his favourites. Tall Paul is no world beater but when he finally got a chance he looked like he might be a more effective attacker than Archer and AA, who are both way of their depth at this level.
People say the players aren’t good enough, which I agree with to a certain extent, but I can’t help feeling that Rusty is holding them back. If I was KWP being asked to play in central midfield I’d be straight in touch with my agent. We’ve got a few players who are decent at this level but aren’t being given a fair crack of the whip. Manning is not one of those - he should still have been plying his trade in the Championship. When we last came up we kept the better players (Lambert, Lallana, Fonte) and shipped out the ones who weren’t up to it (Barnard, Harding, Butterfield, Fourpast etc.). This time around we’ve not only kept all the dross but added to it. That’s why we’re going down. |
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Reply | Meanwhile in the Bundesliga
at 17:29 6 Dec 2024
As I’ve said on multiple occasions over the past few years (since the first 9-0 defeat): Ralph Hasenhüttl is the worst Austrian of all time. |
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Reply | Slack Jack should get the sack.
at 12:23 5 Dec 2024
This is bang on.
I’ve always hated Cucurrella because he’s a little cheat and he constantly dives and feigns injury but is never punished for it.
Send off Stephens, fair enough, but you can still book the cheat for feigning injury. |
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Reply | Liverpool Cup Tickets
at 14:14 20 Nov 2024
I’ve bought two tickets and I have no intention of going. I just wanted to stop them falling into the hands of plastic Scousers and to boost my purchase history for the next time I might need to rely on it. |
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Reply | Undertones Saturday
at 08:54 25 Oct 2024
Nope but I saw them in Frankfurt last month and they were very entertaining. |
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Reply | Ross Stewart
at 09:30 12 Oct 2024
There’s no way he could have passed it. He was injured when we signed him and he’s been injured ever since. |
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Reply | New manager
at 17:31 4 Oct 2024
That’s just so he can ask Juan Larios what’s ailing him. |
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Reply | New manager
at 14:45 3 Oct 2024
We should have got Moyes about twenty years ago. He’s a dinosaur but I think he would steady the ship. Christ, how’s that for a mixed metaphor?! |
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Reply | Dibling
at 14:42 3 Oct 2024
I think he was supposed to be a false 9 but was so isolated that he felt he had to try and do everything on his own. Anyone would struggle in that situation so it was a bizarre idea, as was pumping it long to Wee Man, who had no chance. I don’t rate any of our strikers either but it’s not like we don’t have any other options. We made it far too easy for Bournemouth. |
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