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Reply | Is The Journey Better Than The Prize
at 10:02 15 Nov 2024
The problem with taking a yo-yo approach comes if you get relegated, then don’t come straight back up. All your best players will be up and away, and the whole club becomes weaker, and I don’t put much faith in Ankerson and co to spot the emerging talent that we would need to get back.1 decadent player in 6 or 7 acquisitions isn’t going to cut it, apart from trading.
The Sunderland experience has been dire from a football perspective, continually changing owners, never quite good enough. They made the playoffs a couple of seasons ago, but their football was agricultural, with Clarke being the only half decent quality player, and he isn’t exactly shining in the PL now.
That is what the future holds for us under the current setup. |
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Reply | Sources Say Southampton Have Made Decision About Russell Martin
at 08:52 14 Nov 2024
This is NOT a decision. It is just deferring making one, unless there is a timetable and results targets. In any event, results will be meaningless, as there is very little prospect of things improving. There are no signs of any change from our approach, which has been shown to be woefully inadequate.
When you are in a fight, strategy is out of the window, but Ankerson is sticking by the long term plan, that somehow, keeping on losing will make us successful. Thanks matey. |
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Reply | Enough
at 18:11 10 Nov 2024
I made the decision last season, as I didn’t want to watch us playing tippy tippy against second rate teams. I didn’t renew again this season, because our football is a joke and unprofessional. The majority of pundits and tens of thousands of (previously) enthusiastic fans are not wrong. The only way is to walk away until a viable approach is implemented. |
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Thread | Strikers Not Good Enough
at 08:53 5 Nov 2024
Club Shots OnTarget Goals On target % Goals% SOT
CrystalPalace 143 49 8 34.3 16.3
Everton 109 37 10 33.9 27
Ipswich 100 30 10 30 33.3
LeicesterCity 107 32 14 29.9 43.8
Wolverhampton 103 43 14 41.7 32.6
Southampton 102 34 7 33.3 20.6
We are not shooting much less than the other strugglers, and our shots on target compares favourably. Our strikers just aren’t up to the job.
I just spent ages getting all this aligned, then when I posted, it took out all the formatting. Doh! [Post edited 5 Nov 8:54]
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Reply | Heyho
at 16:27 3 Nov 2024
In terms of clear chances, Everton could have easily won that game. |
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Reply | The fight is there
at 16:24 3 Nov 2024
I’d bet on the first option, but not on the second. |
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Reply | Who is our defensive coach?
at 16:21 3 Nov 2024
Any team coming up against us knows that they are going to get plenty of chances so long as they can win free kicks and press the defenders. When you look at the player positions when playing out, almost every option. Apart from passing to the goalie looks like a risky one. I just don’t believe that the players are completely unaware, but what they are doing is the lazy option and the passer gets the blame because the others do not work hard enough to get into positions to receive (other than go deeper and deeper). |
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Reply | Ross Stewart
at 17:01 1 Nov 2024
In another galaxy, far, far away. |
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Reply | The Budget
at 16:59 1 Nov 2024
A good number need a Nursing Home, which is a different cost model to a Care Home. |
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Reply | The Budget
at 06:25 1 Nov 2024
Arguably, no vote means no say. I knew a bloke that had a knack for finding something wrong, then getting on his high horse about something needing to be done. Until his wife would ask him what was HE going to do about it. No answer, and she told him to stick his indignation back up where it came from. |
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Reply | The Budget
at 15:44 31 Oct 2024
Our employers will charge more for the goods and services they supply. For a big proportion, that is 1% to 1.5% increase in wage costs (more if mostly low paid workers like retail). Business growth will have to come from small to medium sized companies, large companies have steadily declined over the past decades. Small companies being hit with higher costs, more generous worker rights and knowing that they will get hit with massive CGT iof they are successful and get bought out by bigger fish, they are not likely to take big risks and maximise growth. It will be Corporation Tax at the next budget.
This government have played entirely to the voting electorate in the short term. When ever did government intervention in the capital investment cycle prove to be a success?
This lot just don’t have a clue any more than the lazy, corrupt and self serving mob who were in before. |
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Reply | Match day thread?
at 05:46 30 Oct 2024
Everton have scored 150% goals and conceded 85% compared to us. Unless they have one of their “moments”, I don’t anticipate celebrating at 5 o’clock. |
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Reply | Back in January
at 16:02 28 Oct 2024
Enjoy your break. Your predictions are pretty much the same as mine. If you want to enjoy your time, just check the results after the game, far less angst. |
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Reply | My take on yesterday's game
at 09:04 28 Oct 2024
WE were largely ineffectual, and Man City wasted a hatful of opportunities, as you say, without breaking sweat. Haaland should have had 3, let alone the others. I am finding this season a cross between excruciatingly boring and excruciatingly painful. I thought last season was bad enough from a footballing perspective, but this approach is more than sad.
To succeed with the current style, we need to be well drilled and be able to concentrate for the 100 mins or so a match lasts these days. We are woefully short on both of these qualities. RM is a rich man whether he succeeds or not, so too it appears are the executives making the calls on how the club is run and develops. |
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Reply | Astonishing
at 07:07 25 Oct 2024
No dent to his pride. I predict that at the end of the season we’ll hear that the squad couldn’t learn quickly enough. SR certainly like the snake oil he is selling. |
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Reply | Why? Why can't people see it's the owners who need removing?
at 07:02 25 Oct 2024
Fulham (and Crystal Palace) are an easy option for good players at top London clubs to move on without a major disruption to their lives, so they get a higher standard of players truly available to them. But you are right about Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth. I think Bournemouth are very much in the drop down and bounce back group, which is where I suspect Sports Republic are happy for us to be, and if we hang on in the PL for a couple of years, then that is a bonus. |
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