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Peterborough ticket available - east stand - £10
at 19:20 29 Oct 2021

Have an adult ticket available in the east stand, upper tier (near the back) near half way line would involve meeting my mate who holds my season card. Please PM if interested, available for £10.

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The future of our club
at 23:58 1 Feb 2019

The last day or two has made me believe even more that the Americans want to asset strip our club in order to recover as much as their “investment” as possible and will stop at nothing in order
to do so.

There is no proof of course but the rumours that HJ turned his phone off last
night and that is the only reason why Dan James isn’t a Leeds player now can’t be ignored as it is yet another example of how the Americans operate. Clearly HJ is still trying to operate in the best interests of the club even if (through his own doing) he is now fighting a losing battle.

Retaining Dan James’s services would make little difference to the club’s financial sustainability in the way that Bony staying would have, yet the Americans clearly wanted to sell or else the deal wouldn’t have got as close as it was to completion, ditto Fer, who had a medical at Villa.

As much as Schnoz and the other W**kers who sold out should be despised, at least they are fans even though they put their personal wealth ahead of their love for the club.

Let’s be in no doubt, these American w**kers will let the club die in order to get their money back.

I don’t know what course of action is, but what I am sure of is that we need to do something, if, we, as a fan base, want to retain our championship status, because I reckon the Americans will kill us as a club in pursuit of their money back if we let them.

Sorry to post this but this is serious s**t and i am deeply worried about the future of our club.

Thoughts?

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Rooney's contract
at 20:40 21 Feb 2014

Is it just me or is this a ridiculous, desperate move?

This contract, worth 300k a week, is 5 and a half years long, taking him to around the age of 34.

IMO he has not become the player he could have been and for that sort of money they could surely get better, ok Messi or Ronaldo probably not but surely Cavani, Falcao or Lewandowski would be within reach, ok a large transfer fee would be a factor but if Man U want to challenge for trophies any time soon then they need that kind of quality.

And yes, I know most elite player contracts are ridiculous before anyone points it out but this one seems even more so.

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Tactics and playing players out of position
at 15:20 2 Feb 2014

After yesterday's very poor showing I have the following thoughts:-

- West Ham away is always a difficult fixture, even if they have struggled this season. We will struggle to deal with Carroll in that sort of form but there is struggling to deal with him and not having anyone within yards of him when he wins the ball in the air, two different things!

- As much as recent results have not been unexpected, and injuries have affected the fluidity of the team, in general we have been able to put out an 11 from the first team squad. The performance levels of the team are dropping, with too many poor displays, where is the zip in our passing? We can't expect to win at West Ham but what we can expect is the team playing closer to its potential more often than we have been seeing in recent weeks.

- Too often, ML is playing the game to stifle the opposition, not to play to our strengths, Amat in midfield was a classic example when Leon was on the bench (this tactic not only didnt play to our strengths but was fatally flawed as Amat is not actually that good in the air anyway). Spurs home was another example where instead of playing Pozuelo behind Bony and Lamah and Routledge we started with two players (Pozuelo and Amat) out of position with a natural winger sitting on the bench, as once again ML's containment policy against the big teams didn't work.

- Michu is close to a return so with a bit of luck we will have a fully fit squad soon, so for the rest of the season we surely must play Michu behind Bony in as many games as possible, don't play players out of position unless there really is no choice, and go out to try and win games rather than try to stay in them until the last half hour then look to change it, we seem to "die wondering" too often for my liking.

- my concern is that when JJS plays as the CAM this is not his best position, and while he is a goal threat he is better being one of the deeper midfielders, breaking forward, with a CAM playing as well. We don't have enough goal threat without a genuine CAM playing, oft said but still the case. When JJS does play deeper we lose some defensive stability as we then don't have two CDM's so catch 22 to an extent.

- Will we see a more attacking philosophy? Not for me, another example of ML's negativity came against Fulham where at 0 0 they were quicker to throw an extra attacking player (Bent) on than we were, even though we were home to a relegation zone team (our winless run will maybe have contributed to the cautious approach but Fulham have also been struggling).

- Am I concerned about the quality of our squad? No, we have more than enough to stay up. Am I concerned about us getting the best out of what we have got, I would have to say yes at the moment.

How ML sets up next week is key, should Pozuelo start at CAM? I'm not sure whether ML trusts him yet in as big a game as that one.

Finally, hypothetical question, if we had a fully fit Michu would both he and Bony start next week, I would say yes but not sure ML would do the same.

[Post edited 2 Feb 2014 15:26]

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