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Reply | Varanne
at 10:48 1 Dec 2024
Cook's looking increasingly slow, not only in general play where his dropping deep is problematic, but also in terms of his footwork when challenging players. Next year it'll be even worse. He'll be difficult to replace though because of his other attributes.
Agree on Dunne though. Good lad, works hard, embedded in the club. Spending money to replace him would be a waste when you could simply resign him. |
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Reply | QPR v Udinese B Match thread
at 10:43 1 Dec 2024
Your summation is probably fair, but none of that makes his performance yesterday a 6.
Either way, none of the good points from yesterday outweigh the negatives. He's still not a Championship midfielder. |
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Reply | SACK THE BOARD
at 11:52 6 Nov 2024
If the owners walked away the club would continue. We'd have to cut our cloth accordingly, but we'd still be here. They've been nothing sort of a disaster since they walked in the door. |
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Reply | Madsen, Celar, Santos
at 11:51 6 Nov 2024
Madsen isn't a footballer, he's a five-a-side player. There's a big difference. |
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Reply | False number nine
at 09:02 25 Oct 2024
Also, if we were to go with the OP's suggestion we might as well tell Celar, after just a handful of games in a disjointed team, that he's useless and we're never going to pick him. Not convinced that's a great use of player resources, nor response to his performances, nor use of the money we've invested in him.
We can't keep writing people off like this, even if his early appearances haven't been promising (to put it mildly). |
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Reply | Kolli scores!
at 15:46 24 Oct 2024
Putting to one side what may or may not have happened behind the scenes, I do find the conversation around Kolli interesting. He's scored a goal for the Dev Team against Colchester's Dev Team, and 2 goals for Algeria U20s against....Mauritania. It's not exactly 'banging the door down' form, is it? Yet people are taking really quite polarised positions on him. Odd. |
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Reply | Dev Squad v Sheff U today
at 13:24 10 Sep 2024
Some very young players in that team - Neill and Tarbotton were in the U16s last year and have seemingly by-passed the U18s straight to the Dev Squad. |
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Reply | Liam Morrison
at 15:03 28 Aug 2024
A couple of times in the second half last night their CFs dropped off Morrison and found space between him and Santos and neither of them picked up on it, but he recovered the situation well each time. He's still very young for a CB and obviously learning but he's got good attributes, height, strength, comfortable on the ball. Looks like a very good signing. |
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Reply | John Textor. American owner.
at 10:47 11 Aug 2024
An article in The Guardian last week about this guy possibly buying Everton contained a throwaway line about him having previously looked at QPR and Watford. Probably where this account has nicked the idea. |
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Reply | Paris 2024 Olympics Frederique
at 15:45 2 Aug 2024
Yes, I too wonder why on earth a woman would want to speak up in defence of women's rights... |
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Reply | State Of Origin 2024.
at 12:13 17 Jul 2024
Who in their right mind wants to stand in front of Spencer Leniu running at full steam? |
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Reply | Nrl 2024
at 12:11 17 Jul 2024
Would the outlay for the NRL be worth it? Idk, but I see your point about the game's contraction here having a knock on effect.
I heard somewhere that the clubs now have more control over fixtures, something Sky gave up when making a considerably lower financial offer, and it's them who don't want Thursday games. As you say, absolutely crucial to get a handful of extra bodies in the ground and buying a pie on a Friday.
The small-time thinking infects every level of the game. Such a shame. |
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Reply | Nrl 2024
at 11:17 17 Jul 2024
Lot's of questions about how you'd get it off the ground, structure, which clubs, etc. But my main thought is that Peter V'landys only does things he thinks will make money in the short-to-medium term - hence the push for a PNG team because the Aus government have offered $600m, the Las Vegas season-opener, using profits to buy existing businesses in Australia. Would an NRL Europe make money? Doubtful, but even if it did you'd be looking at a very long-term project. I cant see him wanting to spend time and money on it, especially when they can just use the English game as a source of players. |
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Reply | Nrl 2024
at 10:48 17 Jul 2024
London's a joke of a club, in fact it's not even a club anymore just a first team and a handful of off-field staff. David Hughes has spent £30million to take a club averaging 4,500 at Griffin Park to one averaging 1,000 at Wimbledon, and in the process driven away people who were the bedrock of the club's support and the local community clubs
Even the much-vaunted development work that managed to produce a few England internationals has been destroyed in the last few years - academy team closed and fewer community clubs than at any point in the last 20 years.
And I doubt the other clubs will allow Toulouse the time and space needed to establish themselves, they've already changed the rules so Catalans have to pay for everyone's travel to France once a year. Too many people (owners, players, fans, administrators) really do just want to revert to playing games against teams they can travel to on the local bus network. Eventually, that's what they'll probably get - and wonder why so many young players are desperate to leave for the NRL (just wait until that hits 20 teams and needs more players). |
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Reply | Nrl 2024
at 10:37 17 Jul 2024
Just a little defence of IMG here, I don't think they realised just how resistant the clubs would be to absolutely every suggestion made. They've ended up cobbling together a package that doesn't make a huge difference but was just about all they could get the clubs to agree to. I wouldn't be surprised if IMG walked away, the financial returns just aren't worth the work they have to put in. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 11:35 12 Jul 2024
Yes, actually, I am. Russia is a fascist state (run by real, actual, genuine, fascists, not the nonsense that gets spouted by some students and online larpers) that has invaded a neighbouring country and would happily do the same to numerous others in the vicinity. Take a look at their behaviour in every Ukrainian town and city they've conquered - the rape, torture and murder they dish out as a matter of course. I am delighted that we are doing something to help the poor buggers defending themselves against these monsters. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:53 9 Jul 2024
It's interesting to me that you think the Liberals are to the left of Labour, given that the only time they've been in government in the past 100 years they actively participated in the wholesale destruction of the social and civic infrastructure that held this country together and paved the way to all of us being financially and socially poorer. [Post edited 9 Jul 10:54]
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