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Reply | Chris Ramsey
at 17:20 24 Apr 2024
That's true though. The fabled 'pay as you play'.
Ned has said some good things about Ramsey too, and he is highly thought of as a youth coach (Eze has praised him), but that's clearly v different to coaching at Prem level. |
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Reply | New Kit Annoucment Due ??
at 15:35 24 Apr 2024
Think I've still got that too, and I didn't mind the circle to be honest. better than a big patch, and made the numbers easier to see. but I remember Jim Frayling saying he got absokutely slaughtered for the circle! |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 17:06 23 Apr 2024
Can't agree with a lot of that. While our top 15 players are good enough, we cannot go around carrying passengers like Kakay, Drewe, SDM, Begovic, and I have to say, EDB, although he showed some promise earlier in the season. Almost all of those out of contract should probably go.
We will have to try and sign a striker, which means at least one of the current 3 will go. That is most likely to be Dykes.
Kelman has already ludicrously signed an extension: hopefully we won't be repeating any more of that nonsense. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 17:02 23 Apr 2024
Again, it wasn't the Warburton year. That year we had made space to be able to try it (and we were top 4 until late Feb - it wasn't that unlikely. I'm very pessimistic, but in Feb I was not booking any holidays and was convinced we'd make play-offs at least: for a year we'd had an excellent record). It was the end of the Warbs year: we tried, it failed, we had to sell *then* - we didn't, because Beale convinced them not to. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 15:29 23 Apr 2024
I think some fans are still not quite understanding how much we are losing. If a good bid comes in, it is not about making a choice: player is sold, simple as that. We're not potentially selling JCS in case he gets injured next season, we're potentially selling him because we will make a handsome profit in doing so, allowing us to re-invest and make the team stronger.
As for this season being 'very bad', I'd dispute that. The first period under Ainsworth was certainly 'very bad' - worse than that, in fact. But under Marti we have been a solid, average Championship side that likely would have been safe some time in March had he had a full season with this team. We have played very poorly at times (Millwall, Stoke, Sheff Wed), been very good at times (Leicester, WBA) and been competitive in almost every other game.
If we trust Marti, and I think we do, there is no emotion required if we receive a proper bid for a player: we sell, we run the club more sustainably, we re-invest. It's not even an argument in reality, however much some posters might like to present it as such. |
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Reply | Premier League Abuse
at 13:29 23 Apr 2024
Depends when you're talking about, but certainly in the 70s and 80s teams either went out of business or came exceedingly close to doing so through the similar sort of mismanagement and relegations we see with teams today: Charlton, Boro, Swansea just off the top of my head, a decade or so before the Prem existed. the gulfs are much wider now of course; but in the 70s 2nd Division teams often used to outbid 1st division teams with wages to sign players, who would drop a division for more money. John Burridge did it almost every season. |
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Reply | Lids v Boro
at 21:10 22 Apr 2024
Old bum nose Hinchcliffe? That's his entire shtick. Woeful commentator, zero insight. Thick as mince. It goes over 'he should have hit it lower' - thanks, Andy. Hates us, too. |
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Reply | This weekend
at 16:44 22 Apr 2024
I'd be happy for Derby and Pompey to be in the lower reaches forever tbh. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 22:39 21 Apr 2024
I'm not really sure what dealings done nearly 3 decades ago have to do with now?
People still I think have it slightly wrong about MW's final year. It was not a disastrous decision that year to push the boat out. We could afford it. That's why we did it. And it was working until late Feb. The mistake was that summer. When it didn't work, then we had to sell. But Beale told us not to. So we didn't. But to remain competitive we must be looking to sell our assets at their peak and replace with cheaper and keep improving. We did it badly with Les (who was irreplaceable anyway), but other clubs have shown more recently how to do it, and it can be done. |
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Reply | This weekend
at 17:15 21 Apr 2024
The 'on the beach' argument is probably the worst in football. Were Swansea on the beach yesterday in a game everyone on here said they'd definitely lose? |
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Reply | Championship Predictor - final table
at 13:48 21 Apr 2024
If Blackburn win we are all but safe. Hudd and Birmingham can't both overtake us, because they play each other, so essentially 2 teams are guaranteed to finish below us now. Sheff Wed need a minimum of 7 points to overtake us. Their GD is so inferior to ours (incredibly) that if they lose today there would have to be a huge swing in GD for us to finish below them. |
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Reply | Player of the season
at 13:45 21 Apr 2024
Ilias.
I vote for him every year.
(I accept it's Cook or JCS - I do think they praise for these two is a bit unfaierly weighted to Cook though. JCS has been outstanding). |
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Reply | FA Cup Replays Scrapped
at 13:43 21 Apr 2024
And the thing is, no one will ever challenge him on it. The big clubs have the media by the balls. If a Sky reporter dared question that, he'd go mad and probably refuse to speak to them. |
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Reply | FA Cup Replays Scrapped
at 13:41 21 Apr 2024
Yeah I could not believe that. If you're so concerned about welfare, rest your players. The game doesn't exist to make it as easy as possible for your financially doped club to win every single game they play. Getting really fed up with Pep. |
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Reply | Andersen
at 13:32 21 Apr 2024
Not really seeing this at all. Funny how everyone sees players differently. Most of the threat came down their right, I didn't think Paal did much wrong, solid 6. Fox came on more to give us that extra height and heading ability.
We're not going to be binning off the number of players some fans seem to think we will. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 09:58 21 Apr 2024
A lot of people talking about ‘major surgery’ - we can’t afford that and I doubt it will happen. However, this summer will hinge on three things:
1. Bids for JCS
2. Eze’s rumoured move to City
3. Chair’s legal issues sorting out
All three of those could happen, meaning we sell two players for a combined £10m plus another £7-8m for Eze. That will see some major changes.
Or, none of those three might happen, and we’ll only sign some frees. |
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Reply | Andersen
at 09:54 21 Apr 2024
He’s much more than a squad player.
I thought yesterday he did give the ball away 3 or 4 times at moments that put us under pressure BUT this is partly because he does not want to play the easy sideways or backwards ball. We could all keep possession passing it 4 yards backwards as some of our players have in the recent past, but that won’t win you many games. |
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Reply | Shock as Gavin Ward doesn't have a terrible game
at 23:13 20 Apr 2024
I've seen the handball again now and that is a diabolical decision. The player is miles away from the ball and had plenty of time to react, but he clearly deliberately stopped it with his arm.
Other than that, ref was ok i thought. |
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Reply | Thank you Marti Cifuenes.
at 20:01 20 Apr 2024
Outside of this club, i don’t think anyone realises quite the incredible effect he’s had. That was not a dead team walking, it was a dead team in a coffin, not bothering scratching in the hopes of getting out.
One of the all time great turnarounds assuming the job is completed! |
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