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Comment | Dunne’d in the gob – Report
at 07:55:57
Larkeche started there as well and has only had a couple of very brief sub appearances since. Dozzell and Kakay bombed completely. |
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Comment | Field's surprise double caps fitting footballing tribute to Bowles – Report
at 06:59:58
Myke - On the referee and the linesman point... The lino was clearly under instruction to take his lead from the referee. Even fairly simple throw ins they were looking to the referee first before raising a flag. I was amazed he actually flagged for the penalty, that being so blatant I guess how could he not.
When I was refereeing this would happen from time to time. You'd get some old, experienced referee who'd been around, they'd come in and see how young I was, and immediately tell me to only do throw ins and offsides, do not flag for free kicks, and check with me first before raising your flag and I'll indicate what I think it is. Ostensibly the reason is to stop a situation where the lino gives one thing and the referee gives another. In reality it just renders the assistants useless. I used to take great delight in immediately and provocatively flagging for a free kick anyway and forcing the old twt to give something he didn't want to give.
On the points - 52 is usually the cut off. Peterborough were once relegated on 54 but it's never happened before or since. I think it'll need at least 52 this season. |
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Comment | Prestige performance puts QPR back in the hunt - Report
at 20:57:12
Hastings - agreed. Strength on the bench was a huge issue for the squad he took over (see Norwich report). Now we've got some options there. We've seen the power with Chair at PNE and Willock here of leaving a 'star name' out as a bit of a kick.
Tony - Yes, although neither at the time nor on the replay since can I tell you why that is. Any ideas what it was given for? |
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Comment | Square one – Preview
at 22:25:54
Myke - agree. Why are we a place where players come and fail, rather than thrive and succeed? We're a difficult place to come and play. Why? |
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Comment | A win - Report
at 23:19:47
Colback was superb. He drove the whole thing. And I've been a huge critic of his. |
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Comment | Ever more new and creative ways to lose football matches – Report
at 14:48:38
Baz I appreciate what you're saying, but the striker is there to score goals and we've lost the game because he's had three chances to do so and missed.
I like my strikers to score goals. I like my midfielders to win tackles and play the ball forwards, contributing the occasional goal themselves. I like my centre backs to win first contacts and balls in the air. I like my goalkeeper to save shots that he's seen all the way from 25 yards out. I tend to mark accordingly with that.
After two years of losing this team has run my patience very thin. If anything those marks are too high, and I only upped one or two of them to where they are after reading the message board and looking at the interactive ratings. Watford were fairly poor, and we've lost, at home, again. |
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Comment | The season of evil begins with the birth of a new year – Report
at 14:17:24
The biggest positive contribution from Martin, other than the Burnley goal, was him publicly stating that standards weren't high enough among the playing squad, that we aren't dedicated enough to what we're doing. A year on, nothing has changed. He was dead right. |
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Comment | Anatomy of a fall – Report
at 08:02:24
Absolutely Myke, think he's probably learned a bit this week about who he can and cannot trust to rotate in though. |
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Comment | Identity parade – Preview
at 12:03:04
I’m still revisiting my prediction that Steven Caulker was a brilliant signing 10 years later :-)
Nice to see you back posting. |
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Comment | Right man. Right time? – Column
at 11:20:19
Well some of it was the Cifuentes piece we wrote a year ago, and some of it is the Neil Warnock piece we were writing :-D |
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Comment | As good as we've got? Report
at 16:01:53
Well I guess that could still happen, but the decision to overturn Begovic's red was a very simple one that needed to be made before Saturday and could be, whereas if they charge Bamford with deceiving the referee (which they should IMO) then Leeds will certainly demand a hearing and fight it which takes more time. May still happen in the next week or so, and like I say IMO they should because it's blatant and he's got form for it. |
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Comment | As good as we've got? Report
at 13:18:10
After 16 hours on the M1 you can only imagine how little of a toss I gave about whether Jake Clarke-Salter was a 5 or a 6. |
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