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Reply | Ilias Chair
at 15:31 29 Apr 2024
I like Chair, as said by others he's hard working and skilful, not a common pairing. The court case makes me cautious about "building a team around him" for next season because it seems like he may be suddenly removed from the team. If we got a good offer for him I'd take it personally. I think he deserves a crack higher up and think this might be a good time, while rebuilding under Marti, to get a few young replacements or unknown players like Anderson in to see who can step up to his level. |
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Reply | Begovic has done alright!
at 17:52 28 Apr 2024
TBF I think he's been hard done by, his name deserves to be top 5 at least. |
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Reply | Begovic has done alright!
at 17:52 28 Apr 2024
I liked the analysis by the young lad did scouting goalkeepers and think the Lincoln goalkeeper Jensen would be a good option. |
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Reply | Begovic has done alright!
at 17:24 28 Apr 2024
I think he's 7th based alphabetically.
If you order by goals prevented he's 3rd worst in the league. I believe goal prevented looks at the expected goals vs goals conceded. So if you're getting loads of clean sheets because the teams neutralising the attempts of the opposition it's allows you to look more at the goalkeepers contribution. |
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Reply | Willock - Will He Stay?
at 17:56 27 Apr 2024
I think it's probably best all around if he moves on. If we keep him we'll only end up pointing at next season's L1 player tearing up the championship and say why didn't we get him. He's a good player but not irreplaceable and age and injury record suggesting it would be a bad bet to chuck all our money on.
Not sure what Ainsworth has to do with the conversation, poor manager but Willock was poor for Critchley before he arrived. |
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Reply | Another sponsor bites the dust
at 15:18 26 Apr 2024
Apologies, didn't realise that you were in fit out, must be a massive factor. We've had a downturn in commercial work too but we're able to be topped up with other markets (Schools recently) and have a load of survey work if all else fails.
On WFH generally I keep going around in circles, I don't mind it but equally my commute isn't too bad so it wouldn't be the end of the world if I ended up back in 5 days a week (nearly all my team were happy to do that pre pandemic). The people who aren't performing well currently, historically always performed badly, so I don't blame WFH I just think they need to be put on a performance improvement plan but alas not my call. I've firmly been of the mindset that if they can't improve we should replace them but then we have trouble hiring as it is so taking flexible working out of it will only make things worse.
I also wonder what it's doing for development of younger staff as well, we have an apprentice in the office on his own today as we all WFH on a Friday and he can't. Not ideal. |
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Reply | Another sponsor bites the dust
at 12:21 26 Apr 2024
I'm intrigued by the comment about WFH, I'm in the construction industry (consultant) and WFH 2 day's a week. We've recently been asked to consider coming back in 5 days a week but I'm not convinced it will change anything. It would be good to get a different opinion of it if you've had first hand experience of the negatives of WFH, especially within the same sector. |
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Reply | Next season - 4 key players for us to keep
at 07:42 25 Apr 2024
Seems fair. I try to think "would our players get in a decent championship teams starting lineup?" For our attack it's a universal no. Dykes definitely not, Chair and Willock maybe but one's almost certainly off and the other has a court case over his head.
The only player I think would make it as a yes would be JCS, so he'd be hardest to replace but possibly bring in the most money to rebuild. As you say his injury record suggests that taking the risk on keeping him could be rewarded with only a handful of appearances if they recur, so after his first good season of appearances might be a good time to cash in. |
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Reply | Thank you Marti Cifuentes.
at 10:52 21 Apr 2024
The reality is that if we can get money for Chair, we probably should take it all things considered. The whole court case thing may prevent us from getting offers though. Willock will be a free transfer and probably get a lot more money elsewhere, so imagine he's definitely gone.
They're both amongst our best players but there are other options out there and with Marti involved I'd be optimistic that he can find decent replacements if either ends up leaving. |
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Reply | Shock as Gavin Ward doesn't have a terrible game
at 10:27 21 Apr 2024
Trying to book a Stoke player, wave him over to talk 4 or 5 times then after he's ignored you, you go to him. Shows you how much the players respect him.
Thought he let too much go in the first half for him to then give Colback a booking for dissent showed how contrary he is as an official. |
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Reply | Keeper for next year
at 10:53 12 Apr 2024
If Walsh and Salamon aren't ready then really we need to bring in 2 goalkeepers. I think the problem for too long has been that we only realistically have one choice in goal. It's been true this season as the risk of starting Walsh means we stick with an ever waning Begovic. Or last season when Diengs form dipped and we had to play him because the back up was Archer. Competition would be a good start. |
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Reply | Gary Rowett
at 12:23 19 Mar 2024
I've got a bad feeling about this. |
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Reply | Begovic
at 07:33 14 Mar 2024
I wasn't blaming him for a lack of goal threat, I thought it was fairly obvious I thought Seny would have saved both shots.
I did notice that Seny didn't punt the ball into the stands quite so often, so perhaps he would have helped the team create more chances.
Like I said, it's not Begovic fault. I think he tries his best but there's a reason one player moved for a fee last summer and the other was looking at setting up a goalkeeping school in readiness for life after professional football. |
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Reply | Begovic
at 20:29 13 Mar 2024
I thought he was the difference Saturday, I appreciate that Middlesbrough had a strong centre back pairing and a strong centre midfield, but even with that Begovic was the difference, and not for the first time this season.
It's concerning, given our position that the he's unreliable and a weak link in a critical position.
The only real defence of him is that he is perhaps the best we could get at the time. It's also fair to say it's not his fault that at his stage in his career he's been employed as the only GK at the club realistically in line for a starting position. |
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Reply | Act three – Report
at 14:38 11 Mar 2024
Sheffield Wednesday didn't have an easy time against them either.
The championship always seems to have a side that's cut adrift at the bottom/already relegated that just starts wining matches for seemingly no reason at all. So I wouldn't be surprised if Rotherham cause some upsets before the end of the season. |
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Reply | Baggies Or Not Baggies... QPR Vs WBA Match Thread
at 13:07 7 Mar 2024
In that case you'll know why he stopped us (Frey) taking a quick throw in while WBA were trying to regain shape? Seems a lot of us can't understand why we weren't allowed to take it quickly if we wanted too. He was more than happy for WBA to time waste and take throw in's from where ever they wanted but we take a quick throw in and everything needs to be stopped so WBA can get back and organised.
I also think that the TV angle from SAR gantry wasn't the best view of the handball because it's behind the flight of the ball, so depth perception is harder and the movement of the ball seems to be when the goalkeeper gets his hand to it rather than Kipre's hand. The view that cleared it up seemed to be the angle from the School End, it became clearer which should be a similar view to what the ref had. Appreciate Kipre did well to hide it the cheating git.
What about the disallowed goal, should have been disallowed for offside but the ref appeared to give it for a dangerous challenge because the defender threw himself at the floor. I also thought he gave a lot of soft fouls to WBA for any kind of challenge when we were attacking especially at set-pieces. This was just another decision in favor of WBA that happened to be tempered by the fact a QPR player happened to be offside as well. |
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Reply | Does This Ref Get The First Ever Zero Rating From Clive .
at 12:51 7 Mar 2024
I thought he was stopping Frey because it was a WBA throw but he then still gave us the throw in. Bizarre.
There was another throw-in related sign he'd lost control just before when a WBA player was going to take a throw. The player with the ball in his hands then dropped the ball and a different player picked a ball up off the cone and took the throw in 10m down the field for no apparent reason other than to steal some yards. Ref absolutely oblivious to being mugged off despite the fans and players pointing it out to him. |
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