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Mar

Totally disagree with you on Arfield! Age, game management, cool, wise head - deffo a place for it! If we’re a goal up in a tight game I’m certain he’ll come on. Glad you disagree. Not saying he was bad, just not seeing why his inclusion would be warranted over other player's we've got. Feels like ...

Mar

I ended up going to the Dutch League One football on Friday night, Excelsior vs De Graafschap. Decent match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5h1ArZVx28 Couple of standout players in there, the number 12 and 21: #12 - Arthur Zagre, Frenchman 22, ex-PSG, reminds me of Kioso #21 - Jacky Donkor, Belgia...

Mar

No Williams on the bench. No Williams, no Iredale, no Dan (again) and no goalkeeper. It's a tough call to get into our 18 when all are fit. Not sure I see the sense in leaving Southwood out but having all of Morley, Matete, Dempsey and Arfield on the bench. I tend to favour the additional outfield ...

Mar

I suspect that it would be now or never. You'd have to think so. There are other good managers about who'd kill for the job. Certainly. It's not gone unnoticed the amount of financial support, general backing, etc. that Evatt has had. I think that is what's causing general frustration that we've no...

Mar

Similar to most games and seasons. Were not going to get it all right but if we get most of it right as we have been doing, we should come away with better outcomes. The reality is that a manager/staff can do a good job with what's available, but not a good enough job to achieve what is needed. Ove...

Mar

The only thing that counts is promotion. Last years budgets didn't help Plymouth when they had 10 out injured in Jan. Bored of listening to excuses. Shit, or get off the pot. It's not excuses, it's the realities of the business. Too many people think the badge wins matches and that being Bolton Wan...

Mar

Not overly keen on engaging in the back and forth on this but just out of interest did Neal end up breaking goalscoring records at the time? It was before I started watching so I'm not sure. Nobody gives a shiny shite about goal scoring records. It’s completely irrelevant. More goals = more enterta...

Mar

Prufrock wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 18, 2024 9:28 am
The Gang Get Battered

Ha if only. I'm hoping they do an episode covering how close they came to picking Bolton instead of Wrexham. Seems like a sliding doors moment that never happened.

Mar

Not overly keen on engaging in the back and forth on this but just out of interest did Neal end up breaking goalscoring records at the time?

It was before I started watching so I'm not sure.

Mar

Winning teams have a knack for continuing to win. Let's hope we derail that for them today. Big fan of McElhenney but not in the mood for doing other clubs favours. Will have to be on it from the get go. We'll likely be seen as a big club to beat so they'll be eager to get one over us. It's been sin...

Mar

I'm also a fan of hyperbole. Good managers can fail. Guardiola at Bayern, Mourinho at United. I fail to see how getting promoted and breaking our goalscoring records but failing a subsequent promotion makes someone a bad manager. I'm sure had we been promoted you would be using the argument that it ...

Mar

Perhaps. What I'm seeing is a drop off in options not necessarily quality. If we don't have our pacey wingers available the speed of our counter drops significantly. That's likely to have an impact on the way we play. Evatt doesn't change tactics often and keeps doing the same stuff over and over w...

Mar

Were CMG fit this squad would be just about perfect. With the switch to the 3-4-3 we've been creative about how we've replaced what Paris did at 8. Matete offers Paris' ball-carrying from deep. We need a player who adds his flair around the box. We have loads of quality in those #10 spots, but nobo...

Mar

Perhaps. What I'm seeing is a drop off in options not necessarily quality. If we don't have our pacey wingers available the speed of our counter drops significantly. That's likely to have an impact on the way we play. Evatt doesn't change tactics often and keeps doing the same stuff over and over wi...

Mar

We shouldn't be making any assumptions about Carlos this season. He may well be back playing by the New Year, but it's still potentially a long road from there to being himself again. A ruptured Achilles is really tough on a dribbler. All perfectly good points. Colour me convinced. I was pretty muc...

Mar

Wigan's "guaranteed future England international" centre back is off to Hull. Their manager is expecting "a small percentage" of the fee to get a replacement, due to the need to service debt. Always worth remembering how other League One clubs have it. They brought in Will Aimson to replace / cover...

Mar

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 14, 2024 10:19 pm
I thowt we were after "winning ugly"...

This in a nutshell. The fan base can be quick to jump on the performances when it's not going well. In reality we're getting through the games and winning despite not being fully up to speed.

As long as we keep winning

Mar

Right back maybe an issue but we've got Matheson there for backup and CMG come second half of the season Matheson is off on loan. Why do you feel we've got an issue on the right, with both Tutu and Cogley there? Gotta admit I hadn't considered Tutu when I wrote it. Figured the main thing was streng...

Mar

I'm getting Wigan vibes from this. I suspect Parky will send his team out to be as physical as possible and get into our face, giving us no time on the ball. We don't like being unsettled and I suspect that's exactly what's going to happen against Wrexham. Hopefully the changes we've made to the squ...

Mar

I'm in the enjoys the cup camp so I'm happy we got through. Going out on penalties certainly wouldn't have been terrible but I'm glad were through. What a way to do it coming back from being that far behind on pens. The referee technically doing us a favour not sending off number 44 as he was the o...

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