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Reply | Clives Seat
at 13:34 11 Dec 2025
That's the second year in a row we have had a Chair with a dodgy back. |
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Reply | Free kicks, corners, etc
at 13:39 10 Dec 2025
I do feel our defending of set -pieces has improved incrementally but steadily in recent weeks, so credit Mr Bould for that. Our ‘long’ throws are at best amusing. If Dunne is not standing a couple of yards inside their box, then it is just going to be cleared with interest. I love Smithy, but it’s biologically impossible for short people to take long throws. No matter how far he arches himself backwards, he hasn’t got enough length/strength in his arms to provide the necessary trajectory. But also, as you pointed out elsewhere, if our players are just standing there, waiting for him to throw it then it is easy to defend against. You need runners, decoy runners, general off the ball movement, to create a bit of mayhem in the box and then hope the ball drops kindly for someone to have a strike at goal. |
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Reply | nardi
at 09:17 10 Dec 2025
I think this is true. Even top non-British keepers have always opted to punch rather than catch. As long as they make decent contact it’s fine, no different than a solid header. It’s the flapping away with fingertips that causes panic. |
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Reply | Saito slide
at 23:34 9 Dec 2025
Fantastic run and cross for Dunne - agreed. Didn’t do much else imo and would have hooked him much earlier. The header he ‘won’ was when he was totally unmarked and just nodded it back in the general area of the penalty spot.
‘Smyth should have scored’ I mean I know he has two headed goals this season. But there were three Birmingham defenders around him and he’s 5’6’’. He tried his pushing the defender at the last minute and remarkably got his header on target despite the odds. Sadly straight at the keeper.
Don’t feel Saito contributes much overall. Might be better as an impact sub. Looking forward to seeing more of Poku. Get Chair back and can’t see Saito being a regular starter. |
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Reply | Gaffer on tonight's win
at 23:24 9 Dec 2025
Yes felt there wasn’t a lot in it first half, but felt we were much the better side second half and a more confident Kone buries that chance and the game is over. But delighted we came again after conceding so late and got our just desserts |
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Reply | Johnny Varane - Desire in Last 10
at 23:06 9 Dec 2025
Put in a crunching tackle on Gray down by the corner flag not long before the equalisers too. Grew into the game and looked very good second half. |
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Reply | nardi
at 23:00 9 Dec 2025
Ridiculous save, just hope he hasn’t injured himself just as he is running into a bit of form. Second game in a row he is denied a well-deserved clean sheet. Coming out and (sort of) dealing with crosses now. Even playing as a sweeper even if he scarred the bejaysus out of me in the first five minutes! |
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Reply | JIMMY DUNNE....
at 22:56 9 Dec 2025
Tbf I don’t think he was fully fit for the first dozen games or so. Lot more running at FB than CB so playing with a hip injury probably hampered him a bit. Think it was a great switch back to CB by JS and he is back to his best now. Birmingham must hate the sight of him! |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 25/26
at 22:48 7 Dec 2025
What I love about the ‘long shot’ pic at the top, was that the three Milwall players in view were busting a gut to get to the sideline (I’m sure to ‘mediate’) while the two BC, players were just standing there, hands on hips. Tells us all we need to know, methinks. [Post edited 7 Dec 22:50]
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Reply | Our headed goals... (n/t)
at 22:41 7 Dec 2025
Even Nardi came outside his box to head the ball! Next thing he’ll be venturing up for our corner kicks |
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Thread | Our headed goals...
at 15:06 7 Dec 2025
Are coming from very unexpected sources this year . Meanwhile Dunne is casually flicking the ball home with his left foot. The world has gone mad! |
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Thread | Belatedly learning that
at 22:44 4 Dec 2025
Kolli is injured and out for a month. RND has to be ‘managed’ due to his previous injury record. Why wait the best part of a week after the Norwich game to let us know these things and why through WLS (which I like)? If we had been told both of these things on Friday afternoon (or even Saturday bloody morning) there would not have been near as much angst about our team selection v Norwich. Or did they feel this might give Norwich a ‘competitive advantage’ so they might beat us 4-1 instead of 3-1. |
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Reply | RND
at 13:35 2 Dec 2025
Personally I'd play him as a defensive midfielder or sweeper (what happened to sweepers btw?) He is exactly the progressive player we need to advance us 20 yards further up the pitch and allow our mighty midgets to really do damage. Currently there is far too much space between our midfield and our attack, hence the 'direct' approach, which doesn't suit our slower players like Kone or Frey. Get Chair, Saito Dembele on the ball in the final third with forward passing /running from Edwards/Madsen and then our strikers can stay in the box where they are most potent. |
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Reply | RND
at 20:21 1 Dec 2025
If we are signing a defender in Jan, please let it be Edwards |
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Reply | 20 team divisions
at 20:14 1 Dec 2025
They do this already in some of those far off, impossible to get to places - like the Premier League |
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Reply | That Swindon Town match report again – Report
at 20:08 1 Dec 2025
Absolutely agree - it’s entirely attitudinal - anything else is just smoke and mirrors. Being going on for years, no amount of managerial or player changes make a difference. In my head the players have a WhatsApp group where they decide before the game if they are going to give it a go or can’t be arsed. There is no other explanation how the whole team can be off song at the same time.
One positive for me was that we didn’t score a consolation in the 96th minute - imagine if we had scored two and still lost… |
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