By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions. We in turn value your personal details in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
Please log in or register. Registered visitors get fewer ads.
Yep, you are right. BT had the deal with Disney to use it and Discovery took on the BT Sports channels, around the same time as Eurosport.
I always thought ESPN was the stronger brand, but they've had a few swings at it now in Europe and the UK and it never really sticks. There just isn't the market for American Sports that anyone thinks there is.
Yeah, I think Madsen was probably unwell at short notice, as the selection looked a bit like Port Vale, where maybe it was under rehearsed?
I think they have to name the squad very early on, so I don't think there is much opportunity to swap out illness for a stand-by, maybe on a home game, but away?
Those dead balls gave me Barton vibes, very weak corners, a pro should beat the first man more often than not, but to be fair when the oppo are a lot bigger we should also have a plan B cued up ready to use.
That might be what they are learning though. Maybe not for Morgan as much, as he already has professional minutes, but for a lot of those players being in a situation with men, who have hunger for progression with mortgages to pay for can be the reality check they might need. ~ Pulling upto the Concorde club every morning in a £100k car thinking they've already made it, etc...
Not saying its the case here, but they will still learn from that environment!
No, I've seen these before. Its normally for unused subs, you can see them in the background during post match interviews sometimes.
The players are made to do an amount of high exertion activity because they were not used in the match, but had presumably already been primed ready to go, so their bodies need to do "something"
I missed replying to this one, although its all moot now.
I can see you've already picked a side Lassel, so its probably not worth arguing about.
I'm not sure its great to have a current player in with the fans at home and away matches. If they want to support the team there are friends and family areas where they can sit. I'm fairly confident this is for optics only, or again is ill judged.
I think Rayan will get a chance in the first team again, as it looks like he has applied himself in some recent DS games.
The club's hierarchy doesn't fill me with confidence, there is no doubt that they don't supply the full picture to any story, I'm sure they would seek to control the narrative at every turn.
But, I did see with my own eyes Rayans Dad tweeting the Nice badge, so don't try and sell me that he is bleeding blue and white etc... I'm pretty sure it was Kieron Morgans dream move to go on loan at Bradford, but his advisors have let him know its better to get league minutes than no minutes, so there is def another story to the Kolli saga imho
I also hope that Kolli plays on Friday and scores a hatrick, see how that works, doesn't have to be a fight where you only pick one side?
Agreed, and its not always the most skilful players who get into that 9% and carry on their journey.
I'm sure everyone had someone in their School/Sunday team that went on to do something in Football.
A lot of what scouts and coaches are looking for are physical attributes and mentality
Imagine how it feels for some of those 91% when you know you aren't going to make it and most of the time you are an animated mannequin for the 9% during those training sessions!
There were a couple that got away . Josh Bowler the most obvious. But I think Les mentioned a couple of players we lost to Fulham and Brentford. Maybe Cat 1 helps with this? But we need clear pathways as well. And the Kolli noise is not a help here. What a shame it all is
Just watched the new Podcast from Dave Mac and Kevin Gallen. Interesting one this week, where they had Ben Jacobs on, who runs the twitter account for the DS squad.
I knocked Ben on here before for his hyperbole over Kolli. Didn't realise how young he actually was and feel bad now.
Some good back and forth on the pod though, although I'm not sure the divide is just generational. I'm Kev's age and can see past his rose tinted glasses, I don't remember much development after Richard Langley to be fair, but I'd say a lot of that was done to investment in the other local teams, like Chelsea and even Brentford, where the academy setup was ahead of the Concorde club (as it was then).
I think the key thing they missed though, when they were talking about the previous regime not using players like Harry Murphy in the first team was to look at the pathway in front of them. I've only watched a efw of the DS games, like the Brentford final and he did look tidy, but he was playing in an area (midget 10) where QPR have not been short in for years. So, I didn't see the path into our squad.
I'm thinking his size probably stopped a NL or L2 club taking him as well, as Men's football might have swallowed him up.
Anyway, I can recommend for anyone is bored during this international break, although fair warning, Ben can sound a bit "High performance", just like Christian Nourry, if that kind of thing triggers you...
Tyler has done a few BTS videos himself, seems like a really nice guy, but I don't think he needs a LFW interview. Unlike Nick London I don't think Tyler was a QPR fan first and I'd hate for him to drop a bollock and say he liked Chelsea or something silly
Although, saying all that he probably is a fan now as he has watching some pretty poor football in recent years covering the 'Rs
I saw one of those The Rest is... podcasts where Richard explains this phenomenon.
I've never really understood it myself. I think the analogy was that a show like Friends might do two episodes in England, which cost $$$ and the trade off is that another episode might become a clip show.
So, I can see how location and set pieces have a big impact on the cost, but I don't get how being less funny is cheaper, is it just less writers?!
By continuing to use the site, you agree to our use of cookies and to abide by our Terms and Conditions.
