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Reply | The Hatchet Man
at 20:52 20 May 2024
I like it too. Over the years we've had so many players that stayed too long when they were never going to make it. They may have been okay at Development Squad level but just looked lost and out of place when appearing for the first team. Among those that come to mind include Reece Greggo Cox, Michael Petrasso, Brandon Comley, Aramide Oteh as players that didn't look like they'd make it and whom I think would have been released earlier under the current regime. |
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Reply | De Zerbi....
at 09:34 19 May 2024
I feel a bit for them but having said that they've had McKenna for three years and got two promotions in that time. We'd bite their hands off for one promotion and Marti to stay with us for three years.
I'll be happy for him staying with us for the whole of next season and it would be amazing if he stayed until the end of his contract. I really think he's that talented.
I agree though Chels are a poisoned challice. I hope they continue to largely cycle through the same old names (Potter being an exception that didn't come off either). |
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Reply | Petty Insanities
at 08:28 18 May 2024
Nope. Other way round in our house. Drives me bonkers. Logical to have it front-loading in my view.
Also leaving the loo seat up. Just plain rude: if you accidentally sit on the porcelain in the middle of the night it's not pleasant!
Buying those socks in packets where each pair is slightly different style/colour so it takes decades to pair them.
Cramming the bin extra full so they don't have to empty it themselves and makes it extra hard to remove and leaves mess on the lid so you have to clean that too.
Standing in front of the fridge when someone is cooking and staying there even after you've had to move them twice.
Leaving keys, bag, tie and other detritus on the kitchen island - particularly shopping that remains there for weeks (until I clear it up having lost the will to live).
I also hate middle lane hoggers. Having said that I can't stand people who come right up behind you aggressively in the fast lane when there's no space in the middle lane for you to safely move across (having gone in the fast lane to pass the lane hogger and someone in front has taken the space you were going into in the middle lane).
Life is very stressful for me, seemingly. |
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Reply | Andre the friendly ghost departs
at 23:51 14 May 2024
Dom Ball is a cracking bloke but I think we're overdoing the DB got Ipswich to the Prem routine. He played 137 minutes this season in the Championship, 67 minutes of which were against us. |
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Reply | End of Season Review - Live Now On The Patreon
at 05:23 11 May 2024
Love to know how much time you devote to working for free every month?
If you’re any good at painting and decorating or gardening that would be great if you could pop round.
Clive already spends huge amounts of time on the free content he already provides for us all which is far superior to a lot of so-called sports journalism out there. Actually it was posters on here that suggested he charge for the very limited content (compared to the overall work he puts out) that’s not freely available (and even then he often provides transcripts) to make it viable for him to continue running the site. |
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Reply | Championship Playoffs - who's going up?
at 16:02 8 May 2024
I'm going for Southampton because it would be quite funny for Leeds to be too big not to go up yet again.
And because we do relatively well against them over the last few years, so why not again?
I also think we could do decently well against WBA and Norwich if we continue to improve over next season.
And because we've lost home and away against Southampton in the last four matches we've played them, including that match where Austin scored a beautiful goal and then Pelie topped it two minutes later to break our hearts. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 13:56 8 May 2024
We reportedly got £2 million for Seny but he was 28 at the time, whereas Cooper is 24. Also Seny's last season for us wasn't his best for us coming back after injury the previous season he seemed to have lost his appetite for playing for us.
Cooper on the other hand has had a great season. |
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Reply | Rayan Kolli
at 13:46 8 May 2024
Thanks for insight Danny.
Another thing I like about him is watching him on match days he's palpably itching to get on the pitch, even though he hasn't been able to play. |
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Reply | Just seen this you tube video
at 13:42 8 May 2024
Yes exactly. After we'd played 33 matches, Birmingham were 6 points ahead of us with a match in hand. In those next seven matches, including that win over Leicester, we went four points ahead of them. Those matches, including the Jimmy Dunne superstrike to beat Brum, ended up saving our season. |
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Reply | Lucas Anderson
at 10:16 7 May 2024
I think the rumour is that he's here until the end of next season. But our new CEO doesn't intend to publish the length of players' contracts from now on. |
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Reply | Keeping our loved assets
at 18:46 6 May 2024
Still love the guy. So pleased to see him still doing well. It's quite unbelievable sometimes when you see clips of him in the hoops. I think we say him at his irrepressible, swaggering best unfettered by all the defensive work he seems to have to prioritise at Palace to the detriment of his attacking prowess.
For me what breaks my heart is who the replacements were. Mark Hately in place of Sir Les and Ian Dowie for Trevor Sinclair.. At least with Ebs we had Chris Willock who wasn't quite at Eb's level was an exciting player with potential. |
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Reply | Kakay Departs
at 18:31 6 May 2024
He did a job for us when things were dire. Not quite at the level but always put his heart and soul into it which is worthy of respect.
Wish him well. I'm sure he'll find a role in a club somewhere as he has an excellent attitude. |
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Reply | The Coventry Conference – Report
at 01:05 6 May 2024
Thanks once again for another brilliant season of content, if not always of football. It's the first season I can remember where I really felt I was having palpitations watching us sometimes. And then came St Marti and the clouds parted.
It's still been very stressful though and the fact you have churned out your fantastic prose week after week has made it just about bearable at times.
The fans have been magnificent, and while I agree we don't want to be complacent, the fact we've stayed behind them through thin (almost the entire first half of the season) and thick (post Marti's arrival) has in large part pulled them through. I've met some great people on my away trips, so thanks to you all, and it's been more good than bad overall.
Have a great summer Clive and everyone on the board. Thanks to you all. |
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Reply | Birmingham down.
at 19:27 5 May 2024
Some of them don't seem to understand about contracts...
You can't just tell players they're going to leave if:
1) no other club wants them
2) they don't want to play for a club that does want them.
Largely why Forest ended up still paying a cast of thousands when they got promoted as they couldn't offload their just in case Championship level players. |
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Reply | Come on you flibbertigibbets
at 19:22 5 May 2024
I saw him once at Waterloo station. He's very weedy and looks like he needs a really good bath with medicated shampoo. I don't usually like personal slights but in his case...
I think he has a very big chip on both shoulders. No idea why. |
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Reply | Joe Walsh
at 19:18 5 May 2024
Yes I agree it's more of a risk for the manager because I suppose they look bad too if the goalie sucks and as you say it's more obvious in that position cos it's hard to cover for it.
I imagine for the same reason it's hard to get decent loans for our goalie at a League 1 or 2 club as their managers don't want to risk it either, so they don't get a loan at all or they're sitting on the bench while the gnarly old pro gets to play.
I wonder are most of the Prem goalies transferred in from other clubs, as it must be even harder cutting your teeth at that level. |
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Reply | Joe Walsh
at 13:44 5 May 2024
Yes, that all makes sense Brian. It's hard to test that in any other way than playing I guess but you need a credible alternative in case it all goes tits up (as I said earlier with Green and Lumley when they got the yips). I tend to get over-excited at the thought of bringing our own guys in and many haven't ended up making it. |
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