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Reply | Richards.
at 21:28 19 Jun 2024
It's also presumably a FFP issue, both through one hit of his wages and also writing off the transfer fee in one go. But yes there might be an outside chance of us getting rid of him, at least on loan in the next couple of years. |
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Reply | Serbia 🇷🇸 v England 🏴 Match Thread
at 06:16 17 Jun 2024
You mean we deliberately played terribly from the time the goal went in so we could build momentum?
It could have backfired horribly though as Serbia had some decent chances.
I think it shows how Southgate has some brilliant players at his disposal but doesn’t really know how to harness them. I think he’s brilliant at team morale which has kept
him in his job so far. But I don’t think he’s anywhere near the level of say Martí tactically or coaching wise. Which is why we’ll get so far in the tournament but not win it I think.
I also think he just can’t help but have a negative mindset and gets eleven men behind the ball once we’ve scored quicker than Martí can say ‘let’s have more movement and quick passing’. Despite the bold choices of leaving out Grealish and Rashford he still can’t make tough decisions and defaults to leaving Foden on the pitch despite him stinking out the place.
Serbia did play cleverly though by being very physical but just staying close enough to the line not to get booked too often. It’s not surprising Saka faded as he was being manhandled through most of the match.
I don’t really know much about tactics myself but I do think any strategy that has one of the best strikers in the tournament only touching the ball once in tbe first half isn’t working. |
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Reply | Dr Michael Mosely RIP
at 20:39 10 Jun 2024
One of the few TV presenters you can imagine sititng in the pub with and not feeling irritated by or talked down to.
A genuinely lovely man whose health advice was both easy to follow and firmly rooted in the science.
RIP and you will be much missed. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 09:38 8 Jun 2024
Can we just keep the MC is going made up rumours to a MC thread so I can ignore them? |
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Reply | England 🏴 v Iceland 🇮🇸 Match Thread
at 22:08 7 Jun 2024
Didn't look like we had a strategy for breaking them down or to deal with the counter.
We didn't really look like he'd addressed issues coming out after half time.
Bit disappointing. Crossing poor. Too many touches when we got a chance.
However, early days and we should improve before the tournament. |
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Reply | Eze for England!
at 18:27 6 Jun 2024
Ebs has scored against Spurs, Liverpool and Villa - who finished in the top five. In total he scored 11 goals and four assists in the equivalent of 22 full matches. Grealish has scored in total against Spurs, Luton and Palace and scored three goals and one assist in the equivalent of 11 full matches. Grealish is in a team where you'd expect them to make far more chances.
I think Eze provides something different more than Grealish in 2024.
Maddison has also only scored four goals against Bournemouth, Burnley, Fulham and Villa. He's had more assists - nine - but mostly against bottom half sides and only one goal against a top half side since his injury. |
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Reply | Eze for England!
at 11:29 4 Jun 2024
That's what drives me mad. If you've picked Toney for the squad give him a chance of a few minutes at least in a friendly rather than bringing on your most capped striker.
As for Grealish yes he looked good but it was an entirely different phase of the match when their high press was fading and there was far more space. Eze had to play against two or sometimes three players who were fouling him every time he had the ball, and sometimes multiple times, and playing a low block. It's a bit like when we bring Sincs and Smyth on at the end of games when the defence is flagging. |
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Reply | A season of three thirds: how Cifuentes and QPR beat the drop – Analysis
at 11:19 4 Jun 2024
This was brilliant.
Satisfied my nerdy little heart but nourished my keeness on the importance of mentality too.
It makes you see why data-driven football is so significant these days: if you know how the other team is successful it must be so much easier to overcome them. Also there's really no argument about a player's effectiveness over more than ten matches if it makes so much difference whether or not they're on the pitch. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 17:07 1 Jun 2024
Gosh Pat that's quite a few close calls. Sounds like someone is looking out for you. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 17:04 1 Jun 2024
I remember you talking about it when you first split up and it's good to hear how it's all turned out better than okay.
I hope your visits last season coincided with the end of the season rather than the beginning! |
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Reply | ITV
at 09:10 1 Jun 2024
It probably won't be worth getting a great team of pundits/presenters together for ten matches so it really will be bargain basement time. Even on Sky the pundits are a step down for the Champioship. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 09:01 1 Jun 2024
It's hard to think of what to say to you Loftgirl but I'm so sorry this happened to you.
I hope you're getting the support you deserve.
How parents could not only not fiercely protect their kids but actively harm them just mystifies me. It's literally heartbreaking. |
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Reply | Life changing moments
at 08:57 1 Jun 2024
My parents stayed together and most of the time argued with each other and took all of that out on me (being the youngest and home for most of the time and being less of what my parents wanted than my siblings). It's affected me hugely too and made me lack confidence for most of my life and get involved with the wrong kind of friends and partners because people not being nice to me seemed very familiar. Also I had no template for a loving, respectful relationship so wouldn't have recognised that if it had hit me on the head!
I think that's part of the reason I put up with many of the players being crap for longer than I should because I find it hard to see people being attacked (I know they probably don't read this - I really hope not - but it sometimes worries me). I think I have a natural propensity to back the underdog!
When some of you talk about lovely times you have had with your mum or your dad taking you to football I feel very touched by it but also rather envious and sad.
However I did start to see a therapist in my fifties and it's made a huge difference. I'm not saying it was a magic cure. I didn't walk into there and walk out six months later a new person. I've had to really work at changing bad habits and people who were bad for me bit by bit and I've got largely some lovely people around me now and I can generally spot a toxic person from ten paces. But for me it's taken years. So there is hope but it's not easy and is a lot of work and pain. I still struggle with believing I deserve nice things or am a good enough person - but then being a QPR fan which I fell into in my thirties after loving sport all my life - it seems a natural fit...
It's lovely to hear the sobriety stories as they're similarly life changing and a choice for a better life.
These threads are amazing and make it worth it being on the site over and above Clive's wonderful writing. It takes so much courage to admit what's happened to you in your past that's given you a lot of pain. |
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Reply | Marti Contract??
at 12:45 31 May 2024
Trouble is annoyingly those clubs like Chels have realised you don't just nick the manager/players you go for the backroom staff. So they've taken the Brighton backroom team and Man U have just poached the Ipswich head of recruitment (admittedly he started at Man U but only as an intern. Ipswich gave him a real chance). |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 10:56 29 May 2024
Yep, and good for them. Not saying they're not allowed to. Just that as soon as I read someone saying they are 'independent thinkers' I see it followed by some weird theory presented as fact.
I'm not presenting my opinions as fact. Reading something on FB is not evidence. |
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