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Reply | Norwich Reflection
at 11:49 2 Jan 2026
Dunne has personal pride and always gives his best, its why I've always been such a supporter of his, as when others hide or start pointing the fingers at others, you know with him the team comes first, Bannan seems to have these same traits,
If Bannan plays on Sunday, watch how throughout the game he is looking and wanting to receive the ball,
I'm not just digging out Nicholas here (as he has no doubt improved significantly) but if this team is to progress, being involved in the game for 10 minutes and a spectator for the following 20 minutes will not do,
For those who have been totally won over by Nicolas, watch these two closely on Sunday, see who drifts out of the game for long periods and seems to lack the desire to show for the ball consistently over 90 minutes, this is'nt about ability, its about desire,
Hopefully you can tell me I've got this wrong. |
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Reply | Norwich Reflection
at 10:14 2 Jan 2026
Creating chances is our problem, how many decent chances did we create for Kone & Burrell yesterday? So you think why? And you look at the Wings or Centre of Midfield......
Giving good possession & key passes to our Wingers was a problem, again why.....
We struggled to transition the ball from defence as the Midfielders, paticularly Madsen didn't show for the ball and in the absence of JCS or Morrison as Left Sided Centre Half, the only option to move the ball forward was via Dunne & Mbengue,
Cook (like Harry Maguire) is very very limited when playing as a a Left Sided Centre Back and cannot bring the ball out, Madsen ( & Hadyn) didn't show for the ball and as a result we never had any control in the game.
And Mbengue is a liability at Right Back as too impulsive and buys the dummy & feint every time.
And although it didn't work out for him Morgan again showed he could with time be the future as showed the courage others lacked in wanting the ball, which was why Cufuentes rightly backed him.
Id revert to Field & Varane (or Hadyn) as the holding two & play Morgan in an advanced Central Midfield role in front of them as he played to good effect before tiring last year.
We need to freshen things up and we need more characters like Dunne who don't hide. |
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Reply | Norwich Reflection
at 22:04 1 Jan 2026
Sounds like the ambition for the club is limited to massaging a couple of very fragile ego's,
Even so this does look like a decent Squad and we're half way through the season without a clear style of play or consistency in selection. |
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Reply | Norwich Reflection
at 19:24 1 Jan 2026
Morgan may have looked like a pub footballer but I'd counter the reason you noticed him was that he wanted the ball the whole time, always running into space, always giving an option,
Morgan was very good in first 10 minutes on pitch then lost may three if not four 50 50 balls, albeit one was a hospital pass from Dunne,
Morgan could have come on and hid behind his man and disappeared into The Bermuda Triangle in the middle of the pitch, but he didn't, as he has courage,
Probably best if only forward pass of the game, unlucky with deflection in defending 2nd goal but let's dig out the one player who showed some bottle today. |
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Reply | Norwich Reflection
at 17:55 1 Jan 2026
Thought Hadyn was decent & Morgan showed in first 5 minutes of coming on what we'd been missing the previous 65 minutes, a Central Midfielder showing for the ball and trying to make things happen,
Unfortunately Morgan then made a few mistakes in possession but I'll always credit a player who shows for the ball & doesn't hide,
Without a Central Midfielder who has the desire to want the ball & run the game, or legs to run into space with the ball, we'll continue to play as we did today. |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 18:55 30 Dec 2025
Dunne has played the same amount of games & minutes as Madsen,
Varane maybe two games less,
Dunne, like Chair, like Field has desire & a will to win which means we don't feel sorry for them after playing 20 consecutive games, let alone Barbet playing 100,
Without Madsen, maybe Stephen changes formation & goes with 3 in Midfield which might be the change we need. |
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 22:49 28 Dec 2025
No one was doubling up on Madsen in the 1st Half @ Portsmouth and he contributed very very little.
Showing for the ball, demanding the ball and having the courage to do something really postive with it is more important than being comfortable on the ball.
Those two are key to our season imo, with one needing to be a bit more gung ho and one a bit less so.
In the likely ongoing absence of JCS, surprised Morrison is out of favour as steps up with the ball really well, hopefully he gets his chance again soon. |
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Reply | Dunne rescues QPR from more Boxing Day blues – Report
at 19:38 28 Dec 2025
I watched the two Midfielders very closely in the first half and they seemed to be in two minds as to whether to stick to the more defensive minded game plan or push up and press more aggressively,
A few times I saw Madsen give out instructions & they pressed Dozzell more aggressively to some effect, we seemed content mostly to sit deeper & play on the break,
So I think without the ball they followed the gameplan & bar Kone's mistake they would have gone in at HT at nil nil,
Where they didn't follow the gameplan was what to do when in possession with the ball, particularly playing out fro⁷m the back, where with Madsen & Varane not showing we resorted to long balls down the flanks to Burrell, giving Saito & Dembele no service,
Stephens saw this & fixed it at Half Time, if he can encourage Madsen in particular to do what he did in the 3rd quarter for the full 90, this team can push on, but they cant just wait unti HT for the Managers instructions, they need to see this for themselves and adapt their tactics during games, as good players and teams do. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 11:15 27 Dec 2025
I agree, Mbengue in particular had a very poor 1st Half but would counter both he & Cook stood out for their poor contributions, wheras Madsen just did not contribute
We were fortunate Portsmouth were so poor in the final third & Murphy was out injured otherwise we could have been further behind,
The Manager saw what was wrong & Madsen started the 2nd Half by demanding the ball rather than leaving it to Dunne to transition the ball & we were a different team. |
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Reply | Pompey match thread
at 19:51 26 Dec 2025
Madsen was totally MIA in the 1st Half, didn't show for the ball and made it look like we were playing with 10 men,
Obviously got a rocket at Half Time, as was a changed man from the start of the 2nd Half, showing & looking for the ball, suddenly we were playing with 11 and looked a different team, unfortunately one good quarter doesn't cut it as dropped off again late on, though did make a very decent covering challenge,
If this Squad it to fulfil its potential we need 90 minutes like that third quarter most weeks, the odd cameo won't see us troubling the Play Offs. |
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Reply | Are you Madsen?
at 13:34 11 Dec 2025
I get Watford away was a very low bar for Nicolas, but it seems the lower you set the bar for yourself the greater the improvement,
A bit like Sergei Bubka and Duplantis have done in the Pole Vault, if you set the bar artificially low, the crowd are off their seats as you increase your performance level by 1cm every few months,
Madsen is no longer hiding for 90 minutes and is now putting his foot and his head in but still seems to struggle to keep up with the intensity & fitness required to play 90 minutes of Championship football and disappears for key periods in games, typically after 60 minutes, which is where Morgan can be best deployed, not as a Right Back against Demari Gray when we're trying to defend a 1-0 nil lead (still a lucky Manager is better than a good Manager as the saying goes)
Jimmy Dunne has 2 Goals + 2 Assists, whereas Madsen has 1 Goal & 2 Assists in 20 odd games (although I'd still give Conor Coady the Kone Assist) so I'm not yet seeing what others are,
For me Madsen has still a long way to justify the money we paid, but if he can turn his good short spells in games into full games, he's moving in the right direction (Btw I was a relatively late convert to Chris Willock, so hope I'm wrong again.) |
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Thread | Johnny Varane - Desire in Last 10
at 22:49 9 Dec 2025
Couple of great defensive headers just before we conceded and when we conceded kept hunting for the ball, never accepting defeat,
Whipped in a great cross, then first to react and recycled the ball in 96th minute for Morgan when he'd worked his socks off all game,
Doesn't always come off but the lad has real desire. |
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Reply | Smyth and Dunne on tonight's win
at 23:18 26 Nov 2025
Dunne left the ground immediately after the Hull match to go straight to Heston as part of his 'loading' programme a member of backroom team said, not sure what the issue is mind, must be serious enough to go to Heston on a Saturday night. |
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Reply | Football - lost its sparkle?
at 22:02 26 Nov 2025
Eberechi Eze is the perfect tonic for those who grew up on 1970s entertaing football,
That lads even brought a smile to Mikel Arteta's sour boat,
We grew up being entertained and flair footballers like Bowles were known as Entertainers, not as CAMs or whatever,
Watch Eze run back the other night, back pass to the Keeper, gets a hospital return ball from the Keeper, is out of gas, so just plays a 30 yard no look chip over the press, made me smile, we want football like we grew up watching, it should be joyful. |
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Reply | Scotland
at 08:32 19 Nov 2025
Yes, would be interested to see their XG and game stats across the tournament as Greece totally out-played them at Hampden and loss,
I see fans posted wanting Dykes to start over Che Adams & Shankland despite him being scoring for fun in SPL,
Clarkes a very good Coach and realises a team is the sum of its parts, hence sticking with Dykes as McTominay and others play off him more effectively,
Like Kone & Burrell but thinks our attack seems to lack structure and a focal point at the moment, time will tell. |
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Reply | The BBC
at 16:19 12 Nov 2025
No bother,
I never did so-called conspiracy theories until Trump starting saying it out loud,
Saying who regularly walked into his White Office without invite, who weighed his campaign in for $200m dollars plus etc, etc,
In my line of work we all know there's no such thing as a free lunch, you weigh someone in and they owe you, that's life..........
You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to think if someone's giving you $200m and they put a call in asking you to threaten to sue someone, you'll do it, especially if you threaten to sue someone or other most days of the week,
Unfortunately the UK is too weak to face Trump down and does whatever he tells them, hence the sacking of Tim Davie.
A day later on Rembrance Day, Trump is crowing that it was the USA who won WWI & WWII, what an insult, but none of our flag waving political parties or press dared rebuke him. Sad state of affairs, whatever your politics. |
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Reply | The BBC
at 15:20 12 Nov 2025
The removal of Tim Davie bears all the hallmarks of another attempt to influence free speech, similar to the attempted but failed muting of Kneecap,
Daniel Lambert Manager of Kneecap (and CEO of Bohemians FC) said at the time, after the bands appearance at the Coachella Festival in the US, their Glastonbury equivalent apparently, that Trump and his financial backers were terrified by the US audience's response to Kneecap's set,
Subsequently after trawling through hundreds of hours of footage of years of their live performances, Trumps funders found something to charge them with, the aim being to ban them returning and performing in the US to an even wider audience.
Eerily, a Panorma programme, aired 12 months ago, without a single complaint, is reviewed by a BBC Board Director, an internal letter of concern is leaked to The Telegraph and coincidentally and immediately Trump and his funders are ready to sue the BBC / UK government for £1Bn in damages?
John Simpson and many other experienced broadcasters have alluded to the very obvious and real reasons for Tim Davie's removal.
Whether you like or loathe the BBC, this is a worrying time for democracy and free speech. |
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Reply | QPR continue to slide as Saints set off on new march – Report
at 20:58 6 Nov 2025
It was a quality through ball by Varane for Burrells goal,
We've seen he has this in his locker with a similar assist against Charlton iirr
Varane needs to be encouraged to do this more as last night's chipped pass shows he has the technical ability alright. |
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Reply | tonight
at 00:04 6 Nov 2025
Superb ball by Varane for Burrells goal I thought?
Decent enough game I thought.
If anyone chucked it in after 20 minutes tonight it was Madsen, completely AWOL for entire 2nd Half.
Morgans cameo showed what we needed from Madsen, getting his head up, opening his body and playing passes in behind etc. |
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