| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 19:51 - Nov 23 with 2244 views | Northernr |
He's still wrong. Everything he did and said about that night was wrong. |  | |  |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 19:56 - Nov 23 with 2238 views | kensalriser |
Well maybe, but I'm sure he didn't ask Scowen to do a Joey Barton. |  |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 20:08 - Nov 23 with 2218 views | bosh67 |
True. |  |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 09:30 - Nov 24 with 1908 views | BrianMcCarthy |
He spoke well about that night, and it certainly clarified matters. But all it did was cement a fundamental difference in thinking: the fans believe that the cups are important, management and their bosses believe that, or tolerate a belief that the cups are an opportunity to keep fringe players happy. |  |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 09:38 - Nov 24 with 1899 views | londonscottish |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 09:30 - Nov 24 by BrianMcCarthy |
He spoke well about that night, and it certainly clarified matters. But all it did was cement a fundamental difference in thinking: the fans believe that the cups are important, management and their bosses believe that, or tolerate a belief that the cups are an opportunity to keep fringe players happy. |
Good summary. |  |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 10:31 - Nov 24 with 1836 views | francisbowles |
I thought the really interesting point he made was in distinguishing between the FA cup and the League cup.
The League cup early rounds come in a crowded early season fixture list whereas the FA cup for us, starts in the rather calmer month of January and is a normal Saturday fixture as opposed to an additional midweek one. I would have to add that it does come just after the hectic Christmas/ New year fixture. There will be s full seven days recovery period after the game and no midweek fixture until the 13th February.
We shall see, in January, if it makes a difference to his team selection. |  | | |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 10:37 - Nov 24 with 1828 views | BrianMcCarthy |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 10:31 - Nov 24 by francisbowles |
I thought the really interesting point he made was in distinguishing between the FA cup and the League cup.
The League cup early rounds come in a crowded early season fixture list whereas the FA cup for us, starts in the rather calmer month of January and is a normal Saturday fixture as opposed to an additional midweek one. I would have to add that it does come just after the hectic Christmas/ New year fixture. There will be s full seven days recovery period after the game and no midweek fixture until the 13th February.
We shall see, in January, if it makes a difference to his team selection. |
Very true, francis. I missed that.
Holloway made the same point during his second reign. And I get it. But on the balance of things, I would still be in the 'cups matter' camp.
As you say, January will tell us more. | |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 10:55 - Nov 24 with 1810 views | smegma |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 19:51 - Nov 23 by Northernr |
He's still wrong. Everything he did and said about that night was wrong. |
Totally agree. For him to say 'I expected to win' as well showed an arrogance not deserving of our situation at the time. | | | |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 11:33 - Nov 24 with 1780 views | DavieQPR |
It shows what the fans think when they still call it the League Cup. |  | | |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 12:05 - Nov 24 with 1724 views | kensalriser |
Well it is the League Cup, as abbreviated. We don't have to go along with shit neologisms. | |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 12:13 - Nov 24 with 1711 views | terryb |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 12:05 - Nov 24 by kensalriser |
Well it is the League Cup, as abbreviated. We don't have to go along with shit neologisms. |
Absolutely correct.
To me, it is still the Isthmian League & the Southern League. I've not received any payment to refer to them by the sponsor's names! | | | |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 13:42 - Nov 24 with 1635 views | WestbourneR |
The year we went up with Warnock we lost to Port Vale at home.
It doesn’t matter in the slightest and our team selections reflect that.
What it should be is a chance for fringe players to stake a claim with a great performance. BOS should have started in the league after his performance vs Rovers.
It didn’t happen and, partly as a consequence, the performance was dire at Blackpool. |  |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 13:59 - Nov 24 with 1602 views | francisbowles |
I said it on here previously but again why can't the early rounds of the league cup be played in the international breaks. Leagues one and two carry on, so why not add this tournament and maybe even play it on Saturdays. Then all clubs could field their strongest teams apart from any players that are away with their countries. It would take away the boredom for us and might give the lesser clubs a bit of an advantage. | | | |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 15:37 - Nov 24 with 1493 views | DylanP |
The fact that Paul Smyth (our future) cannot get a game whereas Wells (not our future) plays in spite of the fact that he is not scoring, says it all. Nothing against Wells, who is a fine player, but Smyth was playing well in winning teams last year and suddenly he is back to playing for the reserves and we are having a hard time scoring goals. It would be something else if we were scoring for fun, but we aren't. We've got great players scoring regularly in the reserves and loan players freezing them out of the first team. |  |
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| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 15:49 - Nov 24 with 1475 views | distortR |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 12:05 - Nov 24 by kensalriser |
Well it is the League Cup, as abbreviated. We don't have to go along with shit neologisms. |
yeah, bloody neologisms.
nods hedge sagely. | | | |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 18:47 - Nov 24 with 1349 views | davman |
| McClaren seeks to clarify comments he made after cup exit on 10:31 - Nov 24 by francisbowles |
I thought the really interesting point he made was in distinguishing between the FA cup and the League cup.
The League cup early rounds come in a crowded early season fixture list whereas the FA cup for us, starts in the rather calmer month of January and is a normal Saturday fixture as opposed to an additional midweek one. I would have to add that it does come just after the hectic Christmas/ New year fixture. There will be s full seven days recovery period after the game and no midweek fixture until the 13th February.
We shall see, in January, if it makes a difference to his team selection. |
... but the 3rd round of the FACup comes after the most hectic period of games when Joel Lynch has his holidays, so there's your excuse to rest more of the precious lambs.
It's all bollox and he will do it in the FA Cup too... |  |
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