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No. I thought he should have started the season and think he gives us a quicker platform with his distribution but I marked him 3 today .

I think he starts all games remaining

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Swizzlestick wrote: ↑
Sun Apr 14, 2024 1:10 am
We will not finish above Forest and we will be in the bottom three.

This.

We might beat Sheffield but we will struggle to get points from any other games and will already be down when they rock up for the last game

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Muric cost us the points today - simple as. It's a pass back that he should be dealing with routinely. Poor poor concentration. His distribution was poor today as well.

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Just a gutting performance, strong on the whole, had wobbles where they threatened, got what we just about deserved, and threw it away like Sunday League. Inexplicable selections. Too late substitutes. Inconsistent refereeing. Annoying VAR checks. This league is so frustratting. Anyway, we can crit...

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Muric 3 - sone fairly decent but regulation saves, poor distribution and calamitous error 2nd week in a row Vithino 6 - out of position but no idea why he was hooked over either of the front 2 or jBL Esteve 8 mom - thought he and ekdal handled Brighton pretty well Ekdal 8 - see above Assignon 6 - at...

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This isn't true. Our best chance of the game was Fofanas header, I think from a corner from what i remember You're right. I'd forgotten that. Ut was our only effort on goal really. We did create sone fair openings but Ecerton packed the box. We overplay stuff all the time and we're often guilty of ...

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Tough watch today. We looked to be doing alright first-half after an early spell where Everton looked lively without really threatening. Then we hit the suicide button (again) and from that moment the confidence of the last 4 games dissipated. The subs were weird and again players driving out of gam...

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ClaretOfMancunia wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:11 pm
One shot on target all game. Poor. Not sure there's anything else to say.

And straight at him too. We've created some good chances recently but today we really struggled again - this was one right out of the Jan/Feb performance period

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Nah **** that. Turning up to watch when it's all over is ****. 7 games of absolutely pointless dead rubbers. Deep joy

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California Colner wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 4:52 pm
Mc Neil never put that much effort in when playing for us

That's absolute nonsense

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Everton are so so poor but we've lacked any real belief or proper penetrative. We've not forced Pickford into any decent saves

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Nah you can see why the red is given. McNeil has an open goal.directky in front and there's noone else anywhere near.

It's a strict one and maybe there's a case to be a bit lenient butbif it was the other way round you'd be furious if it hadn't been given.

We've struggled this half

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Totally let them off the hook. Crowd edgy, they look short of ideas, zero shots on target (I'm not counting that although technically it is). It's almost like we are trying to throw it away!!!!! Wull be a really tough 2nd half now - they will sit, we will huff and puff and they will look to hit DCL ...

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Nice try

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Utter utter dogger. The penalty was a joke a d the yellow even worse.

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Oh my word - this side suddenly looks like it wants to fishhook to stay up and believes it can. Been superb last 3 games

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Played superbly. Doesn't have the legs any more and a couple of returns from team mates were a bit ambitious but he'll he held the ball and played off and came within inches of nicking a winner.

Classy player stull

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CrosspoolClarets wrote: ↑
Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:31 am
Do I have hope - yes.
Will we - no.

You final.point there suggests you first should also be no. Just stop after the first. (Or say 'not sure' for will we - or even 'hopefully yes'

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Still some questions but largely there's more to be positive about after the last couple. Interestingly the players looked up for it big time after the final whistle. They looked like players who did believe they might do it. Keep the same starting lineup (I'm a bit ambivalent about Odobert but this...

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Hard to rate as we playes mostbof the game against 10 but apart from the last 15 they never looked like scoring Muric 7 - comfortable saves, intimidating and (mostly) good distribution - a good start Assignon 7 - tireless today and got forward aggressively O shea 7 did pretty well but a stupid error...

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Had a terrific game today. Small but mighty - some of our other players should watch and learn!!!!

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Shocking sub to bring him on. We actually look like competing without him on the pitch. Constantly runs down blind alleys, falls over, loses the ball and makes the wrong choices. He's a chocolate teapot of a player. He's an absolute liability and Vincent's bizarre insistence on playing him game afte...

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He played well and stood up well but most saves were as I would expect and I think Trafford makes those too. He does however move it more quickly and the passing is crisper and accurate so it's harder for teams to press us effectively and because he can drill those great long diagonals accurately to...

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It amazes me that folk don’t see how the levels are getting better year on year. Every one of those teams are way better, and I mean WAY better than most of the teams we stayed up with under Dyche. (Player for player) Give over. Brentford were pretty poor today. Palace are way worse than the sides ...

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Let's be honest - going at the moment is a real chore but the performance last week was good in patches so hoping we can build on that. Be nice to break 20 points before the end of the season and this is one of the 2 or 3 games left that are winnable.
Coyc

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I reckon Dyche might go first - as others have said, the expectation on him is huge (and probably unrealistic). Plus Vince seems bulletproof here

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But the pull back put a dangerous ball in and forced the weet ham error (plus as Vegas says there's players in the right position)

A lot of our goals this season have come from a cut back into the area - we don't do that enough in my opinion

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Nah they already have one!!!

It is badly worded - essentially it should be more about 'will he do the business next season' - this season is over and we are now playing to salvage some pride

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Seriously who's voted for the statue?????

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Trafford 6 - not really much to do - steady Assignon 5 - not great. Picked up sully booking, could have walked for a 2nd yellow. Shocking attempt to con the ref into carding their player which would have cost us a goal but for a slip. O shea 5 - last few games he has been v shaky - awful for the fir...

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Unless he was injured it was the worst sub he’s made all season and that’s saying something. I thought he was right to add into midfield but I would have pulled the anonymous Odobert. Sadly Briwny has nit been great for the last month or so. At least he's stopping picking Amdouni and already we loo...

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Considering our position in the league we gave a good account of ourselves today. Timing of their first goal was frustrating. Not a performance to be negative about but not winning does still feel like another nail in the coffin. The coffin was nailed shut ages ago. In fact it's probably 6 feet sow...

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Our discipline has been really poor this season.

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Lies, there’s a few on here willing us to fail to be proven right. Bullshit. There's no need to see us lose any more to see how shite we've been. I suspect some wantvthe loss to force the ha d of the Board. For me I am jury out but too late to do anything now. Like I've said we need to try and fini...

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There’s a West Ham goal for the supposed BFC fans on here to get excited and giddy about **** off - people are unhappy with the way we have gone about this season and think changing the manager will make us better is all. It's hard to disagree really (although there's zero point in ,changing manage...

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Comedy gold!!!! Defensivekybwe are awful at times

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Odobert is nowhere near the impact of McNeil - he contributes hardly anything most games but pops up now and the with a bit of a worldie bit of skill

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Why do you say that! It’s quite obvious that there are posters on here that would be quite content for us to lose every match if it supported their Kompany Out agenda. It’s idiotic to pretend otherwise That was a really good first half. West Ham were poor but I think we made them poor - we've often...

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burnleymik wrote: ↑
Sun Mar 10, 2024 2:51 pm
Berge is an outstanding player. Really hope we can hold onto him whatever happens this season.

Thus. He has been our most consistent and bright spark this season.

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That's a great first half. West Ham not created a lot and at tines we have passed it nicely. We loom dangerous when we cut the ball back like we did fir the 2nd - just don't do that enough. I think we have saved that and 2-0 flatters us a bit but tidy there. This is the frustrating thing - at tines ...

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To be fair what else is there to play for but pride now? My hopes for the rest of the season are ti win a couple more, break 20 points and have a clear clear plan of how we ressurwctbthis mess next season. Finishing with a bit of a flourish is important for confidence to break the losing team cultur...

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Only got half the second half and half the first but I have to say I didn't realise he had come on. As shite as he has been fir the rest of the season.

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What've we got left? At home we have Wolves, Forest, Brighton, Bournemouth, Newcastle and Brentford - ordinarily we'd be looking to think at least 10- 12 points from those fixtures because they are mostly all 'winnable' (although Brighton and Wolves are the edge of that envelope - maybe outside , Ne...

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It’s relevant because you have lost all your best players then you are replacing a lot of the squad at the same time. How do you compare that to a team who have assembled their squad over many years ? If a team bought player 5 years ago for £5m and he was playing in the championship last year but h...

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Stay. The club was on its arse until he put a very cheap, promotion winning squad together. Hmmm Muric, Cullen, Beyer, Al Dakhil, Vitinho, Benson, Zaroury, Delcroix, Foster , Obafemi must have cost around 30/40m? Add that to existing Cork, Taylor, Brownhill, Jay, Ashley, Roberts who cost something ...

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Wharton got the benefit of the doubt because he was already on a yellow and it wasn't malicious so ref went easy on him. It's a pen - vithino clatters through him really clumsily and gets a tiny tiny fraction on the ball (whys he tackling with his left there? Both goals are either offside or onside ...

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I doubt VK set the limit for the transfer fee. Well of course not but the bottom line is we should have made more effort. Sorry I get this is a VK in/out thread but the discussion has weaved a bit here - I wasn't suggesting it was Vincent's fault we didn't sign any. Who we put out and how we set up...

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Honestly I am in 2 minds. This season has been a busted flush since failing to beat Luton so its more about next seaaon here. Do we think we can bounce back? I'd like to say he deserves the chance after last seaaon but being hard nosed ii think we might struggle. He has made some huge huge mistakes ...

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:57 pm
You make a very good point here.
Plenty of posters on here forget how important these loanees were.

Which is why we should have made sure we signed at least one of them (Tella would have been ours if we would have bid the right amount)

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