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Talk about doom and gloom.

We started 5 points clear of 18th. Despite not playing we’re still 4 points clear.

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Part of Leicester’s game plan, particularly first half, was to close off our left and encourage us to go right. There was acres of space down our right side. Leicester had done their homework and we created very little from the right hand side all game. Hendrick is a good utility player and had some...

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I can’t see Gibson going without someone coming in. Long and Dunne won’t be trusted as able back-ups.

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So there’s been one new link on this thread in the last two weeks and Dyche laughed at the suggestion?

Cool.

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He’s been a decent utility midfielder. Doesn’t excel at anything in particular enough to nail down a starting berth when everyone is fit, but he’s contributed plenty during his time with us.

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Personally I'd say the real issue is the lack of first team signings over the past few years. We have too many players who have been playing at the peak of their ability and there is only so long that you can keep that up week in and week out. You can't expect to maintain the same levels of effort ...

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Oh I see, were you expecting him the tell the media, the world and his wife that he has shed loads to spend? Er..no. He could just have said he’s working with the appropriate colleagues within our budget constraints. Whether it’s true that he doesn’t know how much there is to spend on not, it doesn...

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I was under the impression, perhaps mistakenly, that he had been brought in to address the issues we have with recruitment. That article reads to me as though we are just exactly where we were. In which case, what’s the point? That might be a fair question. If there’s no such thing as a hidden gem ...

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I’ve seen a lot of criticism of Rigg this last week.

I don’t know how our recruitment system works, but our problems and challenges are not new. There are common factors in our ongoing struggles and Rigg hasn’t been here long enough to be one of those factors.

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Hardly surprising and which club would want to send players here now after that? I know DD did his own damage along the way, but he was available many times when our own midfield was lacking and he still never got off the bench. There’s been several loans you could say this about in the past, but n...

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FactualFrank wrote: ↑
Thu Jan 02, 2020 2:50 pm
Link: https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2020/01/02/d ... after-joi/

He’s started about 20 games in 4 years. His career has been wrecked by injuries.

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Same mantra every window. Not just January.

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He’s not the standard required.

I think it’s that simple.

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Re the opening post, it’s a huge issue. We’ve tried some of the more recent signings, but always revert back to those tried and tested faces. We don’t even rotate the squad during periods of fixture congestion and I don’t think you can over estimate the importance of freshness. With every passing wi...

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Blackrod wrote: ↑
Mon Dec 30, 2019 10:21 am
Seems that she has Asbergers which I have read makes people obsessive about something. There was an article today stating that she avoided school and had eating issues. Clearly not your average kid.

Average folk don’t tend to have much of an impact on the world.

Good luck to her.

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We’ve got to try and do to United what a number of the smaller clubs have done to them this season when taking points off them. There’s a reason why they are only 4 points above us and have won less than 40% of their games. They have some good players, so if we adopt the kind of passive approach we ...

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We’ll continue to get results with Dyche at the helm. It’s just not particularly entertaining and the defeats, when they come, are a tough watch.

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I didn’t think it was a foul by Wood. The Newcastle player was looking for contact and went down too easily.

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We don’t tend to do business in the January window and, if we do, we don’t tend to put new signings into the first XI for several months.

On that basis, don’t get your hopes up.

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He won’t start for us again.

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He ain’t going to West Ham. The chairmen are odd, the fans impatient...he’ll be sacked as soon as they go on a bad run. The job he’s done with us makes no difference in an era where you cannot overcome your reputation or the general unfashionable perception of British managers. Look at Pulis - did a...

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Sounds absolutely horrendous for you and your family.

Wishing you a full recovery and that you’re home before Christmas.

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Shame he’s out of contract this summer.

He’s done very well for QPR and would be worth at least what we’d paid for him you’d think.

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Inevitable.

Be thankful for the players who have been here since 2017/18. Our starting XI is again fully reliant on them, as our signings over the last 3 windows are resigned to bit parts or no parts at all.

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Fairly sure I read an article not long after he’d joined saying his remit was primarily focussed on overseeing scouting and recruitment for the academy. I got the impression he was to have limited input into senior recruiting.

Not sure why people are so obsessed with him.

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Dyche doesn’t make changes to the defence via recruitment in January.

On the odd occasion we have signed immediate first team contenders in Jan, they’ve almost exclusively been midfielders (usually wide players).

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Crap Only a complete imbecile would suggest that Dyche would not have told his players what to do about Sheff United tactics. What actually happened is that Lowton and Pieters had terrible games, Hendrick and McNeil were a way away from their best and because they were bad on positioning, passing a...

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He was pretty blunt to be fair.

No idea how he’d got onto the topic of diving within the first 35 seconds of his Clarets Player post-match interview though.

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Spijed wrote:But will the next manager who finishes 6th in the Championship after doing a good job be offered one of the top jobs in English football?

Not a chance.

I’ve tried, but I’ve no idea what your point is.

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Great goal yesterday, but Jay Rod looks every inch a £5-10m striker so far. We’ve got more strength in-depth than we’ve had before, but not enough of our bench players offer as much as as starting XI, perhaps with the exception of the full-backs and wide options. All the back-up to the spine of the ...

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I’m not a big fan of Vydra, but the logic of moving Jay Rod wide when he came on and the banging high balls into Vydra was completely lost on me.

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Did a good job at Derby. Doing a good job at Chelsea. They play exciting attacking football. He’s English and there are very few Englishmen given the chance to manage top 6 clubs.

What’s not to like?

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There were groans all around me when the 3rd applause started.

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Pope 6
Lowton 4
Pieters 6
Tarkowski 5
Mee 6
McNeil 7
Cork 6
Westwood 5
Hendrick 5
Barnes 4
Rodriguez 5

Vydra 5

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Crazy game, heavily influenced by several mistakes by us at both ends of the pitch.

But no, we wouldn’t have beaten many teams playing like that. I thought we resembled a newly promoted team today. Spirited at times, but ultimately lacking quality when it mattered.

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The Championship season , the survival season and then Europa qualification. We don’t have another left back who has contributed more in my lifetime.

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Ward at his peak was the best left back we’ve had in 30 (or more) years.

That’s how I’ll remember him.

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Vice on Amazon Prime also a decent insight into the way think tanks etc manipulate public opinion. Sometimes as simple as changing the name of something which is unpopular - inheritance tax to death tax etc.

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Don’t worry about what other folk think.

In my view it wasn’t a foul and the goal should Kent stood. I’m not interested what pundits or other fans think.

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Unless we’ve done a deal to extend his loan or take him full-time it’s very hard to see him making an impact now. We’re halfway through the 5 month loan. He’s yet to play a minute of PL football for us and doesn’t even have any U23 games under his belt since the latest setback. Once he’s deemed fit ...

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Leicester

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Burnley games aside, I prefer watching it to football these days.

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I think the wider point is that this lad appears to like a drink to the point that he makes **** poor decisions. At best he embarrass himself. At worst he endangers others.

Plowing a car carrying passengers into a wall whilst 2.5 times over the drink drive limit in April was worse that this.

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I think it’s inevitable that Pieters will lose his place to Taylor at some point. Our record of signing players able to hold down a first XI spot in the last 4 windows is a concern. At some point we will need to be able to adequately replace the group of players who have pretty much seen us through ...

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We knew he was a dickhead when we signed him. No in-depth due diligence required, just google.

That said, I wouldn’t send him back. We don’t have a plethora of alternatives.

I’d try and get him fit and playing well.

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Quickenthetempo wrote:Yeah.

Accy are sick of trying to get him. The chairman said he keeps banging his head with it.

Maybe clubs don’t like dealing with Accy in view of their Chairman plastering stuff all over his Twitter account.

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Very talented player and was in great form for around 6 months.

Unfortunately he’s been here over 3 years and just hasn’t played enough, including hardly featuring in the last 18 months.

He was never going to play for us again, so his departure makes sense and was hardly a surprise.

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Idiot...

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Spijed wrote:Watford got the the FA cup final, got destroyed 6-0 and look at them now

Spidjey-widgey-woo just loves a bit of whataboutery.

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Based on last night we’re looking a relying on the same 11-12 players as last season and the one before to carry us through the season.

This is my problem with our last three transfer windows. We’ve been unable to improve on what we have.

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