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My brother bought a corporate package for the jimmy mac for 9 of us tomorrow. The club phoned him and asked a lot of questions about where he grew up, his first game, who else is coming etc. It sounded like a thorough investigation!

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I would keep the young players if we had a tapestry of riches in the first team. But the issue we have is we need first team quality players not lads with potential. January should be a window for players aged between 26-28 worth around the 15m mark. We need a starting CB, at least 1 starting full ...

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I agree with this, bar I don’t think anyone knows whether we have any money or not. Jay we absolutely need to keep too. Fair enough on Jay. With the money thing, not saying we don't have any. But we certainly can't have the amount you'd need to guarantee the amount of points we'd need. In January e...

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Churlinov, Redmond, Jay, Cork, Delcroix, Tresor, Obafemi, Massengo They can all go. Free up the wages, bring in some cash get 3-4 top players in Tresor was one of those "top players" on paper, so far as the type we can attract. At this point, we simply don't have the money to buy our way out of thi...

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Probably will do. Hard to see who would sign to fit our business model (age, ability and potential) over the January window. I thought we would struggle this year. It is nothing unexpected. People seem to think that we should be winning games that we just wouldn't have expected to win with an exper...

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I was hopeful till tonight. It's just abundantly clear we don't have the right experience, leadership or physicality on the pitch. I'm sure these lads would be great in a 5 a side tournament, but compete in the premier league? Nah. Said over and over again, but our naivety in the summer was quite un...

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Herts Clarets wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:06 pm
You missed 'new' from that. Apparently we have one....

Well whoever it is must be a Rovers fan

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We need a set pieces coach

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Very bright start. But not tested pickford yet

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I'm amazed anyone thinks muric makes a difference

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I don't want vk sacked but it's worrying how we don't seem to learn from mistakes.

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We've been terrible a couple of times, at defending. The rest of it, has been ok. We need a goalscorer like everyone else does too. Ok in general play yes. I wouldn't say it's just the goals we've been bad defensively, we are very easy to counter at pace. There's been a good few times one of their ...

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It's all well and good playing ot around at the back, but everyone in front of them is totally static

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JimmyRobbo wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 16, 2023 5:58 pm
Very unlucky to concede that. Just a ricochet.

We've not been awful, despite what some would assume.

Half the game is defending without the ball. We have been terrible in that regard

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Christ alive. We are so so bad defending as a team collectively

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So many factors as highlighted above. My bugbear is that there's so much in our supermarkets that is massively processed, and barely food at all. It's frightening. We're flogged a load of crap in attractive packaging that is loaded with emulsifiers and preservatives. Fresh food is marketed as someth...

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As good as he was against Brighton I think Odobert back to the bench for me, and Obefemi in for Jrod if he's fit.

Trafford
Vitinho
Ekdal
Beyer
Delcroix
Berge
Brownhill
Larsen
Tresor
Amdouni
Obefemi

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Stayingup wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 10, 2023 4:04 pm
Bottom three in the Prem pretty well cut adrift now. Emphasising the gulf between the EPL and the Championship.

That ridiculous VAR decision against forest is looking a bit costly

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I'm not criticising the recruitment in this area fwiw, or saying Jay doesn't give 100%. I'm just saying we look a bit toothless in attack, and wondering if there's an alternative with the attacking players we have available. That's all.

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I think you need to play Rodriguez for two reasons. Firstly, in the absence of Foster, he's the only player we have capable to providing a focal point for the team. Secondly, he provides excellent help when it comes to defending set pieces and this is often overlooked. I'd be lining up with Rodrigu...

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Great servant, but at the moment he's not really giving us a great deal. Amdouni is doing the best work dropping deep, and I can't remember too many times where Jay has held the ball up well for us. And he's not exactly firing in front of goal. Not calling him useless etc, but he's not at his sharpe...

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Everton are no better that West ham, and we definitely should've gotten a point if not 3. Definitely should've beaten Palace, a point at wolves possibly and I thought we were decent for long periods against arsenal. In short, we can compete against Everton. I always felt under Dyche we were weakest ...

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It's difficult to point to individual chances. It's games like Palace at home where we just should have won no question. Particularly relevant now palace are right down there

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Reminded me a bit of wouts missing against villa when we went down. As the striker there you have to go high

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Excellent point. Take a bow james trafford

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Tresor looking sharper today

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That's Ten Hag gone

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We got very deep there

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Another great save from our rubbish goalkeeper

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Awesome vitinho again. Done OK since someone said on here he was nowhere near premier standard

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We've defended very well in the second half after the first minute or so

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Vitinho a lot better in this half

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tally wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:16 pm
wtf does Ramsey bring to the plate?

Jesus wept

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Ramsay coming on?

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It looked like a clearance

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Did Taylor have a bet on a throw in on 53 mins there

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Nooooooo

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As you said, Kafkaesque. Throw some good old “the club I love” spiel just to take the objectivity even further out of any debate and make it even more bloody emotional. I know what you're saying, but I also think his performance on the day is based on people's perception of him. Today for instance ...

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We've been so much better since arsenal away. Just not had the results, hopefully we'll cling on today! It's telling I think if we restarted the season now with this experience I genuinely think we'd stay up no problem

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Very good half against a very good side.

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Great save

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Cripes vitinho, final pass was a shocker there

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Bournemouth beating United ffs

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I think we've been excellent so far. And although Trafford's long balls have come back, who has he got to aim at really? The one for JBG to run onto I thought was a decent effort too. And he looks more assured on when to go short and when to go long.

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Trafford getting sh*t already I see

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Yep me too. Much prefer pace in wide areas. JBG is more effective centrally. But I suppose its logical to protect vitinho a little down that side and you'd hope he'd offer a little ahead of JBG on occasion. Personally if have maybe dropped Jay or Amdouni, played JBG in centrally with berge and brown...

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I like JBG but I admit I found it weird, they were struggling down that side with pace. Redmond, Odobert, Zaroury and Tresor all get the nod there ahead of JBG for me. Also our balls in the box were getting eaten for breakfast. Jay was never in the game. Might as well have subbed him, popped Amdouni...

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It would be great to spoil someone else's party for once. Once we go behind it's tough, you need a player like tresor to come on and do something to change the game. Our bench is strong on paper but subs have rarely made an impact

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Zero need to spend in this window. Maybe a few loans out for odobert and massengo and if we can get some experience in on a loan maybe do that. But spending more won't keep us up now. We just need to improve and develop the players we have.

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Positive for me is we should've won our last two home games

The negative is we got zero points.

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