- Search

boatshed bill

StayingDown4Ever wrote: ↑
Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:01 pm
Agreed. It’s infuriating that Vincent won’t do anything about it.

All it tells me is that the other 2 keepers are worse.

boatshed bill

I'm available, and just as likely to replace VK as anyone named on this thread

boatshed bill

Jakubclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 25, 2024 5:20 pm
It's a simple case of VK honouring his word to Trafford before Trafford arrived I believe he asked for reassurances that the number 1 spot would be his & he was reassured it would be.

At least that is plausible

boatshed bill

CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:53 pm
Doesn't matter if it was a minus net spend, if we sold 80 mill or whatever worth of player and spent 50 on players for that level, that's still an expensive squad for that level.

Well I think it does matter so we'll have to agree to differ on that.

boatshed bill

I am beginning to worry more about next season than this one. There seems to be a total expectation that we will be promoted back into the PL when it is just as likely that league one beckons. There are hardly any redeeming features that suggest that the weaknesses in the team and management that a...

boatshed bill

If we accept relegation it would be interesting to see how Muric would fare in the Pl

boatshed bill

Our (net) spend was huge compared to the rest of the division; that's an objective fact. It was spent well, but it certainly wasn't, 'cheap'. We lost some very good (PLstandard) players and replaced them cheaply. I believe we had a minus net spend for the start of last season. admittedly we spent m...

boatshed bill

CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:32 pm
Wasn't cheap. Let's be proper about things. Invested it well - no doubt.

No, it really was cheap.
Whether money has been spent wisely since is another matter.

boatshed bill

Rowls wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 7:21 pm
en't competing.

Most worrying for me is that we're trashing the young talent we've paid so handsomely for because we are wrecking their confidence.

Agreed.
One can only hope that it makes rather than breaks them.

boatshed bill

Stay. The club was on its arse until he put a very cheap, promotion winning squad together.

boatshed bill

I’d have much more faith in Muric. Had we not signed a keeper this summer and kept Muric and peacock-farrell or even still signed Vig and had Muric as number one, nobody would be panicking thinking we need a new keeper. We spent a full championship season improving Muric and he had actually become ...

boatshed bill

daveisaclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 11:05 pm
If Kompany can attract better players why is this team worse than anything Dyche ever fielded?

Contracts and wages, possibly?

boatshed bill

BabylonClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:50 pm
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)

I doubt VK set the limit for the transfer fee.

boatshed bill

That’s a whole other issue, the back 5 clearly don’t have any confidence in each other and it doesn’t help the different 4 we have had so many times. I ultimately think the last of confidence between them all is the reason for the mistakes. Like Beyer at home to palace could have played a simple pa...

boatshed bill

That's irrelevant though, he has wasted a load of money, probably more then we have earned with the promotion. Look at Luton, may well go down what has yheir managercwasted, to a certain extent uou void include Sheffield United's managers in that. I don't think it's irrelevant, but you are welcome ...

boatshed bill

123EasyasBFC wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:41 pm
Not played a crazy pass into brownhill with his weak foot when he had a simple pass out wide to Taylor. That is the pretty obvious thing he could of done better

Fair enough, although I can thoroughly understand we he would choose not to pass to Taylor.

boatshed bill

bumba wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:15 pm
VK or Trafford?

Obviously Trafford.

boatshed bill

Someone please tell me what he could have done better today.

boatshed bill

What all 3? It should have been recognized just how important they was to the fabric of the team & more resources & effort should have gone into getting them maybe not all 3 but at least 1. Instead a significant amount went on a goalkeeper who isn't PL ready. Awful awful recruitment. I don't think ...

boatshed bill

It took about a minute for Taylor to fukk up today

boatshed bill

Jakubclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:58 pm
We had the opportunity to sign them I think on a permanent basis.

Some times deals break down despite the best intentions.

boatshed bill

More than you can afford for starters

boatshed bill

Jakubclaret wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:55 pm
Not many but then again they haven't had the sort of loans like THB & maatsen & Nathan tella. If we are using that as a yardstick let's tell the full story.

You make a very good point here.
Plenty of posters on here forget how important these loanees were.

boatshed bill

bfcjg wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:52 pm
Kompany has wasted some serious money

Not as much as he has earned us, is it?

boatshed bill

paulatky wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:21 pm
Time to go
Clueless and shows no signs of learning

Time for you to step up then?

boatshed bill

Negativity.
It's no fffing good.

boatshed bill

Sure thing pal: - Trafford's problems can't be entirely blamed on an unsettled defence. - Promising keepers have been damaged by bad games before now, but this is happening weekly. But that reduces something to rather pithy remarks that people can just dismiss, so I provided more detail/examples. T...

boatshed bill

I'd say it's a mix- the defence not being settled does expose Trafford more, but Trafford has never covered himself in glory and his mistake rate is static possibly worsening, and amongst the most of any in the team in terms of costliness. Vitinho gets dog's abuse from some for being named on the t...

boatshed bill

Perhaps we should revert back to playing against championship sides

boatshed bill

Rick_Muller wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 9:20 pm
Vitinho got the ball IMO so no pen.
Their second should be ruled out if ours is - can’t rule one out without ruling out the other

That decision redefines what a penalty is

boatshed bill

The match thread, an ideal opportunity to use a variety of bizarre adjectives

I might offer a small prize to the best of the day.

boatshed bill

JR1882 wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 24, 2024 12:04 pm
No one is turning against the players - people are rightly turning against the manager that though it was a good idea to put them all into a league they weren’t ready for.

"Turning against"? WTF is the matter with us?
It's a game, try to remember that and enjoy it.

boatshed bill

TPClaret wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:35 pm
Never really felt like he wanted to join us.

Always put a shift in, don't you think?

boatshed bill

One thing I always liked about Connor Roberts was his enthusiasm.

boatshed bill

All it shows me is that it's easier to score in the Championship than in the PL

boatshed bill

Swizzlestick wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 10:07 pm

. Maybe he thought the dynamic wasn’t working.

This, I would imagine.

boatshed bill

Swizzlestick wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:18 pm

As we’ve seen this season, good shot stopping can sometimes cloud what the keeper is bringing to the table elsewhere.

Good shot-stopping is absolutely the first and foremost requirement for a goalkeeper.

boatshed bill

Casper2 wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 9:08 pm
I suppose you could say about this season being short of immediate success

I should probably have said "immediate and continued".

boatshed bill

I always had in the back of my mind that anything short of immediate success would bring a load of anti -Kompany people out of the woodwork.

boatshed bill

Jamesy wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:14 pm
Sadly they are better at managing games than us and more tactically astute.

We will have to wait a while before that statement becomes actual fact.
Currently they are doing slightly better than we are, that's all.

boatshed bill

Having just listened to that I'd ask some of you to get off VK's back.
Support the club by dropping your agendas.
Negativity can only breed failure.

And I agree, pre-match press conferences are a pointless (but contractural) feature of the game.

boatshed bill

Poor Gulls , lived in Torquay for 3 years went up a good few times to watch them at Plainmoor always look for their scores , hummmm . Had not visited Torquay for about close to 38 years and decided a year or two to go just for the day , goodness what a hole it has turned out to be all very sad i mu...

boatshed bill

That clearly not what he was saying. I remember playing them in the play offs too and then knocking us out. There are not many teams in our history we have played in play off games so it’s not surprising that you have some memories or association with these clubs. Remember a very young Lee Sharpe p...

boatshed bill

I was in their biggest ever crowd, a 3-3 FA Cup draw with Spurs in 1965.
Still go occasionally, this is a great shame but not entirely surprising. As above, Torquay itself can hardly be described as thriving.

boatshed bill

How can he know that when he's played a mere stop/start 100 minute's, there's several other's who haven't matched up to the required standard yet have been selected week on week, 1 in particular has played every minute of the season, and as I've repeatedly said he'd be better suited to the Sunday l...

boatshed bill

alwaysaclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:26 pm
So if that's the case he's shown him he's ability last season, and look where it's got him.

Well the manager would hardly torpedo his own boat, so you can fairly safely assume that MB hasn't matched up to the required standard.

boatshed bill

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:23 pm
Nick Pope was a full international by then

I wasn't sure, but wasn't he out injured when we called on Joe Hart?

boatshed bill

alwaysaclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:19 pm
Enlighten me, I missed that one

VK said something on the lines of European clubs weren't sure of his ability and that he (VK) was prepared to give MB a chance to prove himself.

boatshed bill

bobinho wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:15 pm
Not bad at all. Crazy to think at one time only a few years ago he was one of the best keeping teams in Europe. And it was here…

Yes, 4 full internationals; and we also had Nick Pope

boatshed bill

alwaysaclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:47 pm
I would think it's more a vk thing.

Sometimes it pays not to overthink stuff.

Search found 14180 matches