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If Bhatia wins this and gets an invite he's getting lumped on.

Matsuyama as well for me - can't wait for it!!

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A huge part of the problem is that one man holds so much power at the football club, and that man is a 37 year old novice with an ego the size of the training ground. Doesn’t help how Pace talks about him in the media either. He’s supposed to be answering to Pace but it appears to be the other way ...

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It could work but the dof and manager would have to be exeptionally well aligned for it to. I can’t see Kompany ever being under someone’s else’s control or asking their input. His recent team selections are all over the place like when I couldn’t win on football manager or something. Randomly just...

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The DOF usually chooses a lot of the players and the manager themselves in some setups. So the team manager usually becomes more of a coach for the players the dof has last say on but they get everyone’s feedback from owners to coaches. I’m not a fan of it tbh as usually the dof isn’t as good as th...

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I said that VK needs to figure out if he wants to be a DoF or a manager, not that we should make him our DoF. I'm firmly of the view that we need a director of football/technical director/sporting director - but its not Kompany. Its someone who can challenge and peer review Kompany’s thinking (as He...

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It's not absurd to argue that with quicker possession, moving the ball faster and pacey wingers we win both those games against established PL teams. We have a manager problem. It's an issue for the fanbase because in the end it's admitting that the fantasy is over. But no one can watch those games...

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What a plank you are! Playing to the audience. I haven’t said Kompany is ‘the worst thing to happen to the club’. I think he should go and I’ve said that since late Sep/Oct. I got banned for starting a Kompany out thread. Some of us discuss what we believe in not just want you think people want to ...

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He's on track to get 40+ goals for Bayern this season, not sure he's the man to blame for their struggles. We'll see, i think the Euros this summer is massive for Kane and England, not sure we've ever had a better chance to win something since 66. He might well be - still aren't going to win the le...

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Burnley Ace wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:22 pm
Better supporters.

Our support this season, considering the results from the ten games/size of the town/cost of living/price of the matches has actually been superb in all honesty.

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I think this is about the most sensible and reasonable post on this thread. I can’t remember any other mistakes like yesterday. The only passing it out error that immediately springs to mind is the Trafford one to Brownhill, but I’m sure there’s others my coping mechanisms have put in to the deepes...

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You're all over this thread spouting your highly predictable tripe, but there was hardly a peep out of you for a couple of weeks when we hit a bit of decent form. You were the same under Dyche, and it will be no different when VK leaves and the next manager comes in. There's constructive criticism ...

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Fair enough. I definitely wouldn't be leaving him out, even if we had a serious alternative. For me him and Bellingham are our 2 world class players who would get in any team in the world. As for Bayern they were very lucky to win the league last season, Dortmund bottled it on the last day. Yet the...

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The Harry Kane conundrum... My take - he lacks the physicality to be able to play himself into a game when things aren't quite falling for him/the team like a striker such as Benzema, Suarez, Drogba etc can so isn't the type that can take a game by the scruff of the neck and make something happen. I...

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Berge, Odobert definitely.. I really want to keep Berge but he's shown versatility in his time in England (can effectively play in a 2 or a 3 in various roles) and is a pretty sure fire bet for any mid table PL team, Another PL team may want to take a chance on Traff as an understudy with the Uefa h...

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They have to or we are royally screwed. I'm caught between being completely baffled how much of a pigs ear they made of it in the summer and having faith in them to bounce back next season. Logic says we should but last summer does make me concerned - I just can't figure out how 'smart' people in K...

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inexperience, can you imagine the difference if we would have had a Ben Mee at the back, team of young lads thrown together in the biggest league in the world - suicide Yep. We said it all summer/pre season as well... Just a tinge bit more pragmatism (can still play good football) but with more of ...

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The problem with people suggesting Kompany is learning is if you asked Kompany …he has nothing to learn,,, but it’s the players who need to learn .. He always says we are a young team of players and seems to exonerate himself from this learning curve giving himself almost God like status It is a bi...

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The goals conceded just before half time/full time, along with the discipline record are tell tale signs of poor management tbh.

Odd occurrences can be put down to being coincidental but when it's a repeated, frequent pattern? Suggests that this is a problem.

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It's more doing it every single time like forcing the team to play a certain way - I think a little bit more should freedom should be given to the players in terms of choosing when to play out and when not to... VK seems rigid in his approach to it. We have absolutely benefitted from playing out sev...

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 5:54 pm
But 0-0 would have been better than 0-1.

Doesn't work like that though does it.

People really need to stop judging players / teams through one off moments in games and instead start looking the entire match and the combined performance of the team.

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Muric - 5
Assignon - 5
O’Shea - 5
Esteve - 7*
Taylor - 6
Bruun Larsen - 5
Cullen - 6
Berge - 7
Odobert - 5
Fofana - 4
Foster - 6

Vitinho - 5
Brownhill - 6

Masters of our own downfall. If we'd have managed to put one away before Muric made a cockup I reckon we'd have routed them.

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Surely, one of the key arguments put forward for Muric over Trafford was his superior distribution setting up the attacking play and creating chances for our strikers. Obviously didn’t work this afternoon and his moment of madness cost us the game. I mean, we were quite literally playing them off t...

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Yep - it's the small details like that, that separate the good and the great players.

He definitely has a good long range pass on him but absolutely not suited to playing out through the lines with the sort of short & intricate passing/receiving ball skills needed.

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What’s unforgivable for me is the two very winnable games Wolves and Everton today, he tinkers with a a winning system and players several players out of position. VK has to take responsibility for the last two games which could have saved our season. Bingo, Or if you're gonna do it At least play O...

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Seamus Coleman and Ashley Young with a combined age of 73 defending their right flank today - so what does VK do? Bring our fast, direct, talented winger inside and put out striker on the right.

WTF

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Barely turning up for the two biggest games of the season and playing our best striker outwide and our best winger through the middle is criminal tbh. Factor in money spent, regression shown in big signings, disciplinary records and this really has been one of the worst seasons we've ever had (pound...

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I think he needs to figure out if he want's to be a manager or a director of football - because in the modern game I really don 't think you can be both.

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That's the season.

Embarrassing from start to finish really. A royal **** up from VK and co.

Nowhere near good enough.

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Sorry, but VK has had a continual 'mare all season with his in game management.

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Seriously just get Benny on and have two wingers and our two strikers up top.

Please for the love of God.

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Some wet wipes on here. Not like we've just gone 4 games unbeaten and actually looked like a team again.

Maybe if he was playing from the start we'd have more points.

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Live and die by the sword.

We can still beat these.

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Aye that was shite.

Can still beat these though.

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Tarky should be off really.

We're all over them.

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God Muric is a joy to watch with the ball. What VK (and some on here) was thinking I'll never know.

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If that link isn't working for you then it's probably some issue with your system, I'd guess your media player maybe played a cached version. This is definitely the right file and isn't saved with any other episode https://1drv.ms/u/s!Atnj-YxkG3VkkZtid-uleYWeNrwImg That link works, the rest are sti...

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Let's have it!!

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Dean West was a good player!

Can I call the new lad Shandy Rambo?

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25 seconds for me as well on every link I've seen posted on here / X

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yTib wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2024 8:28 pm
we live in a free market economy

We really, really, really, really don't.

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It's a strange one because I do believe we are looking more threatening at attacking set pieces but for defending them? We are terrible.

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David Johnson.

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Not saying the current owners are any better than the previous owners. The club definitely appears to be in a much more precarious position with our debt commitments. But if we had been relegated under Garlick (and all the history of the EPL suggests we would have been) then with a wage bill of mor...

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Strong

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Superjohnnyfrancis wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:52 pm
We will really struggle if we don’t keep Muric even in the championship.

We certainly will

Won't be able to pass teams to death and score all them late goals after the opposition had been chasing shadows all game.

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getbennyon wrote: ↑
Wed Apr 03, 2024 8:54 pm
The big mystery will be when the next generation of double barrel meets double barrel.

Will we have quadruple barrelled names?

I always wonder this!

Just silly isn't it?

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Funnily enough I thought today that perhaps VK requires a stronger number 2. Someone that’s not afraid to tell him when they think he’s got it wrong and suggest how to change the system. Many years ago I recall senior Management of a corporate company were appraised as a one off by their juniors, i...

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helmclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:58 pm
Steve Thompson was a fantastic passer and a classy player - his assessment of Muric tells you all you need to know.

Saying it all year.

I can't believe people couldn't see it and still don't. He is absolutely mustard.

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It would be over if we didn't have two 6 pointers against Everton and Forest..

Beat them and a win or two somewhere else and you never know....

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Goobs wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:23 pm
Muric 8 kept us in the game although Trafford would have got slated for the goal we conceded.

He wouldn't at all, the header went flush inside the side netting.

What we would have though is been penned in and not played through them like we did tonight on numerous occasions.

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