- Search

IWOODLOVETT

Any mention in Barry’s book?

IWOODLOVETT

I think he was loaned out to Bronby after about six months.

IWOODLOVETT

Burnley have signed Dutch midfielder Remco van der Schaaf on a free transfer after his release by Vitesse Arnhem. The 29-year-old has penned a three-year deal having turned down another offer from Cardiff. "He's a player we've been tracking for some time, we've had him watched and he will be a treme...

IWOODLOVETT

I too am a bit puzzled by the notion that Reading created more chances than us. They set up a team of giants with 10 behind the ball and doubled up on our wingers. Their keeper sauntered around for 90 minutes and used every time wasting tactic in the book. The referee only seemed to realise what was...

IWOODLOVETT

Man of the match yesterday - he will still be here next season (or sold if a big offer comes in).

IWOODLOVETT

I think you’ll find he’s better at the same age - Barnes is a gnarled old pro.

IWOODLOVETT

I expect to see a Reading mk2 game on Tuesday - a team of giants playing for a draw with 10 men behind the ball for the entire game. A point against the champions is like gold dust when you’re in a relegation dogfight. The roar from the crowd at full time yesterday was as if Reading had won the FA C...

IWOODLOVETT

Yesterday I saw at first hand a younger, faster version of Barnes - playing in his second start against a team of giants who played with ten behind the ball. Given that there is 11 years difference I think it’s fair to assume that Foster will develop into much better version of AB - with or without ...

IWOODLOVETT

Two tap-ins against B******ds and he will be hailed as a worldie.

IWOODLOVETT

Brizzle City.

IWOODLOVETT

Crowned Champions at Reading.

IWOODLOVETT

JohnDearyMe wrote: ↑
Fri Mar 31, 2023 7:07 pm
Who is missing from the list above then? Rodriguez, Churlinov, Foster & Taylor are all that spring to mind. Losing track of the wider squad

Where’s Twine ??

IWOODLOVETT

Ekdal and Robert’s will be rested.

TH-B to be eased back, Vitinho to provide a threat from right wing-back. JBG, Cullen and Brownhill in the engine room. Barnes, Zaroury and Tella up top.

Benson, Obafemi, Twine as super subs. Cork and Taylor to see out the game.

IWOODLOVETT

I really wanted to get to this game because it’s easy for me to get to and also there’s a big chance that the Clarets will be crowned as Champions on the day. Away tickets sold out so I went onto the home site and registered. No fuss, no special conditions, no awkward questions. A good selection of ...

IWOODLOVETT

I wonder if TH-B or Beyer could play as a holding midfielder - allowing Cullen/ Brownhill to move into a more advanced position ?

IWOODLOVETT

Bordeauxclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Feb 26, 2023 10:08 am
I wouldn’t be surprised if most of our games in April are on tv.

Middlesbrough - Friday game
Sheffield - Monday game

No other games are of any interest to the neutral armchair viewers.

IWOODLOVETT

Five very winnable games with breathing space between ……….. except for a “winnable” but fiercely contested cup game in the middle. So I believe that our success rate in these games may very much depend on how we approach the game against Fleetwood. Obviously we don’t want any more enforced absences ...

IWOODLOVETT

Did his best work for us in a deep role, on the half way line wriggling out of tackles somehow and laying the ball off with quality. Pressed from the front really well too. Also he showed in the World Cup that he can scare the life out of top defenders at set pieces with his height - scoring those ...

IWOODLOVETT

Young keeper - all part of the learning process. Outfield players can make multiple errors of judgment, mostly without punishment, but mistakes by goalkeepers are usually crucial. We are seeing all types of goalkeeping howlers on a regular basis - not least recently by two ex-Clarets, Pope and Henne...

IWOODLOVETT

Weghorst is a professional footballer who quite rightly wants to play at the very top. He moved out on loan to preserve his ambition to play for his country in the World Cup (you can’t get any higher than that) and he could not see himself getting that chance in the second tier of English football. ...

IWOODLOVETT

Another good game he's worth £25m of anyone's money and easily affordable for Manure The profit we make will pay for Bayer and Maatsen If I were a gambling man I would put big money on a deal already in place for ManU to sign Weggy for a fixed fee that is nowhere near what we paid for him i.e. no p...

IWOODLOVETT

Muric won’t play and Al has done enough to warrant a start - otherwise I agree.

IWOODLOVETT

It looked like Beyer pulled up after making a lunge tackle and seemed to make the decision to walk off himself - briefly confirming it to the manager. So it’s likely to be something he’s experienced before such as a pulled muscle. It’s too soon for THB to immediately return however the lad that repl...

IWOODLOVETT

I would describe Muric as a “fragile goalkeeper” - mentally fragile and physically fragile. By mentally fragile I mean that his confidence levels are his weakness - he’s fine when he’s got time on the ball and can pick a pass or if he needs to make a save from outside the box. Keepers are always the...

IWOODLOVETT

So if we’re nearly back to full strength that probably means Harwood-Bellis must be close too. Before injury he would have been the first name on my team sheet, but Beyer has now emerged as a defensive leader, Ekdal is taller and good in the air and Al Dakhil is not too shabby either. So all good ne...

IWOODLOVETT

Sheff Wed-Plymouth a clash of the top 2 in League 1. Ipswich travel to Cambridge looks at a glance that they are fielding their first XI, so they might change a few for the replay. Hard fought derby draw today (Cambridge missed pen) Ipswich will definitely make changes, but so will we. If fit - all...

IWOODLOVETT

We’re averaging 2 goals/game, so with 17 more games to go it’s reasonable to expect another 34 goals. With Ekdal’s effort we now have 17 different scorers and every one of today’s starting (outfield) lineup has registered. So I’m at a loss to think of a top scorer, but I don’t really care - I’m just...

IWOODLOVETT

Zaroury is the most clinical finisher. Two footed and rarely squanders a chance. He could play up front as an out-and-out striker.

IWOODLOVETT

The jury is still out for Twine - for now he is living off two (fantastic) free-kicks. He is proven in League 1, so the talent is there but he seems a bit light-weight in the high-press of the Championship. Similarly Obafemi is largely untried at this level and is very short of game time. So I would...

IWOODLOVETT

You can call me Al

IWOODLOVETT

Pope seems to be doing OK without worrying about where Mercer ends up.

IWOODLOVETT

I assume he is taking his back room staff with him, so that is a big lump of money off the payroll. A big part of Claret history, thank you Sean, but tomorrow is another day.

IWOODLOVETT

The question may be is there an opportunity to make a reasonable profit on him in a relatively short period This loan to buy deal is a very shrewd move. 1. We get a good look at the player until the end of the season to assess the alleged attitude issues. 2. We preserve our transfer funds for a pot...

IWOODLOVETT

Really can't imagine Chelsea seeing Maatsen as a regular starter, and if Southampton wanted Tella they would have surely recalled him by now given their league position. Dervisoglu won't be recalled, we'll simply return him since he will have been replaced by Foster and Obafemi. Signing the 2 centr...

IWOODLOVETT

The signings in this window are all in positions where we have loan players, so it looks like the Club anticipates that all of them will be recalled. With these additions the squad is now top heavy and a clear-out is inevitable, so it’s likely that Barnes, Derv and maybe even Corky, Jay, Charlie and...

IWOODLOVETT

Nobody needs "resting". There isn't a player in this squad who needs a rest because he can't play a game every week. There is scope for squad rotation, as Kompany does every week, but no more than the usual. Not a question of “resting” more a question of avoiding injury - we need certain key player...

IWOODLOVETT

I would say that the early indications are that we will lose our first choice centre backs, but might be in with a shout for Tella and Maatsen. The signings of the two new centre backs bear this out, plus the farming out of McNally to a Championship rival to harden him up. Egan-Riley is also likely ...

IWOODLOVETT

VK will want to win this one, but will have half an eye on the Norwich game. So I see this as a game of two halves. Starting line-up: BPF Roberts / Ekdal / Beyer / Taylor Cork / Bastien / Twine Vitinho / Barnes / Churlinov Second half subs: Zaroury / Foster / Tella / Egan-Riley (for Beyer) I think V...

IWOODLOVETT

Muric is a year younger than when Nick Pope made his debut for us, he is significantly taller and broader and his distribution is far, far better. However he can’t deal with high balls under pressure, which I think Pope was also vulnerable to in his early days. Pope is 30 now, has learnt to overcome...

IWOODLOVETT

Longer contracts = bigger fees when we sell halfway through.

IWOODLOVETT

Can’t compare.
One squad changed in a Portacabin, played on mud heaps, were paid bank clerk’s wages and weren’t protected by the referees from “robust” tackling.
The other squad are young millionaires who play on bowling greens and are coached by Worldies in some of the best facilities around.

IWOODLOVETT

Both JBG and Twine were branded as “sick-notes”

IWOODLOVETT

Robert’s, Barnes, Muric and now Twine - all potential targets are now heroes. It’s all gone quiet over there.

IWOODLOVETT

HiThere wrote: ↑
Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:30 am
Teams raise their game against us. We're the team to beat.

Yep, our opponents look at the table and realise that two promotion slots are rapidly disappearing. So it’s now becoming a huge scramble for one place via the play-offs.
Anything that they can get from us is like gold dust.

IWOODLOVETT

He must be a good penalty taker - perhaps we might see it in the cup next week, if that game goes to pens.

IWOODLOVETT

From zero to hero with one kick in front of a full Turf Moor + a Sky tv audience. He’ll always be a Claret forever now and must be a shoe-in for the next game at Ipswich.

IWOODLOVETT

I agree, Andy won’t progress much further after that marathon. But I was daydreaming about something else ………

Coincidentally Murray’s is just one year younger than our manager ……….. it couldn’t happen could it ?? What if ??
Could he still do a job - 3 years younger than Phil Jagielka ??

IWOODLOVETT

Andy Murray became the 10th player to reach 50 wins in singles matches at the Australian Open with his thrilling five-set victory over Matteo Berrettini. Murray joined his ‘big four’ rivals in the list of men to reach the milestone in the Open era, with Roger Federer top of the pile (102) ahead of N...

IWOODLOVETT

Good to see the four badminton players laughing - they are among the most stern faced on match days. You did well to capture the moment. UTC

IWOODLOVETT

The difference between us is that, whilst SheffU have recently ground out scrappy wins by the odd goal with a team of seasoned pros, the Clarets have a large squad of talented young players who are improving week by week and are now scoring for fun. I think that we are both likely to drop points aga...

Search found 958 matches