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Started brightly and the early goal took the wind out of our sails. Their tactics have negated ours and they’ve been great but really need to stop these miskicks, mistakes, slips and weak play. Need to start the second half like it’s 0-0 and it’s a different game.

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This is going to be a loooong game

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Great result but also a great performance from every single player who played a part too.

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It’s my birthday today and I text my only other claret relative this morning saying how nice a present it would be for them to win, said with absolutely no confidence at all.

Well, well, well…

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Attack is the best defence. Keep it as is with like for like subs. Don’t need to go all defensive, especially with how bad we’ve been defensively all season (although very good today - particularly O’Shea)

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simonclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Dec 22, 2023 3:17 pm
Probably the first time she's had VAR, I would imagine it takes some getting used to.

She officiated at the FIFA women’s World Cup this summer with VAR

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I personally would love to see more of the likes of Tresor, Redmond, Massengo, Ramsay, etc. for more than 5 minute cameos before throwing the towel in.

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Commentator already getting in the injury excuses for Newcastle

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Nice goal from Milan

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Yes mistakes should be expected to be made when there is an unprecedented world event. Similar happened in the 2008 financial crisis. However, that doesn't make anyone who made the decisions during this time should be immune to all criticism. Alot of decisions were politically motivated going by som...

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I do find it difficult to understand how, with so much appearing to go wrong at Man Utd, that they are only 3 points behind Spurs and 6 behind City.

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I'd love a bit of a Dyche/Kompany hybrid.

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Hopefully Fulham are getting their goalscoring form out of the way now before going on a drought in 2 weeks time.

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Murger wrote: ↑
Sun Dec 10, 2023 2:50 pm
We’ve got no one who can put in a cross or win a header like that.

To be fair Taylor and J-Rod didn’t do much different against Sheffield United a week or so ago.

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Trafford would have caught the cross…

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Well done also to all those who travelled down there too. Not an easy trip.

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Belial wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:58 pm
On amorher day that's 4-1 Surely we've got to get 2 goals up before going all defensive

We’ve just got a point away at one of the most progressive teams in the league. Give it a rest.

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Our best performance collectively of the season. The players should take a lot of pride from that performance.

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Need to close down those crosses from Groß

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Tresor looking great so far

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Got to be one of Vitinho’s best games for us today.

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spt_claret wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:21 pm
I'd honestly bring Larsen on up front. Decent pace, two footed, 6 foot knows where the net is. Writing him off over Wolves is absurd and Jay's been absent yet again.

To be fair he was a striker in a partnership with Isak at Dortmunds youth team so has some experience up there.

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I’d like to see Redmond and Tresor for Jay and Wilson. Out Ramsay up top with Amdouni.

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Definitely think Jay could do with being replaced. Hasn’t really been in the game the last 10 mins

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CoolClaret wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 09, 2023 4:12 pm
Complaining about being accused of strawmanning then the next sentence you said ‘there’d be the same if he kept 10 consecutive clean sheets’

From some yes. Do you not agree?

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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 I'd say he's been one of our best players. Some of the ground passes into amdouni have been perfect, and two excellent saves. He's looked calm and assured. This is liter...

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Bloody hell what a goal. Out of nothing,Benson II? There's nothing else to go off though. You can only compare with the data you have. Again we sign players based on data from other leagues and how we expect it to compare. It's the only data we have without Muric getting a chance so it's the only c...

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Great time to score too

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Great save there by Trafford. So what exactly is your argument? That we can't do any inference from statistics to suggest maybe Muric is a better long passer than Trafford even though the only available data shows it? You realise we scout players base on data from different leagues right? It's not ...

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spt_claret wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 09, 2023 3:31 pm
I believe you might have missed that he pointed out Muric's accuracy in the Championship was better than Trafford's in league 1 as well as the Prem

Which again is a different league.

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It’s purely about long ball accuracy. It’s an aspect of the game we miss as our build up tends to be very one dimensional. And has variables like pressure from the opposition on the player targeted by the pass, the passer, where the pass is made, whether it’s along the ground, in the air, the pace....

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Forest 1-0 up at Wolves too

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The stats were in a thread earlier in the season that got deleted. Don Muric had 49% accurate long balls last year, 35% in the opponents half, Traff is 32% and 21% respectively and wasn’t much different in league one either. Quite a significant difference. I suspect the stats on how many individual...

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I am obviously in the minority on here but I think we’ve done really well in this first 15 minutes.

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Anyone fancy getting behind the team rather than digging players out for every minor thing?

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Could buy Burnley for that.

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We had an unusually large number of posters fishing during the Wolves game, who haven't appeared since. Banging the same argumentative and team bashing rhetoric and then angrily confronting anyone who disagreed. I think CM was possibly closer knit as it (seemed at least) to be a smaller user communi...

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We must have a few wingers we can either sell or loan out and sign players in the areas we are desperately short. Right back, centre back (unless Ekdal is going to be fully fit) and centre forward (even if Foster comes back we need another) I'd say left back is probably more of a need than right ba...

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Fantastic result and performance to match from Villa

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Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:34 pm
Had the SheffU match on all night and must say I’ve enjoyed Efan Ekoku summarising again.
Never heard him talk nonsense.

He’s really good on the US streams I’ve watched.

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Bournemouth 1-0 up at Palace

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Showing what a difference having good tactics can do.

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Couldn’t find a thread on tonight’s fixtures but Sheff Utd look like a different team tonight than they did against us!

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He’s definitely learning. Performance has improved, we look more assured in defence (can’t really do much about individual lapses) but we really lack a goalscoring threat. I genuinely think if we had a 10+ goal scoring striker we would be doing a lot better than we currently are.

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Away to Brighton who are a possession and skill based footballing side. Therefore I don’t see why O’Shea at right back is that big an issue given it shores us up defensively. Might not give us the same as Vitinho going forward but I’d feel a lot less nervous of the pace and attacking threat of Brigh...

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I have a schoolfriend who played in league one and was an up and coming youngster who had just broken into the Wales U21s and was a regular starter for his club. Then one day he breaks his leg, during recovery his leg gets infected, further complications and fast forward 18 months and he manages abo...

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Could really do with a goalscoring striker. Wouldn’t be a half bad team if we had one and could work on our defensive/on ball lapses

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Elizabeth wrote: ↑
Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:30 pm
Not tonight , if the team can play the same record then I think it's open

Hardly a performance in keeping with the majority of the season though is it. Clearly you are from down the road the amount of vitriol you have for individual players who play for the club you pretend to support.

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We haven't been worthy of winning the game so I suppose it's only a point lost and an error by Sande Berger to go along with his error earlier in the season and those of O'Shea, Cullen, Trafford , Vitinho, Al Dakhil . I apologise if I've left any player out but this is self inflicted wounding of th...

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