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Ric_C

If all the rhetoric from the media this week about how poor we are doesn't galvanise the players and fans, then nothing will.

It will make it all the sweeter when we show them what we are about.

Ric_C

There are zero easy games in this league, zero. Comments like "They were there for the taking" completely baffle me. What I would say is that we look a lot more solid with a proper number 8 behind a main striker. I think Amdouni will make way once Foster is back. We controlled large parts of the gam...

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What worries me is that we have far too many wingers, and not enough strikers. But I guess we knew that already. Genuinely forgot we had Redmond last night, and one of our best players from last season Zaroury is just twiddling his thumbs. But a suspension to foster and we have zero premier league q...

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Frustrating that we lost that. We should have 4 points from our last two games. We are getting better and our shape looked vastly improved tonight. Trafford 6 Just ok, he still doesn't convince me though. Roberts 7 Did ok, not sure why all the criticism? Al-Dakhil 8 Class act Beyer 8 Class act Taylo...

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Wolves red card here, pretty shameful from Lockyer

https://x.com/MyTopShotBurner/status/17 ... 46927?s=20

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Norwich 4-0 down!!

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In the grand scheme of things I think we need to back ourselves against Luton.
In terms of if we can't finish above them then we probably deserve to go down, so maybe them winning today would be a good thing for us?

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10 shots to 2, sounds like rovers are getting battered.

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wilks_bfc wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 23, 2023 3:17 pm
One of those players like Redmond, that when you check his age you see they are still in their 20s

Surprised to see that’s he’s only 28

And some thought he was finished

Ric_C

It's a good point though (no pun intended). How would you have to say that verbally without causing confusion?

Luca on top as A first point’s won at Forest?

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It's taken a bit longer than expected but we got there in the end. Woke, BBC wasting licence payers' money, MOTD, ticking boxes.... damn near a full house, I'd say. I'd also say the numbers don't lie either. MOTD, Football Focus are now on life support. Why wait and sit through all the shite when y...

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BBC really are out of touch tbh. They are trying to copy the popularity of some of the "with it" YouTubers, podcasts and panel shows where in my opinion they would have been better sticking to the tried and trusted format. I can't remember the last time I watched Football Focus, and Question of Spor...

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Thomas Frank touched on this here, I'm hoping VK is thinking along the same lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8AjLYL ... mierLeague

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Newcastleclaret93 wrote: ↑
Thu Sep 14, 2023 4:08 pm
Think the better questions is will Pace stick with VK if we go straight back down

yes

Ric_C

Erm... where is Batistuta?

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Think he's on the verge of going full David Icke

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Devils_Advocate wrote: ↑
Wed Sep 06, 2023 10:23 am
Nice and what about the other 200+ appearances?

Just got it from some stats site, I was intrigued at how many actual red cards he got

Ric_C

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/s ... a-red-card

Pretty cut and dried tbh. Although I don't think there was actual intent for Zaroury to catch him the way he did.

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Sean Dyche had 2 red cards in 245 appearances.

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They need to start learning quickly. 1-0 up and then a curled ball into space and we are suddenly 2v2 at the back. So naïve it is criminal.

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7 men behind the ball, with out balls to direct pacey players. It's basically what Palace have been doing for ten seasons now.

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My Boro supporting mate last year said we were very good, but we'd get absolutely battered in the prem playing like that.

I replied to him saying "Kompany's not going to play that way in the prem though is he?" ....

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We do need a plan B. Remember City pumping a lot of long balls from Ederson when we went man for man up top

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1st goal, chipped through ball into space and we are 2 v 2 at the back. Lessons not learnt from Villa. 2nd goal, into injury time and Berge goes on a mad dribble and loses the ball resulting in the corner that led to the goal. Total naivity. How have we ended up with only two strikers in the squad, ...

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They've not included the buy after loan fees or the undisclosed fees, so the whole article is misleading tbh

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Not really sure on the twitter point. Click the link if interested, view link and comments if required, then exit twitter. Kind of agree on the squabbling tbh, discussion is fine, but when an argument takes up nearly half a page, it's a bit ignorant to think everyone else is interested in viewing sa...

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Amazing that we have 20 different nationalities in that squad

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Muric

Roberts
Al-Dakhil
O'Shea
Delcroix

Cullen
Berge
Brownhill

Koleosho
Amdouni
Foster

Ric_C

Tbh you need to factor in historical results as well. City always smash us, Villa seem to play well at the turf....Spurs less so.

I think we have a chance today, the crowd need to be "at it" a bit more tbh as the home atmosphere has been dreadful so far.

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One question left outstanding is whether he has signed a new contract at Chelsea or whether he is letting his contract run down This is the one thing Chelsea fans are suddenly coming to realise. They were creaming themselves last night, but the reality is they might lose out on around 30 million qu...

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A bit weird we are speculating maatsen has "strung us along". How do we know that? It's not that big a surprise he wants to play for chelsea and believes in his ability enough to get into the side. They have a brilliant manager and are one of the most successful sides in europe over the past decade...

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Not bothered about Maatsen rejecting us in the slightest, it's his career at the end of the day.

However if he's been stringing us along all summer only to reject us at the last minute, then it shows a bit of naivity from the recruitment department, to not have backups ready to go.

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Forest signed 7 players yesterday

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Tresor signs

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Nevermind, it's not as if Villa's right back almost scored a hat trick down our left side or anything last week

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Anyone who turns down Milan for Bournemouth needs their head checking tbh

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Tricky Trevor wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:43 pm
The Tresor plane on a blue plane is a goodbye message to Belgium. IMHO

whatever it means, it's a very strange thing to do.

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Milltown1882 wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 01, 2023 5:37 pm
Origi medical booked in at Forest....

https://twitter.com/sachatavolieri/stat ... 52105?s=20

Ric_C

Apparently we have options A,B,C,D etc for every position. Why not for a left back?

Find this situation increasingly odd. We are potentially going into a premier season with only 1 fit recognised left back that doesn't fit into our system anyway

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summitclaret wrote: ↑
Fri Sep 01, 2023 10:43 am
So he is. Got mixed up with Luke O' Nien. Thanks for the correction.

looks like Firthy did as well

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Can you imagine if that happened to us, it would be the end of level boss for our constant City draws

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Bakayoko has rejected Brentford

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https://twitter.com/BurnleyOfficial/sta ... iD5Tg&s=19

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https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/stat ... h6kVg&s=19

Cucurella deal to utd now off. Gives us more of a chance with maatsen.

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Feels like we have: Two holding mids in Cork and Cullen (for 2 spots) Four number 8's in Brownhill, Berge, Ramsey and JBG (for one spot) Based on 4-2-3-1 People are more concerned with how this all fits rather than a dig at Berge. Was he the type of player we desperately needed? Only time will tell....

Ric_C

Clock is ticking. We still are in desperate need of:

Left back
Holding midfielder
Striker

And we need to ship a few out to trim the squad. Busy few days hopefully

Ric_C

Actually shocked about how little support we've had this season.

Bigger percentage of fair weather premier league match goers?

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We do seem a bit lopsided in terms of types of player. We have a lot of wingers / ball runners, but not many finishers or hard graft physicality types. In this league we need full backs with pace, at the moment we have Roberts and that's it. We currently have ZERO left backs who can play VK's system...

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