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Thing is, football does weird things, but for a side like us to survive we need goals. That guy can get them, he has shown that. Looking forward to Foster or Amdouni coming back in rested to partner him because Odobert in the hole isn’t the answer. We are in that last chance saloon where we have to ...

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Trafford 6 - could have saved each goal but were really difficult to do, top keepers can though Assignon 6 - error for the equaliser after doing the hard bit, summed him up, not just up and down during a game, but during a move O Shea 7 - stuck to his task but nearly played his man on a couple of ti...

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Or…..Luton, Sheffield and ourselves all draw away and close the gap to Everton and Forest, but we do it against far superior opposition.

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England very good today, bookings were mainly deserved. Not sure I have ever written that exact phrase.

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Great battling performance. No one can surely be negative today. Both teams had chances to win it. Yes but some muppets will. He put defensive reinforcements on, changed formation, very nearly worked. Ings looks reborn against us, can’t really blame finishing of that quality, but, as I say, some wi...

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I like Assignon but he doesn’t seem the brightest at times.

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The defence isn’t good enough and that is the problem all season, but they are young and have growth in them if we can keep them together. Pace at CB is a welcome thing and we have a bit.

Will need 3 to win today though of course. West Ham poor but still ripping us apart at times.

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I get that I just think that's an incredibly superficial level of comparison. Even the goal involvement similarity is misleading- going off your rough ballpark stats McNeil had a direct goal involvement every 200 minutes, Odobert 220, except McNeil did so in a far more defensively minded team and o...

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McNeil for me is now the real deal. He has impressed me so much since his move to Everton, particularly since SD became manager. Now more of a goal threat than ever https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/dwight-mcneil/leistungsdaten/spieler/584769 I agree. However, a worse output than Odobert this season,...

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They're not remotely similar aside from being young left wingers. McNeil was a more orthodox, go on the outside and cross player, with an awkward, deceptive dribbling style, predominantly left footed, and an incredible work rate, his biggest issue was often trying too hard. Dyche said as much of hi...

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I noticed that their birth dates are only 6 days apart, based on the date they will turn 20 in the November following their breakthrough 2nd half of the season. The similarities don’t end there. That season, when we had the miraculous escape, Dwight got 3 goals and 5 assists in about 1,600 minutes. ...

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Despite the silly thread premise I’ll bite and suggest Kompany will be the better manager if in charge of England or Man City. His problem has been he overestimates what his players can do and overthinks things, Dyche’s tactics in charge of those bigger teams would fail, dramatically. Our problem ha...

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Tweeted the lads about this one, but one of the biggest curse stories is about the Mayo Gaelic Football team, who reportedly failed to show respect to a funeral as they returned from winning the 1951 all Ireland Football in Dublin. The priest who was leading the funeral procession supposedly put a ...

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Looks like we nearly broke 2 of Derby’s records this season.

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That above list of players leaving you could add a few to that where I would expect top flight interest, here or overseas. The hard bit is going to be keeping the ones we want while raising enough money to offset the relegation impact. Only after that can we think about new players, personally I onl...

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I’ve just checked and after the 3rd week in Feb Sheff Utd would have the same points ,we would have 2 more,and Luton would have 1 more. That’s not what we are talking about though. You are referring to PGMOL accepted errors. I am on about things they haven’t accepted - Luton’s equaliser, Villa’s pe...

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With the greatest of respect but I could acknowledge we'd been unlucky if we signed 4 fit strikers all good enough for this level and then they all got freak injuries and couldn't play. But when you go into a PL season with one forward of the quality required, (ignoring anything that was known abou...

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Maybe not an unpopular opinion, but here goes: I thin VK needs to evolve the style next season in preparation for the premier league. This maybe perceived as an arrogant thing to do, but for me if the end goal of the 4 year plan is to become a decent premier league outfit, he needs to ditch the ult...

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I had a dodgy looking doorbell call last year while I was away working. Said to them “can you wait 5 minutes, my mates and I are just finishing a hand of poker, be right down….”. Needless to say, they sodded off :lol: Anyway, Ring doorbells…. I’m led to believe that the wired version (which I have) ...

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Sorry for the delay. Foster having a severe mental health problem, then surgery, plus Koleosho missing most of the season, Beyer missing most of the season, and having a huge number of points taken off by officials, some being 3 point swings (Forest, Luton and West Ham where a stonewall penalty wou...

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50% luck? I can’t agree remotely with that. Even if it is, there’s always the old adage of “You make your own luck” Sorry for the delay. Foster having a severe mental health problem, then surgery, plus Koleosho missing most of the season, Beyer missing most of the season, and having a huge number o...

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Agree that VK is the right man for the job. The jury is always out after a relegation, as it was with Dyche, but they need a year to try to bounce back. If they do they have redeemed themselves. A lot of sensible remarks on this thread, which is welcome, but I do take issue with the “talented indivi...

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What is in no doubt is that the Sean Dyche “train as you play” ethos delivered more than the sum of the parts. To be fair to Kompany though, he seems relaxed about dress code in training and approaching the ground, but his players probably put more hours in than under any previous manager, and train...

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Saturday March 9th. Man-Utd 2-0 Everton Bournemouth 3-0 Sheffield United Crystal Palace 2-1 Luton NAP Wolves 2-1 Fulham Arsenal 3-0 Brentford Sunday 10th March Aston Villa 2-2 Spurs Brighton 1-1 Nottingham Forest West Ham 2-0 Burnley Kudos 26 mins Liverpool 1-1 Man-City Monday 11 March Chelsea 2-2 N...

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West Ham 2 Burnley 0 - Kudos 32 mins

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Not sure why a sensible comment from VK leads to over 50 posts again, but in sport at any level we are taught we win or learn. That’s what he was wryly referring to, and he is right. He was being wry, because of course he is in pain and would rather be winning not learning.

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There are obviously several issues that would emerge from even a basic analysis of potential conflicts of interests. There is also the question of what happens to the relationship between the club and MUD when the manager leaves? Apart from that situation being clear as mud (sorry), I see it as an ...

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You’re right, implying that the players we are getting from our analytics exceed that of others. It did last year, it probably did this year too (vs Championship clubs and the two we came up with). Money helps of course. When I invest in companies I invest in people and study them carefully - the o...

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Here’s a thought… We’re going down. So are Sheffield United and barring any points deductions saving them, so are Luton. Let’s assume they don’t use any data analysis in their recruitment. I’m left wondering, as a fan, which of those three clubs would I be more excited about watching next year? Bur...

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Foden and Bellingham have the have the whole England squad built around them. They are the two world class ones. Other good players then fit around that. Mind you, that muppet will mess it up, guaranteed. Re Odegaard, a lovely player, just what we are missing up front, could have done with his mate ...

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The problem is, the new players to the EPL have had a rude awakening, that they aren’t as good as they thought, and they will respond in different ways. Some will move on in a fit of pique, some will dig in. Tella had already had his rude awakening in how many games for Southampton. So maybe the key...

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Cullen was exposed due to him and Berge carrying the entire midfield on their shoulders. You can't play a central midfield two with Amdouni ahead of them and not expect them to get overrun, especially with three players of Premier League quality against them. It was suicide. That is arguable but we...

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We weren't impossible to press last season. Perhaps we were for a decent Championship side, but never for a Premier league team. We've learned that this season. The comparison between Muric and Trafford is redundant as a result. Trafford may not be quite as virtuoso with the ball at his feet but he...

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The thing about Trafford, we are “all in”, same with Kompany. If we sell him, and lose, say, £10m, then if we sell half a dozen others and take a similar hit, and / or pot the manager, where do we go from there? No money, few decent players, no reputation for sticking together. The decline will set ...

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Nobody disputes some decisions are 50/50, 70/30, 30/70 etc. That's the nature of reffing. However, when hundreds of these decisions are analysed over the season and we end up only getting 10% of the subjective ones, that is the problem. Today there were at least half a dozen things went against us a...

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Trafford was hesitant yes but didn’t cost us a goal today, the muttering and chanting for Muric was brainless, like much of any fan base. Doesn’t help our player in any way.

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Trafford 5 - no chance with the goals but hesitant throughout and gave it away several times Assignon 6 - good energy and desire, no end product today O’Shea 3 - a shocker from the opening bell which cost us the game, stupidly booked, to blame for both goals, terrible, terrible performance Esteve 6 ...

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Like Kenton points out above, a further stat, to score 7 goals in 12 home games against last year’s PL teams. That is why we are dropping, more than any other issue. Of those 7, 3 were within the first month against Villa and Spurs, so 4 goals since Sept 2nd in 6 months

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Dara O shea MOM for me. :lol: :lol: :lol: Been brilliant for the last month or two but 3/10 today at best. Booked after 20 seconds for total stupidity, leading to hesitant defending for both goals and throughout. Each time he got turned in the box, didn’t put a challenge in. It was a total shambles...

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O’Shea really has had a total shocker today. Culpable for both goals and booked after 20 seconds.

Will be fine in the EFL but not good enough for PL.

Reason for the defeat though is “Burnley 0”. Again.

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Identical foul to the one on Villa, small clip on the foot, then get a pen to win the game, we get naff all.

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I see I was right about the Nott’m Forest fan referee before the game.

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The changes up front especially Vitinho and Odobert central appear to have worked. Credit where it is due there.

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No consistency with decisions as usual. OShea carded for dissent and later on their player kicks the ball away and gets nothing. O’Shea carded for kicking the ball away not dissent, act of total stupidity after 20 seconds that arguably made him cautious for his error for the goal. Fair point about ...

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Not there today due to the early start and have sold back my tickets, watching on Sky. Baffled by the team, I remember the Bee Hole podcast joking early in the season about the expletives whenever we see an unpredictable team, feels like that today. Vitinho is a trier and has some talent, but is out...

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That’s why I’d like to see Forest drop no matter what even if it gives us tougher competition next season - after Athens etc. But this bleating by an ex FIFA elite ref on their behalf about a drop ball at the other end of the pitch - it pales into insignificance compared to what we have had, includi...

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When discussed on here a few weeks ago about his new job there was split opinion on of it should be allowed. Now, after being seen sat with Howard Webb on Wednesday, he is sent out by Forest to speak to 5 Live after the late Liverpool winner. Citing a drop ball rules error by Tierney, and he apparen...

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Luton huffing and puffing but when Villa pass through them they look, in truth, worse than us at that one aspect. Appreciate our problem has usually been dealing with chaos in the box from crosses rather than runs through the middle. I see Luton though as way inferior to Forest and Everton, even tho...

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Given there are 20+ referees available, why do we always get the ones from, or who support, Nottingham, Luton or Merseyside? Feels like every week it is Coote, Atwell, Jones etc as ref or VAR.

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This season at least 4 teams deserve to go down. Everton nearly make it 5 but their run before Christmas for a month will keep them up. So if by some miracle we stay up ahead of those other teams (Sheffield, Luton, Forest) it will be deserved, and if they stay up, they will be darn lucky, because th...

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