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Vegas Claret wrote: ↑
Sat Apr 06, 2024 11:03 pm
Edwards is a good manager, good man too. Whilst you would have to congratulate them on taking the risk on Barkley they are VERY lucky they got the version of him they did.

Maybe Barkley was less of a risk than Tresor or Amdouini

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We had a run of sales when we got relegated, but the current team has since not proved an expertise in selling players. How often has Weghorst gone out on loan. We have Churlinov, Peacock Farrell, Bastian all on loan, who will never play again for us.We are losing out badly . Can you see anyone want...

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He might not have made 100 points but didn't Roy Keane have a similarly impressive Championship title win in his first season as a manager in England? That season at Sunderland turned out to be the high water mark of his career. He's probably spent more years as a full time pundit than he has as a ...

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What I have noticed is that Muric makes it look relatively easy even though we don't have the players who can play this system, plus he adds tempo to restarting an attack. Trafford just makes me very nervous and absolutely slows it right down. The amount of times Trafford has started a prompt attack...

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For me, the crux of the issue is Trafford and what was in his contract, seems suss that after so many games he is suddenly dropped for Muric….I believe he was forced to use Trafford and that is what screwed us You may have something there-time will tell. However if VK and the Board agreed to someth...

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For me he has been appalling. Coaching, set plays,defending,subs, team selection, man management,transfers, creating smoke screens at post match interviews to avoid the real issues, freezing out of players,underestimating the PL, player discipline (is it 7 red cards now). How has he survived. Even i...

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Its not beyond intelligence to fit him into the squad somehow. This guy is unique and can hurt the best teams.I would include him in place of the geriatric Henderson, or even Grealish (who for me has not started enough times this season), even if this means unbalancing the ratio of midfielders to fo...

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daveisaclaret wrote: ↑
Thu Apr 04, 2024 9:42 am
A really brilliant striker at this level who never got the credit he deserved here.

I believe we bought him for £15m. He was a key reason we remained in the PL for 7 years, then we sold him for £25m.

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Apologies if this has already been brought up, but Chris Wood has joined an elite group of players to have scored 10 or more goals in the PL for five seasons. On Tuesday night he scored his 11th goal this season. His continued form has somewhat surprised me after he left Newcastle, but the £15m Fore...

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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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Pep has managed the development of Foden brilliantly. A lesson to any PL manager

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Its absolutely shocking how a foul was given. However watch their free kick over and over again, then tell me we have a set piece coach. The marking was non existent and they obviously did no research on the opposition namely Ant-Nouri who should have been known as a danger man from set pieces. VK's...

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Forgot about this, the far too late substitution was expected but Fofana staying on was baffling. He was treading water for the last 30 minutes, and wasn't great before that. When we should be pushing for a winner towards the end, we were basically playing with 10 men again. Notts-what baffles me i...

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Funny how we have hit our best run of form when VK starts with a sensible 11 that includes Muric and Cullen. No one will convince me he does not have his favorites and Benson is clearly not one of them , just like Muric isn't.Lost count of the times recently Benson has come on with less than 6 minut...

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Major overhaul this season. The jewels for me are Muric, Esteve, O Shea, Cullen, Berge, Odobert, Koleosho, Beyer, Larsen, Foster, Benson. The rest can go

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Its encouraging to see a recent improvement in form. The debates whether we would be in a better position had Muric been brought back lets say before Christmas , will continue and I dare say get stronger as we near our last game. For me there has been quite a bit of freezing out, for whatever reason...

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boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:14 pm
And turned defeat into victory, what a coach!!
I don't suppose he had anything to do with them letting in 3 1st half goals.

Think you badly miss my point. By the way Silva's team is 20 points ahead of us-I suspect the gap will be greater in May. Yes as you say, some coach.

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Benny should’ve been on earlier and he should’ve replaced Fofana, who was poor tonight, pushing Foster into the middle with Rodriguez. We played well, though. This is why GOOD coaches are worth their weight in gold. Marco Silva tonight made 3 sub changes on the 37 minute when it simply was not goin...

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We needed to be playing like we have in the last 4 matches, at the start of the season. We may then have had a chance of averaging a point a game and fractionally over, and so staying up

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We can't influence referring or VAR decisions, and its a fact more go against you when you are at the bottom. What you can influence however is poor defending, and taking your chances. It will be these two factors that relegate us, not referring decisions

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Sadly it was probably one of the easier of the remaining games, with Wolves carrying so many injuries. We go again at Everton

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Maybe Amdouini is a bit sharper than Jay with tired legs on the pitch

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Ideal stage for Amdouini to win it for us late on

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HahaYeah wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 7:59 pm
I would take a point now.

Have faith

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We now have a settled team, and expect to see Muric Vitinho OShea Esteve Taylor Berge Cullen Larsen Foster Odobert Fofana Brownhill to be used as a tactical sub in the event we get another red :D For those saying JBG needs to be in because of his defensive duties-I was watching him Saturday and whe...

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With us potentially losing Cork, Taylor, Rodriguez, JBG, Brownhill we need to be looking for experienced and proven players, probably from England. I am thinking of players like James Justin of Leicester can play both sides as full back and a no nonsense defender

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Petersa wrote: ↑
Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:09 am
I don't think that is fair on JBG, when you are as bad a referee as Mr England you need to be able to run away quickly!

Have to agree-the ref had a shocker on Saturday

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We now have a settled team, and expect to see Muric Vitinho OShea Esteve Taylor Berge Cullen Larsen Foster Odobert Fofana Brownhill to be used as a tactical sub in the event we get another red :D For those saying JBG needs to be in because of his defensive duties-I was watching him Saturday and when...

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The decision on Fofana and Assignon may be out of our hands. Assignon shows good touches attacking but is a hot head and likely to be a bit naive when defending, invariably costing us points. Esteve has great promise. I was impressed with him at Palace marking Mateta who is a big physical and fast s...

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Muric 9 mom-gave us tempo, and confidence in our defenders has grown with his comeback Vitinho 6-prefer Taylor here as he is a more solid defender Esteve 7-growing in composure since Palace. Tink he will be our main pairing with O Shea. O Shea 8-some excellent defending v a very quick attacking team...

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Agreed they were excellent throughout. It was one of the most enjoyable days this season-nice weather, trains were fine for me, but the spirit from the players made you feel good again about the team. I did not think we would get any points at half time but to score twice, and nearly get 3 points wa...

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Disappointed when he came on as I felt he is now passed it, and it showed in his lack of pace the first time the ball was pushed down the touch line. However after this his control and holding of the ball and laying it off were exeptional and he took huge pressure off the team. He made a big contrib...

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Muric yesterday gave the team a tempo in our play.In the debate of Muric v Trafford its the one thing Trafford has failed to give us all season. I thought his contribution yesterday was outstanding and I am not particularly a Muric fan. How he was kept out of the team until the 28th game of the seas...

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Do we think the club appeal the penalty. Not heard any pundit yet, say he thought it was a penalty

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He was nearly fit to start in mid Jan, and we are now no wiser

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Unlucky not to start, plus we are seeing the benefit of a settled defence and team so why change it from the Brentford game. Sadly I am convinced this was all done to accommodate VK's mate Amdouni last week.

Can live with Vitinho playing RM but not as a full back

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Imagine a modern day version of Venables managing the current group of English players

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To think he played for us as long ago as under Brian Laws era when he was on loan, and looked then an exceptional prospect. Seems to have gone on for ages, and sad his career seems to have stalled with us

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We genuinely have several players now that could get into any international team-Bellingham.Rice, Kane and several others. We have others who are regulars in English teams that can match the best club teams in the world ie Saka, Foden, Grealish, Stones, Walker. What we don't have is an elite manager...

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Have seen that on SKY several times and never tire of it. That was a great team-Heaton, Ward, Tarks & Mee, Lowts, Cork,Brady, Defour. These guys were playing their best football whilst at our club during that season and Chelsea were a formidable team then

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Really glad to see he's progressed and is doing well, but at the time for us he was miles off. I think Electro more a case of him finding his natural level rather than progressing. Seem to recall that after Peterborough spanked Sheff Wed at home in the first leg of the play-off semi, Norris had a s...

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Just read that Will Norris has kept 18 clean sheets at Portsmouth. Seem to recall he played well for Peterborough last year whilst on loan, helping them get to the play offs. When Sean gave him a chance in two full PL games he was pretty disastrous, but nice to know he has found his right club and l...

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He damaged his knee pre Christmas and took the decision to avoid surgery and take a rest for about 6 weeks. It obviously had not recovered and it went in the last game. Questions now being asked

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I noticed how a number of players went straight to Muric after the game to give him a big hug. That says a lot of things besides the stubborness of our manager to not play him until the 28th game.

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How often has he started for WHU in almost 2 seasons, and more significantly how many games has he been fit to play. From WHU point of view he has proved to be a dreadful signing

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Oh for John Motson

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I am not a huge fan of Muric, but for heaven's sake why did it take until 28th game to play him when you look at the goals conceded by our defence. Muric needs to play now unless he has at least two stinkers in a row

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Getting old can be so sad-you see long term close friends pass away then your heroes and icons from your youth passing away too. RIP Steve Harley

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We dont often give the other team something to worry about but these two together would worry the Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool defenders.

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