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Are you taking the P*ss? Sunderland are 5th. The other team outside the top 6 or 7 we have played,aside from Forest, are United and we lost - that's 1 point in 6 from teams outside the top 6 or 7. It’s quite obvious he’s talking about teams outside the ‘usual’ (for the past 20 years) top 6/7, and n...

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United, for their flaws under this manager, have the player quality to blow teams away, at home in particular. We had a poor first half, but excellent second, and really should have left with a point - make no mistakes. However, their record at Old Trafford v newly promoted teams in the past 10 seas...

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 01, 2025 10:04 pm
How come we struggled against Spurs when Wolves, without a point, nearly got a win?

Looking like we gave them too much respect.

First game nerves from us probably. Started with Laurent in centre mid.

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Holmechapel wrote: ↑
Wed Oct 01, 2025 9:40 am
11,013 on Deadwood last night ,

6000 on the Turf v Cardiff last week

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He was one of those who looked good on paper at Brighton, his teams had a good xG record but that was used to suggest that the team were going to come good under him rather than question why he was underperforming the stats. The improvement after he left suggested it may well have been the latter. ...

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We’re in big trouble here

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Pope absolutely brainless, yeah, what on earth was he thinking?

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Arsenal are just insanely good at set pieces. Gabriel is one of the best attackers of a ball in the air I’ve ever seen.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 28, 2025 4:50 pm
All I could think of was the penalty given against Pope by Rob Jones at Leeds when he’d played the ball. Penalty confirmed that day.

Thought that, near enough the exact same.

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Parker needs to now stop setting up so defensively and we need Cullen, Florentino AND Ugochukwu in a midfield 3. Yes, they’ve had ‘easier’ fixtures, but maybe the reason Sunderland and Leeds are picking up more points is because their managers aren’t trying to shoehorn an extra defender into the te...

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With the system Parker is playing, despite some saying it’s ‘crap’, Hartman is able to push high and wide, attacking the empty space that Anthony is leaving when he drifts inside. In particular he is attacking the box really well, and the goal yesterday is case in point for the above set up. A nice ...

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Potter guided Brighton to their highest ever PL league finish, 9th, and had them 4th after 6 games the following season, including demolishing a few teams. They were playing some attractive football which top clubs look for, as we know with VK going to Bayern and doing well so far. I think a lot can...

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Dubravka 5
Walker 5
Laurent 5
Ekdal 5
Esteve 3
Hartman 6
Cullen 7*
Florentino 6
Tchaouna 5
Anthony 6
Foster 6

JBL 3

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Laurent brings real humility to our squad, combined with a genuine desire to give 100% on the pitch. I think his physicality allows him to compete and he’s done ok so far. I do wonder what Parker plans to do, system wise, if he wants to play Ugochukwu (more talent than Laurent) on the pitch with the...

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Sunderland had an unbelievable transfer window, despite many on here claiming they were ‘doing an Ipswich’, and look like a decent PL outfit - mind they’ve been given one of the ‘kindest’ opening set of fixtures I’ve seen for a newly promoted club, including playing Forest 3 days after their game in...

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Parker has to keep the group positive as we enter a better run of games now. Esteve needs to learn from today, a total disasterclass from him. We’ve improved our physicality this season but still look half as tall and half as fast as City players.

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Just a ridiculously one sided game every single time. Sick of it.

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Holmechapel wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 27, 2025 2:21 pm
How did we get beat by Utd ? They seem to get worse every week.

They start games at Old Trafford really strong. Outplayed Arsenal and Chelsea for large parts. Then we end up bein crazily naive giving away the pen. Away they’ve been their usual crap though.

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How on earth is Collins not sent off there?

It’s no attempt to play the ball and clear goal scoring opportunity. Baffled with that.

And of course Bruno sticks it in the top bin against us, then that crap there.

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My point on Tuesday- which I’ll stand by- is that Chelsea Academy have developed a player who has spent 4 seasons playing in the Premier League and (when not injured) has managed a total of 8 goals. -And for the privilege of that glittering CV, we have had to fork out £20 million and another £10 mi...

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That is right what Charlie is saying about a lack of a press, but it meant that Edwards and Broja were constantly tracking back and neither are very good at it and subsequently looked poor. I had thought playing a wingback in a five would avoid the right and left forward having to cover back, but s...

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Broja felt like the biggest gamble of our signings this summer. Leeds signed Calvert-Lewin on a free which quite a few on here were laughing at. He has looked pretty good for Leeds and scored a lovely header in the PL at the weekend. Having said that Leeds fans were at him when they got knocked out ...

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Weiß 6 Sonne 3 Tuanzebe 6* Worrall 4 Humphreys 5 Pires 6 Hannibal 4 Ugochukwu 4 Edwards 4 Broja 3 Flemming 5 A tactical shocker and incredibly disjointed display. Effort levels embarrassing first half. Pressing structure non-existent. Parker has restored some Dyche values in recent times, which has ...

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Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 23, 2025 9:59 pm
From what to what and do you think that gave us the advantage?

3-4-3 to 4-2-3-1/4-4-2. I’d say we played a bit better as we created some chances and scored, but it still wasn’t good enough.

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Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑
Tue Sep 23, 2025 9:55 pm
Parker had a mare tonight, he just got the 11 out of favour players on the pitch with no system or structure.

At no point did he tweak the formation to give our lads the advantage.

He changed the formation at half time.

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Sonne was the worst player on the pitch.

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Can’t believe what I’ve seen tonight so far. Every single one of them, including the manager, should be embarrassed.

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Exciting squad. Surely we win at least 1 test this time.

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We had one of the easier sets of five games according to Opta, I guess due to Spurs and Man Utd being terrible last season: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G1dFNMrWUAAzBYt?format=jpg&name=medium Regardless, the three teams that came up are all much more pragmatic than teams in the past few years. They'...

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I get that it’s more about giving certain players minutes but playing two up front v Derby didn’t really work. Played two up front for quite a large part of last season and it worked okay. Parker likes the 4-4-2/4-2-4 against weaker opponents. Flemming & Broja were only on the periphery of match fi...

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Weiß
Sonne
Worrall
Humphreys
Pires
Ugochukwu
Hannibal
Edwards
Banel/Tresor
Flemming
Broja

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Definitely a regular starter. I think that's probably our best team apart from Les replacing Laurent. Which makes it curious, in the sense, does Ugochukwu do the right central back role when defending deep like Laurent has been doing? I do wonder what Parker’s plan is to utilise all 3 of Cullen, Le...

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Spijed wrote: ↑
Sat Sep 20, 2025 10:00 pm
When was the last time non of the promoted sides were in the bottom three after five matches?

17/18

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PL is relentless these days. Probably have to pick up an ‘unexpected’ win or two along the way to have chance of staying up.

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Apart from a couple of sloppy passes I thought he was very good. You can see he’s really taken to the club and the new challenge he’s facing.

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Dubravka 9* Walker 9 Laurent 7 Ekdal 8 Esteve 9 Hartman 8 Cullen 8 Florentino 8 Tchaouna 7 Anthony 7 Foster 7 A decent point in a game that could have gone either way. Forest have spent massively this summer on an already strong squad that finished 7th. We do have to edge these at some point but ver...

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Outstanding today.

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Was never a yellow on 15 minutes either. So to perform like he did for the remainder in his first full 90 is very promising. Clearly suits what we are about this season.

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It will be interesting to see if Parker tries to press high. Ange will want some ideas of his being implemented (playing out being key) and with it being their first real game, could we force an error or two? On the other hand, Ange’s Spurs nearly always struggled to break down a low block (us v Liv...

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I'm not diminishing our performance today at all, every one of them were beasts defensively and we had the perfect gameplan to attack on the counter when we could. But, you can't throw points away like we have. Obviously the last two games don't mean we'll be relegated, but neither do the performan...

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Dubravka 9
Walker 9*
Laurent 8
Ekdal 8
Esteve 9
Hartman 8
Tchaouna 7
Cullen 8
Ugochukwu 8
Anthony 7
Foster 7

Florentino 8
Hannibal 5

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Goody1975 wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 14, 2025 4:44 pm
The penalty is correct, my issue is Hartman being put into the hoardings by I think Bradley for the corner near the end.

It doesn't lead directly to the goal but is still in the same phase of play.

Yup, Oliver was giving fouls all game to them for that kind of thing.

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This was a peak Dyche level defensive performance. Difference is we never had someone so brainless to give penalties away in the last seconds, and we’d grind the point. Unfortunately in this league you do need a point or two in games you don’t expect. And we’ve thrown away 2 in 2 weeks.

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I just can’t believe what I’ve seen. For the second game running. Proud but angry.

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Personally think that’s a bit harsh for a second yellow. Only had two fouls all game. Oliver could have given a last warning there.

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Bigvince wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 14, 2025 9:56 am
I hope manager and players haven’t woken up with the same feeling this morning!

Well, Jaidon Anthony has captained Salah and benched Esteve in his FPL team!

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Weirdly we’ve always been pretty competitive against Liverpool at home. We haven’t got too many results, except that 2-0, I don’t think, but generally we’ve always been in games, even under VK. With Luis, Cullen and Ugochukwu we’ve got a midfield which can compete, and a team that will graft, so I’m...

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Long throws are everywhere this season.

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3 outstanding finishes from Philogene.

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Exactly right. His best position is on the right of a 3 with freedom to get forward and wide. He only played that role last season and he excelled. He played there under Kompany in the Champ and again in the Prem (albeit obviously not attacking ‘as’ much, but still chipped in with some goals). I’d ...

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