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Post by TinkerT on Dec 26, 2021 20:17:14 GMT
Depends how you look at it, the players from back in the day probably wouldn't stand a chance against the players these days, they are top level athletes. And the pace of the game now is so much quicker.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 26, 2021 17:00:59 GMT
City Leicester was a great game. Best game I've watched in a while
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 19, 2021 11:54:51 GMT
How long will it take the media realise that Scott Parker is not a very good manager? I think by the end of the season a team who looked certainties for promotion will be clinging on to a play off place if they don't change things. If he fancies leaving the manager lark behind he can come play in our midfield, he's exactly the player we're missing
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 19, 2021 8:25:56 GMT
Sobering to think we still have to play away at Wba , Blackburn , forest , boro , Coventry , bournemouth , huddersfield , not much to be had there for nearly a third of our remaining games Why not? Cov Huddersfield and Boro are terrible and we always play better against the higher placed teams.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 18, 2021 16:29:32 GMT
It shows how shit the championship is the fact Blackburn as things stand, are 1pt outside automatic promotion. It really is a shit league. I was surprised people thought Blackburn were poor. I thought they were decent. I don't know what people expect in the Championship. I thought they were well organised and looked like the type of team that would be pushing for promotion from this league, i.e able to grind out results. It's always been like it in the second tier. Do people imagine you get real quality in this Division? Very rarely I would say. They have a midfield and Diaz, that's it. Well organised yes but they certainly aren't one of the best in the league. With our squad and players we should be at least in there position.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 18, 2021 15:42:07 GMT
It shows how shit the championship is the fact Blackburn as things stand, are 1pt outside automatic promotion. It really is a shit league.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 18, 2021 10:14:18 GMT
Joselu was a decent player. Afobe had Good movement whenever he played just didn't get anything from midfield (same problems as today) I don’t get how Joselu was used here tbh. As much as I like Hughes his use of the strikers was odd. Diouf scores double figures up front and then barely plays there again. Joselu holds the ball up nicely and links well with Arnie, Bojan etc but barely got a run. Diouf is another one. Always banged them in everywhere else. Like I said maybe it's the club not the players
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 18, 2021 9:11:34 GMT
Joselu was a good centre forward. Afobe’s record is better/as bad than a few of the current strikers too. Joselu was a decent player. Afobe had Good movement whenever he played just didn't get anything from midfield (same problems as today)
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 18, 2021 9:10:18 GMT
Has anyone noticed the recent strikers have done well before joining us? Maybe it's the club not the player. I'd love see Joselu upfront for us now, tuncay was a beast before he came here, so was Carew.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 12, 2021 15:50:44 GMT
I always felt we missed a trick when we were riding high in the Prem to properly invest in the women's team. It's too late now the Man City's and Chelsea's and Barcelona's are climbing all over it and the women's game has gone in to the stratosphere. But for the price of say one third of a Gianni Imbula we could have bought the title back then and no one could have erased it from the history books. Not ever, a fitting legacy for the bet365 boys and girls and indeed the city of S-O-T. I used go school with some girls who used to play, our club wanted nothing to do with them. It was only until they started doing well that the club actually acknowledged them.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 12, 2021 14:54:08 GMT
Blackburn's result at Bournemouth proves perhaps that our struggles against them may have been as much down to their good play as our inept performance that day so perhaps we were a bit harsh. You do tend to think we should walkover teams at home and forget that they come with a plan to stop us winning. They have something we don't have, a midfield. We have a defence and strikers but no midfield what so ever.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 11, 2021 20:07:36 GMT
I love how some fans think he's that intelligent that he saw the flag go up 😂😂 saved by the flag more like, the blokes absolute shit. Tezgel or Wright Phillips would be better options. Is this an internet age phenomenon? Like, were there blokes in the Boothen in the mid 90s going 'Carruthers is wank isnt he? Why don't we play Little Timmmy from the u16s? He's scored 7 goals this season' Fact of the matter is, we have two young exciting strikers one of which is due to sign pro but is being sweet talked by Premier league clubs so we need to show that he has a future HERE and given first team experience in order to keep hold of him.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 11, 2021 19:29:08 GMT
Saw the offside flag go up? 😂😂😂 He definitely didn’t. He’s just gash. I love how some fans think he's that intelligent that he saw the flag go up 😂😂 saved by the flag more like, the blokes absolute shit. Tezgel or Wright Phillips would be better options.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 11, 2021 18:22:30 GMT
I thought Fox was actually decent today. It took him until the 74th minute to stop hoofing it down the line and out of play for a goal kick. I really do not rate him. Anyone is better than Chester.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 11, 2021 17:22:05 GMT
The most boring game I've seen in the last 10 years. How the fuck did surridge miss that header? Embarrassing.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 9, 2021 16:32:21 GMT
It seems to only be reserved for those players who were regarded as ‘legends’ whilst playing, who then move into management. Nobody says “Tony Mowbray’s Blackburn”, do they? It’s weird. Nor did people say zinedine zidane' real Madrid 🙈 it's just the bell ends who run the media in this country
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 6, 2021 17:08:48 GMT
Ha ha ha. You wouldn't have a player with the highest chance creation rate per 90mins in the division in your starting lineup, christ we must be fucking good. No, I’d play Powell instead. Who is better. I'd play them both together. I wasn't convinced they'd be able play together but Powell up top is better than Powell at 10 imo.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 5, 2021 12:13:55 GMT
Rochdale sends shudders down my spine 😭
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 5, 2021 11:10:12 GMT
People were saying the same about Rashford when he was thrown on at united, no one is ever too young
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 4, 2021 19:22:16 GMT
The whole middle east in general isn't in line with Western life. Even dubai you can be arrested for drinking in public or sleeping in the same hotel room as someone your not married with.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 2, 2021 16:18:06 GMT
Smalling was picked from non league so not impossible to make the step up.
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Post by TinkerT on Dec 2, 2021 16:10:48 GMT
Would rather go all-out for a DM in January, although Rothwell at Blackburn instead of any of our midfielders other than Powell would be grand. This, we need to move on from 30+ year old former PL midfielders in decline in our midfield, not add to them. You do know Rothwell and RODWELL are two different players?🙈
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 30, 2021 16:38:43 GMT
What's the point us signing Bonham when we did? How many keepers do we need? We have blondy as well. I know bonham probably isn't on much money but totalled up over the length of his contract, it would more than cover the cost of the fanzone many of us fans want.
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 29, 2021 5:46:01 GMT
The question is “is there anyone in the squad who can do a marginally less bad job of playing as a sitting midfielder than *nobody*” He might be a nothing player and he might be a League One player. But he’s better than nobody. And Joe Allen. Anyone who can pass is better than Joe Allen in defensive midfield. Thompson is more defensive and has better passing each match than Allen. Hell, I'd try TOB as an option but the old goat persists with constant loss of possession from Joe against a shaky back 3 and wonders why we keep losing. He gets one match without Joe and puts Tymon there. Says it all. The thing is a defensive destroyer which we've been crying out for his job is just winning the ball back or disrupting disrupting play of opposition attacks, and give the ball to a better passer to keep the ball. Why couldn't wilmot do this? A back 3 of Leo batth and fox would be more than enough and play Thompson when fit or tob until then.
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 28, 2021 18:31:55 GMT
Since when has it been the rule that if you don’t shoot it’s not offside like Ronaldo near the end of the game then? What a fucking awful rule. It's a joke of a rule anyway carrying on, it will happen one day where a player gets seriously injured as they've played on, I suppose this will be the day when the stupid rule changes.
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 28, 2021 16:15:00 GMT
Is he worth a punt in the middle of the park? We are desperately short of numbers in this area so maybe worth a go with some younger energy. ? Let's face it he cant be any worse than watching the lumbering oaf that is sawyers. Lacking physicality in the centre of the pitch?Who you gonna call Tashan Oakley Booth. He would be fine alongside wilmot.
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 27, 2021 20:44:27 GMT
Didn’t Danny dribble Brazil like into the opposition half and past 3 players… Not sure why Wilmot didn’t take it out. Chester gave me palpitations every time he tried it!!! The centre halves had acres of space and this was the only Time one of them actually tried to do something and it almost paid off. When you play 3 at the back the two either side need to do it occasionally to disrupt the shape. This and move the ball across the pitch very quick. We do neither and as a result its performances like today. When they pass forward super sawyers passes it back or looses the thing. Its so predictable and absolute shit to watch. If you play it well it's a very good system
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 27, 2021 19:39:36 GMT
We're not that fucking desperate YET are we? Jesus christ. Personally I'd give wright Phillips or tezgel a go.
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 27, 2021 17:48:57 GMT
All I want is a midfielder who can make a tackle is that too much to ask? Sawyers chaperones rather than tackles, at least Mario will get stuck in Sawyers runs the other way if he can. Blokes a absolute fraud. Does naff all when we don't have the ball.and when he does get it it's either given away or backwards. Genuinely think I'd rather have Ryan Woods in our side than him.
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 27, 2021 17:37:27 GMT
All I want is a midfielder who can make a tackle is that too much to ask?
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