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Post by wuzza on Mar 10, 2022 11:56:19 GMT
Bearing in mind the quiet majority (ie. those who don’t spend their time blathering on social media) are often more conservative (with a small c) I would say that poll shows that plenty of people still have faith in the management team and certainly don’t want to start from scratch yet again. Anyway I’m sure the owners aren’t even close to calling it quits with the MON regime.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 9, 2022 17:27:15 GMT
Let’s face it things started badly in 1888 and we’ve never really recovered !!
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Post by wuzza on Mar 9, 2022 17:17:57 GMT
For goodness sake he didn’t look any better or worse than anyone else last night. This constant sniping at certain players is becoming pitiful.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 9, 2022 17:08:10 GMT
Great job Ange , important that Denys, his family and compatriots know they are upmost in everyone’s thoughts.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 8, 2022 22:33:20 GMT
His post match interview clearly explained the task he has had to manage with regard salary reduction etc. He deserves an opportunity to take things on now. I’m confident the owners won’t be swayed.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 8, 2022 19:13:17 GMT
He simply isn’t a player you build a side around.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 8, 2022 16:45:25 GMT
As Nick Hancock said in a podcast not so long ago I feel vaguely inconvenienced these days having to watch (never mind attend) a game - not a good sign 🙂 However I expect an improved performance ........followed by a late Barnsley goal to screw up another evening.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 8, 2022 16:26:26 GMT
Whilst attendances might not be great (and I admit I have zero knowledge of or interest in women’s football) it does seem utterly bizarre that a club , supposedly awash with money it can’t spend on the men’s team, doesn’t see this as a great opportunity to invest in the community and produce an outstanding set up to represent both the club and the city. At the very least it would paint an image of a progressive organisation.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 6, 2022 14:54:22 GMT
There must be a title we can claim here - ‘least successful club in the world relative to owners wealth’ ! We do excel at being shit 160 years of practice - we should be good at it !
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Post by wuzza on Mar 6, 2022 13:06:01 GMT
Said it all season that we aren’t good enough to walk the walk that our tactics suggest we are trying to achieve.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 6, 2022 12:54:35 GMT
Not the most surprising stat I’ve ever read. The club in general has the atmosphere it had for all those years (decades even) prior to TP’s golden years. (which is remarkable considering we are now backed by billionaires - it could only happen here 😏) How many times has the club been genuine promotion candidates at this level under the Coates Family? The promotion season under Pulis, the season before when we flirted with the play offs and the mid 90s when we reached the play offs against the odds with Lou are the only ones I recall. Other than that we're usually midtable fodder (or worse, fighting relegation). There must be a title we can claim here - ‘least successful club in the world relative to owners wealth’ !
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Post by wuzza on Mar 6, 2022 12:32:50 GMT
Not the most surprising stat I’ve ever read. The club in general has the atmosphere it had for all those years (decades even) prior to TP’s golden years. (which is remarkable considering we are now backed by billionaires - it could only happen here 😏)
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Post by wuzza on Mar 6, 2022 11:01:41 GMT
Think we need to see more of Thompson DWP Forrester They need the game time now before next season I think this is true. It will only happen if the management team are given assurances about actually being here to reap the benefit though.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 5, 2022 23:46:38 GMT
I am exceptionally happy for some of our players to get the picture that they are performing in a mediocre manner (if that good) in a mediocre league. Even more so I would be happy if one or two took a step back and thought what impact their current levels of effort might have on their earning potential once SCFC quite rightly lets them walk. As usual everything is being fired at the manager but some of this lot (MON signings and others) are just feeble and not half as ‘talented’ as people keep telling us they are.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 4, 2022 15:56:28 GMT
PL ownership is a dark and unpleasant landscape. Football brings this on itself.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 4, 2022 15:40:43 GMT
Quite possibly the first ever spinner to open the bowling with the new ball Unbelievable cricketer Easily the greatest of my life time. There were some phenomenal bowlers in the past not least Staffordshire’s own Sydney Barnes who must have been a sight to behold.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 4, 2022 15:10:52 GMT
Only just heard this. Getting used to hearing that sporting heroes of my childhood have gone but this is just shocking. What a talent this man was. One of the greatest to play the greatest game. RIP
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Post by wuzza on Mar 4, 2022 9:42:00 GMT
The really stupid thing, is that unlike any other business, the owners can't invest their own money. If Stoke could buy a player from Bristol, they could in turn buy one from a lower league team. Money would filter down through the divisions like it used to. As an aside if Stoke were in a position to buy a player from Bristol City( or any other team), I wonder if they would refuse it on the basis that it was profits from gambling. I would love the EFL to address the point you are making because it absolutely baffles me - they are effectively cutting off a money supply the could could be crucial in allowing some of their more financially stressed members to survive. The rules as they currently stand appear to just facilitate widespread mediocrity and do nothing to prevent incompetent/ under resourced owners from bankrupting their clubs.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 3, 2022 19:40:14 GMT
On the other side of the coin we rarely rip teams apart either. In both cases I would say it’s a mentality issue - no killer instinct.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 3, 2022 11:54:19 GMT
I think we have to have a lot of confidence in the back room boys here. They will know the score and the figures won’t have come out without being fully ‘vetted’ to ensure we ain’t going to face any problems. Don’t think the EFL will be too keen to go chasing after one of the few clubs in their set up with long term massive investment either. I look forward to the dose of apoplexy that will doubtless ensue for that rather strange character on the Bristol forum 🙂
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Post by wuzza on Mar 2, 2022 16:35:17 GMT
We crumble under pressure - even the pressure of going a goal up sometimes ! Do we think the points thrown away from winning positions is more down to mentality or tactics? I genuinely think it’s a character thing. Conceding a goal (especially at our place) often means the opposition drop some of their inhibitions and go for it a bit - panic in our ranks often ensues.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 2, 2022 15:44:03 GMT
No sane person could argue with the principles he is talking about ie. building a solid base to give the club a strong medium to long term future. The proof of the proverbial is now what is achieved in terms of results over the next couple of years. At that point any system has been given a fair opportunity. Yep. Jam tomorrow, needs to translate into something real. Hopefully with the structure they are putting in place the jam , if and when it does arrive, will have a fairly long shelf life ! For the moment I think we just have to try and have faith .
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Post by wuzza on Mar 2, 2022 15:39:42 GMT
Weren't the Cousins comments in response to being physically outmuscled against Luton Cousins comments said something along the lines of we don't have the players in the dressing room who can compete physically. Holden is saying that we don't play that way by design. Very contradictory. I didn’t hear the Cousins interview so I don’t know what his drift was but if he was talking about mental strength rather than just physical I would say he has a point. We don’t (and haven’t for a long time) seem to have the players who can cope with any adversity in a game. We crumble under pressure - even the pressure of going a goal up sometimes ! We need some strong willed individuals who can hold the younger players together and can create some self belief both in the team’s ability and the system we are playing. That I think would back up the gist of what Holden was talking about.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 2, 2022 15:18:55 GMT
No sane person could argue with the principles he is talking about ie. building a solid base to give the club a strong medium to long term future. The proof of the proverbial is now what is achieved in terms of results over the next couple of years. At that point any system has been given a fair opportunity.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 2, 2022 9:50:26 GMT
To the uneducated outside eye this whole thing seems to have been the most haphazard ‘make it up as you go along’ process imaginable. Surely if a set of rules are worth having they should be as straight forward and transparent as possible and apply equally to all. The EFL come out of this looking like an organisation not fit for purpose and that’s not to exonerate Derby whose previous owners have clearly acted in a dishonourable manner.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 2, 2022 9:42:17 GMT
Reflective of the standard of refereeing in the Championship that competence is worthy of special mention but yes indeed - he was competent.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 2, 2022 9:39:47 GMT
I think the point has to be made that for all the bile directed towards him pre-match Chester had a good game against some top class strikers. The constant obsession some seem to have with him is both uncomfortable to see and unjustified. Beckenbauer he ain’t but far from the root of all our problems.
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Post by wuzza on Mar 2, 2022 8:46:04 GMT
I think it’s not dodging any issues to say we are desperately out of luck at the moment. Everything that can go against the team does - refs, the break of the ball etc. To me the rest of the season is about trying to develop certain players (who are going to be here next season) in certain roles. The thing that always screams out to me is that we need another Glenn Whelan. Doesn’t have to be the most gifted of players but someone who has the engine and the attitude to carry some of the more talented attackers and protect the defence - Joe Allen does everything he can but it’s not his natural role and he would be helped as much as anyone. The thing we don’t need is the instability of people trying to build a campaign against the current management team.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 27, 2022 16:43:36 GMT
It's probably a complete waste of time. Not if you keep making complaints and make it public. Doing nothing has got us to where we are now I fear the result would be refs making more and more of a stance to show they are not influenced by a moaning club/manager. You need half a dozen PL titles and a few Euro Cups a la Fergie for this tactic to be effective.
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Post by wuzza on Feb 27, 2022 12:17:38 GMT
I think referees in a lot of sports are struggling to adapt to the wave of ‘player welfare’ type adaptations that have been implimented in the past few seasons. In football the studs.up situation is so hard to judge - especially when slo mo replays become involved - that they have become ridiculously cautious (apart from our friend at Hudds) and are terrified of missing anything. Throw in a bit of the play acting that is endemic in the sport and we have a very toxic situation. In rugby it’s head contact and again that s leading to some very arbitrary decisions but at least there is less feigning injury. It’s a transitory stagehopefully but it’s ruining a lot of games.
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