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Post by slother on Oct 2, 2022 13:25:08 GMT
What I don’t understand is why we’re sticking with the O’Neill blueprint that clearly wasn’t working? He’s supposedly a manager who makes an impact at new clubs yet he’s clinging onto the issues he inherited, continuing to utilise them, and is somehow making them worse. I don’t get it. I felt sure we'd see something different this weekend after the long break. To play how we did is scary.
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Post by slother on Oct 2, 2022 12:03:28 GMT
What's changed under Alex Neill??
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Post by slother on Oct 2, 2022 12:02:50 GMT
No goal threat and no danger of keeping a clean sheet. Not a great look, is it?
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Post by slother on Jul 23, 2022 21:25:30 GMT
Manager makes a "top six" squad and you want him sacked. Fucking doughnut! Signed some good individual players but hasn't got a clue what to do with them. I could go out and buy a plane, doesn't mean I know how to fly it Really, you could buy a Lear jet for 10p?
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Post by slother on Jul 23, 2022 21:15:11 GMT
The main part of the squad that needs addressing, is the guy that's managing it. This squad, with a new forward thinking, attack minded manager will finish in the top 6 with ease IMO Manager makes a "top six" squad and you want him sacked. Fucking doughnut!
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Post by slother on Jan 10, 2022 5:44:24 GMT
It's almost as if his contract is up in six months.
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Post by slother on Dec 30, 2021 21:43:10 GMT
He can't just sit with this completely failed system. I don't understand it.
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Post by slother on Oct 23, 2021 19:47:27 GMT
Didn't see the game today but Souttar to play DM please. He's the antipodean Nzonzi. N'Bonza!
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Post by slother on Oct 19, 2021 18:44:22 GMT
Beyond Tymon swinging it in for Powell it's very hard to see where a goal comes from out of that. Oh well plenty options on the bench I guess GOAL 89' T. Campbell ;-)
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Post by slother on Oct 16, 2021 19:27:14 GMT
How about Souttar in the DM role? Excellent reading and positioning, great tackle and interception, great in the aerial duel, can spray a pass around. What's he missing? Worth a go? No, he’s a centre half. We have to get over this idea of wanting any defender who can pass a ball to play in midfield, it’s ok for centre halves to be able to pass a football. Of course, but in the absence of a true DM at the club I'd like to see whether Souttar playing in that role would win us more points. That's the bottom line, after all.
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Post by slother on Oct 16, 2021 18:58:58 GMT
How about Souttar in the DM role? Excellent reading and positioning, great tackle and interception, great in the aerial duel, can spray a pass around. What's he missing? Worth a go?
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Post by slother on Oct 2, 2021 11:14:28 GMT
I agree he's not sexy (at least, not until you get to know him) but I think it's fair to say he's now succeeded in every managerial job he's had.
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Post by slother on Oct 2, 2021 10:40:11 GMT
How are we gonna keep MON?
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Buzzin
Oct 1, 2021 20:56:42 GMT
Post by slother on Oct 1, 2021 20:56:42 GMT
Superb, if we can find that missing piece of the jigsaw up front we could get promoted this season I think weve got it in Cambell. just need him fit and up to speed If he picks up where he left off everything else is in place to run away with the league. We never roll over for anyone under O'Neill. Just need to start turning draws into wins.
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Post by slother on Sept 18, 2021 21:40:39 GMT
I love the look of Doughty and think he deserves a start. With Tymon being in great form I think I'd play Doughty on the left of central midfield. He's fast, strong and tenacious, plus Josh often cuts inside anyway leaving Alfie to bomb past on the overlap.
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Post by slother on Sept 18, 2021 21:35:52 GMT
What a c***!
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Post by slother on Sept 11, 2021 20:16:27 GMT
I don't think Bursik's having a great season to be honest, just yet. Happy for him to be #1 but not sure higher clubs would really be interested.
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Post by slother on Sept 11, 2021 20:14:17 GMT
Who do you play at 6? There's no one I trust in the squad. Probably put Fletcher there to be honest!
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Post by slother on Sept 11, 2021 20:06:45 GMT
I am obsessed with footy and Stoke, that much so my girlfriend has just left me because of it. Was a shame as we had been going out for 3 seasons. /quote] This was f***ing hilarious. If you meant it you should definitely try writing more jokes. I don't think you did though!
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Post by slother on Aug 28, 2021 15:58:19 GMT
Missed Cousins today. It's no mystery though: resources are finite and we've prioritised other positions. The end of the season we'll know if that was the right call.
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Post by slother on Aug 21, 2021 17:03:11 GMT
Only 22!
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Post by slother on Aug 21, 2021 17:01:47 GMT
You can coach a football brain. He's only 23 remember! He's been working hard and everything good starts with hard work. Goarn Jason! ;-)
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Post by slother on Aug 18, 2021 18:25:40 GMT
Mon seems to morph into a different manager every season The earliest Pacific Islanders conceptualised navigating the oceans thus: the boat stays in the same place, it is the world around you that moves.
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Post by slother on Aug 9, 2021 16:54:47 GMT
It's a fair answer.
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Post by slother on Aug 6, 2021 20:27:52 GMT
He'll always be Port Vale's second best left-back of the 2010s.
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Post by slother on Jul 29, 2021 12:00:08 GMT
Top half. People who are really thinking we can get top 6 with this shoestring assembly... well they're likely to be feeling a bit pitchforky come October.
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Post by slother on Jun 25, 2021 19:43:47 GMT
Or they were, and Burnley paid big to get it done. Burnley outbid one of the big 6, if they were interested, I don't think so. Not necessarily outbid but maybe moved decisively while the bigger clubs were mulling it over. Christ, who knows, right?
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Post by slother on Jun 25, 2021 18:46:12 GMT
Burnley!!? Why aren’t we waiting for the mega rich clubs to start bidding? Because they weren't interested, if they were they would have easily outbid Burnley. Or they were, and Burnley paid big to get it done.
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Post by slother on Jun 17, 2021 20:52:20 GMT
Austria really missed Marko didn't they. Mad bastard.
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Post by slother on Apr 17, 2021 14:02:51 GMT
First half was great. Not sure what happened second half but the game should have been over by then. We just cannot field eleven good players. Until we do, results like this will be commonplace. Priorities for me are now out wide. Smith and Tymon get into good positions but the delivery is woeful and they don't offer a goal threat themselves.
Problem is, if MON sees wingbacks as his ideal formation I think we're always going to be a bit toothless. If we play 4-4-2 with proper scary wingers then I think you need to drop Powell.
Ideally, we'd find an Andy Robertson type who can do it all from byline to byline.
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