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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 28, 2024 20:00:10 GMT
36 and played 32 games in Turkey. Begovic has been brilliant for QPR I just want us to sign a keeper that will be here for 2/3 seasons. I don’t disagree though we should have had begovic in the summer.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 28, 2024 19:47:29 GMT
Could Johnny Walters tempt a couple of his former teammates to return to lead the return to premier league? I’m thinking Begovic, N’zonzi and Arnie? Pipe dream? Too old? Arnie has just been a pretty important squad member in Inter’s title winning squad hasn’t he? Would like to think we’d get a better keeper than Bego. And is Fonz still playing? 36 and played 32 games in Turkey. Begovic has been brilliant for QPR
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 28, 2024 18:18:33 GMT
Could Johnny Walters tempt a couple of his former teammates to return to lead the return to premier league?
I’m thinking Begovic, N’zonzi and Arnie?
Pipe dream? Too old?
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 28, 2024 13:55:10 GMT
SS making comments about attitude of players must allude in some degree to leadership on the pitch. We have no leaders in our club and something that needs to be addressed as a priority. Captain needs to be vocal and lead by example. Shawcross wasn’t particularly vocal nor was Abdoulaye Faye
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 28, 2024 10:02:11 GMT
Can't agree at all. Cb's are consistently too weak. Our rb can't defend Our lb is aging and injury prone. Our goalkeeper is on loan and poor at crosses. So why does the goals against column not reflect that? Would suggest that Hoever can and does defend well enough most games, as he did yesterday agree re Stevens He's not poor on crosses at all, iffy with his feet mind but overall he's a decent keeper for this level as he's clearly shown once he had a run of games MacNally wins tons of headers, one of the most in the league They don't get bullied that's an absolute myth Where they are weak is the early ball in behind, we keep getting done by that Very young defence they will all get better as they play more games Meanwhile at the other end we are bottom 3 or 4 for goals scored Hoever can defend. Concentration, or lack of, is his problem. Since his mistake v Coventry, when he was clearly absolutely devastated, he’s been largely excellent.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 28, 2024 9:55:16 GMT
The positives are that the manager and some players don’t seem to be in the mood to celebrate survival, openly stating it’s not good enough, not acceptable and that they shouldn’t be in the mess we’ve experienced.
Like many, I’d be reasonably content with simply seeing signs of progression which in the main is better football, more goals and certainly more home wins. Consistently in top half of table and a flirtation with play off positions. A Middlesbrough type season for example.
That being said, I’m also in the Bayern camp in that this league is shit. There is nothing to fear from any team and you are never more than 3 good signings from the top of the league or 3 bad signings from the bottom of it.
From our previous promotion team, just stick a 19 year old Shawcross at the back, Rory in midfield and Ric up front and this squad would likely be at the top end of the league.
Sign players, the majority of which are the calibre of Ennis, and we’ll again be at the wrong end of the table.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 28, 2024 9:17:42 GMT
Do you not think there is a decent player in the 22 yo Luke Cundle? He’s a tidy footballer but no. I think last week showed him up for what he is. He turned into an all action tackling, lots of running, up and down midfielder when we just haven’t seen anything like that. He turned it on. Massive red flag for me. Where’s it been before? And you don’t need to have confidence to tackle. Showed the mentality of the man. We don’t need more players with that mentality. We need to get rid of them. He played well yesterday as well, particularly first half
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 27, 2024 21:49:33 GMT
He was excellent today. The fact they switched walker peters to left back to stop him was credit to the threat he posed all day.
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Apr 27, 2024 20:54:59 GMT
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 27, 2024 20:54:59 GMT
The fact that Ennis has played a single minute ahead of Campbell is a travesty. On a day of lots of positives the cameos from Ennis and Junior were the stuff of legend…for all the wrong reasons Campbell had an injury he couldn't stay on Junior made a good chance (for Ennis) did he not? Please explain what Junior did wrong He did yes. Ennis should have buried it. That aside he looked totally lost, didn’t offer much help to Hoever against walker-pieters whilst giving away stupid fouls whenever he went near someone.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 27, 2024 20:03:04 GMT
The fact that Ennis has played a single minute ahead of Campbell is a travesty.
On a day of lots of positives the cameos from Ennis and Junior were the stuff of legend…for all the wrong reasons
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 27, 2024 9:35:45 GMT
What do we need out of the Birmingham/Huddersfield game today which suits us the best? A draw? Or a Huddersfield win? We need to match the result of Birmingham or sheff wed. Fail to do that and we need something on the last day of season to survive
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 26, 2024 18:00:15 GMT
I think you've misread/misunderstood this particularly ranking. It's by their career record not their record this season, so includes Schumacher's 100 points (or whatever he got) whilst Plymouth manager in League 1.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 26, 2024 17:45:26 GMT
With Junior and Gooch on our books we should spend our money elsewhere and not on another right back! A left back on the other hand..... If I never saw Lynden Gooch play for Stoke again, I'd be very happy and I'm far from convinced re Junior who looks more like an athlete than a footballer to me. Hoever is infinitely superior to them both, despite his faults.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 26, 2024 17:39:15 GMT
I voted for Bae. Think burger has been good, but bae has had more of an impact. Burger tailed off massively as well when it’s mattered the most. Yeah, I don't think that would be undeserved, and I think Bae will have the better career and he's done about as much as you could possibly hope for in his first season. He's special. Burger just hasn't been able to get back up to speed over the last month. But I do think his consistency levels in a dysfunctional team, right until that silly booking at Preston, gave him quite a big lead, which Junho possibly hasn't quite overhauled, despite looking better by the week - but it's pretty close. I agree wholeheartedly with this. When the team was struggling massively, Burger stepped up and consistently produced performances that earned us vital points in keeping us out of the bottom 3. He's definitely struggled since coming back into the team following the recent suspension but that shouldn't cloud his performances prior to that where he was consistently very good. I wonder if handing the captaincy back has hurt him a bit as well. He seemed to revel in that responsibility and during that period, I thought he was brilliant. Burger is my player of the year, with Bae second. The rest are nowhere near though I do think Rose has improved as the season has gone on, so if I had to pick a 3rd place, I'd probably go for him.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 26, 2024 17:36:04 GMT
They’ve both been shit for most of the season and have had a good games recently. It’s fucking laughable and always happens. To be fair to him, Thompson had a very good spell of form when Schumacher first arrived and was producing decent performances consistently. Whether he's in the running for player of the year is open debate, I'd say not, but he's certainly had his best season in our colours. Early season, I thought he was OK in midfield then Christmas/January he turned in some good performances in midfield and at left back. Of late, Hull and Saturday, he's been decent in midfield and poor at left back. Credit where credits due though. He's certainly gone up in my estimations this season. He's certainly been one of our better players throughout the season, which I admit, isn't saying too much sadly.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 26, 2024 14:19:52 GMT
In the Championship: Fuller: 204 Appearances, 52 Goals, 23 assists Campbell: 140 Appearances, 29 goals, 16 assists Fuller was a much better player imo. Fuller has scored 78 in 260 at Championship level. Have you missed out his Preston days, before it was called the Championship? It's a way better rate than Campbell's, and it's brought down somewhat by the 3 years he had in the Championship as an old man. If you take those 3 off it's 63 in 164. He's a stratospherically better player than Campbell. And even through goal scoring wasn't the main strength of his game, he was also a much much better goal scorer. I'm amazed this is even getting discussed. Comparing any of our current players to Ricardo fuller is blasphemous and should result in the harshest of consequences.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 23, 2024 20:59:09 GMT
We should have kept and played, Adam Davies Adam Davies has to be up there as one of the most overrated players ever to play for us. He was absolutely hopeless. Sheffield United have 2 keepers who couldn’t catch a cold and Davies still can’t get a game. Their fans describe him in terms of being the worst keeper they’ve ever had the misfortune of seeing play for them. That we signed him on the money we did was ridiculous and symptomatic of the absolute tool that Nathan jones was!
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 23, 2024 20:41:44 GMT
All good shouts Dave. Not sure I rate Iversen if I am honest, that said I wasn't convinced by Travers either. I wasn’t a fan of travers at all.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 23, 2024 20:34:57 GMT
Would have thought Harry would be reluctant to come back, even on loan and I’d rather we looked for a permanent signing elsewhere. I'd prefer permanent too. But not sure why he'd be reluctant to come back. He needs to play football. I’ve no idea why and I could be miles off the mark, but I get the impression that Harry left under something of a cloud and doesn’t necessarily hold a great deal of affection for the club.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 23, 2024 20:32:55 GMT
If we want an older, experienced player, I’d be looking in the direction of Danny Welbeck myself.
Johannson or Iverson in for keeper position Toffolo left back Tom Cairney for midfield Danny welbeck
Too ambitious?
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 23, 2024 6:41:52 GMT
A good pal of mine works in the industry.
The album also includes a wales team that haven’t qualified among many of the errors 😂😂
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 22, 2024 21:04:55 GMT
We got 6 points off Boro and they were shite 🤷♂️
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 21, 2024 10:09:48 GMT
He's decent. That said I must be in the minority that doesn't mind Iversen Iversen is a good keeper. If Johansson is an option for us I’d basically be looking to sign the cheapest of the two. I’ve wanted Iversen at Stoke for a while but have to admit to being disappointed by his early form. Post Cardiff, I’d have been tempted to put Bonham back in but for once, we got to the game early enough to watch the warm up (something we used to do regularly) and my faith was restored. He’s technically very good and has “good hands”. He’s the most impressive keeper we’ve had, from watching the warm ups, since Butland, and much better than Travers.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 20, 2024 22:51:58 GMT
He’s the polar opposite to what you’ve described as a lad. He’s not in the least bit sulky or billy big bollocks. He’s a nice lad who goes out of his way to make sure everyone is happy and settled in the group. Precisely, all this 'sulky' stuff is a complete fabrication and really annoying. Today wasn't out of the ordinary for me, he's always fairly animated in any celebrations when we win, it's just that there hasn't been many wins to celebrate. He's obviously popular with other players and staff. I’ve often wondered if giving him the captains armband would bring something out of Tye that he doesn’t even know himself he has. I’ll be sad to see him leave but I’ve been a bit of a lone voice in any attempt to defend him from the flak he’s often received.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 20, 2024 22:42:21 GMT
I think he's just a great character and massively popular in the dressing room. I'll be gutted if he leaves, personally. He just comes across as a sulky billy-big-bollocks type to me. It was great to see him so aggressive in his play and happy / celebratory after. If he could show that and connect with fans he’d be massively popular, but I think he’s burnt his bridges. The eternal nearly man for me. He’s the polar opposite to what you’ve described as a lad. He’s not in the least bit sulky or billy big bollocks. He’s a nice lad who goes out of his way to make sure everyone is happy and settled in the group.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 20, 2024 22:39:21 GMT
Goal and an assist from Tezgel today.
That’s a few goal involvements for him now so hopefully he’s learning a lot and becoming a bit more physically robust
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 20, 2024 21:49:22 GMT
I’d offer him another year. He’s made an enormous difference since he’s come back in. I’d sign a starting left back too though. Our stats with him in the starting 11 are very strong this season seemingly.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 20, 2024 21:45:31 GMT
Nobody has more goal contributions this season than our right back (4 goals and 3 assists). That's 8 goals for the club in just a season and a half, from full back. Has anybody scored more for us during that time? He needs to work on parts of his game, and at 22 he will surely only improve. How much do we think it'll take to make the move permanent? He’s on massive money and would likely cost a big fee. I’m pretty sure he’ll go on to be a very good player but I doubt that is going to be with us.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 20, 2024 17:38:27 GMT
Champions in September, relegated in April takes some doing to be fair.
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Post by davejohnno1 on Apr 17, 2024 16:50:02 GMT
By his own admission, Cundle has had a difficult time at Stoke. Fingers crossed he can finish the season in some kind of style and actually help us get over the survival line.
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