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Post by hudsondays on Dec 6, 2020 13:22:37 GMT
Looking at the highlights (see second half), it struck me how much Neil Warnock looks like The Penguin. Acts like him too.
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Post by hudsondays on Nov 15, 2019 22:55:56 GMT
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Post by hudsondays on Aug 28, 2019 21:43:35 GMT
What's the latest?
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Post by hudsondays on Aug 17, 2019 21:00:41 GMT
If we accept that a free kick gives a siginificant advantage, why the hell do we pass so often to someone who's just standing alongside the ball? How dangerous is that? Take a look at the free kickiaround the 55th minute. Horrible, brainless stuff. We shout for a free kick, cheer when we get one, then do bugger all with it. Plan all you like for corners ("that's one from the training ground") or when we win a free kick a few yards from the penalty box, but how about a bit more thought elsewhere?
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Post by hudsondays on Aug 17, 2019 20:52:07 GMT
getting some goals too. Shame we can't improve our miserable strike rate/
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Post by hudsondays on Jun 22, 2019 8:45:42 GMT
What would we give for a striker like that today? Wonderful footballer and wonderful man. That was some team, wasn't it?
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Post by hudsondays on Jan 19, 2019 17:07:45 GMT
Wonderful times. Remember singing my heart out on the train back to London. Was that the season we were top of the league at one stage, or the following one?
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Post by hudsondays on Jan 16, 2019 12:15:27 GMT
Makes the £30 I put on promotion look pretty dumb. And I daren't tell my wife what I put on us to win the league...
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Post by hudsondays on Jan 8, 2019 15:38:18 GMT
Might I suggest that we wait until the new manager has overseen a couple of games before calling for his head?
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Post by hudsondays on Jul 4, 2018 15:55:07 GMT
But look at the date on the story. If a week's a long time in football, two months is a veritable lifetime. But like others here, I'd like to hope tnat we'll keep him.
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Post by hudsondays on May 6, 2018 13:27:13 GMT
Rock-hard some of our 'fans' are. And when you mix rock-hard with thick as shit, it becomes a bit tiresome and depressing. Perhaps part of the 'entry criteria' for next season ought to be an IQ test? Set it in double figures and you'd lose most of them
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Post by hudsondays on May 5, 2018 20:54:33 GMT
And why not Guardiola? Klopp? Pochettino? Stop being dreamers. We have to face it: we're a second-tier team at the moment and scarcely an attractive prospect for anyone who has a solid, proven track record. We have an ageing squad, few standout players (and even fewer come the new season), not enough young players knocking at the door. We lack speed, passing ability and a striker (or two) who knows that the rectangular thingie at the end of the pitch is where the ball is supposed to end up.We appear to have little wit when it comes to recruitment, finding promising players (especially abroad) and nurturing them. It's a club crying for a top-to-bottom scrubdown, but it has an owner who appears to make all the major decisions (many of them irrational). If you were an established manager, would you be beating down Coates' door? I think a far better bet woudl be to look for a young manager with potential. But if the past couple of seasons is anything to go by, I fear that we will take what's seen as a 'safe' route and spend quite a few seasons scrapping in the Championship under someone on the managerial merry-go-round.
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Post by hudsondays on Apr 16, 2018 21:10:30 GMT
MARK HUGHES WINS MANAGER OF THE YEAR
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Post by hudsondays on Apr 16, 2018 20:56:41 GMT
ANOTHER CLEAN STRIKE FROM DIOUF
HUGHES: I SCREWED UP AT STOKE
BERAHINO'S SECOND HAT TRICK IN A ROW
COATES BUYS PROVEN STRIKER
POTTERS HOLD ON TO ONE-GOAL LEAD
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Post by hudsondays on Apr 14, 2018 13:36:56 GMT
Looks like Hughes will have the proud record of showing his managerial skills by taking TWO sides down.
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Post by hudsondays on Apr 14, 2018 13:10:47 GMT
Into highes we thrust.
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Post by hudsondays on Apr 1, 2018 15:35:46 GMT
Jon Walters used to affect games when on as a late sub - chasing, harassing, niggling, winning throw-ins and free kicks. Berahino does absolutely nothing to affect a game of football. Nothing... Totally agree. Berahino looks like he has his boots on the wrong feet and the laces tied together. He doesn't fight for the ball, doesn't even try to hassle, 'plays' as if the ball's an IED that will get his boots dirty and just strolls about. We're playing with 10 men when he's trundles on. I would feel a total fraud if I put in so little effort, and his total lack of effort must affect those around him. Still, the club saves money on having to wash his kit. No danger of it getting dirty or sweat-stained.
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Post by hudsondays on Feb 17, 2018 21:43:48 GMT
Does anyone else find it slightly bizarre that our owners are offering an odd-on bet for us to be relegated?
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Post by hudsondays on Feb 14, 2018 13:07:07 GMT
John Mahoney's a great call. Terrific workhorse, great ball-winner, the Makelele of yesteryear.
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Post by hudsondays on Jan 16, 2018 12:30:58 GMT
A piece on BBC website about shots on target in 2018. And guess what? We're equal with Arsenal, and about 'mid-table'. The fact that none of them goes in the goal is a slight downer, of course, and that if we get one, the opposition gets three. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42676114
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Post by hudsondays on Jan 2, 2018 20:29:43 GMT
So are we going to 'rest' players for the ManU match? After all, the next fixture's Huddersfield. A bloody stupid idea. Did Palace rest players against Man City? West Brom against Arsenal? Did they get battered? But then it's so hard, having to work three hours a week.
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Post by hudsondays on Jan 1, 2018 22:34:43 GMT
We had 59% possession today, which tells you how good Newcastle weren't. And we still didn't score. That must raise our season possession stats up to, I dunno, almost 40%.
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Post by hudsondays on Dec 30, 2017 22:39:18 GMT
My worry is that the few decent players we have (Butland, Shaq, Zouma, Allen, maybe Chupa Chups) must be thinking about their future. If you could pass a ball to a player in your own team who was more than five yards away, would you think you're playing for a club with ambition, drive and direction? The more we edge nearer the bottom of the pond, the more they are going to be scanning the Sits Vac columns. So even if we cling on to Premiership life, what sort of players will want to come to wear the red and white? The only thing going for us, as far as I can see, are bloody brilliant fans.
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Post by hudsondays on Dec 24, 2017 21:14:31 GMT
Before we get overexcited, can you think of three (or two, or one) Standout buy/deals we've done at this time of year?
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Post by hudsondays on Nov 30, 2017 10:22:28 GMT
For all the whining and blaming, one of our biggest problems seems to be possession. Last night's match: we had 39% of the play, and that's average. We often fall below that, and not just to the 'top' teams. If we can't retain the ball (and at the moment, it looks like a bag of Ebola to half the players), is it any wonder that we're getting banjoed? And how about a bit of free kick commonsense too? If we accept that a free kick gives a distinct advantage, why play it to the man two yards away so often?
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Post by hudsondays on Nov 12, 2017 14:46:04 GMT
How about Jimmy Greenhoff's goal of the season? (and maybe Crouchie's too)
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Post by hudsondays on Nov 6, 2017 20:18:57 GMT
Joined him and others at a pub in London for sort-of launch of his reprinted book The Working Man's Ballet. Pleased to say that he looked really well, and told some great stories. (I always loved the one where Stoke had whacked Liverpool and Bill Shankly asked Tony Waddington if he could go into the Stoke dressing-room. He went straight up to Alan and said: "Well played, son." However, the real point if this is that Alan said he had heard Geoff Salmons was really ill. Anyone know more?
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Post by hudsondays on Sept 9, 2017 19:48:51 GMT
Never saw him play, but I'm bored to death of hearing his name and how good he supposedly was, I've never heard anyone who wasn't a Stoke fan even mention his name. Went to watch some testimonial game at Chelsea in which Alan and Geortge Best played. My girlfriend went to the women's toilet, where two skinhead women accosted her and said: "what do you think of Alan Hudson?" She thought she was going to get her head kicked in, but replied: "That's why we're here, to watch him." One of the skinheads replied: "Yeah, worst thing that ever happened to Chelsea was when he left," and wandered morosely off.
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Post by hudsondays on Jul 22, 2017 21:20:22 GMT
Got to agree with Macko. Needed a decent editor to give it some form. Think Robson Books must have just printed it as it came to them, without reading it.
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Post by hudsondays on Jul 22, 2017 21:15:52 GMT
Got the original, have to say it was one of the worst written autobiographies I've ever read. In desperate need of a decent editor or indeed writer, every chapter just rambled off on tangents and was just unreadable in places. Loved the player, certainly did not love the book. There is a good story in there, just not in this book alas
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