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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Nov 29, 2022 18:46:10 GMT
It's a battle of the midfield....
Allen v Bellingham...
Hope Jude can cope with the power of wee joe
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Nov 25, 2022 17:08:09 GMT
Who would of believed a midfield with Joe Allen marshaling the troops would fail so spectacularly..
The end of the Welsh pirlo
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Nov 21, 2022 17:12:12 GMT
.. and it wouldnt be the only African arse associated with the club, Sammy Bangoura, come on down! Is Bangoura still AWOL.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Nov 18, 2022 14:56:26 GMT
Diversity officer - more foreign managers to be considered…… Come on dude? We've had successive Welsh, Irish and Scottish managers now... just how diverse do you want us to be? We could try a middle class English manager. I believe their in quite a small minority now!! or is that just stretching diversity to far
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Nov 17, 2022 17:53:14 GMT
Have always felt....what were the senior pros doing when all this was going on..
I would add shawcross to the list, senior pro, club captain, should of sorted a few out in the dressing room..
Sounds like the wasters had free rein to destroy the dressing room with very little to stop them. Management not interested. Senior pros sat quietly in the corner.
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Alex neil
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Nov 12, 2022 17:20:11 GMT
Interesting that Corberan and Carrick have hit the ground running at West Brom and Boro Meanwhile we continue as we were, same old, same old Fed up with it Two people our board would never consider. Give them a choice of those two and Neil and they'd pick Neil. Corberan and has had 1 good season with Huddersfield. Carrick has 2 or 3 games under his belt..far to early to be holding him up as quality manager.. What's clear is these players aren't good enough ability or mentally wise.. maybe with all this player power they don't like the rollickings I'm sure they've been getting from Neil, and they've decided they ain't gonna play for him.. Stick with Neil, get his players in and these existing players out the door ASAP.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Nov 7, 2022 21:26:52 GMT
I'd drop brown and Gayle from the squad and put Tezgel on the bench No no no.... Have you not been watching Delap to see how unready for big boy football he is..tezgel is half his size, younger in age and is nowhere near ready.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 31, 2022 12:00:34 GMT
Someone like Sam vokes..... or Haaland 😉 Haaland....nah he's just a kiddie I'd go for the experienced vokes any day of the week.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 30, 2022 15:38:07 GMT
A goalkeeper instead of a Saudi Arabian shoplifter A left sided CB A big horrible put himself about battering ram type striker Someone like Sam vokes.....
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 29, 2022 13:05:09 GMT
Keeping Powell benched in favor of Smallbone is becoming annoying. Your right. Even though he's coming back From Injury I would start him and run him into the ground possibly risking him pulling up with another injury...these football managers know nothing. 🤔
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 25, 2022 14:39:26 GMT
I cant see it happening for a good while to be honest. There's very few females in any mens football roles, whether that be coaches, physios or directors. The only two that spring to mind as being well known are Eva Carneiro (Ex Chelsea Physio) and Marina Granovskaia (Ex Chelsea Director). Don't forget old delia "let's be Avin ya" smith.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 23, 2022 14:18:32 GMT
Australia should accept that a player coming back from a (very) long term injury can not immediately return to his Pre injury form and give the lad a break. It has to be sensible to give him time rather than throw him head first into a major competition when he has done little more than 45 min cameos in a youth team. Done properly he will be available for years to come. Rushing him back for possible short term gains could ruin him and his career. Can we insist that he doesn’t go? He’s young enough to have another 2 or 3 World Cups. He’s probably 2-3 weeks off being reintroduced to the first team, so I don’t see how him flying out for a World Cup in 4 weeks or so is going be viable. Can't see us blocking his chance to play in a world cup.. can you imagine how he'd feel towards the club if we did that.. they'd be no chance of him signing a new contract in the future..he'd be off to the first offer blaming scfc for blocking his world cup dream..players have all the aces I'm afraid..he will go to world cup.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 23, 2022 14:15:52 GMT
He'll go to the world cup. He'll play He'll come back with a strain He'll be out for a further 6 weeks..
You just know its gonna happen.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 20, 2022 14:07:13 GMT
Police do have an input on away ticket numbers..maybe they've capped wba at 2k.. thanks for answering the question I was on about extra tickets mate not other restrictions So was I.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 20, 2022 13:54:19 GMT
What are the chances of any more being available...all depends on the police I suppose. It’s nothing to do with the police Every club gets 2k from West Brom….that’s the maximum allocation Police do have an input on away ticket numbers..maybe they've capped wba at 2k.. thanks for answering the question
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 20, 2022 13:13:29 GMT
What are the chances of any more being available...all depends on the police I suppose.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 17, 2022 17:51:46 GMT
We can win this, so long as we do not totally underestimate Rotherham. For mine, Rotherham seems to like hoofing it high and long into opposition penalty boxes, and I really hope Bursik is at his best. I'd add in Harry Clarke for Smallbone,as an extra defensive midfielder, and also name Big Harry on the subs bench, just to confuse everyone. "Extra defensive midfielder" against Rotherham!!!!!...the spirit of MON lives on.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 11, 2022 20:09:46 GMT
Hopefully the coronation program will have live ticker tape running along the bottom of the tv screen so we can keep up with the live scores..with a throne side reporter asking William his views as villa go 3 down.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 9, 2022 14:43:03 GMT
Heads go up..
Happy birthday Nile.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 8, 2022 16:19:59 GMT
We're defensive.. we're organised..we're playing a system which at this point suits the players..we look like we're trying..wre finally creating chances.. we're starting to show the dark arts..we're winding opposition layers up..and we're picking up points....and I love it.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Oct 3, 2022 18:20:51 GMT
Shows how low we have sunk that people are hankering for such a bang-average nothing player... I always smile at comments on here when a player is out injured... suddenly all their limitations are forgotten and they become the great cornerstone of which our team must be built around...
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 27, 2022 9:24:15 GMT
anyone get the feeling Tymon is going to be the key player that misses large parts of the season this time. Hilariously he's the one player we have no adequate cover for too. Tymon was injured for large parts of last season but we either patched him up to keep playing or pumped him full of painkillers every game..either way I think its caught up with him this season.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 25, 2022 18:26:30 GMT
But played his part in keeping us comfortably in the Premier league...their have been more expensive signings since then who have cost the club a whole lot more, financially and in league position which we are only just starting to recover from. It was still a lot of money to us at the time, it wasn't unreasonable to expect more bang for our buck. It was more than double what Delap and Whelan combined cost, he wasn't as good as either. Nor was palacios who we bought from spurs for alot more we paid for whitehead, nor was imbula, ndiaye, etebo, who didn't even five us a pop let alone a bang for their buck. Whitehead was an honest hardworking midfielder without a big ego or a nob for an agent...those attributes are priceless. I think if we're gonna start dissing some of our premiership midfielders Dean Whitehead should be well above many who we've wasted money on.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 25, 2022 13:24:46 GMT
Yet with the hindsight of what came later he was the bargain of the century 😕 He wasn’t. That 5m then was 10/12m of the next few years. He was poor. But played his part in keeping us comfortably in the Premier league...their have been more expensive signings since then who have cost the club a whole lot more, financially and in league position which we are only just starting to recover from.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 19, 2022 12:54:24 GMT
Good, I'm glad when opposition fans, managers don't like us it means we're doing something right..
I think it was Sam alardyce said some years ago.. he doesn't want managers to say his team are a good team because it means they've probably just been beaten his team 3-0,
long may teams managers complain about stoke and the length of our grass, the toilets in the away dressing room or the size of our players...it probably means we've just beaten them 3-0.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 9, 2022 14:10:34 GMT
Agreed. There will always be downsides to a postponed Championship match as there are so many games to fit in. But AN will certainly feel the benefit of a few more consecutive days training with the players before the next match. And the fewer games missed by the best of our injured players has to be a good thing. Hopefully our next game will show the players in a more positive light than what we saw against Reading. with next weeks games also more than likely to be off, he should be able to get well organised and even more players back. He can try a few things out against Hull on tuesday and then have at least a week and maybe more to prepare. The international break will give him even more time. Maybe our preseason should start on Wednesday or Thursday. Was thinking the same about preseason...get em running and get em fitter Alex.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 8, 2022 16:05:37 GMT
I may be old fashioned but I do think the passing of our longest serving monarch is important to this country and alot of people in this country.
There is a time when many in the country will want to show respect and partake in some form of mourning. Or show their respect as many did when our own sir Stan and Gordon passed. The passing of Diana was a horrific shock and many many were touched and saddened by this event which was quite understandable at that time in history.
People are entitled to their opinion and entitled to mourn how they want but I am saddened to see some on here think a 2 minute silence is all that's needed for our Queens passing. I for one expect a time of national mourning...which may include a paid day off for some which I'm sure will be accepted by many!!
And I certainly wouldn't be upset if a mid table game of champonship.football is cancelled due to this national event unfolding. Football really ISNT more important than life or death to take words from Bill shankly
That's my opinion..tin hat on.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 6, 2022 15:57:01 GMT
Wonder how many of our fans grew up thinking his first name was actually ferfuxache. The nearly man of his era.. He nearly got his head on that one. He nearly curled the ball into the net. He nearly stayed on his feet there.. He tried his best though..
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 5, 2022 8:09:12 GMT
Why would foster give up his well earned retirement where he's having fun doing his own thing for the first time in 20+ years, to come and play in goal for a mid table at best championship team with a dysfunctional defence ...
..no, he doesn't need the money.
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Post by bridgnorthstokie on Sept 4, 2022 18:06:55 GMT
I know MON bought a lot with him, plus he inherited a few, but I really think we need a clean sweep and fresh innovative ideas brought in. I know Alex Neil is very hands on, but I am not convinced with Rory as a coach.. I assume Martin Canning has joined, though no official confirmation?. I wonder in time if Alex Neil will change things around?. I'm sure he will.. I really don't think he's impressed with how our players were prepared in pre season. The coaches had a big part to play in this, it wasn't just down to MON. Expect changes in coming months.
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