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Oct 5, 2017 20:59:24 GMT
Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 5, 2017 20:59:24 GMT
How long's she got left? My money's on the strong and stable one being gone by Christmas. I'm surprised she has lasted this long to be honest. However I can't help wondering whether that's because the other candidates for the job within the Tory party don't want to take the blame for the massive cock up that the implementation of Brexit is turning out to be - she will make a very handy scapegoat!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 5, 2017 20:32:47 GMT
The pitch invader has been more exciting than the England performance. Says a lot He moved a damn sight faster than any of our players have all night, that's for sure!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 5, 2017 19:58:16 GMT
Blimey, this is painful to watch. Rashford looks like the only player with the confidence and balls to take anyone on.
I did wonder if I'd found a hidden 'slow motion' setting on my TV, but apparently this is the full blooded cut and thrust of England's international football at full speed!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 3, 2017 22:25:41 GMT
I listened on iFollow - whilst doing something else - out of marginal interest in how some of the fringe players might get on but I can't say the result meant anything to me really. What on earth is that bonus penalty point thing all about? Just ludicrous.
The most significant thing was the injury to yet another striker.
Surely the importance of and interest in this competition from the paying public was shown clearly by the quite pathetic crowd figure.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 3, 2017 10:20:46 GMT
Getting through this game without any injuries to our players is what I am hoping for.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 2, 2017 14:02:07 GMT
The counter I've had to guns are bad, is in the UK we have a serious issue with knife crime and the US don't. I think your answer to that is that overall, the USA's 'intentional homicide' rate is 4.88 per 100,000 per year whereas the UK's is 0.97. One reason for that is pretty well illustrated by this latest tragedy - you'd be hard put to kill 50 people and injure 200 with a knife.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Oct 2, 2017 8:15:45 GMT
Nice report as always, but I could make neither head nor tail of "Nelson plays better on the left which is where he was in this one but when he has Mike Williamson next to him is on the other side". Nelson was playing as the right one of the central defensive pair, at which he is better than on the left.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 30, 2017 20:07:45 GMT
Don't think so. It was a good pass and a well-timed run.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 30, 2017 18:11:20 GMT
Just back.
An enjoyable, but quite odd game. We were better in the first half than we have been recently, but epitomised the phrase 'shot shy'. In fact I don't think we had a shot on target all half. Thomas had a chance he should possibly have done better with (he put it wide), but apart from that we didn't look threatening. Having said that, Ribeiro and Ruffles made a difference, as did having Nelson on his proper side of the defence and Thomas did well getting and holding the ball. Worrying to see Hall go off - looked like he'd pulled a groin muscle.
Second half was for some reason a completely different story as far as goal threat went. We scored four and but for some dodgy pass/shoot decision making could have had seven easily. Noticeably there was actually some shooting from a little way out before we scored - which I think helps as it is much easier for defenders if they KNOW you are going to try to walk it into the net! Once they have to get out to stop players shooting it makes much more room.
It wasn't all plain sailing, Peterborough looked pretty dangerous and hit the woodwork a couple of times, Eastwood made three excellent saves and we cleared one off the line. We still allow crosses in too easily. But even disregarding the score, it was a huge improvement on what we have seen over the last three games.
Is it significant that Peterborough didn't really press our back line as much as other teams have? Very probably.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 28, 2017 21:37:03 GMT
Hales and Stokes suspended by ECB - we are fooked! Feel a bit sorry for Alex Hales. By the looks of the video footage, he was acting as peace-maker while Stokes was giving Billy big B*llocks. Well yes, but (as far as disciplinary measures by the ECB are concerned) what on earth were they doing outside a nightclub at 2.30am in the middle of an international series? Stokes especially has been warned about his conduct before - you wonder how many other times he has been this unprofessional but not been caught! He is an idiot, Hales perhaps slightly less of one.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 28, 2017 19:45:35 GMT
I'll be going. I remember a few years back we were on a shocking run and had an evening away match at Chesterfield who were top at the time. That was a good night, let's hope we get the winning feeling again on Saturday. And it's pretty close to where I live.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 28, 2017 17:30:29 GMT
Interesting point on the sides of the two central defenders. They swapped for the Blackpool game and Nelson has played in the left since, interesting to understand why because it's clearly not helped We had one of the best defensive records in the league up to Blackpool and have conceded 8 since that swap Yes, that's an odd one. Nelson is obviously more comfortable on the right, and given how hard Mousinho is finding it at right back you'd think Nelson would give a bit more solidity. I hope on Saturday that (at least as far as the back line is concerned) Mousinho is replaced by Ribeiro or Carroll and Nelson moves back to the right. Whether it's Wiliamson or Mousinho who would be better on the left of the centre pair I don't know.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 27, 2017 17:00:50 GMT
I worry about Broad as I think he has lost quite a lot of what made him so excellent as a bowler. Perhaps the Aussies will rile him enough to get him going again!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 27, 2017 16:53:55 GMT
I think you have to take the positives out of Surreal's post.
There were no grammatical or spelling mistakes, the content was unarguable and he is obviously READY to pen a real corker in his next post.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 27, 2017 16:27:59 GMT
I think the thing that worries me most is that I am having trouble seeing any coherent plan either on or off the pitch. I think 'rudderless' sums it up.
Off the pitch, DE seems to have gone into hibernation and (as far as transfers in were concerned) locked his wallet. The marketing of the club has gradually got even worse (although the city centre shop is a step forward) - emails from the club are now a rare occurrence, and loads of seemingly trivial things (reduction of the 50/50 money, stewarding attitudes, lack of social media etc) as well as the ticket price increase have just served to give the feeling (real or imagined) that the club just isn't that bothered about us supporters at the moment. If they can't even make their existing 'customers' feel valued, what chance of attracting many new (or lapsed) ones?
On the pitch, our highly vaunted recruitment department seems to have been unable to find suitable, affordable new players. And I don't believe that all the slightly odd signings of obscure overseas players were on our radar anyway before the managerial change - or it is a huge coincidence that most of them seem to have played under Clotet before?! We seem to have gone down the Duberry/Taylor route of signing older players at the end of their careers (and Tiendalli who was two years past the end of his career) and players who haven't quite made it in the lower reaches of continental football. Add in a strike force that even a football numpty like me could see was nowhere near effective enough and prone to spend periods on the treatment table and we have a recipe for trouble.
I know people are asking us to be patient (and we haven't really got any choice, I suppose) but the way the team is playing is getting worse not better. We consistently give away late goals and find it very hard to respond if we fall behind. Peterborough is a very important match, I feel. Over the last six matches we are 20th in the form table.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 27, 2017 14:56:55 GMT
Surely the more interesting question isn't WHAT is happening - but WHY?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 27, 2017 11:44:38 GMT
Hopefully he sells to Kassam, you'd have something to moan about then. That's a fairly drastic thing to wish for just to get one over on a forum member!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 26, 2017 21:20:23 GMT
Are we all in agreement that this run of terrible form started when we conceded that 94th equaliser against Bradford? It feels like we haven't had an ounce of confidence since. Well not quite. There were games before that where we played very well for parts of the match but quite badly for other parts (eg MK away), games like Shrewsbury where we were bloody lucky to get a point and don't forget the cup match where we managed to let four in against Cheltenham! Sure, the confidence is now shot, but thinking we were play-off material before that late equaliser is optimistic.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 26, 2017 20:49:18 GMT
Are people still digging their heads in the sand regarding Eales? For him, this summer was about recouping as much of his outlay as possible before selling to the highest bidder. Unfortunately that bid seems to have come from some Thai businesspeople that even Reading fans hated. Pep was probably given that same speil by Eales that he's given us, too. Bigger budget? Yeah right. Like I said, do we really think the likes of Mehmeti were Pep's first choice? We made around £3.5m in transfer fees this summer and spent, what, £3-400k absolute max? Sure, maybe our wage budget went up a bit (I still can't see it), but all in Eales has done very, very well financially this summer. And he's done an excellent job of pulling the wool over everyones' eyes in the process. I haven't seen or heard anything about Eales trying to sell to Thai people... where has this come from? Because without that, I can still believe him in saying he's planning on putting the money back in. Well he's missed his chance to buy the players we needed. In January there are few players available and if he thought the prices were high in the summer, god alone knows what he would have to pay for a decent striker then! So he has reduced his losses by selling players and not spending on transfer fees. They might be high wage earners but if he sells the club that won't be his problem! I bet we have new owners before the end of October.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 26, 2017 20:20:30 GMT
My knees were tempted to jerk but then I remembered it's September. 20% of the season gone, no fit (proper) strikers, no effective plans on the pitch and being thumped by a team at the bottom who have only won once on the opening day. Why on earth would we be worried?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 25, 2017 16:02:48 GMT
3-2 bury i think we will lose again thats who I'm putting my money on tomorrow anyhow Joke is wearing a bit thin now TBH
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 25, 2017 12:37:11 GMT
I'm not racist (I once spoke to a shop assistant who was a little bit black and I actually know someone who speaks with a slightly odd accent), but 'William Muir' sounds like a suspiciously Scottish name. Even if he was born here - can we send him back?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 24, 2017 20:13:33 GMT
Yes, what I took from it was that Thomas (certainly) and Obika (probably) were all too ready to moan about a twinge - real or imagined - and immediately rule themselves out. Er, quite. That's what I was saying. Which made it slightly surprising that you disagreed fairly aggressively! Ermm, can you point out where I did so Charlie? If you read my comment I was disagreeing with yellowbow (who failed to use the quote facility properly!)
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 24, 2017 17:06:38 GMT
My initial reaction when i heard it yesterday was that Pep is unhappy with his players self diagnosis. It doesn't sound much different having listened to it again tonight. Yes, what I took from it was that Thomas (certainly) and Obika (probably) were all too ready to moan about a twinge - real or imagined - and immediately rule themselves out.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 24, 2017 12:20:40 GMT
Quite clearly the suggestion from the manager was that he thought that Thomas should have made himself available to play. The whole 'of course a knee injury is a serious thing so he will be out for a long time" was a sarky/frustrated gambit by which he just about held himself back from saying that one of his players isn't putting his body on the line. I actually welcome that Pep is starting to see that there are issues to sort out as well as Koolade to hand round. If he grasps those nettles firmly and does what has to be done then we should be fine. I didn't hear the comments but just playing Devil's advocate, could it have been a language barrier thing and Pep was actually alluding to Wes previously being out for a long time with a knee injury and will therefore have a few twinges a pulls that will mean he misses a few games? That isn't what he said. At all. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05fqqn7 about 37 minutes in
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 23, 2017 21:37:54 GMT
An embarrassing and feeble display. Nobody takes any credit at apart from Eastwood and Hall. Can someone please tell GvK that sometimes you have to jump for headers, to stop falling over at any given moment and teach him the offside law. If he could occasionally tackle or track back that might be nice. Can someone explain to me exactly what we were trying to do today? Because I honestly have no idea. Rolling the ball out to men already being closed down, playing it side to side before either hacking it long or losing it seemed to be the master plan. We had little pace, no energy, no enthusiasm, no cutting edge. And whodda thunk it, our injury prone strikers are injured. Worrying enough even without the complacent and delusional post match interviews. I have a horrible feeling about the rest of the season - one performance like that might be excusable, two or three so close together are not. You can't win games of football by playing well for 10 or 15 minutes and being complete crap for rest of the match.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 22, 2017 20:22:43 GMT
On a side note, Fuckin glad we didn't sign doidge. Agree with that, on this showing we doidged a bullet!
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 22, 2017 19:06:10 GMT
I thought O'Beaker was Irish?
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 22, 2017 16:03:18 GMT
There is enough real discrimination and bigotry to fight against without this silly nonsense.
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Post by ZeroTheHero on Sept 22, 2017 15:13:47 GMT
Match abandoned after 81 minutes, floodlight failure. With the current state of the lights, if one or two bulbs go then your prediction will be correct!
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