cityal
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I am unsure. Is 6526 "nearly a full house?"
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Huddersfield Town at home match thread
cityal replied to Jerseybean's topic in The Havanatopia Match Day Archive
Too many passes misplaced, under-hit or over-hit. If you were rating players out of ten I'd struggle to find someone above six. -
Blackburn Rovers at home match thread
cityal replied to Jerseybean's topic in The Havanatopia Match Day Archive
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Blackburn Rovers at home match thread
cityal replied to Jerseybean's topic in The Havanatopia Match Day Archive
In recent months we have been often let down by our final ball. It seems the answer is to have the other team do that for us. -
What are "plans", and why do you need them for a football stand? ....Asking for a friend
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"Iconic season" eh Dan?
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Sunderland away match thread
cityal replied to Jerseybean's topic in The Havanatopia Match Day Archive
I guess we all find it hard to sleep on a coach. -
Would professional football clubs still exist without wealthy owners?
cityal replied to reddogkev's topic in Football Chat
If there were no wealthy owners would the "market" just not re-adjust itself in time. i.e. clubs would eventually end up living within their means and being a bang average championship pro footballer (maybe £10k per week £500K per year) would not pay more than being a surgeon (maybe £100K pewr year) *big cavbeat here these are googled figures ao could be way off, but the way football pays players is frankly at the point of being gross. -
Statistically, we have the easiest last seven games in the division
cityal replied to Silvio Dante's topic in Football Chat
He looked it up online - the analyst team are now researching a dutch player called van der graaf- 38 replies
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I fully support them moving to Scotland!!
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Bottom 3 in 2024 table - Tinnion defend this (sackable)
cityal replied to Shauntaylor85's topic in Football Chat
IMO the issue is that it's not just Conway - this time last year fans were often also praising Pring, Tanner, Vyner, and Bell (to a lesser extent). All of these players were likely increasing in value and some were rumoured to be drawing admiring glances from other clubs. It would be hard to argue ANY of these players have increased in value this season, though injuries have palyed a part in this. Behind all of the players above we could see progress too in OTC, Knight-lebel, Leeson, Kadji, Araoye. It may be a false impression given by the fact that we see fewer academy prospects on the bench and getting minutes, but it feels like the very clear and much talked about "pathway" that existed under the previous regime has been covered over by the weeds. -
I think that is worry many share. If Manning is still here next season we need the momentum moving upwards again in the summer.
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The chances of us reaching the playoffs and going up are probably 1 in 1000 or lower. But if a miracle happened and we did go up via the pray offs, can you just imagine this team in the prem next season?? we'd make the Burnley and Sheffield utd of this season look like Real Madrid.
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It will be great to have him back fit for the start of the 2025/2026 season!
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These two posts sum up their mindset and the reason the gap is in the 20's. They can easily claim they would "do better" with the same resources we have had. BUT because they have had crap crowds for 2-3 generations they don't have that kind of money. If their fans actually started turning up at home and selling out their little ground they might progress.