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Merrick's Marvels

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  1. Like father, like son. Good technique, good motor, bit of a nice, soft lad.
  2. Nor me! But we have to give him game time and opportunities to develop as we haven't the money to buy an oven ready player in that position, so it seems sensible in a season when we aren't going up or down, to see whether he's made of the right stuff. I'm not sure he has but can see Pearson's logic in selecting him and also greatly respect the manager's ability to blood novices such as Bell at the same time as grinding out results in this brutal league.
  3. Bell has 5 goals and a couple of assists this season. That puts him ahead of Mehmeti for me, at present, who needs to improve his end product. Hopefully that comes in time. We were playing a side likely to dominate possession and our best bet of getting a result was quick counter attacks on transition - a tactic well suited to Bell's strengths. For exactly the same reason, Cornick was selected because he's good at constantly harassing the opposition and forcing mistakes against teams who can keep the ball better than us. Did you see how we got a result against Boro the other week, for example? Did you see how well Bell and Cornick played that day? Yesterday's plan was clearly to try and do the same again. Bar uncharacteristic individual errors that led to both their goals - the first still requiring a worldie finish from Benson - those tactics and that team selection would have got us a result against the best team in the league. Mehmeti is full of promise and technically excellent. But apart from an excellent assist against Wigan and a tap in against Stoke you or I could have scored, his contributions so far have been that of a show pony - nutmegs, step overs etc. All well and good but there needs to be end product. I hope it comes, it'll be great fun if it does.
  4. I think I'm right in saying, we're the only club in the Championship not to have any loans. And it's not only the promoted teams who've used players from Premier League teams - e.g. the 2 from Man City at Sheff Utd this season - but the relegated ones have them too, for all the good it's done them. So lots of recruitment just to plug holes in the squad for many of our rivals.
  5. Who would you have dropped from the starting line-up yesterday to accommodate him? Or left off the bench to accommodate him?
  6. The under statement of the season! Given his initial consultancy 10 years ago was a failure - and required the arrival of Cotterill and Burt to sort the mess we were in - it's scarcely credible that Lansdown went back for more. Perhaps he doesn't get the try before you buy concept.
  7. Tbf, he actually recognised this after the Coppell fiasco and so sought "professional" help. Unfortunately, that help was called Mark Ashton. Lansdown asked the right questions about how he was running the club but came up with the wrong answer. Wouldn't it be interesting to know what led him to the door marked 'Swiss Tony, Snakeoil Salesman'?
  8. I'll take our manager over theirs every day of the week. And none of their players - bar Chair - would be an upgrade on what we already have. As we know too well, sometimes a club is held back by things off the field not being right. I get that feeling with QPR and one or two others in this division.
  9. A proper bench. If our starters play well enough to keep that lot sat down for 90 minutes, we're on to something.
  10. I'll be disappointed if he makes it from the car park into the ground. I'm sharpening my pitchfork already.
  11. Since Day 1, he's been ******* you over - you just don't know it yet. Then - like us - you'll wake up one day and realise you're losing money hand over fist, costs out of control, expenditure irresponsibly outstripping income and you're hurtling towards an FFP breach and a points deduction. You'll look for the CEO to stand up and be counted, only to catch sight of his sorry ass scarpering over the horizon to another job, leaving devastation in his wake. So give it time, yeah. He's been with you 5 minutes but it takes a while for the shit to hit the fan with this arrogant, vainglorious pr 1 ck. It just takes a while for someone else to read the whirlwind. It won't be him, for sure.
  12. The comment was intended⁰ to suggest he's not a Bakinson or Tomlin, not a bad apple who will disrupt the group and, despite turning 30 this year, not an old lag looking for one last pay cheque who'll just dial it in every day.
  13. Does he have the right attitude? Would he make us stronger overall?
  14. Never judge a book by its cover, they say, but we can make an exception for this specimen.
  15. McCrorie's main weakness is reported as lacking a final ball. We won't be playing someone who can't cross the ball as a wide player high up the pitch. Given, as well as his physical attributes, he's described as a leader and captain material, I'd wager the plan is for him to play in a central position, from where he can influence the whole team. He seems, to me, the type of player you sign if the spine of your team needs strengthening
  16. The best in that position in the Championship though?
  17. Slaughtered. The centre backs are garbage for a start. I'd have Gyokeres for us all day long but is he Prem standard? Or indeed Akpom - is this season a flash in the pan? Ndiaye - really??
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