Lrrr

Perhaps training session viewed as more valuable then a run out to start understanding what Manning wants

We advertised for a head of sports science a while ago so that will just be the successful candidate and (probably) no influence from Manning.

Random bloke called Steve Smith getting dogs abuse from Indian fans on Twitter, must be pretty funny when it’s nothing to do with you

Hardly, outside playing Australia I couldn't really care how they get on in the rest of their matches. But very much agree with the reasons for not wanting India to win. Particularly given everything India did to try and bias the tournament in their favour.

But if you're playing in an u19's football team you play when you're 19

Waiting for a copy of this

Waiting for claims that Teds only go along on the basis of trying to beat their attendances

Wrexham probably should stay quiet on ticket prices too

Also, how much would Wrexham have made from the international stream? Probably enough to fund that £5 reduction

Which is what every club does, the Accrington owner said the increase in price was partly due to the increase in policing costs for the game

Makes it even worse that they were working with the PL and couldn't bring themselves under the limit, ultimately they could have not signed players or sold players to ensure they were under and didn't, they could have borrowed from a bank to be allowed to put the interest and loans under stadium/infrastructure but they didn't. This shouldn't come back to 'but we could have done this but we didn't because we thought it benefitted us at the time'.

I would guess each of those relegated in the 3 year period

The reaction on SSN is a joke, basically trying everything they can to lean on saying Everton shouldn’t really have been punished

The points deduction means nothing as they’ll climb out soon again, what will be more interesting is if the effected clubs who lost out on PL survival as a result will try and take them to court over lost earnings suffered from relegation. The PL has effectively found them guilty.

Another 4 would be 5, we'd have one at the initial transfer time, so 5x4.5m = 22.5 + 2m for survival and 1m for appearances make a potential fee of 25.5 add the 25% of profit.

Me three Anderson probably comes in at LWB, could be interesting what they do when Rob goes back to the first team if they want to stay three at the back.

Yeah this stinks, wicket changed last minute apparently so India knew which deck they were using, the pitch consultant was told of the change rather than being included as part of the discussion, why even bother having a consultant then….

JKL is definitely clear of Raph, he’s too ponderous on the ball, will turn back to goal too easily if he can’t decide. JKL will usually seemingly have a clearer picture of what he wants to do with the ball and takes a lot less time on it, Raph anywhere near first team football atm would be easy to press.

Hand very much forced into the situation though has to be taken into account, he probably would have had nothing more than the odd token minute if that if we hadn't had the amount of injuries to our front line that we have.

A side case that some will probably be off around the world over the winter for 20/20 competitions? Keeps them all ticking over and they’ve probably had about as long off as footballers have in the summer. would be interested in what their winter training schedule is like though

He’s not finish he’s only 28

It’ll be some comp due as he won’t have worked a notice period for leaving, happens lower down than league one its becoming more prevalent, will probably oversee the analysis department while someone else will lead the day to day but then he’s also out on the pitches coaching

People thought it worked differently? Edit - Although you do get the odd one where the head coach will have the say due to working with them and therefore the head coaches knowledge of the player is best, LJ and Brownhill comes to mind. But by large its the collaborative effort for 90-95%

Formations mean jack shit, the club should have principles around the style of play/philosophy and the formation is just the realisation of that in the form that best presents itself in how to be successful whether its 3 at the back or 4. Ideally you should have a squad that is flexible enough to play either as if you recruit to just one and get found out you leave yourself wanting and scratching about. Academy sides shouldn't be forced to play one formation either, its not like a 1st team where you can buy players to fill gaps (EPPP aside). If someone is missing you either use someone else in that age group to fill a gap or go to the age group below for a player, whats better is players learning how to play multiple formations and the roles within that and learning how to be successful doing this, it helps you prepare long term as in football a player could have 5 different head coaches of the first team by the time they reach it and imagine if each gave their own instructions on how the academy was made to play from bottom to top. The only one you could make some allowance for playing like the 1st team would be the U21's.

2 sloppy goals to concede