Lrrr

What just over half a second separating 1st and 9th? Max didn't even have the quickest lap in the 3 sessions, his lead in Q3 would have been the slipstream off Piastri he got starting his lap. I will say I'll be very disappointed if Ferrari don't have this blasting out, horny Horner it seems

Why would he bend his style? He was brought in for his style

Thought Tommy's answer to the contract question was absolutely fine, personally I don't think he will sign but he's not going to commit one way or another to a question mid season so he batted it away comfortably.

Its a game by the looks of it, if the player miscontrols it and the ball goes out of the lines they’re eliminated, the risk for the passer is too much power over control and you risk passing outside the lines and you’re eliminated. So the game focuses on the how quickly/accurately can you pass the ball as well as your ability to receive heavy passes under pressure

Why would we send someone to Weston over Bath if Bath want them? Jerry Gill has been very good for a lot of our younger players and he's in a promotion push rather than a season thats fizzling out.

He certainly wasn't doing it in U21's games when he was given the chance to impress Frankly he needed those seasons in L1 to improve himself, only thing we could have said was for us to loan him out instead of sell.

He can always return from the loan at Bath, for the here and now he gets competitive first team minutes.

Think he will after scoring in his first start

He won’t get minutes for our first team in any game where we don’t use wingers so you kill the amount of minutes he may get instantly anyway

Objectively it’s a great move for Yeboah, playing at a standard where he has a real chance to have a big effect on games, he’s at Bath at a younger age then Conway was for reference.

Pearson wasn't sacked for performance though regardless what was said in public

All of who were either fighting for staying away from the drop zone or in Sunderland's case trying to cling to the play offs, at this point play offs aren't an option for us and its very difficult to think we'll go down so what's the real benefit of sacking him atm rather than giving him some more time?

Not sure Bashir has the control for test matches on English pitches yet, best thing for him probably would be getting him to play every game for Somerset and develop if they're serious about him as a serious test player for the next decade. At home Dawson would probably be available who'd offer more in the here and now.

And to think we found out spinner from tiktok

Great effort from Ross to have got himself back 2 months ahead of schedule, how many players would have taken it easy at the rate their club were saying was advisable. Equally, they've taken some knocks on here and elsewhere from time to time but huge credit to our physio/medical department those who are here now and those who departed to even help Ross save his career

Well on the basis Conway doesn't fit Manning's style of play one who does would have been a benefit whether that have been Moore or someone else

You’re in full on data scientist levels there, with the tens upon tens of thousands quids worth of data you then needs someone capable of creating voronoi polygons and evaluating special control then building models to evaluate it

So if anything Nigel inherited even more options, whether or not he chose to use them, Manning's had to have benches full of academy players too at the start. Conway/Scott discussed above, they were in the building and training regularly with the first team whether they'd made their debuts or not, that was down to Holden choosing not to play them.

Scott was more then ready for Championship and showed almost straight away, he wasn't the key player he became sure, but he was definitely a squad player. Conway came in and had an almost immediate impact, again not as a starter or key player but remember him also having a couple of disallowed goals and positive performances.

So you can take all of the players out who were injured when Manning arrived as well then in that case, the statement was based on squad when the manager took over, Mawson, Baker, Dasilva & Weimann were all squad members when Pearson took over, he inherited them as players, the original post claimed Manning has inherited better players.

I'd say it was as that's the way the statement was phrased, it wasn't 'the best state the club has been in' or anything it was purely a statement claiming Manning has inherited the best squad of players, which I don't think it is, the squad as a collective was better when Nigel arrived, now that obviously has the factor as you mention that the squad would have cost more and a discussion of the best value for money squad could be a different answer, but I responded to the statement that was given.

Pearson wasn't sacked for results, it was all BS though and cover for the reason they did sack him. He was off at the end of the season anyway as we were never going to offer him a new deal. This shouldn't be projected onto Manning as 'we never should have got rid of Pearson'. This has got all the feelings of how Johnson was criticised early for the 'Cotts should never have been sacked' sort of thing.

Goalkeepers NP: Bentley, O'Leary LM: O'Leary, Bajic RB NP: Hunt, Sessegnon LM: McCrorie, Tanner CB NP: Kalas, Mawson, Baker, Vyner LM: Vyner, Dickie, Naismith, Atkinson LB NP: Dasilva, Pring LM: Pring, Roberts CM NP: Massengo, Nagy, Scott, Williams, Brunt, Walsh LM: James, Knight, Williams, TGH, King Wingers: NP: Paterson, O'Dowda, Eliasson, Weimann LM: Bell, Sykes, Mehmeti AM: NP: Palmer LM: (Knight being pushed into here) ST: NP: Wells, Diedhiou, Conway LM: Wells, Conway, Cornick I think the only positions I'd take Manning's players would be RB & CM otherwise I'd take the options Pearson inherited. I'd say now our squad looks better rounded but I think there was better quality in the squad Pearson inherited.

Absolutely ****ing pathetic post The 'we have a squad capable of competing' comment was justification for getting rid of Pearson when they did otherwise they didn't have it Its definitely not the best squad inherited, if its the fittest because we've decided to go out and sign athletes which any manager previously could have done, but this is a general trend in English top couple of divisions anyway so we'd have been left behind if we didn't do it. We've given Manning little by way to change the squad/invest, in January he's been given a Murphy who isn't ready for first team, 2 signings who've been loaned straight back out in Bird & Stokes. So only Twine & Mebude as loanees who could potentially influence the first team now. Are there games we should have won that we've lost? Sure, but anyone is deluded if they think this squad SHOULD be in the top 6 or even just outside. Its a top 10 squad at best and everyone on here knows Pearson was doing a fine job and frankly Manning has us around where we should be. Pearson offered us our first bit of stability in ages, we can't go back to 20 games without play off form means the sack.

You’d think… but no, kit manufacturer just gives you the standard socks. You then get the players who cut the whole of the sole off so it’s effectively a tube so they just have a normal pair of socks on their feet in the boot itself, designed so less material and more feel in the boot, normal sock over football sock as usually it’s a comfier material