Maltshoveller

1 hour ago, Simon bristol said:

Arsenal have had a very good season but ive not really blown away by saka playing for england, to the point you would say hes a star man like kane or bellingham and who would be key to us actually winning anything. I wouldnt say that foden, grealish or rashford have been at that level yet either though they are all clearly talented, and after seeing palmer last night he should certainly be in with a shout.

Kane and Bellingham are our star players

but 

Getting a back 4 that can defend will be key to us winning anything

We have had the likes of Ferdinand Terry Cole Adams Campbell King in the past

couldnt win anything with them All of them would walk into the current team

9 hours ago, Malago said:

Palmer is a real talent, but if you’re going to play Foden at No 10 with Bellingham and Rice in central midfield, where do you play Palmer?  I suppose he could play on the left of Kane, with Saka on the right, but I can’t see Southgate having guts to pick so many naturally gifted players.

As long as it keep the spinless Rashford out of the side I would be happy with that

Every fan knows it is the Law

Every player knows it is the  Law

So just keep your ducking shirt on you morons Simple

30 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

100%.

Tinnion wouldn’t have had a clue who De Zerbi was, Brighton are so far ahead of us in every respect it is ridiculous.
 

Nether would 99.9% of our fans

and if DeZerbi had come to us instead of B&HA when he was an unknown

those fans would have been slagging the club off for not getting a "name"

Just now, The Original OTIB said:

Hats off, nothing else to say. Fantastic attitude. Speed metal football. Deserve to go up.

If they finish in the top two Yes

Just now, luke_bristol said:

What a finish that is, Ipswich player fluffs it then stabs it in while getting up off the ground 

When your luck is in its in

5 games without a goal

81,300 sorry 8130

3 hours ago, Kid in the Riot said:

In terms of where the money came from, yes. And to be fair Chelsea were (eventually) sanctioned for that. 

Regards breaking financial rules though, City have (allegedly) taken it to another level. 

For me if a club can afford to spend money let them

3 hours ago, reddogkev said:

Trying to think of a benefit of having Manning as the gaffer, and an obvious one could be using his former Hammers connections to bring in some young ones for a season loan?

Maybe the next Declan Rice, or going back a decade or two - the next Joe Cole?  It would be a big boast for the squad for next season.  I'm still waiting for us to bring in our next Tammy and a West Ham player would go down a treat.

Kalvin Phillips knowing our luck

1 hour ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Individual games and small sample size sure but over time it can paint pictures, trends. Good and bad..can fail or overcorrect too.

That is what the league table does

I would hope any manager does not need to look at xg to see if his team 

are giving away chances or not scoring goals from chances etc

should be able to see that with his own eyes

1 minute ago, The Original OTIB said:

Never pay attention to it. Needless construct, what actually happens is all that matters.

Spot on

On 30/03/2024 at 07:48, Harry said:

Must have been really great tactical planning for the opposition. 
They had an XG of 1.9. 
That’s higher than in 22 other games Leicester played this season. So we didn’t exactly ‘keep them quiet’ due to some tactical master plan. 
22 other teams have limited them to less chances. 
And you very easily gloss over the Vardy chances. 
We could easily have lost that 3-1 had he tucked away those. 
 

It was a good win. But let’s not get carried away. We got lucky. 

Proves one thing

XG counts for Jack

See Sri Lanka hit 521 in the 1st innings of their test match v Bangladesh

I think this is a record score without any batsmen hitting a ton in test history

20 hours ago, Super said:

Blimey that was some effort by Bath in the 2nd half

Should have put that much effort in the 1st half

14 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Reports that both James and Gallagher could be sold to clear their FFP deficit.

Whether that also is separate to other such as Broja etc.

Yeah need to be sold before 30th June

Every other club knows this so will have no need to give full asking price until July

I had hoped VAR would stop the bigger  clubs getting all the iffy calls

But VAR seems to look for something to give these bigger clubs

If a Brentford player went down in the Utd box They would look at one angle If nothing odvious say play on

If it was the other way VAR would look at about 20 angles until they found one that looked like contact on the Utd player

If this was in Italy we would all be talking about Cash filled envelopes etc 

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

Pointless post.  Conway is off, and even if he wasn’t, he’s the superior player. FACT! 

 

 

 

(Well, imho)

Well done on knowing the difference between FACT and Opinion

So many on here dont 

FACT

5 minutes ago, The Coach said:

I knew that was coming

Why dont you do a post slagging wells off?

he could do with a goal 

14 minutes ago, archie andrews said:

Hows mehmeti not subbed?.....

No idea PEP !!

(easy with hindsight)

5 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said:

CSK very good co comm, talks sense for the most part.

Thats one opinion 

1 minute ago, The Original OTIB said:

We all know that.

It doesnt sink in for some

1 hour ago, Ian M said:

He's clearly an addict that needs help. Instead our FA will throw the book at him and refuse him access to his colleagues, pushing him further down a hole.

Is he clearly an addict?

may be he just likes a gamble

IF he needs help It is HIS job to sort it Not the FA

On 24/03/2024 at 11:00, Fordy62 said:

I may be in a minority here but I absolutely love the IPL. It’s everything that every 20 over cricket tournament should be. 

When I retire in 11 years and 8 months, I’ll be booking my plane ticket to go and watch. I imagine it’s incredible. 

Go Rajasthan!

Agree with the first bit the IPL is great

but 

Go Sunrisers

4 hours ago, cidercity1987 said:

Max Bird getting promoted automatically with his childhood club and then joining a distant team with no greater prospects  

I can see some money changing hands and the transfer cancelled to avoid us having a greatly demotivated player

Mate of mine who follows Derby home and away is totally gutted Bird is joining us  Asked him who he would keep out of Bird and Knight Said Bird all day long Said would also have Knight back in a shot