And Its Smith

Ban the stupid parents and move on. 

2 minutes ago, HappyClapper said:

A lot of knee jerk reaction after that game, and you might say rightly so.

Some of you will see this through your lens (NP in /out). FWIW I don’t see that there is much to argue with anything he says.

If he could fix it whilst also being plain speaking that would be great 

10 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

Nah. We had about the same number of shots, and shots on target, better shots as well. We were well worth a point today.

No panic.

No way.  Bentley had a fair few saves to make. Etheridge barely had any.  With defending like we defended in the first half we got what we deserved, nothing. 

Bentley 6

Bell 2

Kalas 5

Klose 5

Dasilva 6

James 2

Williams 2

Scott 4

weimann 5

Martin 4

Semenyo 4

Probably the most embarrassing half of Pearsons reign. A few more performances like this, conceding goals with non league defending, and his job will be under pressure 

Shane Warne - the best bowler of all time in my eyes. Shocking news 

7 minutes ago, richwwtk said:

Every time I hear about Allan Stanford I get a hazy memory of Steve Lansdown going to watch cricket in the West Indies as his guest?

Am I completely mad with this or does it ring a bell with anybody else?

I don’t recall anything about Lansdown being there 

42 minutes ago, magunn said:

An interesting podcast on the BBC about the financial shenanigans at Notts County , remember Sven and Sol Campbell. 
Worth a listen. 
 

For those who don’t know the story. NCFC taken over by multi millionaire who employs a well known Manager and past it players with promise of new ground and the premier league within 5 years. Turns out to be a fraud. 
 

Sorry perhaps this is better in Dustbin Rovers thread 

It’s great isn’t it

Sports Weirdest Crime Podcast. Series 1 about Allan Stanford is brilliant as well 

1 hour ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

It’s the modern world mate - the younger generations wake up every day now and their first thoughts are “Right, what I can be offended by today?” - “Who can I implore others to ‘cancel’ today?” - “Who can I encourage others to ‘pile on’ people on social media because their views and opinions are different from mine?” - “Whose career can I attempt to ruin because they stand for different stuff than my views?”

... and they go through the day full of angst, pent up anger and misery because the world doesn’t necessary agree with everything they think and say - they can’t handle it, even though they’ve populated our planet for less than 20 years, yet in their eyes everyone who has been through loads of real life stuff and who have proper perspective on the real issues, should be cancelled because their views don’t necessarily reflect the stances that the loud leftists have been taught to believe at universities etc ...

I fear for this country over the next few decades - the generations coming through are weak and indoctrinated... and if they had their way, we would have had to go though Brexit, a global pandemic and the Ukraine / Russia crisis with Corbyn, Abbott, Thornberry, McDonnell etc at the helm - and true to form, Corbyn has already blamed the UK and the US for the horrendous situation in Ukraine ... I need a Malbec

Sounds like you’ve had enough. What utter tosh.  I have children in the younger generations and i coach kids in two separate sports and don’t recognise this at all. That’s over 35 kids.  What I see is a wonderful generation with plenty of respect and kindness to one another.  When I look to the older people in my life I see a lot of snowflake behaviour, bitterness and a very insular attitude.  The over 50s are the generation that bought us Brexit and a decade of Tory rule. 

Rather than fear for this country I have hope.  This country is in an awful place right now and if you think that’s young peoples fault then you are crazy. 

It’s staggering what will upset people

1 hour ago, tin said:

Wonder if our Twitter team will do the same for St George’s Day on 23 April. I doubt it. 

Thanks for letting me know when it is! Always forget 

2 minutes ago, tin said:

Agree to an extent but Lees shouldn’t be in the squad IMO, let alone the XI. Of the openers on the county circuit, I could understand looking at Libby, Yates or Haines or sticking with Hameed on pitches that will suit him.

Robson, Lyth, Stoneman, Duckett, Hameed, Bracey and Yates all scored more runs than Lees last summer, who averaged 39 with one century. I hope he goes well, but I’m not holding my breath. 

I think they are (and should) focus on other areas rather than just the average. We need to identify players with the technique and temperament for test cricket and sometimes that isn’t the highest average scorers from county cricket 

Just now, RedRock said:

Somewhat bizarrely they got mixed up from start of the game. 

Because their numbers on the back were opposite to the team sheet 

Goal for Cardiff.  Down the city right, cross from deep, Soady loses man. Good finish 

Good save from HWR 

1 minute ago, Redtucks said:

....on for Idehen I thought.

 

Pretty sure it was Towler.  

Zac Bell on for the injured Towler 

And we are back 

Stream now down.  
 

City look okay.  Going long a fair bit but it’s working quite well. Early ball into Wells is effective. 

Wells link play is looking good today. Lays off to Conway who blazes over from the edge of the box. Decent chance 

Goal!!  Tommy Conway. Mistake by keeper after a long ball over the top and Conway left with empty net 

Awful mistake by Idehen to give away a penalty. Saved by Wiles-Richards 

3 hours ago, tin said:

Lees got scores of 2 and 1 opening for England Lions in the one-off match versus Australia A a few months ago. Lawrence has no technique and Overton runs in hard but does little to warrant inclusion. 

Ridiculous to think Bracey got a ton in that Lions game, against an attack containing Neser and Boland, and Norwell took a five-fer yet neither get a look-in against a poor Windies team who will raise their game to beat us IMO. 

Not sure what singling out two innings from Lees proves.  Every batsman who’s ever lived as had a match like that.   Bracey will get another chance for sure but on his debut he looked like a bag of nerves which wouldn’t have helped. 

England have named a 12 to face a CWI President's XI in a 4-day match from tomorrow in Antigua. 

No Ollie Pope, with Dan Lawrence preferred at No4. DL in line to play 1st Test.

Crawley, Lees, Root, Lawrence, Stokes, Bairstow, Foakes (wk), Woakes, Overton, Wood, Robinson, Leach

23 minutes ago, SouthS22 said:

You've made a decent counter argument right there.  Make the fans feel a bit better.  Its been a tough few seasons and some of us really want to feel a bit better about our club.  If you're okay with seeing your football team surrender abjectly on a regular basis, giving away soft goal after soft goal, in the hope that its for the greater long term good, fair play to you.  Me personally, and I seem to be in a minority on here at least, I'm more impatient and less optimistic that there are sunlit uplands ahead if we just hang on in there through the current grimness.   I expect more than that after a year.  I want to at least see some organisation, a solid structure, and a lot more motivation on the field and some good decision making on the side lines.  Its true that threre has been progress on all fronts, and this is the thread that I'm clinging to as regards hopes for the future, but its an incredibly frustrating one step forward, a few indiscriminate shuffles in no discernable directon, and one step back again.       

I would argue also that accessing the loan market could very much be part of a good longer term strategy.  It's about momentum and trajectory and creating a sense of positivity and optimism about the football cllub again, and surely that's worth a few extra quid and NP compromising on his bloody-mindedness, and getting with the reality of modern football for at least part of a season. 

I also don't buy the reasoning that getting loans will damage efforts to build a long term side and squad.  How is one or two loans in positions where we are really short going to disrupt that?  All football clubs see player turnover and unless this particular leopard has turned into a zebra during Covid, we're not going to be any different in the summer when the transfer windows.  Given this reality in football, the focus becomes how you manage that turnover and how you get different players to fit into your philosophy and style, assuming of course that you have one.  Are those three loans fatally damaging Steve Cooper's efforts to build a long term side and squad?  I'm pretty sure he doesn't think so and he looks like he knows what he's doing to me.  

The Forest comparison isn’t relevant. They are going for the play offs.

Regardless, I was answering the question of why the lack of loans.  Whether you or I disagree with the current policy doesn’t really come into that.  The reason is clear.  I would say that for a podcast to be most affective it needs debate and even sometimes for people to play devils advocate to create that debate.  The fact that nobody could put the counter argument for not loaning players in (Pearsons argument) meant that an opportunity for debate was lost.  
 

As Fevs mentioned, some contributors seemed to pretend they didn’t know. Let’s not confuse understanding the reason behind the decision with agreeing with the decision itself. 
 

I actually do completely agree with Pearson on this but other views are fair enough. I’m certainly not going to disagree strongly with fans wanting short term plus points by way of loans even if I believe it just slows down long term success. It’s just personal preference.