WolfOfWestStreet

4 minutes ago, italian dave said:

Agree. And even with Howe….club and international management are very very different beasts and his success at club level certainly doesn’t guarantee he’d reproduce managing a national side. 

1 million percent. 2 champions league winning managers didn't even get there teams to the QF stage. 

It might sound crazy, but Harry Redknapp is better suited to this game than a klopp/pep ... these players don't need coaching they need managing. 

Howe will manage England at some point though, its inevitable.

5 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

If we went for a change what are the options? No way we can go foreign again, I don't think. Potter or Cooper? Meh.

Howe never leaving Newcastle. So, who?

Pearson 

This is it. There are no exciting English options, don't want foreign either.

Copper absolutely not, Potter - yes but he's a young coach this is too early for him.

Howe, yes please but he's currently managing one of the richest clubs in the world, and doing a stellar job so england isn't attractive. 

Then we're talking about the Parker's, Gerrard's of the world ... get to **** 

Stick for me, when you look at the options the FA should be BEGGING him to stay, double down on Gareth IMHO 

7 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Well said. Didier Deschamps has managed to make France a very non-emotional team, which isn't typically French. Their efficency is quite German. We kept Mbappe quiet. They scored a great opener. It's a gutter. Score that pen and who knows.

What I like about this england team is they seem so relaxed, no crazy media stuff following them around, no front page scandals like we've seen before. Just a good honest bunch of lads with the world at their feet.

Yeah sometimes you get on the wrong end of a scoreline that arguably they don't deserve but that's sport, it's brutal. 

I'm a firm beliver in southgate and the culture he's built and I really do hope he decides to have another crack  

It's a real shame because we played really, really well against a fantastic opponent. 

The pathway was there for a world cup final appearance. Elite sport often comes down to tiny margins and it didn't roll out way this time.

This england team are a likeable bunch with great potential, not a time to be upset, the core of this team is really young we'll be back. 

I'd build around bellingham, foden, rice and Saka. Give jude the armband and go get that next euros.

20 minutes ago, daored said:

And also when people make stupid comments about his recruitment and question the players he’s brought in, mostly free transfers and a lot of untried players at this level 

This is all true but he could coach them better. An argument for another time though.

Obviously we have no money to spaff on playing staff and we are still operating with huge losses. Any ambitions outside of just remaining in this league need to be seriously tempered, however just "remaining" in the championship is not sustainable without the yearly bailout by SL.

The club probably needs to start looking at alternate investment if the club is to progress. 

That's quite enough Bristol City for me this year.

Everyone there should just go home, the players have.

At least next season we get to have punch-ups with the Gas so every cloud 

Shame this. The "behind the scenes" noise has been very minimal since he took the post. Clearly a safe pair of hands. 

Good luck to him, need another Gould and not another Ashton taking the reigns. 

Do you even get to choose your seat when you buy an away ticket? 

Brutal watch this 

2 hours ago, Harry said:

The thing that the common fan doesn’t understand is that managers look for a performance as much as a result. 
You’ll hear it from Pearson most weeks, as well as most other managers. 
The theory being that, if your performance is good, then in the majority of cases the result should follow. 
In this game, Hibs had 64% possession, 18 shots, 7 on target (vs Dundee Utds 1), nearly twice as many passes than their opponent, with a pass accuracy of nearly 80%. 
On paper, and on the pitch, the actual performance was dominant and in most cases, this would normally end in a positive result. This time it didn’t. And that will always happen on occasion. 
So to the common fan, it’s a bollox comment but to him and his players, they’ll be happy with the performance. 
 

To be fair, he’s got them 3rd in the table after 10 games, so given that 3rd place is the best you’re ever gonna get in that league, he ain’t doing too bad so far. 

Stop spitting facts @harry this is otib ... you must be new here

No worries @ExiledAjax Martin does some great work digging up the grim underbelly of football finance. 

This particular deal is particularly horrible because it "looks" like greedy white men pyramid selling to very low income West Africans. Now the cat is out of the bag it's only a matter of time before Fulham cut ties.

Other good journalists in this space worth following are 

Some generous scoring on the player ratings. DaSilva and HNM were just shocking

Klose must have done something to upset NP for the absolutely dreadful King to start over him. 

Horrible watch. 

6 minutes ago, Port Said Red said:

I don't care what anyone else thinks, but some of our fans are a bunch of ***** the way they turn on the team.

Bollocks. Poor performance needs highlighting 

Controversial but thatchers orange is amazing  

15 hours ago, ScottishRed said:

Mrs loves Thatchers Katy. She can’t undersand why it’s not on draught .

Because its lairy juice

On 29/09/2022 at 19:14, phantom said:

Is this unique or do Thatchers supply to others? 

Had a thatchers at spurs for the nfl last year 

2 minutes ago, joe jordans teeth said:

Get down the pub 

Very ******* tempting 

If Naysmith comes back on second half I'm going home. 

On 28/09/2022 at 12:19, ExiledAjax said:

Interesting. Which journalist?

As you say I'd hope we don't accept it. I also wonder if we had something similar to this as part of the Mansion Bet and Dunder deals?

Well worth a follow. Niche is unearthing the shitty stuff in football. Crypto nonsense, gambling, all the weird stuff that's crept in. 

Don't know about the former deals, and I'll be honest Dunder just appeared to be a money laundering operation not a bookie.

20 hours ago, ExiledAjax said:

It looks like the Club gets a portion of the losses rather than 100% of losses. They get "100% of the EFL Digital Share of Losses". That will not be 100% of the total losses and as we don't know exactly what the "EFL Digital Share" is and we don't know exactly how "Losses" are defined either, it's hard to say whether £0.00 is surprising or not. We'd need to see the contract to which this statement is related in order to see just how much Clubs might be benefiting from their encouragement of gambling.

But, you're correct that this looks like Clubs get a fixed and long-term financial benefit from advertising gambling products on their websites or during their games. Which is, as you say, pretty disgusting.

Some research was done by a journo and he discovered that clubs have a choice whether they accept this money or not. The reason it is zero is apparently AS don't. 

I doubt every club does the same. I'd like to put that question forward to our club at some point.

The biggest story there is this statement.

If football clubs are taking 100% of their fans LOSSES as revenue from accounts registered via team (i.e the team encouraging you to sign up to an account), then that is pretty disgusting imo.

And seeing as most supporters I'd guess bet on their own team to win, are the club actively profiting from losing matches?

I'd like to know how much money has city made or make from fans loosing bets.

Just now, Magicdaps said:

Watford manager has to be the best gig in football surely?  Minimum work in terms of length of contracted time served, followed by maximum payout.  

I'm sure others have made this point, but I didn't have the patience to read the entire thread. 

For an old timer like Rannieri (sic) or Hodgson yeah. 

The FGR chap was making a name for himself so the payoff whilst nice, prob doesn't compensate completely for the career setback. I'm certain he'll want to work again. He might need to go back down a league though.