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Bring back Des Lyman - best ever for me!

16 minutes ago, OneTeamInBristol said:

But what a signing Gustav Engvall was!

With emphasis on the gust

16 hours ago, Fordy62 said:

Back the man who deserves the backing, or bring in your mate and throw money at him. 

Still Lansdown’s biggest mistake in his tenure here. 

None of this surprises me. 

He almost got us into the play-offs and also got us to a Carabao Cup semi-final

2 hours ago, gl2 said:

So do you think we have turned a corner or are beginning to turn the corner?

RE Kalas/Baker, most teams have injuries to some of their best players, we have collected 2 pts from the last possible 6pts available and yes I know we could have/should have got more but Millwall and Coventry also could have, as they also missed chances to do so.

Being selective myself, 3 wins from the last 19games now, cannot continue for much longer we have to turn the effort into wins...soon.

Blimey that really is poor

His record is poor and I can’t really see that changing 

1 hour ago, REDOXO said:

Exactly!

My unswerving support for Mr Pearson  is being tested. However sacking the bloke with the experience of doing this kind of thing, just before the triggers start getting pulled is insane. 
 

@Davefevsholiday post brightened my day bless him! Some of The ******* responses are just a factor of too much bank holiday beer/wine/gange Millwall Thursday who is going?
 

 

You could argue that he is part of the reason we’re in a relegation fight in the first place!

22 minutes ago, Supersonic Robin said:

I think the improvement under Pearson is clear, significant, and statistically evidenced. That's not to say we're good, nor is it to say that current standard are acceptable. Just that it's better than it was under Holden.

IMO people simply forget how bad it was under Holden. We were utterly uncompetitive week after week. We'd often struggle to even get out our own half and produce a shot on target. If you put an average Holden game and an average Pearson game side by side, I think there would be a clear difference between the two.

Worth noting that I'm not considering performance relative to experience/prestige of the managers in question - just the pure performance of their teams.

 

Being better than Holden isn’t much of an achievement

3 minutes ago, Fuber said:

I'm fully expecting one of Semenyo/Scott and/or Massengo to go.

On 22/12/2022 at 10:33, phantom said:

Turns out Stokes hadn't long been back in the UK and was suffering from Delhi Belly - or the similar version

Perhaps he was dialling in from the shitter

2 hours ago, Red-Robbo said:

 

I'm with @Malagoon this.  Mbeppe's achievement was he lifted a sluggish and below-par France to the brink of glory. Messi was surrounded by great players yesterday.  Di Maria, Mac Allister, Alvarez, Otamendi, Romero were all first class. 

Messi's an all-time great, but I abhor the media's obsession with making it all about him. 

I strongly dispute the suggestion that there have only ever been four truly great players. I’m sure the likes of Zidane, both Ronaldos and diStefano would have something to say about that. And to suggest that Messi isn’t a true great (the OP’s suggestion, not yours) is laughable. He’s the greatest ever, and he has the accolades to prove it. Mbappe did brilliantly yesterday and will undoubtedly be a great, but Messi was undoubtedly the talisman for this World Cup win, and at the age of 35 that’s an incredible achievement.

On 26/11/2022 at 17:56, Malago said:

There have been four truly great footballers in my lifetime.  Pele, Beckenbauer, Cryuff and Maradona.  Mbabbe is set to join that list.

Messi is above all of those IMO

24 minutes ago, Silvio Dante said:

By my reckoning, that’s five penalties to Argentina this tournament in six games. Even by todays standards, that’s a shocking stat. All those calling the Messi stat of scored in every knockout round should take note of the big sodding asterisk.

Edit - seven games. Still stinks.

If it’s a pen, it’s a pen. Fair play to Argentina for winning them, and to Messi for putting them away

Choosing a favourite Christmas song is like choosing a favourite child. I love them all. So I’ll doff my cap to a couple of lesser-known but beautiful ones:

- December Song by George Michael

- December Will Be Magic Again by Kate Bush

- Carol of the Bells by The Bird and the Bee

5 minutes ago, pillred said:

That was another one, I used poetic licence he actually used to say "it's a ten from Len"

Oh haha. Your Strictly knowledge is better than mine

10 hours ago, pillred said:

I can't believe I'm actually saying this but yes come on France, on a scale of one to ten on how much I wan't Argentina to lose as Len Goodman famously said most weeks on strictly "it's a ten from me"

His catchphrase was ‘Seven’ wasn’t it?

10 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

We seem to be in the same sort of situation as Man City are with the Champions league. 

France are like Real Madrid. They just somehow find a way to win. 

England are like City in the Champions league, always just falling short. 

I'm not sure you can really compare France to Real Madrid

4 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said:

My reading of it is that it's quite a long-winded way of saying "success breeds success". He's saying, in flowery journalistic language, that France won because they won the moments, and they won the moments because they knew they would, and they knew they would because they've done it before and it is just what they do.

England are getting there but we need that one win, that little bit of luck that just gets us that trophy, and gives us that innate, concrete knowledge that we are good. Not belief, knowledge.

That's a fair reading of it. I still find it odd the way he's painted France and some kind of footballing superpower, when they achieved very little at the Euros last year

18 hours ago, petehinton said:

Perfect summation, but probably a hard to accept pill to swallow for many a fair weather. 

France’s default level of courage? What does that actually mean?

43 minutes ago, harrys said:

Indeed, and what was worse was bringing on the woefully out of form Sterling 

He played well in the group games, I thought

Just now, petehinton said:

Exactly. So can I. But imagine if it was us and not them. Southgate would be hanged. 

Yeah good point!

9 minutes ago, bredwood said:

No. I think Morocco will be exhausted after the emotion and exertions of the 2 wins and the quality of the French will brush them aside.

I hate the tactics of the North African teams . They play to get a goal on the break then put all 11 behind the ball for the rest of the match. Egypt play the same way - what a waste of the talents of their skilful players.

I’m not saying Morocco are a better side than France. Just that I can’t see the same country winning the World Cup twice in a row. Plus there have been so many surprises in this tournament

Just now, robin_unreliant said:

I think Messi will win it for Argentina.

I really hope so. He’s been fantastic this WC. Still the world’s best for me

11 minutes ago, petehinton said:

Maybe it’ll make me sleep at night but we’ve lost to the team who are gonna go back to back world champions for the first time ever. And we were the better team. 
 

It’s taken 20+ years, but we finally have an England team to believe in and look forward to watching.  

I don’t think France will win it. I can even see them losing to Morocco in the semis

23 minutes ago, Ivorguy said:

Hardly the Corinthian Spirit, Old Boy