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Which one is super and which one is mare! ?

Sorry not read the thread. Very even opening 30, very bitty, lots of passes falling short, very little in the way of chances. Next 30 (15 either side of h-t), City controlled large parts. They started to beat Reading’s press, but final ball not quite there, until the goals. Looked like we’d go on and get another. 60-75 game starting to turn, Pring tiring, Williams tiring (unsurprisingly), but a more even contest, penalty…game on. Last 15+5 just horrible to watch, yet we had chances on the break. Bodies on the lines deserves some credit. Phewwww!

Agree.

Was that Ross Kemp - Extras? If so, absolutely hilarious episode!

you had to scroll all the way to the bottom!!

I can completely imagine he’s on a low wage (for a Champ player). My guess is £5k p.w max. Yes it’s still a lot of money, but it’s not like some are on.

Never a penalty, he’s stood his ground and Ince ran into him. Good communicator….and although Cundy had little to do, he’s making sure he’s vocal too. Cundy using his physique to ease his marker out of the way so Max can come and catch a ball into his mid-riff. Also charging down the shot that Williams deflected over. Positive signs of someone who wants to defend. Klose pretty good though, not always the quickest distributor. Showed his strength in the air, our midfielders will start to learn where to anticipate his aerial duels will land the more they play with him.

Yes, right to criticise that moment, can’t chicken a tackle at this level, but a few minutes later (or earlier - I’m tired, it’s late) he block tackled Morrison near the halfway line. Occasionally pulling out of a tackle is the right thing if the player might go over the top of the ball and injure you. I don’t think that was the case that time, just making a point generally. He got quote slow ball from Klose. Yiadom fell over every time he went near him. The pitch wasn’t very slick tonight either, slots of balls falling short from both sides. Pring did ok, just needs to learn when to conserve energy. Believe it or not it’s just his second start at WB for us. He did lots of good pressing Yiadom and talked well with Klose when passing on markers first half. Dasilva and Vyner communication was v.good second half too. Anyway back to O’Dowda, pretty sure it was him missing a bouncing ball challenge / interception about 40 yards out that was in the sequence building up to the goal. Looked favourite to win it and spring a counter attack, but he didn’t win it. Happy to be corrected.

Sounds as if Wells has had Covid for 3 days, so he might be back for Sunday.

Vyner, Kalas, Klose, Pring all warming up together.

I wonder how many career goals Ince, Hoilet and Joao have against us. Surprised they didn’t sign Garath McLeary just for this one.

Some said the snip. It’s O’Dowda bollocks though, he’s the surgeon!!!

Debutant keeper.

Proper Football Manager 00/01 if so.

The “weak” bit of it, and maybe “weak” is the wrong word is that he doesn’t get his body close enough to Bowler both initially, and when he let’s Bowler get the ball back into play. There’s nothing in his movements that shows any physicality or imposing himself on the player. No need to shove anyone, just ease him away from the ball. Its what Magnússon did a couple of time in 17/18 and got castigated for it. I do agree he was right not to swing his leg at it, but he did nothing to stop Bowler from that point onwards. I’ve just watched it about 30 times. I still can’t get my head around how Bowler gets an opportunity to hook it back into play. Bowlers little flick out with his left foot initially should be the last point he has of being within stretching distance of hooking it back. It sounds critical, but it was an error…part of a sequence of errors that led to conceding a goal. It’s not a “one person blame” agenda. It’s just commentary on the event itself.

I think the context was as per my post…that it took up more if his budget than he wanted it too. So yes you could take it as literal as your comment above, it was more in the context of what it left him with…and meant he couldn’t bring in others as a result. Wasnt the best communicator was he our SOD! ?

Give me a scabby victory tonight ???

I don’t think SOD didn’t think Flint was a good player or was worth signing, it was more how much of his small budget it would take up.

Thought so….you been quiet in twitter too.

@BLRedyou can’t “push” the club to sign anyone. All people like Harry can do is when they identify a player (or are asked to look at a player), is to do their due diligence and present their findings against the brief provided. Whether the likes of Harry are positioned to provide a recommendation or not, I don’t know. It depends on the dynamics of the relationship between Nigel Pearson, the recruitment team and Harry. Harry might have no relationship with Nige, it might wholly be into Sean Gilhespy’s team??? It could just be a simple “handoff” of a player to the recruitment team to take further, e.g. undertake more scouting and analysis. You are absolutely right though, we need to have enough “bandwidth” to ensure we cover the leagues beneath the Championship, and Scotland and Ireland too. As per the Rob Newman interview for FBC pod, we need to have intell on everyone…and as early as possible. I’d be really interested where George Tanner was sourced from? Mark Ashton decimated the scouting set up for obvious reasons!!! Scott Twine is an interesting example. I like him too. But no Championship clubs took the plunge either, it wasn’t just City. £300k plus 20% sell-on was agreed at the tribunal (via an initial £150k and then another £150k next month). For City that would need to be weighed up against his place in the pecking order against City’s other players, and pathway too. Were you BOSRed previously?

Out of interest why does everyone both spell and say “RANjani’s”, when it’s actually “RAJani’s”.

Cardiff v Peterborough tonight too. I predict a draw in both games.

We had: 12 from 8 16 from 11 19 from 15 We’ve slowed down the PPG from those early season games where we were much more pragmatic. FWIW, the “12 from 8” was after QPR (away win / robbery), we were 9 from 7, and I was content. Semenyo was just coming back, we had good availability, Williams was an unused sub that day. We switched to a back 3. We then lost key players in the intervening period…and that cost us. The run of 5 defeats in 6 (Barnsley win at home sandwiched in between) pre Blackburn hit us hard. Including Blackburn we’ve gone W4 D3 L6 in the league (15 pts from 13). 1.1538 ppg GF20 / GA27 Pre-Blackburn W5 D4 L8 (19 pts from 17). 1.1176 ppg GF19 / GA27 So I’d say the points are pretty even (a fraction below pre-Blackburn….you can have your 0.0362 ?). We had our manager missing pre-Blackburn too. I think we are better to watch if you’re primarily interested in more exciting football. I’m probably in the minority where I quite like a dull, cagey 0-0, 1-1. That’s just me though! ?

Yep, exactly that.