James54De

4 minutes ago, Malago said:

Could say the same about Max Bird.  His season with Derby finishes on Saturday.  In theory available for the Stoke game?

No. His EFL registration is held by Derby and can’t be transferred until the window opens. 

14 minutes ago, Ciderarmy23 said:

Can he be involved for us in the last 2 games?

Non league so I presume so, yes. 

3 hours ago, GrahamC said:

Now been officially confirmed what a few of us knew, Benarous picked up another hamstring injury in his second 21s appearance & his season is over.

Do fear the worst for him, his two 45 minute appearances were spread out over a fortnight & he still can’t stay fit.

Has another year on his deal but certainly can’t be someone Manning can factor in as being available in 24/25.

Good job Murphy is ready to go then…

15 hours ago, Harry said:

Done. 
Keep politics out of sport. 

Think we’re past that point. 

Will Murphy be part of it next season? - that will have an influence on how many more we need in there.
 

I expected to have seen a little bit of him by now, in the U21’s if not the first team. 

17 hours ago, mightyreds89 said:

Anyone heard seen much about his form since signing for us? He’s gone from starting every week to now not, he last started a match on 13th Feb, since then he’s started 9 matches from the bench. Any idea what’s going on? 
 

in those 9 games he’s come on and scored 2 and been booked 5 times! 

Pardon? According to Transfermarlet he’s started, and played the full 90, in the last 9 games. 

Did notice that the club actually hosted an article in X, instead of on the club website yesterday. It’s the way things are going, and quickly. 

2 hours ago, RollsRoyce said:

I managed to tune into the last half hour. Some interesting points, and a few red herrings as well in my view.

But they did touch on the area where I believe, others will disagree, that the club is lacking. Leadership. When they removed Nige they left the club with the following 4 key people. Marshall, Tinnion, Jon Lansdown and Manning. In isolation you would question each of those people to perform their roles, but in combination it is in my view a recipe for disaster. There is no strength or depth of ability in that set up, so when you do have say a Manning type come in, who is learning on the job, the rest of the structure is not sufficiently able to support and carry them. This would be true of any young inexperienced coach coming in. I personally detest how Manning wants to play football, but that is about preferences, others love that type of game plan. But you cannot move Manning out, and for me he must go he is so out of his depth, but you have to also look a all 4 of those key positions. I do not believe those 4 people would not be on any other Championship clubs blue print for success. It is also worth mentioning that in recent years it has been shown that some of our better periods have been with experienced managers, GJ/SC and to an extent in terms of stopping a L1 return NP. Strong personalities all 3 of them. As there is no other leadership at the club, those people have had to fill a void. Removing NP, and at the same time all of his key team members was reckless and demonstrated a complete lack of understanding of what elements are required to create success. That did not happen at Brentford, Luton or Brighton. They all evolved along a similar path.

Manning has to go, the club is spiralling in one direction. But simply changing him for another young coach will risk the same outcome. 

Far cry from the partnership we briefly saw between Gould and Pearson. 

2 hours ago, McNasty Filth said:

Not bad, would like to see video of it too give proper ye or nah.

Here are other countries, not sure about the massive Adidas logo, for me looks disrespectful to the smaller national badges. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68596715

Adidas have really made some rotters there. 

2 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Hard to keep track, presumably along with Atkinson, Benarous and Bell, Naismith is out for the season.

Vs Leicester if players returning and fitness improved I'd try..maybe.

              O'Leary

Tanner Vyner Dickie Pring

    James Knight Williams

   Sykes    Conway   Twine

Albeit I understand the case for TGH and or Twine central.

They’re hoping to give Benarous some minutes this season, no? 

54 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

Clearly a better coach than player.

Absolutely embarrassing that we ever signed him, peak waste of money era signing under LJ.

Is/was he any more a waster of money than this guy from FGR is? 

10 hours ago, phantom said:

Why doesn't he unfollow it then? 

Or is he one of those people only happy when complaining :laugh:

Why don’t you just not click on threads about ex players, instead of hide them away. 

37 minutes ago, cellist said:

Liked Danns. Good player.

Did you know Mickey Bell's son Sam is a pro footballer now! Well I never.

I knew Matt Hill's son James had broken through at Fleetwood. What I didn't realise is that he was signed by (you guessed it) Bournemouth in Jan 2022 and is currently on loan at Blackburn. Completely passed me by.

Recalled in Jan and has played a few prem games recently 

1 hour ago, phantom said:

 

Assume you both realise that you actually control who you follow and what information you follow 

The algorithms that Twitter have spent hundreds of millions developing mean otherwise. 

13 minutes ago, Robbored said:

It’s always positive when a City loanee does well at whatever club they’re at but it’s worth remembering that they’re invariably playing in the lower leagues.essentially to gain experience of playing competitive mens football.

No need to get too excited about Seb scoring another goal but it’ll do his confidence no end of good.

11 hours ago, GrahamC said:

With how it has panned out in recent games this season is now a bit of a free hit for him.

He can use the time to get used to the league, work on his match fitness & with George Tanner in good form, challenge him for the RB spot.

Was told at the time that this was really serious & the risk of infection high, great to see him come out the other side & about 4-6 weeks ahead of schedule too.

Well, yes… the problem was an infection.

2 hours ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

It doesn't feel like it tbh. We have a lot of medium to long term de rigeur and then short term ones bump it up saw in October 2023 especially.

McCrorie and Twine just 2 examples of medium term to long term injuries not long after joining.

Atkinson hasn't kicked a ball in a year for first team, Benarous hasn't kicked a ball in 2 years.

Baker had to retire, Kalas and Williams major issues.

Etc.

You can add Pring to that too unless that is reported now?

That is a snapshot in time tbh.

3 weeks is not medium term, however you look at it. 

On 17/02/2024 at 14:08, Tinmans Love Child said:

How many home kits have we worn in the last 2 seasons, that weird patchwork one, the Arsenal one, the pin stripe one and then this heritage one, any others?

Anniversary shirt was 4 years ago. So last 2 seasons: 2 home shirts and 1 special celebration shirt. Lots of clubs will have a one off shirt every season. 

39 minutes ago, Henry said:

Who is in charge of retail? It just continues to baffle me.

What have they done wrong here? 50 goal keeper shirts? I can’t imagine that more than 50 adults goalkeeper shirts have been sold this season. 

4 hours ago, Natchfever said:

Nice to see anywhere. Juve got boring, PSG is a procession.

Man City, as well. An inevitability. With Klopp out and Pep surely not staying much longer the prem may be about to become a little more open. 

Down to four, with Pring and Naismith on the verge. 

2 hours ago, RoystonFoote'snephew said:

Starting to look as if height could be a factor in City future goalkeeper. Josey is listed as 6'3"" while new signing Isaac Finch is 6'4"at just 17. Not sure about the heights of Duncan and Boyd but I suspect the latter is under 6' like HWR so that may not bode well if we go by the adage that a good big'un is better than a good littl'un. 

Boyd is a big lad. A good 2/3 inches taller than SPH, who is down as 6 1

Where does Mac Boyd fit in, if at all? 

1 hour ago, elhombrecito said:

 

Not sure an El Salvador jersey is a direct replacement for our shirt...

How strange. 

On 14/02/2024 at 19:51, James54De said:

How long until it appears on DH Gate? 

And there we go:

https://m.dhgate.com/product/20-21-flamengo-2020-sc-internacional-sao/572026912.html?invitationCode=d30c4ddfea31410c84c34d6b7e02dacf|-|572026912

1 hour ago, Shockwave said:

The badge is a let down should be embroidered not a heat transfer one

Look embroidered here: 

Would we be comfortable going into next season with him as our first choice left back? It’s not only possible, but verging on the likely.