Antman

it's terrible. who ever is on the camera doesn't know how to keep focus.

really not the case, i hesitated from posting it because of that perception. I'm aware he is our current player 'Pinata ' my perception 'on the day' was that he was pumping the ball forward too much, rather than picking passes on the deck. and we seem better when we play close, fast passing. I don't have a particularly negative overall view of Vyner, but like so many things these days, the arguments seem to be only dealt with, and responded to in a binary fashion. as i say, i am responding to yesterdays game.

well, that tells me. can i ask, how does this stat judge a 'succesful' pass? and does it judge passes on the ground vs in the air? (basically if the ball gets lofted and finds it's man, but doesn't allow for them having to win the ball)

Vyner was to blame for losing posession all too many times. The pattern seemed to be retain the ball, passing along the back line waiting for an opening, (that all too often was non existant, as the MF were not making themselves available.) but too many times, the ball went to Vyner and he attempted a mid range or long range ball which just floated into Wigan hands. He doesn't seem confident in passing on the ground, so seems to want to 'get rid' too much. Even when it looked like he might make the long pass, it always ends at best, in a 50/50 ball, which we usually lose. Yesterday Scott looked all at sea in central MF, Martin offered very little, and Dasilva lost out to his man early on, then after that didn't seem confident in getting past him again. and IMO, they went off too quickly in the conditions and paid a price later in the game.

similarly remember him warming up at AG, he looked like he had concrete boots on. we all looked at each other with a collective 'WTF' moment

it's like Deja Vu all over again...

christ on a bike! that made me shudder. took me right back to the Johnson jingo bingo days https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Eidevall

When kelly poked the winner in, and the TV replayed her running in slow mo waving her shirt with everything moving in every direction My wife just said..."that'll go viral'

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/27/anyone-for-a-smart-scarf-city-fans-all-set-for-high-tech-matchday-upgrade so what are we making of this latest nugget of tech joy....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/62293635 Pitch invasions obv were getting out of control, be interesting to see how they go about penalising the flares (and I'm not talking dodgy fashion)

Hazard - Richard Marx

the mighty midget Pidcock will be a star i'm sure.

agree, but lets not pretend Big Nige hasn't got history of burning players he doesn't get on with, & not just at BCFC.

pah! you and your rational arguments.... I say 'Burn the witch'

there's a couple of good reasons she's presenting....

cross eyed.

you've reminded me of yet another aspect of the PE at my school. those shitty cross country runs around the edge of the entire school field. The trick i learned was that there was a small copse in one corner which we had to run through, i hung back and stopped when out of site, until they all came round again, then i rejoined and finished relatively unscathed. This plan actually only worked once TBH, the next time i tried it the race ended after just one lap and i was still hiding in the woods when the teacher found me. I got to do 2 laps on my own. I hated school, left with one CSE (grade 3 in French) and one O level (tech Drawing) and was in constant trouble, suspended twice but never expelled, but i do have a strange sense of pride in the utterly stupid things i got up to...!

oh, all this is so familiar. We had a sadistic PE teacher who made use go out on a totally frozen rugby pitch and shuffle along in a line on our bare knees passing the ball down the line, we all ended up with cut and bruised legs - he said it was to toughen us up. I did get revenge (albeit accidentally) when during a strange term, they introduced Golf (!?!) which involved these big fibre glass cones which we had to hit/chip the balls into. unable to resist, i wellied the golf ball across the pitch, only to see it slice off and strike the PE teacher firmly on the side of the head. No - one saw me do it - but it gave me a real warm glow of achievement. I am still as shit at Golf now, happy to play it. unlike rugby.

hilarious - i experienced a range of Birthday celebrations, from the bumps to the 'gob squad' which involved you getting spat on by a whole bunch of ********. At our school things got out of hand when a chap called Micheal Morris got chucked out of a first floor window of the art block on his birthday. he broke his arm (understandably) and they had to try and crack down on the rampant random, and quite ingenious, acts of violence often handed out. (Micheal Morris also had his front teeth broken in another Birthday related incident - i hope he grew up not hating birthday parties...!) Such fond memories....!

TBH signing James Hunt would have been better than James and Hunt turned out...

yes, we have them at AG, but can the grass grow solely under those giant UV (?) devices?

even the Desso pitches need some sunlight surely? - the Chelsea and Everton stands must eliminate most angles of sunlight on the pitch?

i'm in - lets get this rock rolling......

and we go round again. Sl is bailing out the losses he has created entirely by himself over a significant period of time. He has been at the helm solely, Having squeezed out all other shareholders and effectively removed a functioning board, so it's his decision making that has taken us into debt (Covid circumstance withstanding) Whilst it's great (?) to have what appears to be a benevolant owner, lets not all tug our forelocks at this largesse too much

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170718-the-underground-railway-that-became-a-secret-wartime-base