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Reply | Morgan Whittaker
at 12:05 2 Apr 2024
Chelsea will probably want to start thinking about regaining money somewhere as their financial plan is a gamble on hitting the Champions league to cover all the "payment-over-time" obligations they've racked up. |
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Reply | Morgan Whittaker
at 12:00 2 Apr 2024
Szmodics is a tidy player and someone I think would be an asset in the Championship, if we go up though? Unsure of that. |
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Reply | Spent the last 20mins chuckling over the Foxestalk in match thread...
at 11:58 2 Apr 2024
Foxes Talk liked us until we, and Leeds, became a legitimate threat. I think they don't hate Ipswich but are just feeling the pressure from having it in the bag and then falling away.
One thing about luck, is we have had a bit of good fortune on our side in a couple of recent games, but that's the rub of it really. Like all teams, we've had our fair share of s*ite luck to balance it out.
I have a sneaky suspicion most Leicester fans would be happy if they and Ipswich got promoted rather than they and Leeds. |
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Reply | Ongoing criticism of KM, as per Bristol game
at 11:54 2 Apr 2024
Honestly, nothing will ever beat the celebration from Burley and Dale Roberts at Wembley. That image is pretty iconic in town lore. We never got to see McCarthy wave his knickers around his head, so maybe KM is planning on upping the ante and righting that wrong as well. |
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Reply | Hypothetically Speaking…
at 12:23 4 Mar 2024
I honestly wouldn't care about it to be honest. Don't get me wrong, I like a derby match but there is something oddly satisfying about the prospect of not having to breath the same oxygen as them. |
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Reply | Couple of home Vlogs
at 08:56 3 Mar 2024
I didn't know Paul Heaton from The Beautiful South was a Plymouth fan |
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Reply | Anywhere I can get stats on the distance of our goals/shots?
at 08:46 3 Mar 2024
'You can't win the raffle if you don't buy a ticket' for sure.
However, I love the way we play all around really, nothing used to pish me off more than under Lambert (and Cook to a degree) where we would run deep on the flank and then have to pass back.
In L1 I commented that a lot of goals for other teams (not just against us) you saw on the highlight show were often on the edge of the box and central. KM has a very solid AMC setup in place which helps our wingers get into space rather than dead ends, so the whole system seems improved by having someone who can be brave on the edge of the box, or switch to the wing if there is a gap. [Post edited 3 Mar 8:47]
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Reply | Anywhere I can get stats on the distance of our goals/shots?
at 08:41 3 Mar 2024
NP, I was drawn to Sam Morsey's average distance of 26.1 (3 gaols)
- but Connor Chaplin has 11 goals averaging around 19.3 yards, that is bloody insane from a player that I wasn't sure about at all for the first few months. |
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Reply | 7 wins from 11 games?
at 08:38 3 Mar 2024
The law of averages from previous seasons really do not apply here, sadly - 4 teams could mathematically get 100+ still, and 3 of those have a bit of wiggle room to hit that target. I wouldn't feel comfortable predicting 25 points would be enough at this stage. |
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Thread | So far, we've lost the least amount of games this season...
at 08:20 3 Mar 2024
Which makes it even more remarkable to think about.
Town: 4
Leicester: 7
Leeds: 6
Southampton: 7
Obviously points means the most with us racking up more draws, but it really is nice to see how hard to beat we are, all while playing positive football. [Post edited 3 Mar 8:21]
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Reply | Dave Myers RIP
at 11:10 29 Feb 2024
Reading this made me instantly think of Nigel Slater. I am going to use just a few bits lying around that I needed to use up *pulls out a prime cut wrapped in butcher paper* |
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Reply | Not a level playing field
at 11:03 29 Feb 2024
That is over-simplified logic. For as long as we were badly underfunded under Evans with no kind of sustainable contract/asset management then the money invested was surely catch-up for the years of neglect. Given Evans' last attempt to woo town fans was to advocate we'd play the youth team in the senior squad, we were in desperate need of repair.
Preventative measures usually always end up being cheaper than repair measures of course, but we had to spend to remain in League 1, let alone snag promotion. I don't think I am being over the top in that assessment, look at how many of our first team players under Lambert went out to Colchester and non-league teams without really making an impact there either.
What got us promoted was Kieran McKenna's ability to manage the assets more so than buying our way out of the league. A league we never would have been in had Evans funded the club properly with a sustainable contract/asset management system in place. |
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Reply | I'm not a fan of Brendan Rodgers
at 14:21 28 Feb 2024
I have to admit, I don't see anything in it as people say "Good lad" in this way too. To me, it clearly wasn't Rodgers doing anything bad. |
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Reply | Not a level playing field
at 14:19 28 Feb 2024
There is no real overall solution to this other than the PL becoming more accessible and affordable for teams to operate in, and they will never happen voluntarily.
The only thing I can think of is that teams are imposed a soft wage threshold based on the figures they submit for FFP, for example, A player wage threshold for Player A = £X p/w as they started Y minutes the season prior. Once inflation is factored in then the PL will pay the % of players wages over the wage threshold directly to the player if the team is relegated.
I also think that if clubs broke FFP limits by a significant margin to get promoted or incur dings because of dodgy book keeping or bad spending, then the forfeit the right to receive any parachute payment at all |
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Reply | Worst ever loan signing
at 18:10 27 Feb 2024
I think Touré would win the award for 'Most likable player unfit to play for the club at the time of signing'.
He did some truly awful things on the pitch, but his embarrassed smile and wave after his corner and celebrating the way he did in the cup will always leave me fondly remembering him. |
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