| We will be fine 18:50 - Aug 17 with 1387 views | SomethingBlue |
That's the sense I have after today. Couple of really nasty bullets dodged, with our squad as thin as it could possibly be, and a clear uptick in performance. Casual logic suggested Saints, rather than us, would push on in the last 20 minutes today but we looked fit and spirited. We know what needs doing in the next fortnight and if the club can accomplish it then I feel good about the season.
Matusiwa looked far more up with the pace today, clear what he brings and that'll shine through further with a more reliable midfield partner. No slight on Taylor, a lot of what he contributes is pretty good and I'd keep him around, but you don't always know what's coming next.
Really good shift from Philogene, I hope the next step is that we see him able to contribute with numbers in the opposition box. Positive moments from Jack Clarke but still feel we need more and the right side of him/Johnson doesn't really work. Ogbene struggles to beat a man but at least his direct threat had them backing off in the final stages and almost created us something.
Personally I'd find a starting space for Chaplin every time at the moment. Szmodics did admirably though and was key to our very fast start.
Goes without saying that we need proper, competitive backup to Hirst, who ran himself into the ground out there. With the Ali and Azon situations it's becoming absolutely comical that for whatever reason we can't get this sorted. I trust we won't be talking about this in a fortnight.
Weird refereeing – I counted probably six yellow card offences for Armstrong, but Matusiwa gets booked for one maybe-foul.
That was a good game today – intense, good tempo, decent teams. Should stand us in great stead and we'll only get better than this. [Post edited 17 Aug 18:53]
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| We will be fine on 18:53 - Aug 17 with 1315 views | Swansea_Blue |
I was trying to get reliable reception while out and about so missed chunks, but from what I saw we looked a bit more like our old selves. We won’t get many tougher games than the last two, so yes I think we’ll be ok. |  |
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| We will be fine on 18:54 - Aug 17 with 1293 views | JakeITFC |
Agreed - think we were in danger of having such an awful start that the baby was thrown out with the bathwater and instead we’ve shown that we are more than competitive against our promotion rivals even in a period of relative turmoil.
Everyone in the ground knows the areas we need to improve and it looks like efforts are well afoot to fix them. Big few weeks but positive signs. |  | | |
| We will be fine on 18:55 - Aug 17 with 1291 views | chicoazul |
What is with this Azón thing, is this the second guy this season to rock up and say Yeah nah you’re alright thanks |  |
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| We will be fine on 18:55 - Aug 17 with 1274 views | MK1 |
| We will be fine on 18:53 - Aug 17 by Swansea_Blue |
I was trying to get reliable reception while out and about so missed chunks, but from what I saw we looked a bit more like our old selves. We won’t get many tougher games than the last two, so yes I think we’ll be ok. |
Think the owners might be wanting more than just ok. |  |
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| We will be fine on 18:56 - Aug 17 with 1251 views | SomethingBlue |
| We will be fine on 18:55 - Aug 17 by chicoazul |
What is with this Azón thing, is this the second guy this season to rock up and say Yeah nah you’re alright thanks |
The failed medical element is true but our luck is definitely not good recruitment-wise atm ... | |
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| We will be fine on 18:57 - Aug 17 with 1210 views | positivity |
| We will be fine on 18:55 - Aug 17 by MK1 |
Think the owners might be wanting more than just ok. |
probably our 2 toughest opponents. for a 100 point season, the par score for those 2 is zero points, so we're already 2 up (or down, golf is weird!)
we need 6 points from the next 2 to maintain that though | |
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| We will be fine on 18:58 - Aug 17 with 1207 views | Zx1988 |
Absolutely heinous start - arguably the trickiest away match and trickiest home match in our first two games.
Coming away unbeaten, especially in the circumstances, is a good outcome, made even better by the improvement shown today against Soton. | |
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| We will be fine on 18:59 - Aug 17 with 1179 views | Kieran_Knows |
| We will be fine on 18:56 - Aug 17 by SomethingBlue |
The failed medical element is true but our luck is definitely not good recruitment-wise atm ... |
Think we have a good chance of signing the Norwegian lad? Not that he’ll be vying with Hirst, mind. |  |
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| We will be fine on 19:00 - Aug 17 with 1153 views | SomethingBlue |
| We will be fine on 18:59 - Aug 17 by Kieran_Knows |
Think we have a good chance of signing the Norwegian lad? Not that he’ll be vying with Hirst, mind. |
We may have got ahead of PL teams who see him as a nice-to-have/development project once they've finished their main business. Let's hope so, absolutely massive potential upside to that one. | |
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| We will be fine on 19:02 - Aug 17 with 1104 views | cbower |
Solid appraisal that. Have an uppie. |  |
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| We will be fine on 19:02 - Aug 17 with 1105 views | Kieran_Knows |
| We will be fine on 19:00 - Aug 17 by SomethingBlue |
We may have got ahead of PL teams who see him as a nice-to-have/development project once they've finished their main business. Let's hope so, absolutely massive potential upside to that one. |
From the snippets I’ve seen he’s a real talent, and very much in the Omari mould, albeit a little less pace. Hopefully one we can get over the line … seemingly pushing PSV out of the running is a good start. | |
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| We will be fine on 19:04 - Aug 17 with 1038 views | Swailsey |
Defo, we’ll avoid the drop for sure all being well. |  |
| Who said: "Colin Healy made Cesc Fabregas look like Colin Healy"? | We miss you TLA |
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| We will be fine on 19:06 - Aug 17 with 991 views | itfcsuth |
Depends what the parameter for ‘we’ll be fine’ is.
A much improved display from last week, but still lots of work to do. We will want to be competing for the very top end spots, and I’m not sure we look capable of that currently.
As KMc said, it’s a new group, still lots of settlement to be done, finding some consistency to that front line is key for me. [Post edited 17 Aug 19:10]
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| We will be fine on 19:14 - Aug 17 with 830 views | Swansea_Blue |
| We will be fine on 18:54 - Aug 17 by JakeITFC |
Agreed - think we were in danger of having such an awful start that the baby was thrown out with the bathwater and instead we’ve shown that we are more than competitive against our promotion rivals even in a period of relative turmoil.
Everyone in the ground knows the areas we need to improve and it looks like efforts are well afoot to fix them. Big few weeks but positive signs. |
Brum was a bit of a shock for everyone. A lot of people dismissed them and there were quite a lot of comments about how poor they were in the night. They did look to have a mistake in them at the back and they didn’t cause us too many problems around our goal. But their energy, desire and closing down were absolutely top drawer. As good as you’ll see in the Championship.That was a lot harder game than many realise imo.I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ve just played 2 of the top 3 or 4 come the end of the season. | |
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| We will be fine on 19:37 - Aug 17 with 612 views | chicoazul |
| We will be fine on 18:56 - Aug 17 by SomethingBlue |
The failed medical element is true but our luck is definitely not good recruitment-wise atm ... |
Ahh fair play thought the medical talk was the usual ITK BS | |
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| We will be fine on 19:38 - Aug 17 with 591 views | chicoazul |
| We will be fine on 19:02 - Aug 17 by Kieran_Knows |
From the snippets I’ve seen he’s a real talent, and very much in the Omari mould, albeit a little less pace. Hopefully one we can get over the line … seemingly pushing PSV out of the running is a good start. |
Imagine we can pay more than almost every contemporary club on the continent! | |
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| We will be fine on 19:43 - Aug 17 with 522 views | Swansea_Blue |
| We will be fine on 18:56 - Aug 17 by SomethingBlue |
The failed medical element is true but our luck is definitely not good recruitment-wise atm ... |
That must be incredibly rare/unfortunate. You can pass medicals while carrying pretty severe injuries. So this must be something they think is a long-term issue. | |
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| We will be fine on 20:19 - Aug 17 with 335 views | bsw72 |
| We will be fine on 18:57 - Aug 17 by positivity |
probably our 2 toughest opponents. for a 100 point season, the par score for those 2 is zero points, so we're already 2 up (or down, golf is weird!)
we need 6 points from the next 2 to maintain that though |
Leeds started with two draws last season. |  | | |
| We will be fine on 20:30 - Aug 17 with 261 views | GlasgowBlue |
| We will be fine on 20:19 - Aug 17 by bsw72 |
Leeds started with two draws last season. |
Indeed. Two potentially tricky fixtures negotiated. A highly winnable game next week. |  |
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