| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... 09:35 - Nov 13 with 4316 views | Dubtractor |
Updated link to a better website...
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:35 - Nov 13 with 1844 views | Kieran_Knows |
What a berk. |  |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:37 - Nov 13 with 1839 views | Beckets |
I don’t think he understands how the Football League structure works. |  | | |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:39 - Nov 13 with 1829 views | PhilTWTD |
Ahem...
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:42 - Nov 13 with 1809 views | Dubtractor |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:39 - Nov 13 by PhilTWTD |
Ahem...
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Sorry Phil, I only read reputable news sources..... | |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:43 - Nov 13 with 1796 views | LankHenners |
Unsurprising from him considering his proclivity for labelling objectively bad performances as ‘excellent’ but unfortunately he probably believes it.
He’s either the country’s most deluded man or he’s just seeing what he can get away with saying as he knows he’s safe because he pulled the wool over Evans’ eyes to get the five year contract. Either way it makes him an idiot. |  |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:51 - Nov 13 with 1740 views | BlueBadger |
Well, we've seen all these new grounds and The Football Is Better. |  |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:54 - Nov 13 with 1734 views | Vaughan8 |
2 years ago we were really bad so its not saying much is it?
Even though we were in the league above, we were probably about the same standard as we are now, hence getting beat nearly every week.
We are probably playing "better" but against worse opposition. |  | | |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:58 - Nov 13 with 1725 views | monty_radio |
If there really is a perceptible difference from inside the club, then I wish Marcus would share it with us. If P.L.'s measure is that he goes into games expecting to win, and generally, we have done, then it's a limited yardstick.
Because we have no-one who speaks powerfully for the club and its vision then we're left with Lambert's vision of what he sees out there on the pitch and it's not what most informed commentators seem to see. The next step in that scenario is often that a manager gets cross. [Post edited 2 Dec 2020 20:22]
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:59 - Nov 13 with 1718 views | BlueBadger |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:54 - Nov 13 by Vaughan8 |
2 years ago we were really bad so its not saying much is it?
Even though we were in the league above, we were probably about the same standard as we are now, hence getting beat nearly every week.
We are probably playing "better" but against worse opposition. |
The Improved Performances of the Limpest Relegation Ever were based around the strategy of 'aimlessly tap it around in midfield and then lose 2-0'. We'revnow playing the far superior system of '12 passes between defenders then lump it forward'.
The main difference is that we occasionally win games in this division because the standard is *that* bad. | |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:59 - Nov 13 with 1725 views | FrimleyBlue |
Tbf to him. Hurst ripped apart all the work Mick put into the club. We lost our bed players. Behind the scenes was a sham and there was nothing behind the scenes which even came close to being a football league side let alone a championship side.
It's not just about picking a starting 11 and that's it. Staff have had to be replaced. New positions being made. Links between academy with u23 then the first team.
This is going to go two ways. Paul will get his 5 years. We will be back in the championship and competing at the top end again and all this slow painful stuff will be forgotten. Or nothing happens it's looked like a waste of 5 years.
I can see something happening without a doubt. Seeing the u18s the other night doing the exact same as the first team really showed that there is an attempt to streamline a style throughout the club. His can only be positive. Yes at present it's slow and pedestrian. But once they've got the basics right the rest will follow.
Im quite excited by the potential of this Tbh. |  |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:02 - Nov 13 with 1699 views | BlueBadger |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:59 - Nov 13 by FrimleyBlue |
Tbf to him. Hurst ripped apart all the work Mick put into the club. We lost our bed players. Behind the scenes was a sham and there was nothing behind the scenes which even came close to being a football league side let alone a championship side.
It's not just about picking a starting 11 and that's it. Staff have had to be replaced. New positions being made. Links between academy with u23 then the first team.
This is going to go two ways. Paul will get his 5 years. We will be back in the championship and competing at the top end again and all this slow painful stuff will be forgotten. Or nothing happens it's looked like a waste of 5 years.
I can see something happening without a doubt. Seeing the u18s the other night doing the exact same as the first team really showed that there is an attempt to streamline a style throughout the club. His can only be positive. Yes at present it's slow and pedestrian. But once they've got the basics right the rest will follow.
Im quite excited by the potential of this Tbh. |
Yeah. Within two years Pep will have abandoned tiki-taka and adopted '12 backline passes and lump' as his new thing. | |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:07 - Nov 13 with 1696 views | Dyland |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:42 - Nov 13 by Dubtractor |
Sorry Phil, I only read reputable news sources..... |
Aye, not websites with powerful lobbying interests innit. Phil "the Shill" Ham. |  |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:17 - Nov 13 with 1659 views | Keno |
I dont think plate tectonics or post periglacial tilt will have had much effect of the Towns location in just 2 years
I cant think what else he could possible mean |  |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:35 - Nov 13 with 1637 views | monty_radio |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:59 - Nov 13 by FrimleyBlue |
Tbf to him. Hurst ripped apart all the work Mick put into the club. We lost our bed players. Behind the scenes was a sham and there was nothing behind the scenes which even came close to being a football league side let alone a championship side.
It's not just about picking a starting 11 and that's it. Staff have had to be replaced. New positions being made. Links between academy with u23 then the first team.
This is going to go two ways. Paul will get his 5 years. We will be back in the championship and competing at the top end again and all this slow painful stuff will be forgotten. Or nothing happens it's looked like a waste of 5 years.
I can see something happening without a doubt. Seeing the u18s the other night doing the exact same as the first team really showed that there is an attempt to streamline a style throughout the club. His can only be positive. Yes at present it's slow and pedestrian. But once they've got the basics right the rest will follow.
Im quite excited by the potential of this Tbh. |
I wish I could be more certain of the upsurge once the basics are in place because, in the meanwhile, it can, as it did on Tuesday, resemble shape without a purpose. When you see top teams doing it well you also see all that incisive passing and forward movement. If the manager can just look on, witness the well-engineered car without the determined driver, and appear to be satisfied, I fear the gain may not materialise. | |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:38 - Nov 13 with 1640 views | PhilTWTD |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:42 - Nov 13 by Dubtractor |
Sorry Phil, I only read reputable news sources..... |
Just a little frustating when we've written stories to have ones using the same quotes from elsewhere posted on here. | | | |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:46 - Nov 13 with 1607 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:59 - Nov 13 by FrimleyBlue |
Tbf to him. Hurst ripped apart all the work Mick put into the club. We lost our bed players. Behind the scenes was a sham and there was nothing behind the scenes which even came close to being a football league side let alone a championship side.
It's not just about picking a starting 11 and that's it. Staff have had to be replaced. New positions being made. Links between academy with u23 then the first team.
This is going to go two ways. Paul will get his 5 years. We will be back in the championship and competing at the top end again and all this slow painful stuff will be forgotten. Or nothing happens it's looked like a waste of 5 years.
I can see something happening without a doubt. Seeing the u18s the other night doing the exact same as the first team really showed that there is an attempt to streamline a style throughout the club. His can only be positive. Yes at present it's slow and pedestrian. But once they've got the basics right the rest will follow.
Im quite excited by the potential of this Tbh. |
You may well be right but football fans don't have the patience to wait for it to come together, as you'll see from the rabid Lambert-out posts on here.
I've said many times it would take a long time to fix this club, but people aren't interested. They want immediate results. |  |
| Trust the process. Trust Phil. |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:49 - Nov 13 with 1590 views | monty_radio |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:46 - Nov 13 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You may well be right but football fans don't have the patience to wait for it to come together, as you'll see from the rabid Lambert-out posts on here.
I've said many times it would take a long time to fix this club, but people aren't interested. They want immediate results. |
But it's in an effort to provide those fans with instant results that P.L. exposes himself to ridicule by declaring that what nobody much else witnessed was there for all to see. | |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:50 - Nov 13 with 1582 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:35 - Nov 13 by monty_radio |
I wish I could be more certain of the upsurge once the basics are in place because, in the meanwhile, it can, as it did on Tuesday, resemble shape without a purpose. When you see top teams doing it well you also see all that incisive passing and forward movement. If the manager can just look on, witness the well-engineered car without the determined driver, and appear to be satisfied, I fear the gain may not materialise. |
True. Behind the scenes be most likely will say things a little more direct. It wouldn't be at all positive to berate youngsters publically when they are in the process of adapting. Even for the first team we can't forget we've got youngsters involved and they don't have to be u18 to be seen as young. It's young in experience and this could be a Bishop playing football on a regular basis after many years of injury etc.
We've seen in certain parts of games we up the tempo and everything looks positive.. it'll take time for it to happen over 90 minutes. | |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:52 - Nov 13 with 1574 views | BlueBadger |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:46 - Nov 13 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You may well be right but football fans don't have the patience to wait for it to come together, as you'll see from the rabid Lambert-out posts on here.
I've said many times it would take a long time to fix this club, but people aren't interested. They want immediate results. |
Within two years of us getting relegated George Burley had us playing good, passing football in settled style, XI and system, was bringing through young players and had one playoff near-miss and one actual playoff qaulification.
Mick has a settled style, XI, etc and had us competing in the top half within two years.
As did Royle.
To name but three Town managers who came in in difficult cirumstances(although it could be argue that Royle had the strongest base to start from, he was constantly seeing his best players sold under him).
Lambert has flitted from system to system, endlessly mucked about with style, selection and systems has been distinctly indifferent regarding bringing through young players who aren't loanees and mired us in indifferent football and results.
I could get behind a 'long term plan and build' if there was any kind of credible evidence that he's actually been doing that for the past two years.
Like everything he's done at ITFC, Lamberts efforts are mainly shallow exercises in self promotion for the elevation and benefit of Paul Lambert first. [Post edited 13 Nov 2020 15:22]
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:53 - Nov 13 with 1556 views | BlueBadger |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 09:39 - Nov 13 by PhilTWTD |
Ahem...
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Careful Dubbers, Phil only says 'ahem' when he's polishing his ban hammer. | |
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| Well, we are winning more games than..... on 11:01 - Nov 13 with 1530 views | Bloots |
.....we were two years ago.
Mainly because we are playing in what will soon be a semi-pro league.
(although we cant actually beat any of the half decent pub teams in the league)
What a club. |  |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 11:05 - Nov 13 with 1512 views | tractorboy1978 |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:46 - Nov 13 by The_Flashing_Smile |
You may well be right but football fans don't have the patience to wait for it to come together, as you'll see from the rabid Lambert-out posts on here.
I've said many times it would take a long time to fix this club, but people aren't interested. They want immediate results. |
But the reality is we HAVE to get out of this division NOW. League 1 is not the base to start building a long term project or implementing a 5 year plan from. COVID and the subsequent salary cap has sped up the rate at which this division is drifting away from the bottom end of the Championship. And one look at our contract situation at the end of this season tells you we will be starting from scratch again in the summer if we don't go up. | | | |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 11:06 - Nov 13 with 1512 views | PhilTWTD |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:53 - Nov 13 by BlueBadger |
Careful Dubbers, Phil only says 'ahem' when he's polishing his ban hammer. |
Ahem... | | | |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 11:07 - Nov 13 with 1501 views | hype313 |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:53 - Nov 13 by BlueBadger |
Careful Dubbers, Phil only says 'ahem' when he's polishing his ban hammer. |
is that a Euphemism? |  |
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| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 11:08 - Nov 13 with 1493 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Apparently the club is in a much better place than 2 years ago.... on 10:52 - Nov 13 by BlueBadger |
Within two years of us getting relegated George Burley had us playing good, passing football in settled style, XI and system, was bringing through young players and had one playoff near-miss and one actual playoff qaulification.
Mick has a settled style, XI, etc and had us competing in the top half within two years.
As did Royle.
To name but three Town managers who came in in difficult cirumstances(although it could be argue that Royle had the strongest base to start from, he was constantly seeing his best players sold under him).
Lambert has flitted from system to system, endlessly mucked about with style, selection and systems has been distinctly indifferent regarding bringing through young players who aren't loanees and mired us in indifferent football and results.
I could get behind a 'long term plan and build' if there was any kind of credible evidence that he's actually been doing that for the past two years.
Like everything he's done at ITFC, Lamberts efforts are mainly shallow exercises in self promotion for the elevation and benefit of Paul Lambert first. [Post edited 13 Nov 2020 15:22]
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Sorry but you can't compare the time periods.
Lambert came in after Hurst and took on a bloody awful squad. Not just first 11 but the squad he inherited was shocking. With no funds to replace.
We also at the time of those you mention had the likes of scowcroft. Dyer. Bent. Ambrose etc coming through the youths.
They also inherited talented players already in the squad l
Lambert came in at the worse time than any of our last managers over 20 years. Inherited the worst squad in over 20 years with the least amount of investment available in those 20 years. ( Wages or transfer funds) | |
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