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Thread | Villa v Liverpool
at 20:04 19 Feb 2025
Hope Villa win to make things interesting but not looking good at the moment…
But point of post - that yellow for Disasi is a disgrace. Commentator saying “it’s just the difference in height”. It’s not. It is that Disasi could not move because macallister was attached to him like a limpet and the Villa player thought it might be nice if he was able to run about a bit.
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Thread | Eustace wanting to move to Derby
at 19:13 10 Feb 2025
Why? (Apart from having played there and the obvious wish to manage KJ and MH)
You just know that Blackburn will disintegrate opening up another place in the playoffs… |
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Thread | Duran
at 16:46 20 Jan 2025
West Ham bid £57m apparently - where on Planet Earth did that valuation come from? |
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Thread | Lyon
at 21:48 18 Dec 2024
Listening to The Transfer Flow Podcast, and they are talking about Lyon needing to sell Euro 100 million of players this window to avoid relegation to Ligue 2, so given it is open season on them I had a quick look at their squad:
Lacazette - interesting...
Mikautadze - Georgian striker - suspect he will go elsewhere
Maitland-Niles - cover CM and RB - time for a homecoming? |
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Thread | England squad
at 14:19 7 Nov 2024
Harwood-Bellis and Hall the new young defenders in the squad - am sure we can all think of at least one alternative for "trainee left back" |
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Thread | Premier League Podcasts
at 09:10 8 Oct 2024
I used to quite enjoy the podcasts that looked at the championship / lower leagues - NTT20 and to a lesser extent The Second Tier. The Price of Football is also pretty good IMO. All of those are pretty good at telling me something I didn’t know already.
The premier league offerings, while there are many of them, are unsurprisingly focused on the top end of the division - so not yet terribly relevant. arguably we are not as well served as we were in the championship.
Anyone have any recommendations for balanced alternatives? |
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Thread | When do we find out if our games have moved from Saturday 3pm?
at 14:20 5 Sep 2024
I am trying to book travel for the Autumn, but looking to slot these trips between our own fixtures. I assume that the dates of the weekends we have will be fairly set, but typically when will we know whether our match has been moved to a Sunday / Monday for TV - or has that happened already on the list on the itfc website? Currently it looks like only the Villa game has moved from Saturday at 3pm, which is slightly contrary to the accepted wisdom that you rarely have such a fixture. |
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Thread | Dynamic pricing
at 20:43 2 Sep 2024
Not sure if this link will work, but there is a bit of a debate (well it would be a debate if there were two sides to this particular story, it’s more a series of rants) about whether dynamic pricing for match tickets is a reasonable development.
Clearly a topic fuelled by the recent furore about Oasis tickets. I think that if the club could direct the tickets to true fans and guarantee no resale then there is no justification for this. If they are finding that these tickets are simply ending up with touts, maybe the club should make that margin rather than the third parties. |
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Thread | Newcastle goal
at 21:14 15 May 2024
Do you think the “get rid of it” crowd will put that in the goals conceded from launching it column? |
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Thread | Middlesbrough players
at 10:02 14 Apr 2024
Thought Latte Lath was excellent yesterday - not just the goal, but great stamina, pace, leap, strength, attitude
On the other hand, not terribly impressed with Azaz - didn’t think he did a lot all game and wasn’t really doing a lot of running
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Thread | A game of two halves
at 08:11 23 Jan 2024
We have seen a few times now that the team can start a little slowly, have a quiet first half, and then really come to life after the break. Is this really by accident, or is it a distinct tactic?
In both Leicester games, Sunderland etc we have almost let the opposition press like crazy for the first half, soaked it up and taken our medicine in terms of a goal conceded, and then have the opportunity to go at the opposition with pace, energy and skill twice in the second half, both immediately after half time with the starters, and again when the subs come on.
Of course it might be that the pundits are right and it is down to the opponents mindset, but that just seems so unprofessional… |
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Thread | Ronnie Edwards
at 08:53 7 Sep 2023
Darragh McAnthony on Hard Talk podcast flagging that a mystery Championship side nearly got him in the last couple of hours of the window having made several bids after West Ham messed them around and Southampton showed a bit of interest - I wonder who that was…. He is suggesting that the move may still happen in January. |
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Thread | Opposition players getting “injuredâ€
at 19:24 13 Feb 2023
Interested in thoughts
There has been more than one instance this year when we were well on top, when an opposition player goes down, there is five to ten minutes of faffing around, the injured player gets up hobbles off, and then comes back on and sprints around as if they have just got on - meantime our momentum is completely gone.
It happened on Saturday immediately after the Connor Chaplin header from the corner on 60 minutes - I have just listened to the Wednesday commentary and even they were saying that he went down tactically so the team could regroup. Arguably that was a bigger factor than our subs in disrupting our flow.
So why didn’t we do that at 1-0 down? I don’t think I have ever seen a town player do that (certainly not in recent seasons)
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Thread | Added time in the WC
at 18:21 21 Nov 2022
(or should I say FWC...)
Anyone know why there is so much added time in these games? England game in first half, 14 minutes was fair enough - but another 10 minutes for the second half? And 8 minutes in the Holland Senegal game?
Is this a policy on the basis of number of subs? There hasn't been L1 level timewasting that I have noticed. I don't necessarily disagree with them applying them some new guidance, it would just be quite nice to know what that guidance is! |
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Thread | “Moment of Truth†on BBC Sounds
at 23:12 21 Jul 2022
Not sure if anyone else is following this - apologies if already posted. It’s sort of Sunderland TID on the radio. Quite enjoying it, despite the painful memories
Dare I say it, I am almost warming to Paul Warne - Karl Robinson is a bit too emotional for my liking and too fond of the big speeches
Biggest revelation for me - that the jingle you hear on Radio Suffolk when the football coverage starts is the same for the Oxford station |
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