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Thread | I called it out earlier in the season and I'll keep calling it out
at 22:12 16 Jan 2025
This team and manager doesn't deserve hoards of people walking out the stadium after 88 minutes just because we're losing. It makes the ground look a very sorry place at full time, and things like that will deflate players. We need the opposite.
Poor. If that's you, why not stick around and show some appreciation for the team? |
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Thread | What is the deal with penalty run ups these days?
at 15:42 6 Jan 2025
I thought you couldn't start and then stop? Jimenez does exactly that on his second pen.
Officials also need to clamp down on the defending team crowding the box/spot after it's been given to try and put off the taker. For me, any defending player should be carded if they enter the box after the penalty has been given, and the keeper should go no further forward than the 6 yard box, before obviously retreating to his line. |
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Thread | I know it's Arsenal
at 21:10 27 Dec 2024
But are those saying that Philips and Cajuste could be our best CM partnership not feeling that we miss Morsy? Particularly when we get the ball, just to put a foot on it and recycle it calmly? |
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Thread | The third goal
at 22:17 21 Dec 2024
It's not even Muric's fault. It's the same pass we play every week and we've not made that mistake until now.
It's down to Cajuste, he strangely tries to take a touch and roll his man. Morsy just pops that off to O'Shea/Clarke in that situation when he gets it.
Yeah there's an argument for game management at that stage of the game, going into half time, but there's also the argument that pumping it long to Szmodics wasn't doing any good, and we had to keep trying to pass through them.
That's not on Muric in my opinion. |
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Thread | Out of everything VAR has got involved in
at 22:12 16 Dec 2024
That West Ham penalty is one of the worst.
Winger gets a good cross in and puts it on a plate for the striker who heads it straight at the keeper. But for the bounce of the ball Bowen would have had a tap in on the rebound. Bournemouth clear.
"Actually, can we rewind time 10 seconds because the ball might have brushed the defenders hand on its way into the box before the lad missed a sitter. If you could watch the replay 20 times on the tiny monitor for no reason and then give a penalty that would be great."
F'ing nonsense. |
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Thread | Not seen it mentioned much
at 21:23 9 Dec 2024
Maybe lost in all the gloom...
Chaplin getting his first PL goal is a great moment for him and us. Ever present and more or less a second captain.
I remember his debut against Morecambe and while he produced a lovely assist I think he was unfit and didn't have the best game, I don't think I'd have predicted he would go on to do what he's done.
It's also comforting to know he can still score trademark goals in the top league. Need to trust he'll keep doing it. |
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Thread | Hope those who walked out after the second goal
at 20:14 8 Dec 2024
saved lots of time in the car park. Amused me when they all stopped on the stairs when they realized it was being reviewed by VAR. Maybe don't leave just because we conceded?
Anyway. McKenna can't get more out of this squad than he's getting. Simple as that.
The closest he gets to saying it is when he talks about how good other club's squads are. He's obviously not going to say we have inferior individual players, but that is more or less it at the moment. The old cliche comes to mind about not being good enough in both boxes, we are just not quite as good as the opposition at putting the ball in the net or keeping it out. Everything in between we're fine at.
We had chances (and half chances) to go 2-0 today, both first and second half. Hate to single him out but Szmodics epitomizes what we are at the moment - full of endeavor and good movement, well organized, but just not quite good enough compared to our opposition. He had two shots from the corner of the box first half that other teams' flair players will score, and the chance second half low to the keeper's right hand was our best opportunity to win the game.
Subs are an issue. Neither winger really helped us and while AAH deserves more respect for his performances he's obviously not Delap or Hirst. Tuanzebe again a miss today as well. I know we need to accept things like that it just shows what McKenna is up against.
There's positives like there are most weeks. We played well for starters ("trust the process and focus on performances" etc), Chaplin, Taylor and Burgess all played really well. The decision to play Greaves against Palace looks even worse now, Burgess is first choice at the moment. For a first PL start in an open game Taylor was superb.
Onto Wolves. AAH or Szmodics up front?
Edit: thought Delap was suspended. He lives to foul another day.
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Thread | If Tuanzebe is fit
at 22:08 3 Dec 2024
I think that game is 1-1. If Tuanzebe is fit and George Hirst is fit I think it's a 1-0 or a maybe 2-1.
We're really suffering from fitness at the moment and we're seeing the level we're playing at. Palace aren't spectacular by any stretch but they were too strong for us, physically they're streets ahead of us and they have a couple of good attacking players. Sadly we players who aren't quite PL quality playing a fair amount of minutes at the moment and it showed tonight.
Some respect hopefully will be given to AAH after tonight, he made a difference and maybe he should have come on earlier, I don't think I've ever seen a striker flogged as much as Delap was, although I get why.
Greaves was a poor pick, and I would have said that before the game. Really disappointed for Burgess to be honest.
Think we should have made changes before they scored. We never really looked like scoring and they were always going to get a chance or two, so I think we should have tried to change the sway of the game before those chances came.
'Just not quite good enough' would be my overriding review of that. Not as bad as some will make out, and we will improve over the season, but with our squad in the state it's in, December does look tricky.
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Thread | Portman Road 'Under The Lights'
at 10:53 22 Nov 2024
Hadn't initially occurred to me that Sunday falls into this bracket but it's essentially a night game.
It made me think of some of the best 'under the lights' games we've seen at PR in the last few years, so I thought I'd quickly rank some of them.
1. Southampton 2024: 3-2 - 'He's magic, you know'
2. Port Vale 2023: 2-1 - Broadhead masterclass
3. Leicester 2023: 1-1 - Morsy's 'lucky' equalizer
4. Bristol City 2024: 3-2 - 'Think Ipswich Town are going to wither away?' etc
5. Wolves 2023: 3-2 - Jack Taylor thunder-b
6. Derby 2022: 1-0 - The night of the blackout kit
7. Sunderland 2021: 1-1 - First game after KMc's appointment
8. AFC Wimbledon 2019: 2-1 - Jackson's late winner
(Probably missed a few obvious ones)
Where could Sunday's game rank? [Post edited 22 Nov 2024 14:41]
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Thread | I know it's Russell Martin
at 15:18 9 Nov 2024
But Soton have been right mugged off there. Another shockingly unnecessary intervention to disallow a goal.
If anything the Wolves player steps across the attacker and fouls him, not the other way around.
Not an entertainment sport anymore is it?
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Thread | Immediate post game thoughts
at 20:54 2 Nov 2024
Overall a very good performance. Bar the early threats from them (and they were threatening) we bossed the first half but ultimately struggled to create anything really clear cut from memory. Hutchinson had so much ball and looked so useful but never really found a killer ball or shot.
The way I described it during the game was that we were a much better team but that perhaps Leicester have better players, mainly referring to their two wide men. This is where we're struggling most at the moment.
As her above, Hutchinson is talented but isn't offering enough of a goal/assist threat. And I know people will say we don't play with 'wingers' and rather we use two 10s but Sammie Szmodics spent a fair amount of time out wide today and it's not his position, which is a shame because he's industrious and obviously has a goal in him. I think it's either him or Chaplin for the actual no.10 position, we have Jack Clarke and Nathan Broadhead waiting to fill the left side role.
I thought the penalty appeal was very soft at the time. Having seen the slow mo going round it does look very clumsy however. I do think Chaplin goes down easily though, it's almost like he knows he isn't going to out muscle Fatawu(?) shoulder to shoulder so he just waits to be 'fouled' - if you watch his feet he's actually almost completely off the floor when the contact comes, meaning he's naturally going to go flying. If it's Morsy, Hirst or Delap on the receiving end of that tackle the player bounces off them and there's no mention of a penalty. It plays to the narrative that we're not getting the rub of things, and we're not, but I think you'd want Chaplin to be stronger there. I doubt many neutral fans will watch that and think we're hard done by.
Phillips - a really good game from him. He's had a few now, alongside some less good, but he's playing his role. The sending off looked so harsh. Yet to see it back and maybe I'm wrong but I don't think he's even making a tackle, he's just stretching for a 50/50 ball and the defender comes flying out and has to take everything to get the ball. It's his own momentum that means Phillips makes contacts. Like McKenna said, no need for the referee to make such a big call and change the course of the game.
They didn't look a threat 11 vs 11. From 85' onwards the goal was inevitable though unfortunately, I was just resigned to it. No real fault pointed at anyone. Morsy could have been smarter and was optimistic in wanting a foul, but either way it was all them at that stage and they still had another 4 minutes or so to play. I think they would have found a way even if they hadn't scored the one they did.
Thought O'Shea was superb. Won so many headers. Special mentions also for Johnson - I'm still not sold but that was his best game for us - and Chaplin. Morsy also brilliant overall, as he usually is.
Tough to take but if we trust our manager we have to believe that good performances will eventually bring results. And that was a good performance.
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Thread | Controversial but
at 23:34 26 Oct 2024
Having seen the highlights I don't particularly care that we lost. Obviously I wish we'd got a point or three but that was a great watch either way.
Seeing Chaplin and Hirst who were with us at the start of the journey combine to score that goal was brilliant, and how much fun is Liam Delap? That along with the suggestions from a lot of people that we played pretty well and were comfortably the better side for the first 40 minutes, gives me confidence we could be in for an entertaining season...even if it does end in relegation.
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Thread | Not seen him mentioned much
at 13:39 20 Oct 2024
Am I the only one that thought O'Shea was pretty decent at right back during the first half?
Not a long term option obviously but he stood out as someone who was playing okay (most others were struggling, particularly Burns who was playing directly ahead of him).
Until MOTD I hadn't realized what a good move the early Clarke chance was, starting with DO pinging a good quick pass into Hutchinson in the middle of the pitch.
I would love to see H.Clarke have a good go at the RB slot, but I can see O'Shea doing a job if needed.
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Thread | Might be clutching at positives
at 20:48 19 Oct 2024
But it could just be that Everton are a team we're not suited to playing against, which I think would be fair.
We could and maybe should have beaten Villa who are undoubtedly a much better team than Everton.
No point all of us getting worried because Everton gave a good performance and capitalized on some rank defending. They're a confidence team, if we score the Clarke chance or get the penalty and score it's a very different game.
More clutching but it's also a bummer we had to shoot towards the South Stand second half. More teams should turn us around from KO.
We'll play much better against better teams. Having said that there's definitely some headaches for KM and things to work on. |
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Thread | Martin
at 20:47 30 Sep 2024
It probably seems like a bit of a pile on with him at the moment, especially with us lot, and it's not deliberate, but I just find it hard to believe that players are in any way inspired by him and his management.
Even ignoring the results he's getting he just seems to be in a constant state of negativity. Every setback or last minute goal conceded is the end of the world to him, he's frustrated or "gutted" or angry.
He looks like the kind of manager you'd see having a public slanging match with one of his subs in the dugout.
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