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Thread | Wolfy
at 21:26 30 Aug 2025
Presumably we aren't desperate for the cash, as we were planning to spend to replace him. Why don't we consider a loan? Maybe we are?
If we don't go up this year, and assuming O'Shea's stock is still high, he will have interest and LW could force his way back in again.
If we do go up, we'll be back in the PL and should be setting up with a 5 at the back at times, which LW suits very much.
Writing is on the wall I guess, I just hope haven't things haven't gone sour, as it's another sign of this summer having been quite fractious. |
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Reply | Wingers, sorry a moan
at 21:02 30 Aug 2025
Clarke has been largely poor, but looks a hundred times more useful than Philogene. It's like we've bought an 800m Olympic athlete with him, not a footballer. He's built like a stick, and I'm sure his running/pressing is very good, but he runs down blind alleys for fun. He is offering nothing in terms of attacking or creative spark and hasn't since he joined. Doesn't seem to have much technique when it comes to crossing or shooting, lacks conviction in so many aspects. Really puzzling one, I'd love to know what Hull fans think about his current situation.
Felt a bit for Clarke today, he was clearly our main hope for getting something going as he was given the ball at every opportunity and was expected to run with it and do something when there was little going on elsewhere, which he did a couple of times but didn't have much space to work with. Fair play to him though, firstly for stepping up and secondly for planting it in the top corner. Great pen.
On a separate subject I like the look of Azon and Akpom, the latter in particular. |
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Reply | Furlong for Young vs Sheff Utd?
at 20:35 30 Aug 2025
Young is okay, nothing more. I don't think he'll be as good attacking as Johnson is (not that BJ is Cafu) but his set pieces are good and I suppose he's a good experienced head.
I wish he'd stop trying to get in scraps during injury time and seemingly trying to waste our own time though. |
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Reply | Derby County = Anti-Football
at 19:51 30 Aug 2025
Yeah Hirst does the defender, but just because you manage to deceive a defender and poke the ball past him, doesn't give you the right to fall over. Contact was minimal if there was any. |
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Reply | Derby County = Anti-Football
at 18:09 30 Aug 2025
I appreciate the common thing is to back your team in this scenario and turn a blind eye, but he's dived. It's not a great tackle, he doesn't get the ball, but Hirst leaves his leg dangling. He even jumps, it's not well disguised.
I'm sure most won't agree, but you've got to take your blue tinted specs off. |
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Reply | Derby County = Anti-Football
at 17:32 30 Aug 2025
Happy to admit if I'm wrong when I watch it back but it looked a clear dive live (North Upper).
Did you see Hirst complain? |
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Reply | Derby County = Anti-Football
at 17:28 30 Aug 2025
Obviously you're right.
And yet all last season I heard people saying "I wish we'd be more streetwise".
You can't really have it both ways. We also had a player yellow carded (correctly) for a dive, so we're not innocent in the cheating department. |
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Reply | How the squad is shaping up
at 16:13 28 Aug 2025
A large chunk of Davis' success was the general floaty-ness of Broadhead and Chaplin. One of those is now in Wales and the other isn't starting.
Think we'll be seeing much less of a reliance on Davis, and therefore he'll probably look less productive. |
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Reply | Nunez = the end of the Jack Taylor era?
at 23:47 27 Aug 2025
Not sure.
Part of the promotion team, passionate, obviously got a thunderbolt on him (not that we've seen it enough). I can see him leaving and after a few weeks people saying we lack a Jack Taylor type player.
Humphreys could potentially step into his shoes but it's still early for him. I think in the right system and set up Taylor can be a dangerous attacking player. Both parties have just never totally suited each other. |
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Reply | List of targets
at 22:32 27 Aug 2025
Can't expect to get your top targets every time.
Everyone plays this merry dance every summer where we all say want to get our business done early. No one really does and everything gets left late, unless you're a side that doesn't really do business or just splashes loads of cash, e.g Wrexham.
It's been a crap summer for us but this is a bit of fun isn't it? Nabbing a decent player off the scum. Look forward to October 5th. |
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Reply | Woolfy
at 20:33 27 Aug 2025
Am I missing something? Didn't Azor sign before we formally let Morsy go? |
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Reply | Woolfy
at 20:25 27 Aug 2025
He's got form.
But it was fine at the time because it was a dig at Lambert. |
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Reply | For those complaining of our slowness this transfer window
at 23:12 26 Aug 2025
This is where I am.
A 'wow' player who 'is Premier League level' should be scoring more than one goal in a whole season, even in a struggling team.
He'll be good but some have gone over the top with him. |
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Reply | So less than a week to go
at 13:29 26 Aug 2025
People will say we're aiming higher but I still wonder if we go for someone like Colby Bishop for the CF. We clearly have struggled to get our first choice targets.
CF
CM
RW - not essential in my view. We only feel we need a RW because of the quality we lost in Omari, in terms of options we're pretty healthy.
LB - again not 100% essential but would be nice to have. |
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Reply | Ashley Young
at 01:07 25 Aug 2025
Didn't see it but I'll be honest I've never been a great fan. Cheating bar steward when at United, hell of a Tom Daly impression on him.
Also, and I'm sure some will scoff at this, but it really annoyed me against Southampton in stoppage time when we were (sort of) pushing for a winner, and he just wanted to get into a scrap with one of their players and subsequently waste our own time.
Looks like he'll be useful for us though. |
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