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Comment | Palace Reportedly Fail in Move For McKenna
at 17:07:26
McK has also said he doesn't want to disrupt his kids' schooling, and one way to do that is not to join a club and be sacked in six months' time. I think he will stay for one more season at least, even if we don't go up. The spending limits are not down to Gamechanger, but down to Financial Fair Play rules (FFP) - this give the relegated clubs with parachute payments an unfair advantage on all the other clubs and rewards them for failure. If there were no parachute payments we'd be leading this division by a street. |
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Comment | Tractor Girls Out of FAWNL Cup
at 19:32:15
I thought the girls were also unfortunate. Portsmouth had the best of the first half, but Town came into it all the more and after half-time they dominated the second half without finding the net. Sound familiar. The Pompey winner was worthy of winning any game.
I’m not sure that playing out from the back is the right strategy though! We lost possession in our final third on several occasions, including their first goal. Our midfield airing of Bonnie Horwood and Kory Richardson are excellent and complement each other |
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Comment | McKenna: Credit to Maidstone, a Horrible Game to Lose
at 05:00:43
Fact is we played our second team and we outplayed them by miles and they got lucky - extremely lucky. Replay that game 100 times and they’d only win once. We should have been 3 up inside 15 minutes.
And was it a pen?
Aluko is only good for 20 minutes and then disappeared.
Although we had 38 shots, many were weak or wayward. But we should have had many more. We spent far too long passing the ball around outside their penalty area when we should have shot or crossed and something would have happened.
Good luck to them. |
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Comment | Cardiff Eyeing Tuanzebe
at 11:19:05
People haven't adjusted to the fact that we do not need to sell our players like we did under previous management. Good. The more we are under the radar the further we can go. |
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Comment | Blues Linked With Moore Loan Return
at 11:14:50
It's easy to judge players on what we saw of them in a previous life - take Luongo for example. Fact is, we have a much better coaching setup now than we did when Moore was here last time, and he has improved under better coaching elsewhere than we were able to offer at that time. We have changed from a club where decent players got worse to one where ordinary players turn into world-beaters.
I seem to remember he hardly got a look in - just a few minutes at the end of games. McKenna will get much more out of him than we did last time. |
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Comment | Leeds and Leicester Games on Sky
at 14:03:23
That's a pretty tough set of matches. We couldn't even beat Rotherham on TV. Hope we don't revert to type. |
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Comment | McKenna: Walton Out For a Few Months
at 16:01:21
In a way it might work out in our favour because Hladky has not had much opportunity and he’ll be much more settled as and when Walton returns. And nobody will be chasing Walton now. I wonder if the number three is good enough to step up? Tough baptism on Sunday! |
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Comment | Morsy Linked With Saudi Clubs
at 07:10:12
In a bizarre way, it could work to our advantage, because the player trading model involves recruiting players, improving them and selling them on. Therefore we stand to make more money by selling them to Saudi Arabia than many of our peers. We can't control what Morsy does and it he wants to take it up then at least we'll make money out of it. Not a good time to lose him though.
I wish it wasn't happening. I don't think we should be supporting autocratic regimes with poor human rights records. However, it's not just football. Many people in industry also sell their souls to go and work for a tax-free fortune in the Middle East. Our country sells arms to Saudi Arabia for use in the Yemen. So why single out football?
Most in the UK support their local football team, because it is their local football team (even though most of the players come from somewhere else!). I've got no interest in franchise football from Saudi Arabia, I'd rather go and watch a Tier 5 non-league football team down the road. Same with cricket - I support Essex and I've worked for Kent in the past and I support them. I don't care about the IPL or the Big Bash or the Pakistani Super League. I expect the Saudi benefactors will get bored with their new plaything after a few years and everything will settle down again. |
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Comment | Blackburn and Middlesbrough Join Simms Chase
at 15:24:58
I would imagine we could outbid any of them should we want to, but then it does us no harm to get our rivals to engage in a bidding war to soak up their resources, while we are looking elsewhere!
I think we look more for people that we can improve and add value to, and/or come with us on the journey, rather than people who have already got a reputation.
Still, could be wrong... |
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Comment | McKenna Signs New Deal
at 11:47:24
Don't think it was ever in doubt was it? Think back to the Fans Forum in 2022 when he talked about the project and stabiity. He's not going to suddenly up sticks and move to a basket-case club. |
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Comment | Town Confirm Fleetwood Beamback
at 07:01:37
I think we have missed a trick here. With the Ladies having their match kicking off at 2pm, we could have had a beamback, followed by the last match of the Ladies season at Portman Road. It isn't possible to get from Portman Road to Felixstowe in time to see both., so we have to choose. Imagine how we could have had a crowd of 10,000 or more watching the Ladies? Oxford might have found that quite intimidating!
OK, I know that they have begin to dig up the pitch, but surely that could have been delayed by a week, because if we had ended up in the playoffs, it would have been delayed by more, as we'd have had another home match to host. |
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