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Thread | Broadcasters in talks to interview managers during games
at 13:46 24 Jan 2025
According to today's Times (don't have a link, reading it in the print version).
This is TNT and Sky for their new deals starting in August. Other options include interviewing substituted players and filming in dressing rooms.
In-game interviews with managers seems particularly ludicrous to me. I want McKenna's full focus on the game, not exchanging some inane back and forth with Dion Dublin (or whoever)!
Is this really what the game's coming to? Hopefully it won't happen, but the fact it's even on the table is...well, a sign of the times. |
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Thread | That Everton result could be the most significant of all
at 21:30 15 Jan 2025
Pleasing as it is to see Wolves and Leicester lose, Everton are still very much in the brown stuff, despite a new manager. I like the prospect of a five way fight for survival more than a four way fight, and that's how it's looking right now. |
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Thread | In a weird way...
at 09:32 15 Dec 2024
...these last four games have shown what a brilliant manager McKenna is.
They were games we knew we needed to get something from, particularly given our Christmas fixtures. Losing away to Forest was hardly a disgrace, but the home losses to Palace and Bournemouth were fairly disastrous for our survival chances. And yet McKenna keeps calm, avoids an O'Neil style wobbler, and we're now back in the fight.
Calmness, consistency, integrity - whatever happens this season, we are very lucky to have him. |
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Thread | What do we want from today's games then?
at 13:37 9 Nov 2024
Palace to hopefully get a good thumping from Fulham, obviously.
Saints and Wolves drawing would work quite nicely for us.
West Ham v Everton? Another draw maybe? Or a West Ham win? |
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Thread | Cajuste
at 21:08 30 Sep 2024
Was he injured then? Missed this if so.
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Thread | Perspective
at 11:03 28 Jun 2024
If you start getting frustrated with all the transfer rumours (as I sometimes am) and just want to see signings, remember this:
Less than four years ago, our big summer signings were Stephen Ward, Ollie Hawkins and David Cornell.
I find this helps. [Post edited 28 Jun 2024 11:05]
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Thread | Fortuna friendly
at 22:11 23 Jun 2024
Anyone know when tickets are going on sale? |
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Thread | Ten Hag staying
at 23:11 11 Jun 2024
Review apparently concluded and contract extension being discussed.
Good news! |
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Thread | Hladky
at 23:11 30 Dec 2023
Bit of surprise on here about Morsy not making the Egyptian squad and interest in who they've got that is better, but how come Hladky doesn't seem to be in the conversation for Czechia caps? Just had a quick look at their current goalies and they don't seem all that. |
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Thread | Ladapo
at 16:46 7 May 2023
Ends up on 21 goals for the season, 17 in the league (which is only three behind Colby Bishop and Alfie May) despite not being a regular starter for much of the season.
Seriously impressive. Pleased he got the 100th goal. |
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Thread | Well, we carry on.
at 17:07 22 Apr 2023
One more win and two draws to do it. Or two wins.
We were brilliant today.
COYB. |
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Thread | Evans out
at 15:04 10 Feb 2023
Getting a bit worried about our CM situation tbh. Morsy will be suspended sooner or later, Luongo has had very little football (and is carrying a knock) and Humphreys is very promising but still a kid. |
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Thread | Anyone have a favourite...
at 12:53 6 Jan 2023
...league in a particular time period? Aside from the English game?
Bit of a weird question but I've been getting all nostalgic lately.
I personally loved:
Serie A in the late 1980s and 1990s. So many great teams, the legendary AC Milan team, Juventus, Inter, Roma, Lazio all had great players, and even lesser lights like Sampdoria, Fiorentina, Genoa, Parma and Bari had good teams.
And also, slightly randomly, the Scottish Premier League in the 1980s. Celtic were good, Rangers were even more glamorous under Souness, but the league was very competitive then because at various points Aberdeen, Dundee United and Hearts all had fabulous teams. Funny to think about it now, but to the young Pique it seemed like a very exciting league.
Oddly enough, I've never been able to get excited about the Spanish and German leagues - they've just always felt like two or three top teams and the rest as cannon fodder. Maybe that's unfair.
Anyone have any similar leagues frozen in time that they loved? |
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Thread | What’s the best bookshop you’ve ever been to?
at 13:43 10 Sep 2022
I think for me it would be Barter Books in Alnwick, Northumberland. A huge second hand bookshop in an old train station on the edge of the town. A truly beautiful building and setting, with a cafe in the old waiting room and miles and miles of books - I could lose myself in there for days.
Genuinely interested to hear if anyone else has a favourite, either in the UK or overseas. |
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