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Reply | This squad should keep us up
at 12:44 31 Aug 2025
We'd lose to Morecambe, have you not watched us against lower division sides over the last 15 years? |
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Reply | This squad should keep us up
at 12:19 31 Aug 2025
To oversimplify, I'm of the opinion that it's a bit easier to play well against Preston and Derby if it's not off the back of dented confidence by struggling against two objectively better sides in Birmingham and Southampton.
I take your point about the sh-thousing low block. But you beat it by having better individuals than the opposition (exactly what happened to us in the prem, although we weren't particularly good at the low block) and not making daft individual mistakes when the opposition bypass your superior midfield. That chest down from O'Shea, while I understand what he was trying to achieve, was something else. And big refereeing moments like penalty decisions and stamps on grounded players can help too.
Fine margins. I choose to believe we can overcome these challenges if the fans forget what the bookies were saying, remember how far we've come and just get behind the team. |
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Reply | This squad should keep us up
at 11:46 31 Aug 2025
Why is the concept of momentum so hard for you to grasp? Individual games don't happen in a vacuum. |
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Reply | This squad should keep us up
at 11:35 31 Aug 2025
I don't think McKenna walks on water, but if he hasn't got a chuffin clue, explain his first two seasons. You don't fluke double promotion.
Until such time as someone at the club decides he's not the man to take us forward, the best thing we can do as fans is get behind the team and help them turn it around. |
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Reply | This squad should keep us up
at 11:32 31 Aug 2025
I was referring to the first two games, as a say momentum and confidence, particularly following relegation. Two easier fixtures to begin and there's every chance we'd have picked up 4-6 points and be in a totally different place.
Nothing we can do about it now other than graft and dig our way out. Getting the better players, the newer ones with less of a relegation hangover, fit and on the pitch will also help massively. |
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Reply | This squad should keep us up
at 11:14 31 Aug 2025
It's always tempting to look for the magic reason why it's not happening, but the simple fact is confidence and momentum is the lions share of the battle. We're struggling with both.
I honestly think the fixture computer has been really unkind to us two seasons running. The difference this year is we're the big fish, so despite the situation we're hanging in and managing to pick up a point.
It'll come, particularly if the fans stick with the team. We have too much quality and despite the lack of a win, our performances are steadily improving. Whether it comes quickly enough for top 2, top 6 or mid table remains to be seen.
At the moment it feels like our season is on a bit of a knife edge and the next game is always critical. |
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Thread | Matusiwa and Cajuste
at 22:45 30 Aug 2025
Thought they had a very good first half. Got control after a decent Derby start and then put us well on top. Matusiwa in particular has been our best player from these opening games, looks a class act and will only continue to improve. Took the ball from our goal kicks facing the keeper for the first time today too, from what I can recall, and looked very comfortable doing it.
Those two could really be the difference between us being a top team this season or struggling for consistency. Plenty more to come I feel. |
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Reply | Derby County = Anti-Football
at 22:31 30 Aug 2025
Think it's one of those you can see either way, but if Hirst hadn't dived over with such an obvious unnatural movement of his legs (particularly the trailing one which he double kicks out) he might have got it. Strangely it was probably both a foul and a dive with simulation. |
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Reply | The end of Burns?
at 18:13 28 Aug 2025
I'm not prone to being overly sentimental about players, but my gut tells me that Burns isn't quite done here yet. Chaplin certainly isn't, we don't have many left now who have been with us on the journey and really understand what it is to play for this club, McKenna knows there will be times this season when we will need the likes of Chappers in the side. |
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Reply | This is already my favourite ever transfer
at 17:55 28 Aug 2025
The sheer scale of their meltdown has surprised me, I've got to admit. Any transfer between the clubs is going to be controversial, create a bit of banter and cause a few of the more intellectually challenged fans to lose perspective, but their reaction has been something else entirely and is very telling. Despite what they might publicly admit, they're clearly the poorer neighbour and their reaction just illustrates that they know it.
Highly amusing. |
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Reply | He slipped out of Carrot Road one night
at 07:59 28 Aug 2025
Spot on 
Maybe a better edit:-
He slipped out of Carrot Road one night
Coz the Town are great and the scum are sh!te
And all the budgies cry "oh no!"
Marcelino Nunez! [Post edited 28 Aug 8:04]
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Reply | We're not signing Nunez
at 07:17 28 Aug 2025
It's too late for that but my point is it would be incredibly funny. Their key player a "snake", despised by his own fans, unsalable and in the last year of his contract. |
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Thread | We're not signing Nunez
at 23:49 27 Aug 2025
He's going to "fail" the medical tomorrow and we'll pull out
Ashton is a genius  |
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Reply | Jeremy Sarmianto
at 22:00 27 Aug 2025
I don't think that's controversial. He's pretty crap. Headless chicken springs to mind. |
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