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Reply | Dozzell.
at 14:07 14 Sep 2025
Andre and Conor play the full game, Flynn and Ryan get subbed (and Alex McCarthy doesn't make it onto the pitch.) Don't know if we can read too much into that but the match stats seem to give Pompey the edge in everything but possession and xG. |
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Reply | Russell Martin lollage again (n/t)
at 08:49 14 Sep 2025
It is much more open at the moment, and might become more so if the rumblings about Rodgers leaving Celtic get worse. Only regret is that my new second team, Aberdeen, can't seem to score even when they have sixteen shots in a game.
[edit: and what I intended to post when I opened the thread but got distracted reading through it, Rangers should never have sacked Phillipe Clement.] [Post edited 14 Sep 8:50]
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Reply | Club developed player
at 09:15 13 Sep 2025
As far as I can see all that AI does is go on a superfast and superextensive trawl through the data that it owns, if the data is wrong there is no intelligent process at work to question that. |
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Reply | Leif
at 08:53 13 Sep 2025
I think the only criticism that can be made of Davis last night was that sometimes he was running forward so strong and fast that he arrived in the top left corner before anyone else (including the Sheffield United defence) and was in danger of getting our moves flagged for offside. It would have been dangerous for him to pull up quickly at that speed, mind. |
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Reply | Everything is good, just need that number 9 now..
at 08:28 13 Sep 2025
Well, yes, it is the true mark of a 'cart horse' forward that they are alert to any opportunity, run with the ball whilst moving their arm out of the way to avoid handball and then turn a full three sixty before hitting a firm and accurate shot through a goalkeeper'e legs from a tight angle... |
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Reply | Do I sense a bit of a change in style?
at 08:16 13 Sep 2025
'This has been an excellent night. It has ended Ipswich's barren spell. They are up and running.
I am wondering if that is going to be the style of play.
Sheffield United - who are not a bad team - dominated the ball for long spells and enabled Ipswich to play a way that I haven't seen under Kieran McKenna before.
They were counter-attacking. They were quick and divisive, but played differently from all those games in League One, the Championship and the Premier League.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/live/c7408r78j39t#LiveReporting @ 22:28 |
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Reply | Club developed player
at 08:12 13 Sep 2025
I agree, partly, but as the season wears on and injuries take their toll (other cliches are available...cliche that that is) I can see an incentive to bring club developed players through and at least give them a place on the bench. I think we are allowed to do that if they were under twenty one at the start of the calendar year, aren't we ? Or does there have to be an 'r' in the month ? Uranus sits in Sagittarius ? To be honest I'm still a bit worried that someone at the EFL is setting out the tarot this morning and is about to deal the death card on last night's game. |
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Reply | Do I sense a bit of a change in style?
at 08:04 13 Sep 2025
'But every game’s different, the challenge tonight was tough, but it’s a completely different challenge to what Derby or Preston posed in the games before.' from McKenna's post match interview quoted in Phil's front page article.
We also now have the squad to adjust to the opposition challenges. |
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Reply | Club developed player
at 23:20 12 Sep 2025
Yep, just checked. Do Sindre's tender years make him a development player ? |
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Reply | Do I sense a bit of a change in style?
at 23:05 12 Sep 2025
Too early to tell for me, when Akpom was on the pitch he sat behind Hirst more than Smozdics (or Chaplin, remember him ?) does; this makes the three more of a triple prong than the previous attacking line. Also Cajuste is more of a winning touch and feed player whereas Luongo carried the ball; again the substitution changed things as Núñez seems to have a freer role (but that might just be from the freedom that coming onto the pitch when we are 4-0 up brings.)
I would like to think that McKenna had a game plan for the Blades that involved drawing them in and hitting back when they were a bit out of shape, the tactics will undoubtedly be different for Blackburn and am interested to see what develops in that match. |
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Reply | Matusiwa
at 22:48 12 Sep 2025
Azor the razor, the way he snapped into the defender and cut out the ball to win the lay off for Jack Clarke to run on to and score was frightening. |
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Reply | Never offside! (n/t)
at 22:25 12 Sep 2025
Hirst may have come back from an offside position but when the next phase of the attack commenced he was onside all the way. |
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