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Comment | New Home Kit Launched
at 14:14:36
Underwhelmed! A terrible marketing video, an awful soundtrack and an average shirt!! Really surprised that the much hyped new executive management team allowed the launched in this format. |
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Comment | Model of Beattie Statue Unveiled
at 12:18:24
A great design but I'm another who thinks it looks more like Alan Hunter - at the moment! Still time though to put this right before production. |
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Comment | Town Unveil New Kits
at 16:29:55
Away kit with blue shirts would be awesome. Home kit is shockingly bad!! |
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Comment | McCarthy Excited as Players Return to Fitness
at 06:49:01
^^^ All the players he mentioned are midfielders and strikers and yes we will be stronger if they were all available - if MM was to swap it around a bit from time to time by dropping out of form players, which he is reluctant to do! But it's defence that continues to be our weak point; we all know it but MM perseveres with the same back five week after week after week after week zzzzzzzz. If only he would make a change or two occasionally; and if we continued to leak goals then he could smugly say "told you so" but to big up everyone is getting tiresome for most of us. If all our players have been outstanding, terrific, different class or whatever superlative he choses to use then we would be playing far better football and doing rather better than we are. |
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Comment | McCarthy: Gerken Starts, Sears a Doubt
at 16:49:20
Sorry, but this why so many Town fans get so frustrated with McCarthy. He's done a decent job in stabilising Town but his bizarre selection decisions and stubbornness cost us points last season and they are already costing us this season. Some won't like this and I'll get down arrows but I don't give a flying fig. He's improved our attacking options massively but defence is not balanced and Gerks is the biggest single weak link in our team. I sometimes despair with McCarthy at the helm, only because I believe he gets it wrong sometimes, something he'll never admit to, and because I'm sure we could do so much better with better team selections. But what the hell do I know, I'm only been playing and watching football for around 50 years - I'm no manager. |
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Comment | Sixties Midfielder Hegan Dies
at 10:43:01
I have very fond memories of Danny playing for Town in the late 60s; a great player on his day but a bit inconsistent it has to be said. RiP |
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Comment | McCarthy Delighted to See Tabb Score But Wants More Midfield Goals
at 06:29:20
Skuse "Outstanding all season" - really? He's been mediocre at best with some decent games mixed in with some very poor ones. I've seen him live a few times this season when home and I've seen almost every game live on TV and for me he's a very average player that would not get into any other team in the top half of the Championship. When he's on top of his game doing the job he's in there to do he gives an 8/10 performance, not inspiring but solid and doing a good mopping up job, but when he's not on top of his game he's a 5/10 drifting around not contributing a great deal. I actually feel that Tabb could do a better job in that position and he has considerably more energy, he presses opposition, he can get off the ground to head the ball (unlike Skuse), he's a 'slightly' better passer, he looks for the ball more than Skuse does and there's a modicum of a goal threat from him. He's just not that good as a left midfielder! Bottom line; Skuse has not been "outstanding all season" - well, not in my opinion but others may agree with MM, who after all knows far more than me as a football manager. |
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Comment | Taylor's Contract Terminated
at 15:24:15
Shame, could have provided the attacking flair and pace that's been so badly missed recently. |
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Comment | McCarthy Frustrated By Failure to Score
at 18:58:53
We will finish 8th. We've been punching above our weight and have done so well to at least be competitive and in with a shout. But sadly we lack quality, we are unbalanced with too many round pegs in square holes and we failed to strengthen in the transfer window. All very disappointing but at least we're at the right end of the table and MM has given us some hope this season - frustrating though some of his team selections are! |
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Comment | McCarthy: Parr a Threat From Midfield
at 07:29:46
"I'm loyal to players and I like players who know they're going to be playing in the team because they've played well". Commendable but one of Mick's weaknesses is that he shows that same loyalty even when players do not play well - he has his favourites as most will agree. My concern is that he will revert back to his favourites Terrific Tabby and Different Class Ando - I hope I'm wrong. |
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Comment | Skuse: Midfield Needs to Score More
at 06:19:35
“Of course we, the midfielders, need to score more." No sh1t Sherlock! They not only need to score more they need to create more as well. Oh for a winger that is fast and can actually beat a man and send in dangerous crosses (as well as cover defensive duties of course!) or a midfield maestro to pull the strings and thread balls though on the ground to our strikers. We can all but dream ... |
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Comment | McCarthy: Painful Way to Lose
at 07:24:15
MM cannot slate his players publicly (apart from Taylor) but from someone who was there the fact is that Nouble had an absolute shocker - one of the worst displays I have ever witnessed from a professional footballer - Bru was also very poor, Wordsworth and Hewitt showed why they are fringe players and did not stake a claim for a start, Clarke and Henshall showed promise for the future, the diminutive Marriot was effectively playing without a strike partner so struggled to get into the game and Taylor was without doubt was our most threatening and creative player. So what does MM do? He takes off Talyor and leaves Nouble on, much to the despair of all those around me. And therein lies the problem with MM - pig headed and stubborn. I like a straight talker but sometimes the things he comes out with rile me somewhat. |
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Comment | We're At Home to Ipswich, Great Stuff - Notes for Crawley
at 13:17:03
Cheers Harry.
I'll be there tonight (I'm home for a week) with four others (three Town fans and two neutrals) from my neck of the woods (Berkshire) and perhaps three or four others who are neutrals but are thinking of joining us. Happy days - or it will be if we put on a great attacking performance and win by a hatful! |
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