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Reply | Twtd on iPhone
at 13:14 30 Apr 2025
Yeah I get all of that.
Also if I get towards the bottom of a page sometimes it doesn’t let me scroll back up. |
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Reply | OTD last year… Coventry (a)
at 13:00 30 Apr 2025
Best away day (league) ever for me. Pips Barnsley on the basis of the prize at stake and doing what we had no right to do last season. |
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Reply | We all PSG tonight?
at 17:49 29 Apr 2025
Fortnight ago I would've said I want Arsenal to win it, English club and all that. Saka, Rice, Lewis-Skelly, Sterling. Good for English players to taste European success.
But nah, feck 'em now. Horrible fan base. Hope Doue absolutely tears them apart. |
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Reply | Does anyone have a north-facing garden?
at 17:20 29 Apr 2025
Same for me, NW facing. Get lovely afternoon and evening sun, just looked out my office window now and my garden is 80% sun and 20% dappling.
The best part for me is my kitchen diner at the back of the house, and bedroom above it stay much cooler in the summer which I'm always very grateful for. |
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Reply | Paul Merson
at 12:00 29 Apr 2025
The last 6 promoted teams have all gone straight back down with a (likely) maximum of 26 points but yeah its their fault, nothing to do with the anti-competitive nature of the PL and wealth disparity at all. |
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Reply | Paul Merson
at 11:48 29 Apr 2025
Someone needs to drop McKenna an email and let him know we should've just focussed on finishing 17th. 17th, 17th, 17th.
Remarkable Merson never had a career in management really, its a piece of piss.
Tongue out of cheek there's an element of sense in what he's saying re. style, certainly when you watched Southampton under Martin it was ludicrous at times. Fair play for sticking to your principles and all that but going up and being a significantly crapper version of the likes of Brighton likely isn't going to get you very far. I'm not sure that's necessarily true of our approach though, its a bit of a myth. We've mixed it up plenty this season. We were never going to Mike Bassett our way to 40+ points, the outcome would be the same. |
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Reply | Does this Citeh fan have a valid point?
at 11:12 29 Apr 2025
Yes, certainly.
I think it highlights how small their fan base is compared to the more typical 'big clubs' though. I can't imagine United or Liverpool not selling out regardless of how many times they've been in that situation. They would probably see the same behaviours from their loyal fans but have enough other fans who would go in their place. City don't have that.
Doesn't take away from his point though on an individual leve, its an expensive day out at a time people are feeling the pinch, and while an FA cup semi final at Wembley is an occasion for most, its really not for a club that's achieved what they have over the last 10 years or more. |
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Reply | Carl Rushworth, Jason Knight & Flynn Downes
at 11:04 29 Apr 2025
Don't disagree Ned but we shouldn't forget Hladky wasn't perfect either. If we're going to play that way you take the rough with the smooth. Watford away comes to mind, he also shipped a few soft goals among his brilliance at times. I think we have to recognise whether its Muric or Palmer we will see that from time to time.
Goalkeeper is an area where I almost don't like having too much competition. Appreciate its the way the game has gone and maybe I'm a fossil, but I want my #1 to feel like it and play like it without fear of getting binned at the first mistake. We need to be decisive with it, give them the #1 squad number and back it. I think there needs to be some clear distinction between the keepers that helps breed some confidence in them. Of course you need able deputies if required. For me 1 of Muric or Palmer goes, and the other is instated as that 1. |
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Reply | Carl Rushworth, Jason Knight & Flynn Downes
at 10:53 29 Apr 2025
I've said it before and will say it again, there's a top keeper in there. Physically and technically he has it all, the way he commands those aerial balls, his physical presence, its a real shame he's got too many errors in him. He's like a young David James.
Needs to cut out the antics off the pitch, not a good look in the year he's been here to get done driving on his phone, get binned out of the Kosovo squad for breaking the rules etc. Bloke just seems a bit wayward on and off the pitch.
He's one where there's no point him being here as a #2. We either cut our losses on him or we put our faith in him and try to get him right IMO, there's almost no middle ground. |
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Reply | Carl Rushworth, Jason Knight & Flynn Downes
at 10:40 29 Apr 2025
I would agree with that. Its not an area for me where we need to be spending too much of our time or money. The path of least resistance is to stick with Palmer who is a good age, proven at that level and to be fair to him has done well for us on balance. He's not perfect, but nobody will be.
We also need to retain a bit of continuity. The temptation is to rip it all up but that would be foolish, we've got the basis of a really strong squad and with change always comes risk. |
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Reply | What signings do Town need in the summer?
at 09:41 29 Apr 2025
Really depends on what happens with Burgess, Tuanzebe, Delap, potentially Davis, O'Shea and Hutchinson too, if any of those leave they'll need replacing. Ideally we keep as many as we possibly can.
There's a fair few that are predictably off, namely Godfrey, Cajuste, Phillips, Enciso, Luongo, Harness. Can't see any of those staying, and question marks over Al-Hamadi and Muric. Wouldn't surprise me if all of those leave.
I reckon we'll bring 3-4 on loan and at least the same again permanently, potentially more depending on departures. Going to be a fair amount of change but CM certainly looks to be the priority area at the moment with #9 a close second if / when Delap goes. |
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Reply | I see they are....
at 20:13 28 Apr 2025
He’s properly weird. The blokes 32 years old ffs. |
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Reply | Just been listening to BM Podcast
at 13:44 28 Apr 2025
Another point worth making is I don’t believe we’ve got this group near its ceiling yet. The sheer level of additions, some of it so late in the window, the keeper situation, the level of injuries we’ve had and the level of opposition as well and approach we’ve needed in games this season are all big factors.
Our promotion side was stronger than the sum of its parts, I think we’ve upgraded a lot of the parts (with key areas to still address) and I’d back McKenna to shape that into a high functioning unit at championship level. There’s levels to this game and I think we’ve got a very good opportunity now to take a stronger group up to the premier league than we did last time. Not to discredit a lot of those players that took us up, but the spine of that side in Hladky, Burgess, Woolf, Morsy, Luongo, Chaplin have never, and probably will never be PL players. Certainly the periphery in Harry Clarke, Harness, Jackson, AAH aren’t..
If we can get a level of continuity and rebuild the spirit of that squad with Greaves, O’Shea, Philogene, Omari, Clarke etc, and a couple of strong central midfield additions which will absolutely be the target area, then I think we’ll be at a higher base.
On paper we’ve got a better squad now, but we’re not necessarily a better side. That’s hard to measure as we’re at a wildly different level, but that’ll be what McKenna and his team are focussed on over the summer. The championship won’t be easy and nothing will be given to us, but we’ve got a strong hand, we need to play it right. |
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Reply | Just been listening to BM Podcast
at 13:18 28 Apr 2025
Yes we’re some way off having a PL squad currently, as evidenced this season. I do think we’ve stepped towards it in area though. I think we’ll believe some players to be capable, but definitely a lot more work to do on that front. I can see at least 8 out, 8 in this summer. |
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Reply | Just been listening to BM Podcast
at 12:54 28 Apr 2025
We’re all so scarred from Evans that we don’t recognise or understand the level of ambition our owners have. They’re not here to mess about or for their 15 minutes in the premier league, the levels of investment and plans for the future are serious.
I don’t think we need to sell this summer. Delap or clause related ones aside it’ll be a case of selling if we think it’s strategically the right thing to do with the context of PSR or other factors. We won’t be selling from a position of distress.
We’re trying to build a premier league squad, I think we’ll go quite hard again this summer. |
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