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Reply | Stopping time wasting
at 12:46 31 Aug 2025
any player claiming a head injury either must leave the pitch for 10 mins to be assessed (no sub) or be substituted. Would protect player safety while penalising fictitious head injuries. The team would not be penalised if genuine as would be able to sub. |
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Reply | Player ratings and general thoughts on yesterday
at 12:08 31 Aug 2025
Philogene often had 2 men on him and that should have freed up space elsewhere - either Leif on the inside in his new role or someone on the edge of the box or heading for the by line. But he dwells on the ball too long when in that situation instead of taking it and moving it on quickly to exploit the space. Sometimes think it's similar with Clarke - cuts inside and dribbles across the pitch but doesn't release the ball quickly enough to exploit the space he's created. We looked great yesterday in that period where we moved the ball quickly, accepting of course that presumably Derby changed something after the break to stop that happening |
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Reply | Couldn’t go yesterday, but did Hirst play any better?
at 10:09 31 Aug 2025
Couldn't have played much worse - he had a real off day. Nothing stuck, didn't make the most of his one good chance. Might have got a pen (I thought he dived). But then none of our starting forwards played well - all a bit static and slow except for the 20 mins before half time when we played with much more pace and Jens was running the show |
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Reply | Egeli, plus a CM and a CF....
at 17:35 26 Aug 2025
Feels like there's a risk we're being led up the garden path and we end up with much less than we need in favour of building the coffers to encourage new investors. Hope the coming few days prove me wrong. |
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Reply | £40m off the bench
at 11:49 24 Aug 2025
The bigger point is that after a reasonable start last year in terms of performances we got steadily worse instead of better, and that trend has continued. We're still going in the wrong direction. Of course it's all a lot better than the nadir a few years ago but that's beside the point - we should be pushing on, not going backwards. |
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Reply | Have the owners
at 10:15 22 Aug 2025
Glass half full says it could all look great after some fantastic and ambitious player acquisitions in the last few days of the window (when they are most likely to happen) and a couple of wins. Glass half empty says we were warned in the Brett email that the club were looking to raise money to attract new investment, that's what's happening; that the plan to prioritise player retention has failed; and that we look disjointed and behind where we need to be on the pitch as a result. A degree of pessimism is allowed and understandable based on events so far. |
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Reply | Go and sign Hayden Hackney, Ben Doak and Mihailo Ivanović
at 08:38 15 Aug 2025
Not sure how much we could in theory spend under the financial rules - lots I assume - but leaving those rules aside for a moment it feels like there's a risk the club's owners don't want to spent this window and instead want the club's finances to be as attractive as possible for new investors. Hopefully that's not the case but it's been an odd window so far. Next couple of weeks will be interesting. |
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Reply | McKenna wants promotion!
at 13:21 9 Aug 2025
I'd heard Axel was open to staying if the offer was right though no doubt as you say other factors were in the mix. Don't suppose we'll ever really know. We'll see if the club means business over the coming couple of weeks. |
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Reply | McKenna wants promotion!
at 11:11 9 Aug 2025
Let's hope he does get the players in that he wants before the window closes. Fingers crossed. But it's been an odd transfer window so far. We've allowed players to go that we should have kept eg Axel, Sam. We've only spent serious money on one player, the rest loans or free. And there's that '£100m plus' of player sales from the Brett J email that makes me think that currently it's all mainly about getting the financials sorted to attract new investors allowing the current ones to take some/all of their gains rather than build a strong enough squad to get back to the Prem. |
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Reply | This is like watching us struggle in the premier league
at 21:36 8 Aug 2025
There's no way of dressing this up - shockingly poor performance so far. Was always going to be a tricky game but we've just looked way off it. Let's hope we graba goal and a point from somewhere |
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Reply | Philogene and Omari
at 15:58 4 Aug 2025
Looking at what we've done so far rather than what we said we'd do this window suggests there's unfortunately something in this. There's time to prove otherwise of course and the Hackney saga at least showed we seemed ready to spend some serious money on the right targets. |
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Reply | Junior Doctors
at 14:54 25 Jul 2025
It doesn't help their case that they base it on RPI rather than CPI which gives a much smaller figure for their pay degradation and is apparently generally accepted as a better measure of inflation (RPI is due to be phased out). Plus quite a few doctors presumably entered the profession after the starting point they use for their calculations. Better pay and conditions yes, over time, but not to the extent they claim they are due. |
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Reply | Being concerned about lack of signings is no longer bed wetting
at 13:50 25 Jul 2025
Feel 95% confident it's all in hand behind the scenes......but 5% of doubt niggling away given Ashton saying he's prioritising retention yet for one reason or another - some admittedly unavoidable - we've lost our best striker, our best defender and our best midfielder and probably about to lose Hutch too; and because of the Brett J statement about realising £100m of value from player sales which has not been satisfactorily explained to my mind. Still thinking it'll all be fine and we'll see some stellar acquisitions before too long and hopefully in time for us to get off to a strong start. |
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Reply | Ashley Young - reported wage
at 18:01 23 Jul 2025
If it's true we are paying him a substantial salary surely we'd have been better spending it on keeping Axel |
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Reply | Restaurant/pub restaurant recommendations
at 09:20 23 May 2025
The Greyhound at Pettistree is great for food. As a general pub for a few beers I reckon the Woolpack takes some beating though I agree the Maybush and Ramsholt Arms are both in fantastic locations. |
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Reply | Midfield pairs
at 13:35 7 May 2025
I reckon Morsy is easily capable of having a great season next year and remaining as the first name on the teamsheet. I can't see Taylor cutting it as a regular starter though. Unless Cam's ready to step up it's going to be a key area, perhaps the key area, to strengthen. |
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Reply | Second halves
at 18:40 5 Apr 2025
Yep. Wolves seemed to step it up but we let them - so passive. Despite coming off a great away win and a decent first half we looked bereft of confidence, intent, and intensity. Baffling and quite right that it isn't the first time we have looked completely off it in the second half. It didn't look at all like a team fighting for survival. Sure, there's a big gulf in class given our rapid rise but where was the fight - at least lose throwing everything at it |
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Reply | 38010
at 17:58 7 Mar 2025
Remember it well. On the wall, middle of the West Stand. Got there to queue for when the gates opened which might have been as early as mid-day. |
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