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Reply | Four in Championship Team of the Week
at 14:39 15 Sep 2025
Sometimes on Friday night he did look like Alphonso Davies in the way he was bombing up and down the wing, so an easy mistake to make |
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Reply | Two things I’d change about football immediately…
at 13:10 15 Sep 2025
All VaR checks must be complete in 30 seconds or less. If they can't determine whether the ref made an error within 30 seconds, then it obviously wasn't a clear enough error to warrant a change in decision. The VaR official has 15 seconds to send it down to the on-field ref, who then gets any time remaining to review & make a decision.
Any bookings for diving carry a 1 game ban. Those bookings can be applied retrospectively - and if it would have been a second booking, then the player gets a 2-game ban (one for the dive, one for what would have been a red). Clear dives only - "going to ground easily" does not count for these purposes. Such yellow cards can also be retrospectively taken away if deemed incorrect.
Managers given 2 opportunities a game to appeal against timewasting (which are retained if upheld). If a manager appeal against timewasting is upheld, automatic yellow to the offender or the captain as appropriate.
Three points given out in each game. Any "dominant draws" (definition TBC) get 2 points while the other team gets 1. Any "genuine draws" (where both teams have been very evenly matched) have the other point determined by a penalty shootout after full time.
Introduce bonus points - winner of "goal of the month", "pass of the month", "tackle of the month" and "save of the month" competitions gets one additional point each. |
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Thread | Have we decided yet...
at 08:48 14 Sep 2025
Who is at the back, and who is in attack?
After Friday night I suggest Dara at the back, Jaden in attack. Who would you choose? |
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Reply | 3 big challenges for McKenna
at 13:52 2 Sep 2025
I ended up switching off towards the end of last season but from what I did see I thought he was getting there. If Philogene and Clarke are both going to play, I'd actually prefer to see them on opposite wings - Philly on the right and Clarke on the left.
It's going to be an interesting few weeks as a first choice team gets fleshed out. If we can get that consist 12-14 players starting game after game, with known quantities reinforcing from the bench, that period between the October international break and Christmas starts to look pretty tasty. |
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Reply | 3 big challenges for McKenna
at 13:28 2 Sep 2025
I think the difference (and potentially the problem) with Clarke is that he likes to stay wide until he gets the ball and then drive inside, whereas Broadhead would drift inside without the ball to free up room for Davis at an earlier stage. It feels like Szmodics might be the best option to sit in that inside left position, or even a slightly more fluid approach where Szmodics and Akpom switch between L10 and R10 throughout the game?
A problem that can presumably worked through, but needs to be done sooner rather than later |
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Reply | Busy transfer deadline day expected?
at 08:33 1 Sep 2025
Jordan James and a Prem loan at CB in
H.Clarke, AAH, Humphries, Ogbene loaned out
Woolf sold
Townsend unregistered |
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Reply | How many loans are we on now? Can only think of 4?
at 09:27 30 Aug 2025
My gut feel is potentially one more u21 signing. By my maths we currently have 31 players who would need a squad space - so 6 to trim. Some feel pretty obvious (baggott, H clarke or Johnson, townsend, AAH). If we get an u21 midfielder in on perm than that would free up one of taylor or humphries to move on. But it feels like one of our AM contingent may move on at some point as well?
Edit - my maths was off. 31 includes Egeli. So 5 departures rather than 6. [Post edited 30 Aug 9:33]
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Reply | Agent Manning…
at 11:20 29 Aug 2025
Final part of the mission is on 5 October... |
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Reply | Is it just two more now?
at 14:32 28 Aug 2025
Those two plus Jordan James?
Both Egeli and James (I think) would count as U21 and therefore not part of the 25 man squad.
H Clarke and Townsend not registered. Taylor sold or out on loan. Maybe AAH either not registered or with a loan agreed subject to getting back to full fitness?
Edit: Forgot Baggott out on loan too, which might make it easier to keep AAH in the squad until Jan [Post edited 28 Aug 14:36]
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Reply | Just imagine you're itfc admin.
at 07:20 28 Aug 2025
Breakfast scene at a nice house. You see a man grabbing some toast and a coffee from behind, then getting his kitbag and getting into a car. The car drives for a bit before hitting a junction - for Norwich turn right, for ipswich turn left. He flicks the indicator right before taking a call. "It's done", says the voice on the phone. He flicks the indicator the other way and drives into the sunrise, revealing himself, all smiles and joy, with an Ipswich shirt already peaking out of his kitbag. |
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Reply | More Expressive Uppies and Downies
at 11:37 26 Aug 2025
Replace the up and down arrows with pictures of Shefki and Pablo. Don't tell anyone which represents an up or a down vote.
Watch chaos ensue |
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Reply | Reform are dangerous - pt. 2,675,823
at 08:57 26 Aug 2025
And it's hard to have a genuine discussion around the topic because the moment you concede on any point they may have, it is used as ammunition to support the worst elements of their policy.
There is a world of difference between "current levels of legal and illegal migration are too high" and "we should let/cause those who make channel crossings sink and drown", but many will take the first statement as support for the second statement.
That is a real problem because reform of the immigration and asylum system is needed. There was an article in the economist a couple of months ago which ended with the statement that "if the progressives of the world don't create a better system, the populists of the world will create one which is far worse". I feel that statement could be applied to many facets of modern life. |
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Reply | Reform are dangerous - pt. 2,675,823
at 08:39 26 Aug 2025
I live close to one of the asylum seeker hotels that have been in the news for anti-immigration protests recently. The rhetoric spouted on local facebook pages is getting worse and worse. And even if some of the supports can claim that they are "just concerned about local women and children", they are empowering those with the worst views to speak and act out in abhorrent ways.
There was a swastika spray painted onto the pavement on my way to work this morning, as an example. |
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Reply | Signing McAteer - Will we still sign Sindre Walle Egeli?
at 11:12 22 Aug 2025
If we sign Egeli permanently I don' think he will count in the 25 man squad due to his age. Maybe there is a view that we want to give him half a season to settle in (like with Omari) and therefore signing McAteer helps with that, particularly as Burns is getting back to fitness as well?
There may be a certain amount of hedging our bets - if Egeli is not an absolute certain, then better to get a good deal done now rather than leave all of our remaining business to the last week. |
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Reply | Tanganga linked with Sheff Utd for £2.5m
at 09:05 21 Aug 2025
At the start of the transfer window I'd be in complete agreement. I was very surprised when he moved to Millwall rather than a lower Prem/upper Champ team.
However, that would make four right backs in the team alongside Johnson, Clarke and Young. So presumably at least if not two would need to be moved on or unregistered - I'm not sure how bad Clarke's injury is?
I suppose it could then free up Young to also be backup at left back rather than bringing in someone to replace Townsend in the squad? |
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