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    On 03/05/2022 at 12:23, Pugin said:

    Dean has managed Walsall and Brentford and understands how to build a squad and a team. All he needs is time and the sort of budget that he will have. Have faith. Give it two years and we will have a far better squad than this season's. 

    I bet Romaine Sawyers is in his thoughts for the Championship season. He was Dean's metronomic midfield axis at both Walsall and Brentford.

    Whisper it, but I am actually beginning to feel the first tingle of excitement about next season. (At least I think that's what it is). Perfectly natural when you remember that Championship seasons have recently been joyous, and Premier seasons almost unbroken misery 🙂

    Oh dear, as predictions go this aged particularly badly.

    I would still pay admission money just to see a few sublime Sawyers moments, even after yesterday and the fact that Romaine only lasted 60 odd minutes.

     

     

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    1 hour ago, corbs said:

    I agree a good original post. Hope you enjoy your season. No substitute for going to games and meeting people, hearing their views. 2 examples, Saints away last season meeting a City fan exile who moved to South Coast with the navy. Secondly at Orient, got talking to guy nearby, turns out he’s a City season ticket holder who lives near myself in east London.

     Really thankful for TNC, Michael Bailey over last few years. Like a lot of people I’m still getting used to managing social media, much like I had to get used to email at work, or my mobile phone. I’ve no doubt it’s potentially addictive and polarising, and somewhat more difficult to walk away from than those old style pub bores. 

     

     

     

     

    Thanks Corbs, and others. In my opinion Michael Bailey is in a league apart as he always takes a mature view and I don't feel that he is expressing anything other than his own personal thoughts and observations, without a thought for what may be doing the rounds on social media.

    MB also understands that he is an adjunct observer to the game, and will never know the real machinations that those behind closed doors know and understand.

    The rest of the mainstream press and media have occasionally make mistakes that MB never makes - trying too hard, wrongly analysing tactics, assessing players' performances badly and so on. 

    But anyhow, back to the main point and it's great to see that there does still seem to be a groundswell of common sense and enlightened people who, like me, will enjoy the rough with the smooth and keep the whole damn shooting match in some sort of perspective 🙂

     

     

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  3. Posted

    I started watching football way back when expectations were lower, sense of entitlement was reserved to the top teams, defeat was accepted as something that some seasons would come along as often as victory. Basically, the point of attending games was to enjoy the experience. And we all seemed to enjoy the ups and downs. The downs made the ups all the sweeter.

    Now, social media seems to set a mood which dictates that anything less than consistent winning is a reason to turn on the club we support. Not just Norwich - many other clubs are far, far worse. And it's always a loud minority of social media that succeeds in setting the agenda, increasingly feeding into other influencers such as the press, radio and TV. Who is setting this agenda? we have no idea at all but it is no exaggeration to say that some individuals appear to be on the psychopathic spectrum. Cruel, no conscience, destructive, untruthful.

    Anyone discovering football for the first time is likely to be indoctrinated with a spirit of criticism and blame because, statistically, about 4 teams in each division will succeed and that vast majority will 'fail'.

    It's unhealthy; it will get worse not better; it targets players and managers; and it erodes the pleasure that many of us still get from attending games. I have bought a season ticket this season for the first time ever. Football will be a great break from life's real unpleasant challenges, not an extension of them.

     

     

     

     

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  4. Posted

    On 19/07/2022 at 17:04, KeiranShikari said:

    The fact his family stopped turning up because of a handful of fans is actually embarrassing. I'd be more upset about that than the 'abuse' if I were him. 

    His family group included a number of young children, probably his siblings. We sat immediately behind them at Man City and they were lovely, friendly people. 

    Should he be 'embarrassed' if young kids get upset if someone they love is being victimised and abused? Seriously?

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    Whoever does player liaison will have thought that Lungi was an obvious choice for an intrrview following his magnificent goal against Marseille. Maybe team management would have an input, maybe not.

    No more to it than that. Lungi came across as a mature and stable individual.

    One or two daft questions - by all means ask him what it's like to play with novices like Gibbs, but don't expect him to talk about how the manager is introducing them into the team.

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    9 minutes ago, horsefly said:

    Indeed! What a shame that some posters on here would rather throw abuse at him and hope he fails rather than see him perform like we know he can.

    That is the sad state of social media. Wildly inadequate individuals venting their spleen against successful people who have achieved some degree of high profile.

    I have little doubt that footballers are constantly reminded of this from within the club. In Todd's case Neil Adams has had the responsibility of easing him back into the fray, but it must be hard to ignore the targetting on social media. Todd seems to be doing fine so far.

     

     

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    Steve Foley, a man of countless wise sooths and sayings, once said to me that football is about 80% ability and 20% attitude. But without the 20% attitude, all the ability in the world counts for little. Dean Smith will have seen this times without number over his football career.

    That, sadly, explains Josh. Of course, he has the ability.

    If Todd is not careful he could go the same way, but to see him back in the middle of it with a big smile on his face makes me feel that he has turned a corner, and gained a little enlightenment in the last year. In Todd's case, Neil Adams has been working hard with him since they came back in and it seems to be working.

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    4 hours ago, OnDaBall said:

    Let's be honest, none of us would care less about Cantwell's hair, social media antics or whether he was likeable or not if he was producing quality performances on the pitch.

    Umm, how's he supposed to produce quality performances during the close season? 🙂

     

    And yet the usual suspects are still attacking him.

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    10 hours ago, Kenny Foggo said:

    As for Rwanda..

    Hasn't stop the boats so its a failed policy

    A jumbo jet with single figures will leave tomorrow... another massive waste of money.. a failed policy

    A hateful failed policy done to appease the right wing and the Daily Mail. Abhorant 

    It's a politcal gesture of no real value. As you righly say, it's a total sham of the type which was called 'a dog whistle' during Trump's hideous time.

    It's our equivalent of Trump's Mexican Wall. It is ridiculous on financial as well as ethical grounds. Each migrant deserves their case to be judged on its own merits. This means that every individual case could be dragged tortuously through the Courts. 

    It will be the stinking epitaph by which Priti Patel will be remembered.

     

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    5 hours ago, marki61422 said:

    Could someone please explain to me why we only played with Pukki up front all season.

    Is this a serious question?

    Teams go with one up front because you are only allowed 11 players.

    If you were to hang two or three players up front, EPL opposition would pack their midfield with an overload of extra players and totally dominate the game in all meaningful ways.

    God knows we struggled badly enough in midfield with the extra man, so can you imagine how we would have been with one man less in that area? The supply of good balls to the final third would have gone from woefully inadequate to totally non-existent.

    Does that go some way towards answering the question? If positioning 2, 3 or 4 players up front was the way to win games do you not think that better tacticians than you or I would have seen the light???

     

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    5 hours ago, Jimmy Raggatip said:

    the proper Scouse fans are fine in my experience

    it is the Irish, Home Counties, Norwegian plastics that feel they have to show how much of a Top Red they are that go OTT with this stuff

     

    booing a hymn ffs, a hymn that is synonymous with the Hillsborough disaster

     

    You really don't have to explain to Liverpudlians what is synonymous with Hillsborough. To them it is Thatcher, the lies, the cover-up, Ingham, the whitewash, the Establishment's revulsion at their very existence, and all that followed in the name of Her Majesty's Government. 

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    29 minutes ago, dylanisabaddog said:

    I've been critical of him in the past but I'm now of the opinion that he may actually be mentally ill. If that is the case I think everyone should probably leave him alone. 

    Every single one of us is on the anxiety / depression / despair spectrum. Most of us are fortunate to be able to function well enough for no one to notice any problem.

    But put someone in the most public of public eyes, give them quite a fragile mentality and a cosseted development environment, apply subtle and at times excessive criticism, give them incredible highs followed by corresponding lows and an ego that sets a high bar, and I think we might all lose our way. So yes, he might be mentally ill if you want to call it that but I think it's a condition that could afflict most of us in other circumstances. 

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  21. Posted

    Dean has managed Walsall and Brentford and understands how to build a squad and a team. All he needs is time and the sort of budget that he will have. Have faith. Give it two years and we will have a far better squad than this season's. 

    I bet Romaine sawyers is in his thoughts for the Championship season. He was Dean's metronomic midfield axis at both Walsall and Brentford.

    Whisper it, but I am actually beginning to feel the first tingle of excitement about next season. (At least I think that's what it is). Perfectly natural when you remember that Championship seasons have recently been joyous, and Premier seasons almost unbroken misery 🙂

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  23. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Monty13 said:

    Why were we testing the water if we had no money? Both with the loans and Eriksen stuff.

    Webber literally just painted a picture that there was nothing to spend so why should he gave done anything in January.

    If that wasn’t true then it makes you wonder if he was actually here and committed to finding a player or two maybe we would have got someone.

    Well, clearly there was a possibility of losing players in January, in which case we would have money to spend. 

  24. Posted · Edited by Pugin

    Whoah! Mazhitter is spinning this. There is smoke, but not as much fire as he would have us believe.

    Firstly, my reading of the situation is that the players we were fishing for would be £100k pw PL players who have had a frustrating first half of the season OR clubs who are trying to shift such players.

    Secondly, it wasn't ONLY Partick and St Pat's that were on there, which is what Mazhiter tries to imply. It's quite a sneaky misrepresentation.

    Thirdly, it would be remiss of the club not to test the water in January, just to look for players who have somehow not appeared on our radar (this shouldn't happen, btw; we should have tabs on every player at every level at every club in the top two divisions and some beyond). It was just a 'throw a pebble in the pool and see where the ripples go'. 

    None of this is to say that Stuart Webber was doing a great job. But equally it is no smoking gun, or anything like it.

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