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  3. Posted

    3 hours ago, Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man said:

    Don't forget that Adegboyega is also progressing along said conveyor belt pretty quickly...

    Out of all our young centre backs, I reckon Adegboyega is the nearest to the first team for next season.

    Can we keep hold of them all? Doubt it-so Tomkinson may get another loan next season at a higher level, if he continues to impress, it'll be as it was with Mumba, either his parent club or another will want to buy him.

    The bottom line of academies is indeed training and preparing young players for a professional career as a first team player....somewhere. Just not neccessarily with the club they do all of that with.

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    7 hours ago, dylanisabaddog said:

    If we'd have signed Mike Newell instead of Dean Coney we'd have won the double 5 years earlier 

    We all, rightly, look back at 92/93 with fond memories.

    But that 88/89 team came just as close to glory and was being tipped as an unlikely double contender at one time.

    And there's my hill. That was our best ever season, side and squad.

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  7. Posted

    10 hours ago, canarycop said:

    Get rid of the frustration from Wednesday. If we start like we did for the first 30 minutes we will be 3 up by half time and will have enough to give the bench half an hour in second half.

    5 -0 win

    Always the optimist

    Nicely done!

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    29 minutes ago, Google Bot said:

    Slip some Freshwater Bass into that newly unused boot steamer, and that's lunch sorted too!  Could set yourself up a little boot cleaning stall inside Soccerbot, adjust the sign a little with Sharpie: 

    "Old Shuck's Soccerbotot Cleaning Services"

    £20/Pair

    ***** Cash Only *****

    Free boot disposal service - Check out our eBay site for used boots!

    I like it! Wonder how many pairs Nunez has, perhaps he should get a special rate?

    Do people remember their first pair of football boots...mine were these-George Best Stylo Matchmakers...

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  11. Posted · Edited by Old Shuck

    1 hour ago, Don’t be Krul said:

    Nobody mentioned Henderson? A Southgate favourite, he'll be there

    Yes, he was always going to be there, but, now he's with Ajax, he's on the plane.

    So he'll start alongside Rice.

    Alexander-Arnold is injured but expected back at the end of this month, if he is able to displace one of Klopp's fledglings (altogether: ahhhhhh!!) and get a run of games in April, May, then he's an option.

    Pickford

    Walker, Stones, Maguire, Chilwell

    Henderson Rice

    Saka  Bellingham  Rashford

    Kane

    (not my XI, the one I think Southgate will regard as his starting XI)

    Guessing Sterling will miss out, Tripper and Phillips not certainties for the squad either.

    Mason Mount English football's forgotten man!

     

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    3 minutes ago, Capt. Pants said:

    England doesn't have world class CBs and will rely heavily on Walker. That will stop us winning.

    Shaw will probably make the squad with a view to having some sort of fitness for the knockouts.

    Foden arguably is the player on form, but Southgate always seems reluctant to start him.

    He is a bit on/off with Foden, isn't he? He has to be in the middle of that front three-and its why Bellingham will play deeper. But that gives him (Bellingham) most of the pitch ahead of him, and, with his vision and ability to read a game, its the best place for him.

    If only Rashford was on his game. But, as has been said, he usually plays well for England.

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    6 minutes ago, dylanisabaddog said:

    Perhaps Rice is good enough for England to play 4141 in most games. 

    It's difficult isn't it? Rashford has had an awful season but he's never let England down. 

    Agree. Behind a 4 of Saka, Bellingham, Foden and Rashford.

    Madders may have been in contention, injury hasn't helped his cause. Whilst Grealish has been out of favour.

    Left back is a concern. Maybe Walker will play there with White at right back.

  14. Posted

    Suspect Maguire will keep his place. Would opt for Lewis Dunk or Marc Guehi myself but Southgate will go with experience.

    For that reason, Chilwell at left back. If he's not fit then thats a bit of an issue with Shaw likely out as well.

    Phillips may not even make the squad now.

    Think Southgate will play Bellingham deeper and keep faith in Rashford in that attacking trio.

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  15. Posted

    45 minutes ago, king canary said:

    I don't see it happening like this- I think it would be more likely you get the Championship breaking away from the rest of the league and you have a closed shop across two leagues of 20 or 18 each.

    There is no money to be made from a TV rights perspective by removing the excitement of a relegation battle in exchange for guaranteeing you get to see Leeds v Wolves twice a year. 

    And there's the rub-when the future of any kind of football is dependent on TV interest and rights. Where would the game be without it-and where would most clubs, ourselves included, now be without it?

    TV owns the game and the medium acts like it. It was Keith Burkinshaw, who agreed with a journalists comment about Tottenham ('...there used to be a football club over there' -and that was in 1984!) who also said TV would one day govern the game to such an extent that fans would be paid to attend games in order to provide the atmosphere for the TV coverage.

    As it turns out, VAR is the great entertainer for the sofa dwelling masses right now but that day might still come once true fans are fed up with Liverpool vs Inter Milan for the 7th time in a year....

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    53 minutes ago, Rupethebear said:

    The football model is bust unless you have a multimillion pound backer.

    The problem is if you go up you’re guaranteed one season so you can’t build a business model or sign any decent players other than foreign mercenaries on loan or top young talent from the Premier League.

    This is where the issue is, by signing top kids on loan all you are effectively doing is making the bigger clubs bigger and developing their players faster!

    if it was my game I’d ban loan signings, doesn’t happen in any other industry, imagine HSBC lend Barclays their young talent.

    The game is broken time for a radical change.

    The Premier League will, ultimately, and by 2030, become a closed shop, no promotion or relegation, 18 clubs (they'll be hoping to weed out the Luton's and Bournemouth's for a spot of Leeds and Sunderland) with most of them playing in European competition of some kind as well as some fixtures played overseas. They won't compete in either of the domestic cups.

    The fact that the promoted clubs tend to struggle is all the fuel they need to justify this happening and the formation of a 80 team separate football competition of four divisions operating underneath, but not part of it.

    One league for worldwide sofa dwelling consumers paying £24.99 a month, four more for football fans who'll, through the greed of the perceived elite, get a little bit of the game they used to love back.

    Until, I guess, the top ones in that league start to get greedy....

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  17. Posted

    Lakey's nailed it.

    He's got more than enough time to have some success again-at a bigger club looking for a lift perhaps, Pompey if they lose Mousinho, Derby, Sheff Weds etc.

    Suffered at Stoke-massively wealthy owners but a club skittering about like a moth to a flame, Schumacher now getting a lot of stick there.

    But his time here is done and dusted.   

  18. Posted

    As we seem to be learning, one season in the Premier League (promoted/immediately relegated) seems to bring as many financial burdens as it does benefits.

    First season survival is beyond mission critical now & as an achievement, is far superior to getting the promotion that got you there in the first place.

    No coincidence that the three promoted clubs look set to go straight down this season-unless you are a one-time 'bigger' club fighting your way back up there (and Leicester probably count as recent PL winners) then you're up against it from the off-which is exactly how we, Ipswich, Leeds, Southampton or West Brom would be from August onwards.

    Clubs like Bournemouth, Brentford and Palace will be looking at who are likely to come up next season & be thinking that maybe at least two & almost certainly one of the three of them could head straight back in the opposite direction-heartening for them and their backers.

  25. Posted

    3 hours ago, splendidrush said:

    ....anyone else remember the numbered tabs that Leeds wore on their socks, back in the early/mid seventies?😜

    Yes. That and the tracksuit tops they all had to warm up in with their names on the backs. Don Revie and Admiral were something of a team themselves, little wonder England went all Admiral soon after he took over.

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