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Mason 47

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  1. I've not seen any of them (bar Warner & Tomkinson fleeting minutes in the first team) so I've no real gauge admittedly. However the fact they've been sent out on loan and are all at least playing tends to bode well. The question is more over Hanley for me, anyway. If Gibson were to leave as I think is likely I reckon we'd be looking for another specialist CB. Duffy will get through another year (at this level anyway), that leaves GH third choice at best IMO with the four youth players potenitally snapping to get that shirt. Not to mention the question over McLean becoming a more regular fixture there. Can we afford a high-earner club captain to be third or fourth choice? With one year on his contract and a rebuild on the way, I think he has big question marks now.
  2. When the nature of Hanleys injury was revealed, I said I didn't think he'd play much meaningful football for us again. With his age profile and style of play, such a bad non-contact injury was always going to carry the risk of a permanent drop in capability. Look at Zimmermann, another big lad who never got back to the same level unfortunately. If he does then fantastic, he's been a great servant. However he has looked well off the Hanley we know and it was no surprise to me to hear they've taken the decision to take him out for the time being. Big questions ahead in the summer, with 4 good prospects champing at the bit.
  3. I'm trying to work out if I'd feel better off having the slightest understanding any of these things. Is the kit still going to be yellow?
  4. I'm not surprised by this, I've been saying since he came back in that he looks an uncomfortable fit. Not really a criticism- he's comes back from one of the worst injuries you can get, and almost a year out- but he is missing something. At the time of his injury I suspected we wouldn't see him play much meaningful football for us again. Duffy due to return after the international break- I think that prediction stands.
  5. I mean, I don't think we would quite be offering that much but Knapper might be able to spin a convincing yarn
  6. Good to have competition & players on successful loans. Probably the only downside is Warner, Tomkinson, Hills and Adegboyega play in the same position and are all right-footed. I reckon that will mean at least one moves on permanently in the summer (I'd think Tomkinson most likely)
  7. Pretty sure the Pinkun boys confirmed Johnston was a player we sounded out in the event of a late massive bid for Rowe. I suppose it depends which we would rather have. Whatever the case, Rowe's hamstring injury is on a par with Sargents injury in terms of bad timing.
  8. In Brazil he was playing as a left sided-ish player. Though Nunez was used at times as a wing-back in Chile and I don't think that would go so well here. I've always thought we have the set to play 3 in midfield, as seemed to be the DS blueprint and I thought the basis for the purchase of those two players. Makes me shudder a bit, mind, that there might be practical application to anything Dean Smith.
  9. We'd have gone down in the 2nd Farke season even if we'd paid Emi a bazillion £/pw and had him for that year.
  10. Picked a great game to miss by the sounds of things. Well in, Cardiff 😉
  11. It's poised to be an interesting one. The manner of the defeat in midweek should light a fire under the team, Rotherham might be in for a battering. But, football is wonky sometimes and there always seems to be a struggling team that doubles us every season. I'm rather hoping Boro have just pipped Rotherham to that title as both defeats to them this year were horrendous.
  12. I admit I was a little confused by RadNor saying Howson didn't make a meal of it, as I was sure that he'd hopped away and eventually landed in a heap. Glad I wasn't making things up.
  13. I could fill pages & pages with rants about supermarket etiquette. Probably best not to.
  14. My only gripe with Hanley is the lack of reaction to goals conceded. Little look to the sky, hands on hips, turns around and heads back to the halfway line. Obviously there's no need for theatrics but he comes across like concessions are inevitable. I'd personally leave it with McLean for this season and take a view in summer, as every player you could argue for has a decent argument against as well
  15. Perhaps a little off-the-wall suggestion- Final Space on Netflix, which is a cartoon. Wouldn't say its near the best around, but once you get past the erratic modern humour it hits some quite thoughtful dramatic places. Loses its way the further on you get as plotlines/ concepts trip over themselves though.
  16. The modern man's 'where do you leave the shopping trolley' conundrum.
  17. I think it was Dean Ashton on co-comms recently who echoed the idea that our players are very good at pacy & direct front-foot football, but lack the mental skills/ concentration to sit off and control space. It's something that definitely goes back to Farke days, where if you had to put a black-and-white definition on player as there for 'attack' or 'defence' you could easily argue 8-9 of the players were the former. Even last night, I think one could reasonably say only two of the starters were in for their defensive assets (and one of those is a goalkeeper). The pressing question in the case that this is true is- why do we regularly revert to a defensive stance when we regularly prove we really struggle with it?
  18. I think Sainz has done an overdramatic spin (footballers often do this) and Howson hasn't moved on by the time Borjas feet brush his thigh. It's probably one of the weakest calls for a foul I've ever seen given. In real time I also didn't think Howsons challenge was anything to write home about, but if you can make the point that slow-mo does Sainz no favours, Howson should get a retrospective red also. We've been conned and getting it overturned won't reset the clock to 30 mins and cruising. That's the real damage. I'm certainly not one blaming Borja. Plenty of players did much worse last night.
  19. I don't necessarily know what I'm talking about, but to my eye we reacted to the sending off by dropping into a 4-4-1 with Sargent wide and Barnes up front. We also played very narrow to reduce the spaces in front of goal (nothing necessarily wrong with that). What this did is A: allow Boro to push their defenders higher as our potent threat in behind + press was neutralised; and B: allowed them space down the sides, whilst we defended crosses very passively. In theory I don't think it was a terrible move. But in practice it removed us from the game as an attacking force- losing one winger should not equal losing the game
  20. Similarly however, the two foot hack shouldn't be considered null due to what happens afterwards. Although I agree with you, I'd imagine if Howsons tackle has anything to contribute it would be questioning why a light touch by Sainz is dealt with much more harshly than a high + heavy two footed Howson challenge.
  21. As I said on the other thread, I think the referee must be absolutely certain he's seen violent intent to give a red there. A yellow and a warning and no one would have thought twice.
  22. I think the ref should only be dropping a red card if he's certain of intentful violent conduct. If Sainz had been given a yellow and a warning nobody would have looked back at this once. If we're talking galling, it is that even if overturned, we can't turn back the clocks to totally dominating a crap Boro side. Those 3 points go begging.
  23. If I hadn't seen it and you told me there was a controversial red card just after this...
  24. As ever, the most difficult opponent for this Norwich City side is this Norwich City side. They do have some terrible luck, for sure. But they always have some nonsense in them to generate that luck.
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