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  3. Posted

    54 minutes ago, Indy said:

    At worst it was an accidental handball and an indirect free kick, why has everything got to be a penalty?

    I do agree technically it was a foul, but never a penalty as it doesn’t prevent a goal scoring opportunity!

    No such thing as 'accidental handball' anymore.

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    5 hours ago, city4eva said:

    Just wondering how you know that,  as far as I know horse can be listed under one persons name as the owner but can have more than  the one owner officially, 

    Ownership was in someone else's name.

    Dual ownerships are fine, as long as each person is named.

    Syndicates are fine as long as there is one registered syndicate manager.

    Even a Company can own an horse, as long as there is registered owner.

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    20 hours ago, canarybubbles said:

    I remember someone on here (sorry, can't remember who) saying that Tzolis 'knows where the goal is'. There's a website where you can see all of Dusseldorf's goals and this poster was right - get him into positions where he can score and he will.

    Having said that, some of the defences he faces are pretty poor, but so were Cardiff's and Rotherham's.

    I still don't think he would suit a Wagner team, though. Judging by those highlights, it seems that Dusseldorf are often happy for him to lurk on the left wing and not have to roam all over the pitch like Sainz does, for example. 

    As for not being up to the physicality of the league, I doubt this. He's chunky and he's got four yellows this season, more than any other Dusseldorf player.

    Overall, I still can't shake off the feeling that we wasted him and that, given time and encouragement, he would have improved from a poor first season in the same way that Sargent has.

    We'll never know now.

    Since when do you have to be athletic to get a yellow card?

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    6 hours ago, Google Bot said:

    They were wanting access to his phone records based on the racing post article.  I don't know what that consists of and how intrusive it is, but that could be a factor for someone in Barnes' position? 

    i.e. Did they want access to his phone and private texts, or simply a log of who he had called over a certain period?

    Owners, trainers and jockeys are obliged to give us (The BHA) their phone records.

    Since Barnes isn't/wasn't an 'official owner' he doesn't have to.

    A full download is usually completed.

  12. Posted

    16 hours ago, Segura said:

    If RvW was mis-used here, do you not think that other teams would have realised this and upon our relegation have been lining up to sign him?

    If I recall, he ended up going on loan to a French side who were the only club to show an interest - surely this fact is pretty revealing and demonstrates what other teams thought of him.

    Coupled with the fact that after leaving Norwich he never did anything at a high level.

    I genuinely can't understand why some of our fans still hold this view about him, maybe it's just a convenient stick to beat Hootun with, who I will accept was a pretty uninspiring manager for us.

    Watching RVW was painful at times, it was like playing with ten men - he offered nothing, was physically weak and didn't work hard enough to get in front of defenders. Seemed a lovely boy and a handsome fellow, but one of our worst ever signings.  

    You remember that Finish lad,

    Was at Brondby or somewhere, contract ran out, no one really wanted him other than this little Championship team,

    Wonder what happened to him?

    Moral of the story you, can't judge him on the fact that no wanted him.

    Also,

    RvW went to top level France and Spain.

    And scored 100ish goals after leaving us, even after having a brain tumour.

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    8 hours ago, nutty nigel said:

    I don't think it's divisive. I do think it's fair to point it out. You don't get a sustained run of form like that through luck or bad decisions.

    I'm sure some will call it divisive. But that's because they don't like it. If this thread gets locked I hope they throw away the key...

    You can though, look at our run with Dean Smith, we were top an unbeaten in 12, late October.

    I think you have to consider how poor a Championship it is with Leicester, Leeds, Southampton and Ipswich all putting in similar runs to us.

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    4 hours ago, Nexus_Canary said:

    Tin hat on...

    RvW was a quality striker who we completely mis used.

     

    Absolutely,

    We could have had R9 up top that season and he wouldn't have scored in that system.

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  23. Posted

    48 minutes ago, Monty13 said:

    I assumed it was the plan we have been trying to enact all along actually working.

    You don’t play two strikers if you want to play possession based football. You don’t sign Duffy and Batth. You probably don’t sign players like Stacy and Sainz whose main strength on the offensive is carrying the ball at pace. Likewise you don’t give Onel a new contract and release Dowell.

    If this is orchestrated then my next question would be,

    Is this a change of philosophy from Stuart Webber?

    Or something he has allowed Wagner to proceed with?

    Would feel like a long term ploy if you're correct about buying them player types and extending contracts.

  24. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Thirsty Lizard said:

    Okay, okay it's basically just a posh way of saying "scoring on the break", but we've recently become rather good at this haven't we?

    Both goals yesterday came from us winning the ball deep in our own half and then slicing West Brom to pieces at pace on the break. Add this to Sargent's goal against Southampton and Barnes' goal against Sheffield Wednesday. Even Rowe's goal at Hull up to a point, although this came from him winning a loose ball in midfield rather than a team build up. 

    Very pleasing to see and totally gives the lie to those who have claimed that Wagner only has one way of playing blah, blah, blah. 

    But is this really a ploy/strategy/tactic?

    Or a bi-product of us struggling to retain possession?

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