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  1. Posted

    23 hours ago, Yobocop said:

    Well done…you’re wrong by the way.

    both of your examples were academy u15s team and a group of ex pros v a group of ex female players, makes your arguments look rather silly… 

    So out of interest, what score did Rafa Nadal beat Emma Radacanu by? 

    EDIT: You and your mates would probably give it a good go…in the first 2 minutes before the superior fitness and skill of the England ladies side would tell and they would run rings around you, sorry if that affects you’re ego 

    Dallas u15s beat the (then) current US national squad 5-2.

    That's world champions beaten by 14 year old boys.

    The Wrexham jolly up, obliterated the females.

    No idea what the tennis correlation is.

    And don't worry about my ego,

    Because you're statement is utterly nonsense.

  2. Posted

    31 minutes ago, Yobocop said:

    And yet the argument still rumbles on re: the ladies football game 

    but you are completely right, phenomenal stuff and in their own discipline they are great to watch 

    What argument?

    A group of 40 year old lads on a jolly just beat an American side 13-0.

    Group of kids beat the National side a similar score.

    I'm fairly confident I could pick 10 players I've played with, who are all now in their late 30s and we'd beat England women.

     

     

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  6. Posted

    7 hours ago, repman said:

    It's a good read and a much better than simply looking at aerial win%.

    The article talks about Van Dijk and the confidence intervals increasing after his ACL injury, there has to be some skepticism surrounding Duffy too, he's played pretty much no football this season and hasn't really had a full season since 18/19. Maybe that means his score 3/4 years ago would've been even better I'm not sure.

    The other question for me would be, even if he is a great header of the ball, is that the key attribute required for Wagner's style of play? 

    Been able to defend?

     

    I f**king hope so.

  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, chicken said:

    A) Lol! "Shaking my head in disbelief" is far ruder than anything I have posted in that response to you. I mean, by all means dish it out if you can take it back, don't blame me if your sensitivities are hurt when it comes back at you though, at like a quarter of the level at best.

    B) My answer isn't Josh Sargent. THE answer currently is Josh Sargent. There is no evidence to say Clarke-Harris is better. 

    So his stats, from what I can see look like this:
    18-19 League One: Scored 16 goals in 43 league games for two teams. Impressive. The first time he has scored double digits in a season. Aged 24 at the start of the season, 25 at the end of the season.
    19-20 League One: Scored 13 goals in 26 league appearances. Again impressive. His second season in double digits.
    20-21 League One: Scored 31 goals in 45 league appearances. Very impressive figure. Fired Posh to the Championship.
    21-22 Championship: Scored 12 goals in 41 league appearances. Two more than Pukki this season. Less than Sargent (which ever way you look at it, 9 in 19 as a striker or 13 in 41 overall)
    22-23 League one: 26 goals in 36 league appearances. Again, impressive, absolutely no doubt there. 

    Pros - he has hit double figures in the last five seasons on the trot. He has helped fire Posh to promotion and may yet do the same with them looking likely to be in the play-off final.
    Cons - he is 29 soon. Of the last five seasons he has hit double figures, he has scored less than 15 in two of them, one of them being in the Championship. One of the others he scored 16. His fee is likely to be large and it will only grow if Posh are successful in their hunt for play-off triumph.

    That last bit is key. If Posh fail to get promoted they might look to cash in and reinvest in the next target their find that can be turned into a consistent goal scorer like those before Clarke-Harris, along with between his two stints to be fair. If they are promoted, they might see him being more valuable to them as part of their attempt to stay in the Championship, especially with new money looking to come into it the season after next (I think?). 

    Sargent is 23. He has already scored more championship goals than Clarke-Harris. In a season where he has scored 9 goals in 19/20 appearances in a striking role.

    As competition, sure - as I keep saying, not against it. But it would have to be at the right price. Two seasons of scoring good numbers in League One doesn't make him a nailed on bet to score 20+ goals next season. I will say it again, do we have the money to gamble on a 29yr old like that? We didn't with Pukki as he was on a free, we didn't with Holt because he was £800k and brought in to score goals primarily in League One.

    Realistically how much are Posh going to want? £3-4m. Same sort of fee as Hugill. And we paid a fairly high price for 23 goals in 44 championship appearances Cureton as well.

    There are examples both ways. The gamble is measured by how much you are going to have to shell out Vs their prior consistency. And again, do we need to add an expensive gamble to our squad when we still need to be strengthened elsewhere? I say that whilst also not being utterly surprised if we bring another striker in and let Idah go on loan. Idah won't be sold yet though. That may even be what the 5yr contract is about, loan him out and invest in the idea that with games he could be the next Carlton Moris. 
     

    Name calling? CDBeetamax?

    For the second time, I haven't suggested JC-H.

  9. Posted

    1 hour ago, chicken said:

    Both you and CDBeetamax seem to have the same-ish idea but overly simplify and as such miss the issues here.

    Sargent scored as many as McBurnie, bearing in mind the actual stats are 9 from 19 appearances as a striker for Sargent, the other 4 came from wide appearances. Ndiaye scored 14.

    Why those two players? Both are Shef Utd's two top scorers and they went up. Burnley and Millwalls top scorers had 17 goals. 4 more than Sargent, not totally inconceivable here considering his strike rate up front.

    Our biggest issue hasn't been scoring chances, it's been creating enough decent ones, followed shortly behind by our soft underbelly.

    As things stand we are starting next season with Gibson, Omobamidele, Tomkinson and then U21's as our CB options.

    We have no dedicated DM - Sorensen clearly isn't that.

    Giannoulis and Aarons enter the last year of their contracts as does McCallum. So clearly, sales may well be had there.

    So when I say that isn't a priority, on paper it's not. If we do sign someone then great, but I suspect it'd be someone that offers something a bit different, more pace, movement like Pukki? Idah probably would be loaned out then.

    A) Why so rude?

    B) Your answer is Josh Sargent?

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, chicken said:

    Based on we have three players in Barnes, Sargent and Idah already. If we bring in another, they need to be better than the lot. Replacing Idah with a £5m 29yr old gamble would be nuts. 

    I'm shaking my head because we have so many idiotic armchair sporting directors.

    Priority has to be defence and defensive midfield.

    Based on we have three players in Barnes, Sargent and Idah already. If we bring in another, they need to be better than the lot.

    Completely agree, the goals from all of them put together don't get us up.

    Replacing Idah with a £5m 29yr old gamble would be nuts. 

    I didn't suggest we should.

     

    We've lost our 2nd, 4th and 5th top scorer for next season,

    We scored what, 5 goals in our crucial last 11 matches? Against the likes of Hudds, Wigan, Blackpool and QPR.

    To suggest this isn't an area to focus on, is just bizarre.

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  12. Posted

    22 hours ago, chicken said:

    Ok, first off... Clarke-Harris has been at Posh twice. Once deemed not good enough and sold to Oldham. He's then played for five clubs between 2014 and 2020 before rejoining Posh.

    The last being Bristol Rovers where he hit something like 24 goals in 42 games.

    Posh do have a good record with young strikers, this is not the player where that argument particularly comes true... otherwise Dion Dublin...

    He is in form, and a decent age. In that peak zone. He'll be 29 in July. Still a good 2-3 seasons in him.

    He is about a year older than the age of Pukki and Holt when they were signed. Was Hucks not around that age?

    Also worth noting that for every one of those two we have had Cureton  (signed on the back of a red hot season too), Thorne etc.

    Not to say he is one of those. Just more of a gamble than some are willing to admit. For the right price, why not? I suspect Posh will demand that Mackail-Smith fee of £3m, perhaps with add ons on promotion a la Toney. I'm not sure I'd gamble more than £1m-£1.5m.

    And I'm not convinced we need to look at that area of the pitch. If Idah was to go on loan as part of the deal to bring the fee down, I'd take it. Idah on a permanent would be a tad nuts IMHO.

    Shaking my head in absolute disbelief 

  14. Posted

    Yep,

    At this point they will not be my priority next season.

    My life usually revolves around us, work, socialising, family time. It won't next year.

    If I can't get to the (away) games or the Races, I'll get my parents to watch my 2 year old for a couple of hours so I can at least watch at home.

    It was during the Rotherham game that I began thinking that if rather watch Cocomelon and play with my boy than watch Norwich.

  17. Posted

    4 hours ago, Monty13 said:

    I agree that some elements can be subjective, I’d argue Lamberts higher points total trumps the fact Hughton finished 1 place higher for instance.

    But when you are talking about the most successful point of the last 30 years it has to be that achievement, because football is literally measured by the elements on that table.

    I suppose as supporters what we feel has been the pinnacle can be different because the how we play is often as important to us as what we achieved. That second Hughton season was dire IMO, everything that had been built fully dismantled (ironically some parallels perhaps to the last two seasons).

    I agree winning the championship twice was a fantastic accomplishment, trophy’s in the cabinet do matter, but the shine was taken off by those two abject PL seasons for me.

     

    Facts are facts.

    But football is a feeling.

    Hughton's 11th is our best achievement since 92/93.

    But it didn't feel as good as Lambert's 12th.

    My favourite seasons was our league one season, for personal reasons, I was able to get to nearly all the away games, tickets were £10 and we were super successful. I remember one of my favourite games was the defeat at Tranmere, everything went against us but we played so well and battered them.

    Also disagree with the poster who said trophies (2nd division) are a bigger achievement finishing 11th/12th in Prem.

    Also, Wembley, Cameron Jerome and Nathan Redmond was a better feeling than winning the league at Villa Park.

  19. Posted

    8 hours ago, Chelm Canary said:

    Let's keep giving the bloke a chance until he's 35. 

    The saga is getting boring. 

    What chances has he had?

    Of all our players he's had the least.

    It's incredibly hard to shine when your only getting odd minutes here and there and the team you're in are playing crap.

  21. Posted

    10 hours ago, BroadstairsR said:

    Why on earth would Sara leave us so soon, he's hardly found his feet in the country, after all?

    Additionally, he'll need to show a bit more for the bigger fish to get interested and for his services to invite a big enough fee. Hardly the buy young and sell at a profit mantra that we are told is the club's policy.

    Perhaps after another season at Carrow Road he will start to invite such interest, as the indications are there.

    Why would Sara leave 12th place Championship side Norwich City for Champions Lge qualified Atletico Madrid.

     

    Tough one.

  25. Posted

    The biggest switch for me has been the mentally/belief. Under Farke (at this level) we had a real belief that we would win every game, that's including when conceding first or them niggly 0-0 games with 5 minutes remaining. We had an aura of confidence around that we'd stick to our principals, keep playing the slick passing game and it would come.

    So many times this season, I've watched us play ok, then bang 1-0 down and you just know it's game over. You just know that once we're at HT and it's level against the Rotherham's, Sunderland's and Wigan's we don't have the confidence to win game.

    For this group of players not to make the top6 is unacceptable, most of the core of this squad have won two Championships.

    Mid-October we were playing incredibly poorly but we're 9 unbeaten and top of the league, you don't do that unless you are a good group of players.

    We've now taken a huge backwards step, our defence is flakier than ever, midfield nonexistent (Sara every other game aside) we have no wingers and complete reluctantcy to give Tzolis any sort of meaningful game time and we now have a Pukki shaped whole, alongside his two replacements who can't trap a bag of sand. 

    Webber has made 3 fundamental errors.

    I'm not including player recruitment because that's too simplistic with hindsight to analyse players.

    But he should never have sacked Farke without a plan,

    Should have sacked Smith pre-WC

    Shouldn't have taken the easy option with Wagner.

    All these have led to a culture shift, a toxic environment and a negativity which appears to resonate from the top down through the players and to the fans.

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