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Formation?

Why can't we be Huddersfield?? 😆

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Funnily enough I thought he looked a bit below par today. Suspect he's not quite fully fit. Which goes to show just how good he is. New contract nailed on as far as I'm concerned.

We're so hesitant & disconnected mainly because we've been so disrupted for various reasons. If we can settle down I still think we can be the best team in this league.

Streamlined for even greater speed ...

Talking of steals, didn't Ndiaye come from Borehamwood? Sometimes scouting closer to home can be fruitful. Gibson is fine 90% of the time. Then he makes an almighty c0ck-up (or two). In that way he reminds me of Bassong. Tolerance of error rises from 0% at goalie to 50% when a forward has to risk it to score, So that's his (& so our) problem.

He hooked his leg & didn't touch the ball. It's a penalty.

I watched it when they replayed it soon after (twice I think). Their player stuck his trailing leg out to catch Max as he passed him. He was watching Max as he did it. Totally deliberate & a stonewall penalty

Aarons was fouled. Dimi didn't even touch their player; he should've been booked for diving. Why do some of our 'supporters' hate our club so much?

What a horrible team they are. Pukki got barged off the pitch by that piece of sh!t Baldock & the ref took no notice (that was a penalty on Max BTW), that's why it kicked off with the throw on. They started off by trying to kick us off the park & it's been the same all game, as it always is with them. We're trying to out-horrible them but we're no good at it. All rather depressing.

That's what I thought. Not something you often see in International football. He's a cheeky chappie is that James Maddison.

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Anyone else notice Maddison cuddling the Ukrainian goalie just before a corner? What was all that about?

Hmm. I just don't think it's a game that lends itself to womanly grace. What's exciting about football is the speed of thought & reaction, the sudden impossible change in direction too quick for the eye to follow, the passes pinged & controlled in the blink of an eye. I saw Bergkamp do something I cannot explain to this day. But in tennis it's different. For example, I'd still rather watch Venus caressing the ball into the corners than Serena bludgeoning the opposition into submission any day. Hannah Mandlikova was a lovely player to watch, even though never the most successful. It's a different game, that's for sure, with a different attraction. But to me women's football has no such redeeming features. It's just worse. As I think everyone agrees there's no reason to stop them playing to whatever level they can - just as in men's football - but i also see no reason why it should receive the disproportionate amount of press coverage & subsidy that it has recently. PS my other granddaughter loves netball & is damn good at it. I'm not expecting to see her on telly any time soon.

My adorable 10 year old granddaughter plays on a Saturday, & I've taken her a couple of times now. She's not very good, bless her, the original Bambi on ice, but she runs around a lot & I think enjoys the camaraderie as much as anything. After supressing the urge to smile at the overall incompetence you start to notice a few things. Some of the block tackling is surprisingly meaty, as is the ability to occasionally kick the ball quite hard, One or two of the girls have definitely 'got it' but are the small ones & can't get past the - another surprise - Grant Holt types (quicker than you think & with, occasionally, decent ball control). So there is some interest & enjoyment to be had, even at this level. Would I go if my granddaughter weren't involved? Not a chance in Hell. Which is why for the life of me I cannot understand why people would choose to watch women's football without any personal reason to do so. What on earth is the motivation? Why watch women rather than Sunday League? U-15's boys? Conference (or whatever) football? There are literally thousands of matches every week which would be more worth watching - purely as football - than any women's football I've seen (&, yes, I have tried). I cannot see there's anything women bring to the game that makes it better to watch than lower standard men's football. It's not a game that has any extra dimension women can bring to it; gymnastics, maybe tennis ... women have a grace that men do not have & that can make it worth watching. I have little motivation to watch any football outside of NCFC - maybe other Champs. teams if they're affecting our promotion chances, occasionally a PL game, & I'll watch England tonight mainly because James is getting a game. So, again, what exactly is the motivation for watching women's football when there are a myriad of other football matches that are much better to watch - but you don't watch those games? I fail to understand what's going on.

I can only say your experience is different to mine. And if the extent of the atrocities was so widely known, how on earth did the worship of the USSR by the intellectuals come about?

I agree with this to some extent. The Christian Church has committed the most appalling atrocities in the name of Jesus Christ; it seems to be almost inevitable that any ideology that takes root evolves into a tool to justify the wielding of tyrannical powers. Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor" is an instructive parable on the Church's unspoken aims. Nevertheless too many western intellectuals turned a blind eye to what was going on in the Soviet Union & upheld it as some sort of nirvana that we should aspire to, smash society up & put the bourgeoisie to the sword. There's a wonderful moment in I'm All Right Jack when Fred Kite dreamily recounts how much he'd like to visit Russia: " All them cornfields & ballet in the evenin's" ..." this sort of rubbish was being taught in our schools & universities - probably still is. I was there, so I know. And naive students swallowed it whole. I hate ideology. At any rate, all ideologies that lead to the concentration of absolute power in the hands of the elite. Which covers just about all of them.

Perhaps you could give me some references?

Yeah communism's great isn't it? Try reading The Gulag Archipelago or read about the deliberately engineered famines in the Ukraine & elsewhere when millions died.

The prognosis for all those players does not sound good, could be late April, could be sometime never .. Idah probably earliest, but really none sound very promising. We've got the squad to do it, but not the mentality. Personally I'd like to see players like Gibbs & some of the U21s given a chance, certainly someone with some pace to drive at defences. We're going nowhere fast as things stand.

I can recommend P J O'Rourke's All The Trouble In The World to give some perspective on population, particularly a chapter entitled something like: Way Too Many Of You, Just The Right Number of Me. Also this map's interesting https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_population_density_in_England_as_at_the_2011_census.png

Does he say anything relevant?

Unless you tried watching it 😒

Terrier's supporters, manager, team all seem in awe of us. Sarge's touch awful. Pretty pedestrian overall. Need more goals!