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  1. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Bovril said:

    I thought McCallum had the proverbial game of two halves yesterday:

    1st Half = Woeful. He was constantly backing off allowing the cross, not closing down and generally had a torrid time.

    2nd Half = Superb. He was much more aggressive, good positioning, and made a goal-line clearance (may have gone wide). 

    That sums him up as a player really, he's a very decent back-up to have at this level or first team starter for a mid-table side but if we want to progress we need to bring in another starter for Dimi. 

    He's 23 and hasn't played that much at Champs level. What I'm seeing is a young player with many positive attributes gradually gaining consistency and ironing out his weaknesses. At his current rate of improvement he's well worth keeping on imo and has a higher ceiling than Dimi.

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    4 minutes ago, Faded Jaded Semi Plastic SOB said:

    I admire your grit for coming on here after a defeat against us.

    We had a chap on here who mistakenly thought we did not realise he was a winner (as if) telling how wonderful the atmosphere is at Portman Rd.

    To say "I have heard us louder" is an extremely low bar. 

    My next statement is not meant to be anti Ippo, but I was genuinely shocked at how poor and quiet the Ippo support was yesterday, only those teams with smaller away followings have made less noise.

    I am old enough to have been to Portman Rd and watch us lose to Ippo, but we sang our hearts out from the start to the finish. 

    Any Ippo fan that went home yesterday without a sore throat should have a long hard look at themselves. (You are excused as you were in the home end).

    On a different note did you actually buy a ticket or did somebody you know let you have use of a ST?. I personally would not be surprised if there were single seats available for the game........

    Don't understand your last sentence. I know loads of people trying for any ticket anywhere in the ground. I came back from Cambodia and couldn't get a ticket despite trying many avenues. At 9am yesterday the app was showing 3 areas with tickets available but as soon as you clicked on it no tickets were showing (presumably they were in someone's basket). After that nothing. If you think there were random single seats available you don't understand your own football club. 

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    15 hours ago, Michael Starr said:

    We beat Ipswich today but ultimately, we are where we should be under any coach with this set of players. Top 6. He's got us there. I wouldn't say he's been brilliant. He's been on par over the course of a season on what was expected of him. That's what has kept him in his job. Top 6. I would say that with a better head coach, we would have perhaps already secured top 6 by now.

    Compare out bench with a side who were in league one last season and haven't had big investment. Ours was so weak i don't think anyone was clamouring for more subs yesterday, despite some players looking absolutely shot towards the end of the game. We have possibly our best player playing out of position on the right because there are no more realistic options. Coming up with creative solutions which work in a very weak squat is excellent management. 

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  7. Posted

    42 minutes ago, canarybubbles said:

    I haven't fact-checked your 22 in 23 statistic, but I know it's somewhere in that territory. 

    How on earth we thought that Springett and Placheta were better options I cannot begin to understand.

    Webber cut short his loan and bigged him up, so reading between the lines I'd guess Tzolis didn't do what was asked in terms of fitness/training. Managers have to have standards and can't just keep giving chance after chance without losing respect from the group. 

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    11 minutes ago, Newtopia said:

    It was a pretty awful thing to say, and let’s be honest will put a lot of future employers off him.  Tbh right up there with his comments about women’s football.  He really should think carefully about whether he is suited to a directors role.  Straight talking / spade is a spade types are great, but not if they don’t care about football played by half their potential customer base nor the feelings of players from a different back ground.

    Were his "comments" on women's football not him just saying he didn't watch it? Or did i miss some?

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    9 hours ago, lake district canary said:

    Unbelievable. Reported for racist comments? His intention was clearly to reflect the problems young black people have in society - a problem the BBC and other news groups have reported on, multiple times. He was clumsy with what he said, but to me he was highlighting social problems and how these players might have avoided them by being involved in football. That is a good thing.

    Don't get me wrong, I don't like him and think he is egotistical and lacking in humility, but in this case, there is nothing here to get excited about in so far as reporting him.  I think it's ridiculous - he might need to apologise and explain himself a bit more  what he was trying to say, but to villify him nationally is just over the top.

    Exactly. Yet again people are choosing to apply the worst possible interpretation on language which can be interpreted several different ways from a guy with no previous. So the idea that it was racist is based on feelings rather than hard evidence and worse, anyone who points this out is then tarred with the same brush. It's not far off the religious punishment of apostates and rides roughshod over Liberal values. 

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  11. Posted

    2 hours ago, canarybubbles said:

    As a team, though, we've looked better without him. I know if you compare Rowe and Fassnacht as players in the abstract, there's no contest. But that right-hand side has looked very good recently, with Stacey really shining, and part of the reason for that is probably the quiet work that Fassnacht does and which Rowe doesn't do.

    Also he's made it clear that he wants out. Now, that can work both ways, and if we think his touch of genius will make the difference in the play-off games, we play him and then cash in, just as he'll use us to get the step up he wants. But he shouldn't automatically waltz back into the team when he's fit again just because he's Rowe. IMO, he's nowhere near as important to us as Sargent or Sara, or even Gunn. The team overall must come first.

    Where has he  made it clear he wants out?

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    8 hours ago, Yella said:

    Sad to see so many fellow yellas clutching on hope it all goes wrong over in Suffolk. They clearly have some very astute businessmen over there doing a sterling job. Rather than our own global business experts on here trying to pick holes we should be hoping we can het similar investment and management try build a similarly glorious history.

    We come across as a bit envious, desperate and sour. It's a shame, we're better than this.

    Gunn, Sara, Sainz, Rowe and Sargent (and possibly Nunez) are worth well north of thatmythical "investment" and we have 15+ very highly rated youngsters coming through, plus a state of the art training ground (already paid for) to attract and keep more. Yeah, you're riding a wave at the moment but as a club, you are still way behind. 

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    10 hours ago, Badger said:

    I can't recall ever having ever being criticised for chanting nor seen any others criticised for doing so. Are you sure that either you or your mates were not being obnoxious in any way?

    Happened to me and my mates loads at CR. Basically anywhere outside the Barclay and Snakepit. I firmly believe that this is the main reason behind the tame atmosphere at CR as the vast majority will conform to the norms of the people around them. 

  15. Posted

    4 hours ago, Corbs1 said:

    EFL player of the week to watch Walsall's Emmanuel Adegboyega, on loan 

    Of all our  CB talent, he's the one (like Omo before him) who ticks every box. Tomkinson's form is encouraging, but he's got a lot to prove being older and not really having the physical attributes of Adegboyega. Similar with Warner. 

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    2 hours ago, TheGunnShow said:

    Nice to see a centre-half score a header from a corner. Lungi did bloody well with that one - he's running away from goal and flicked it back stick.

    One thing good footballers have is timing. It's not a coincidence that despite Hanley getting his head to hundreds of balls in the box, he'd never score a goal like that. Good, old fashioned stopper but I feel thegame is leaving players like that behind. I hope Sorensen and McCallum are being lined up for new contracts. 

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    4 hours ago, MC_NCFC said:

    Ultras have a massive say in running clubs in Europe. In fact many of them control the season tickets. Ensuring the right fans get discounts and get to sit together. They also as mentioned above will go to the ground to discuss performance. 
     

    I do feel this is where English football has been behind. We now have the sporting directors to manage the strategy and football decisions. The next step is fan engagement to a deeper level.

    I would welcome players having to explain themselves to the fans and to listen to their perspectives. Football is a community and essentially tribal let’s not pretend it’s not. Bleed for the shirt, show passion at every moment and challenge one another to be better each day.  

    Thing is "the fans" is an incredibly broad and diverse group. Over a million people follow NCFC on Facebook, so how many of those get to give the team their pearls of wisdom to "Just geddit forrard!" or "kick it to the big man and he can score a ghoul"?

  22. Posted

    12 hours ago, Indy said:

    will we miss Rowe, Sargent & Sara after next summer? Who will replace them?

    We've been saying that for decades yet we always find new stars that people tell us will be instant relegation if we sell. Nunez now really looking the part, Kamara raved about at Pompey, Aboh being talked up by Wagner and may break through, Sainz on a free and looking stronger and more consistent by the week etc etc. 

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  24. Posted

    When we are confident with most of our best players available, Wagnerball is a better watch than Farkeball. I'd also wager it would be more efficient in the Prem. Main problem is it's so reliant on a Sargent type striker to constantly keep the opposition defence worried and sitting deeper than they would otherwise. 

  25. Posted

    Someone on YouTube pointed out that had another manager been appointed at the end of our bad run and subsequent results been exactly the same, he'd be hailed a hero. People hung their hats on Wagner being "useless" or whatever and their egos can't take being proven wrong. They are even prepared to sacrifice the chance to humiliate 1p5wich in the play offs to be proven "right". Brain dead.

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