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  1. It's certainly interesting. Knapper may be quietly going about his job, encouraging people and having confidence in them - and that can be worth a lot. It's all good - and that's without Rowe, arguably our biggest weapon, certainly in terms of goals. His speed of thought and focus when in attack are breathless at times - yet without him we still look strong. So patience has seen rewards - the clamour to get rid of Wagner was resisted - and the injured players returned, Idah sent out on loan - and we look at times unstoppable. That may or may not continue, we'll have to see, but the season is still very much alive - and some credit for that has to go to Knapper.
  2. Calm down dear, you'll give yourself a hernia. I said "we were all saying" because that was pretty much what it was - people telling you to let it go (about Smith) and I don't recall any support for you view. And I repeat, I was very vocal about Farke staying. I'm not going to trawl through the forum to find anything, like you've done, I've better things to do, but you directed your ire at me in this thread, so I am bound to defend it - and without the abuse you have resorted to. I've been there myself of course, being a lone voice when the majority disagree - it can be tough having certain views when most people are telling you different. But I learned to stick it out and not let it get to me - unless there was abuse involved. I've let the Farke thing go, he's at Leeds now and good luck to him - it's all water under the bridge and best not to think about it too much imo....but it still has the power to annoy if I let it - and the key is not to let it. You seem to have got yourself worked up - believe me, I've been there - it's not worth it. I say learn from it and move on - you can still have your views, even if it is just you thinking them. You don't need to have anything validated by anyone else - just have your views and don't worry what anyone else says. We're all different - nand that is a good thing.
  3. Whats this? Whats this? My name being dragged through the mud? Again? I've hardly been saying anything recently. Let's get this straight. 1. We were all saying to you move on from Smith because he was rubbish, had built up no credit like Farke had, was reducing training, showed precious little leadership and frankly looked a complete damp squib - and the football was getting worse, not better. It was nothing to do with a sulky attitude on my part or anyone else's. He was a bad fit, should never have been offered the job and that was down to Webber, not the fans. 2. Me not saying that Farke should be kept? Of course I did, multiple times - it was never an issue for me - the best chance we had was to let Farke stay on, kick Todd and any other ego who thought they were bigger than the club into the U21's and get behind him. Once Farke was gone - kicked out despite his record at the club - there was no-one there to take his place and make a good go of it. Smith was an underwhelming choice and despite a few results initially, it just got worse as time went on. So yes, I complained and wanted someone else in - Webber messed up big time - and he admitted it when he said he didn't realise the kind of manager the fans wanted, or words to that effect. I don't know who pulled your chain on this thread, but if you come out firing, be prepared to be fired back at. You went on and on about Smith......that was your choice, as it is mine to go on about Farke. At least my going on about Farke has some credence, given his record of building a team from nothing, a championship title, a rebuilding of mindset and confidence after a difficult PL season to get us a record breaking Championship title. What did Smith do for us?
  4. It's absolutely no surprise Leeds are at the top of the table. They have a good squad and an excellent manager who knows what it takes to win this league. We have a good squad too - and did when Farke was here - so the logical conclusion is that Farke would have done well here too, had he stayed. Throw of the dice?? Really? Sacking a manager whose championship record is superb and who would likely be needed the following season - in the championship? The reason Farke was sacked was because there was a desperation to stay in the PL....and therein lies the problem. The money you get from being in the PL becomes the most important thing, rather than just enjoying it - and the threat of losing that money influences decision making - and it shouldn't be like that - it should always be about the football, not the money. In the situation we were in, a rational mind would think, we have a very good manager who is a great fit for the club. He has such a good record at Championship level that if we go down, we stand a good chance of coming back up. Indeed he'd just won that league - again - with record points. A rational mind would think we take the ups with the downs and roll with that, rather than taking risks sacking a successful manager like Farke. We all know - and knew then - the odds were stacked against us. Smith really did no better than Farke might have done had he stayed - and Smith was such a bad fit for our club anyway. The angst the club and it's fans had to go through with the sacking of Farke was completely unnecessary. It was just ridiculous. I think Webber had his head turned talking to Frank Lampard behind the scenes and thinking that he would step in if he sacked Farke - and believed wrongly that FL would be a great coup. When that plan fell through, Smith appeared to offer him a solution, but however you look at it Webber was just wrong. There was no succession plan, there was no-one sensible lined up, Smith just happened to become available - and the rest is history. We've moved on, I get that, and Wagner is getting us to look more like we want, but it was so unnecessary to go through all that angst over Smith and Wagner, when we had the class of Farke at the helm. Yes, we would still have been relegated, but there is so much more to football than the PL. We threw away a legend.
  5. You know as well as any fan that shut outs of that kind are never down to one player - it's an outmatched pairing coupled with excellent team performance. The point is that having Sorensen in the back four maybe contributed to better cohesion in defence/midfield.
  6. He's played Rotherham and Stoke though, two sides which have mustered a grand total of 1 shot on target. Perhaps the reason we only saw one shot on target in two games was precisely because he was in the team.
  7. It's relatively simple - 1. You accommodate your best three midfielders in the team and lo and behold, midfield looks good. (Sara, Nunez, Mclean) 2. You have three excellent players in attack (Sargent, Sainz, Barnes) 3. You have decent delivery from the CBs and two decent full backs getting forwards whenever possible. 4. A great goalkleeper 5. You play with confidence and belief. Bingo.
  8. Humans see things on a very narrow waveband and the cameras we produce are geared to that waveband too. So much goes on unseen that if we knew about would be amazed. It would be no surprise to me that the occasional glimpses of the unexplainable are sometimes man made and sometimes not man made.
  9. I don't agree with a lot of what he says, he takes things too far a lot of the time - but he does talk some sense about some things - the dire state of the two party system for one - but he has just won a democratic mandate with a huge swing away from Tory and Labour - and imo that cannot be ignored.
  10. I never said that. I want change. The two party politics no longer works - it hasn't been working for years, but it must be totally clear to anyone watching politics that neither party can run the country - all Labour and Conservatives do is spend the time fighting amongst themselves. If change means the likes of Farage and Galloway making inroads and leading to proportional representation, which is what is needed so we can have proper representation of ALL views, then it may be worth it. In a proportional system, extreme views would still be at the edge of politics, the Green Party would have a decent voice and politicians would have to work together.
  11. I can understand how he feels. I can't believe that anyone in their right mind would vote for Labour or Conservative again. The reason I started this thread was to ask if a Workers Party, which would be big on reform on the left - or the Reform Party itself - can offer an alternative. I believe they can. Galloway has a lot more about him than some are giving him credit for and his Party is sure - imo - to get a lot bigger in the lead up to the next election. Farage too with the Reform Party. For them to make enough of a difference though, people would need to give up on thinking just either Labour or Conservative.....
  12. George Galloway has had a huge effect on the voters in Rochdale. He is a brilliant orator and has a huge online following. Can he break the mould and get enough disaffected labour voters to make a difference at a general election with his Workers Party? Can Farage equally break the Tories? Seems to me like nobody thinks much of either of the main parties, so is it about time we had something different? I'd vote green rather than any other party, but if there was another party to vote for that could actually get rid of the two big parties who do not appear to be functioning, I would be tempted to vote for change. All those traditionally Labour voters who voted tory last time, surely won't be voting tory again, so where do they go? Crawling back to Labour....or has Galloway got something going that will prove unstoppable? He and Farage may be a big part of what happens at the next election.
  13. Farkeball was good on the eye even without Emi on the field. It was identifiable, people were virtually interchangeable, the cup game I went to at Burnley when Emi was injured was an absolute joy to watch, so I don't agree that Emi was the be all and end all of the good footballing style. The style was integrated and clear virtually all the time, certainly in the championship seasons and first PL season. To watch our team this season when certain players are missing - and even at times when they are all there - has been some of the most pedestrian football I can remember. We look to have come through that turgid style, although the first half in one of our recent matches was tough to watch - and when we are on it, we look as good as anyone in this league. Farkeball was always there, Emi or not - Wagnerball is there when it is there, but when it isn't there, we look like fish out of water.
  14. The complaint from me would be that a manager's way of playing ought to be clear regardless of players/injuries etc. Farke's system was the same whoever he played - every player knew it and the style of football was identifiable whoever was in the team. That Wagner's style only seems identifiable when certain players play is not encouraging - limited, even. I suppose you could say that if promoted, we could get more of his kind of players in, but to see a style of play disappear just because one or two partcular players are missing has been tough to watch. There are times this season where we have looked so poor it has been very hard to sit and watch it from afar, let alone thinking of travelling long distance/spending a lot of money going to a match, so I understand where the op is coming from.
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