PaddockLad
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I think a lot of transfers both in and out under Dalglish and Souness are deeply fuckin suspicious. Probably the fag end of the English “brown envelope” era
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1 hour ago, Gemmill said:
But can Foden do this?
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NME top singles from 1990…something for everyone
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Final word on Liverpool’s controversial winner at Forest
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So I think this might be a good season not to qualify for the CL 😆
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1 minute ago, The Fish said:
I don't agree those are the only options but,
Bruno is easier to make up in the aggregate than Isak. Sell Isak and, like Alex says, we'd need to buy 2 strikers. And Striker tend to be the most expensive position to fill. Bruno is outstanding, but we could find a talented midfielder that meshes well with our style for <£50m.
We basically haven’t played with a fit striker since before Christmas. We’ve scored a lot of goals in that time, keeping them out has been the problem for reasons done to death on here. It’s the best midfield outside the top three when all are fit. Mad to break it up.
But David, as always, your opinion gets my respect 👊🏻
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1 minute ago, The Fish said:
Don't talk crazy
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13 minutes ago, Alex said:
Disagree. We’d need to buy two strikers then, Shirley. I’m not sure we need to sell anyone, mind. As a lot of the press etc seem to assume is the case.
Yeah it’s only the press where this narrative is coming from. But having to buy two strikers is basically the same as buying a top class midfielder and a striker.. -
If we’re going to have to lose a top player this summer I’d sell Isak tbh . We really don’t give him enough service for him to display his huge talent and our midfield/ wide players score goals for fun
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4 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:
His war books are fantastic- haven’t read them in ages but I may have too again.
His description of meeting Harry Secombe for the first time is unreal.
“seen any tanks round here?”
”yeah what colour do you want?”
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6 minutes ago, Monkeys Fist said:
No chance.
If she rips a cheeky postern blast*, the backdraft suction is vacuum sealing that rock to her badonkadonk like a limpet.
Only way that’s coming off is her puckering the nipsy.
* copyright James Joyce.
Never read Joyce, but Spike Milligan used the same phrase in his seminal war time memoir “Rommel?/Gunner who?”
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10 minutes ago, Renton said:
I've never thought that. But weren't you literally saying they would achieve CL football today? [alright that was Aimaad BUT MY POINT STANDS]
GD is telling. Somehow they are sixth with a negative goal difference. We are better than ManU, we can finish above them.
Beat Chelsea a week tomorrow and them in April and we will
Very unlikely to catch Spurs or Villa, they play each other next weekend, Villa win that and 4th is nailed on..
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Dubs saves that
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18 hours ago, Alex said:
People from Derby
Not a village. A Burgh of the “Danelaw”878-927 CE so hasn’t been for a fuckin long time
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9 minutes ago, sammynb said:
Did six horses actually finish?
Steeplechases and hurdles are ridiculous carnage for racing horses.
It was a huge field for a hurdles race at a non elite course, 17. This was very likely due to the sponsors boosting the prize fund so it paid more than the equivalent (2 mile) hurdles race at National Hunt’s premier racing festival at Cheltenham later this month. As far as I could make out all horses finished.
Morebattle Hurdle named after this rural backwater
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/yetholm/morebattle/index.html#google_vignette
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22 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
All valid points but we almost need an independent inquiry at the minute to look into the stuff that just goes in this lots' favour.
There's absolutely a "you make your own luck" element to it, and maybe it's as much as 90%, but there's no doubt in my mind that this lot get help in a way that I don't think any other team does, including Man United.
Don’t know if this has been posted on here before but I seem to remember people questioning the impartiality of those who compiled it it’s like a “black ops” counter propaganda campaign
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1 minute ago, Kid Dynamite said:
I'm confused as to why Paul Tierney didn't blow for full time when Forest regained possession on the edge of their box? Surely that's a new phase of play and it was beyond 98mins at that point.
What they put up on the board is only advisory. Not seen it but Isegrim said yesterday that the time added on was legit.
Think we’d feel the same as Forest but they did have 80 secs to defend better before Nunez scored apparently. It’s like Eddie’s first reaction to Diaz’s winner last season at Anfield… “we should’ve defended the corner better” ..
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Does anyone else have a major race named after the village they were brought up in? 😀
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1 minute ago, RobinRobin said:
Perhaps a bit drastic but I would like to see something else even if it doesn't work. Perhaps there's too many who he's worked with before around so no alternative views but that's always the case.
It’s only his nephew if you’re talking behind the sceneshe’s not signed anyone from Bournemouth
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Just now, thebrokendoll said:
sack the cunt then?
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2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:
We haven't been doing that though.
Sort of agree. But he’s been sending the team out in the same formation that achieves that when all players are fit and available to carry it off. That’s not been working iyam. -
Howe’s not properly tried to change anything to compensate for the injuries. If he’d tried something like starting with 3 centre backs which he has switched to on the odd occasion we may have been a more solid at the back. It can also give you an extra man to pick up the “no. 10” player operating between the lines, that’s the space that’s been exploited by opposition attackers since Pope’s injury. He's not really tried anything though. With the massive benefit of hindsight he’s been tactically one dimensional and pig headedly single minded about it.
If there’s no alternative to his tactics with who’s been available week to week for the past 3 months then ok, but someone will have to explain that. Obviously players coming back from injury aren’t going to hit the ground running and need to be eased back in. Because of this we’re not always sure which Eddie Howe team is going turn up, and his tactical inflexibility seems to manifest itself in different ways. To concede four at home to Luton and the energy free performance v Arsenal weren’t just down to injuries. The first one was piss poor tactics in the first instance to concede 4 in less than an hour without changing anything and the other one was a distinct lack of confidence to even compete for the ball in the face of a team brimming with confidence. But that same lack of confidence shown by the players was visible at Blackburn too. It’s almost as if they’ve lost confidence in what they’re being asked to do as well. Howe has proven he can see problems early and make the right decisions like he did at Villa Park when he brought Livramento on and went to a back three. We just don’t see that anywhere near as often as we should.
There is lots of mitigation. There is also an adherence to trusting a system that plainly doesn’t work when key players aren’t available. I think he’s failed to find the balance between the two and the players are showing signs that they’re not sure how to sort it themselves. Would anyone else have done better?….. at Howe’s “pay grade” and experience level probably not.
Hes still got loads of clout with the owners which means he’s almost certainly going to be around for the summer recruitment drive. How much shout he’s going to get on that is going to be the most interesting thing going forward at the club and it very largely depends on if/when Ashworth is replaced and by who. If (as rumoured in some quarters 😆) he gets to build a power base of his old mates it will in reality make him more powerful than the owners. That’s tail wagging dog territory and in view of his travails this season am not sure if he’s properly earned that amount of trust. I do think he’s won a power game with Ashworth which shows he’s a formidable and skilled operator. All that’s bullshit speculation obviously . But we’re definitely going to be living in interesting times and judging by comments around us in the away end on Tuesday night support for him regardless of the unprecedented injuries we’ve had this season is wavering among rank and file punters to say the least. Howe and the recruitment team need to get this summer very largely right if we’re not going to be in a whole world of toxic pain next season.
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Anthony Gordon Handsome Winger Man
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Shearer didn’t fancy Les Ferdinand as a strike partner?…surprised at anyone saying that. I thought Shearer was on record as saying LF was one of his favourite strike partners?… he always wanted someone to do his donkey work iyam…Dowie, Newell,Sutton, Ferguson etc etc..,