Search results

I always knew it was grim in numbers but that was absolutely pitiful last night. Have we had a confirmed number? Thinking 700 ish? Their “local derby” against their “fierce rivals” and they turned up in a couple of blocks. Genuinely, I’ve seen more people Hogan Cup finals than a League 1 game...

I don’t think the Head Coach is going anywhere, we’re gonna be “stuck with him”… So here’s the start of what we need to box off. Let Virtue, Connolly, Lavery and anyone else leave. We’ll miss you at left-wing back and your heavy touches. I’d activate the +1 on Husband (decent squad member and...

The system we’ve chosen this season has a massive reliance on wing-backs. The 3-5-2 has evolved to a 3-4-3 to get Dembele in the side and rightly so because he’s our most creative player by a Golden mile (even though our manager was reluctant to play him and got bullied by the fans at Cods away...

This was a classic Neil Critchley away team performance. The kind we’ve seen before, even in his successful spell 1st time with us in the Championship v Birmingham, Derby, Preston etc. & all too familiar this season. Concede a goal, wait till 70 minutes, make like for like subs, dare to change...

Didn’t look like it to me. Zero urgency to do anything. Free-kicks, throw-ins? Going through the motions…everything done slowly, robotically and lethargicially. A win today would have got us in 6th place, 3,000 behind the goal and we looked about as enthusiastic as I would be to do a coaching...

Been wanting to see it from us all season. That red card wouldn’t happen if it was us. Our bench wouldn’t be up. Our centre half wouldn’t be going mad and our right back wouldn’t be rolling about like he’s been hit by Anthony Joshua’s right hand. In this league you can’t be nice. That’s how we...

We all knew it was coming. It’s our clsssic dogshit away performance. Start fairly brightly, couple of good situations wasted, start losing the ball cheaply, stop winning 2nd balls, create our own problems, look disinterested & then resort to pumping alehouse balls to strikers with nobody...

Connolly and Virtue should not be starting in a semi-final with a place at Wembley at stake, I knew he wouldn’t start Byers cos in his head he’d not played in earlier rounds and it was about looking after “Matty and Callum & the rest of the guys in the squad” who’d got this far. Basically like...

I get we’ve got a system and formation and we’ve tweaked from 3-5-2 to 3-4-3 but there’s lots of times that this doesn’t work but we never ever change it. Anytime we make subs which is always after 60 minutes and nearer to 70 minutes, it’s just a player to swap position with another player in...

Closes on Thursday night… After yesterday, what we needing? Critchley can talk about “the group” and “players within the building” but we need some new and fresh options. We’ve lost Dougall who’ll be a miss over the rest of the season, Weir didn’t work out, Tharme has gone, Thompson gone on...

See other thread 🤣🙈

Added bonus of income via the replay which might possibly make TV and a decent touch from the attendance today £££ that should secure Gary Madine’s wages till the end of the season ☺️ Be good to get the ground rocking for a big cup game and we might even be able to have away fans within 250...

It’s a low bar. Think I’m going to have to go for Kenny Dougall’s last minute winner v Wigan. I didn’t do Portsmouth away and the Cods might have been but we threw that away. Toyed with the idea of Stoke at home and the Great Escape getting cranked out but I can’t have a favourite moment...

I always thought version 1 was very tactically astute and could coach very well. There was the Southgate-esque waiting till 60 minutes minimum to make a change and heavy reliance on wide players to create but he was able to make tweaks in-game and with selections and systems for different...

That performance today was as good as it gets. From the off we controlled the game and bar for a 15 or so minute spell 1st half continued to dominate at a team unbeaten in 28 in the league and top of the table. Hats off to our Head Coach who went with the same midfield as last week. Granted...

https://x.com/bbclancssport/status/1726163407190044745?s=46&t=6vU1gvKP452HlOJVdyVCGw Hopefully this is the template now for the rest of the season. Let’s go!

It wasn’t good we had him behind a lone striker in Jordan Rhodes, who struggles without a strike partner. He’s completely ineffective. Rhodes has been brilliant this season but he has next to no pace and just relies on movement and his footballing brain- which is top notch in this League. What...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/08/oxford-astrazeneca-covid-jab-defective-claims-legal-case/ This isn’t great is it. It just disappeared on the quiet after the fanfare and the standing ovation for its creator on Centre Court at Wimbledon 🤮 It’s particularly shameful for all the people...

I realise he’s not going to change it but just asking the question. I would say James Husband & Jordan Rhodes (being upfront in a 2) out of a starting 11. You could make the case for CJ but it can expose him defensively and if the midfield 3 isn’t right (which it very rarely is) then he’s...

Piss poor. Not sure what that Oakley-Boothe geezer was about bar for slide tackling it out of play. Carey? Desperately want him to do well and he did 2nd half but 🤷🏻‍♂️ just not seeing enough… Dougall holding it together sums it up. Roll on Norburn being back but if we don’t box off a decent...