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13th in league?

Good as my pit cap said:
Team won play off ? Lost manager ? Young lads developing? Competing ? Calm the fuk down. We're playing footy the right way.
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The football is great to watch , the future looks good for our club with this model we are sticking with , get the injured players back and we will be fine.
ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
I have been at ASDA for two years now. Do you think I possibly have improved since arriving? I don't think so. If I do something for the first time and I was generally good enough, then that tell me all I need to know. If you aren't developing after roughly time the team has had together, then the more time passes and you still aren't improving do you think you should continue? What if it is the same with a football team? If after 2-3 years and they still are at the level they are at now, then will you still be saying they are developing?
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Anyone 🥹🥸
 
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exiled_in_manc said:
100%. Last season they were premier League, and we scrapped ourselves out of League one.

Limp ourselves to the world cup break without getting dragged right down and we will be ready to start with a full squad after the break.

I'm confident we'll stay up fine. And that was the plan.
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I think that is the plan full stop .
Good crowds , money coming in , pick up cheap young ‘talented’ kids , improve them then sell for a profit.
Rinse and repeat .
 
JJH said:
I think that is the plan full stop .
Good crowds , money coming in , pick up cheap young ‘talented’ kids , improve them then sell for a profit.
Rinse and repeat .
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Indeed.

Can’t wait until the profit league table is published in 2028.
 
Second half yesterday was hard to take. We were poor in possession and their change of shape meant that both Hume and Cirkin were constantly targeted and exposed.
It is disappointing that TM was unable to respond to that from a tactical perspective - I don't think he did respond.
Similar performances going forward will see us struggle at the wrong end of the table.
However, yesterday was the first time this season that we looked lost and out of our depth and this was on the back of a vg FH performance.
The league as a whole will remain tight for a while yet, most teams on any given day are capable of beating each other.
Our injury situation is having an impact and will continue to do so for a while yet. Let's see what the next two or three games bring, if we get back to being competitive, involved and in the game both halves then I think we will be fine.
 
As a midtable outfit were going to win, draw and lose about the same number of games this season. Its frustrating, its football but its going to continue so people kinda need to accept that rather than mood swinging game by game. Its easier to accept on paper than living it,
Burnley will either get automatic or win the league too.
 
Eric gates hair said:
Is anyone starting to wonder ? ( I am) if our owners have much money ?
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KLD gets his money when he turns 25 in November, hasn’t really got a pot to piss in until then.

Second half was shite, but throwing away 2 goal leads happens quite a bit.

Few teams did it yesterday.

Norwich
Us
Accrington
Plymouth

That’s just off the top of my head.
 
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We lost the second half 4 nowt. Burnley were premier league last season and we were league 1 is right enough. Tony Mowbray strictly speaking is correct but I think Pope, Mee, Tarkowski and Macneil leaving makes them weaker than last season. He seems to have discarded those stats in his assessment of their strengths over us.
 
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Exile in Ayr said:
We lost the second half 4 nowt. Burnley were premier league last season and we were league 1 is right enough. Tony Mowbray strictly speaking is correct but I think Pope, Mee, Tarkowski and Macneil leaving makes them weaker than last season. He seems to have discarded those stats in his assessment of their strengths over us.
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Exactly the club was in the premier league last season, that team wasn’t. You can add Cornet, Lennon at least to your list. That team yesterday wasn’t a premier league team.
 
Good as my pit cap said:
Don't have many 6 footers. Stewart and simms win a lot of headers on their set plays. First goal could of been avoided if they were on the pitch. Playing at that Intensity for the first half an hour of a game your obviously gona have to defend at some point. Especially against the best team in the league. U can't tell me they wouldn't of helped in both defending and holding the ball up yesterday second half when everyone was tiring? Don't think it's a poor excuse. That's my opinion.
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In Danny Batth, we had the tallest player on the pitch (1.9m).

We started the game with 5 players who are 1.8m or over, Burnley had only 4. One of those was Ashley Barnes (1.86m), who did frig all, and was replaced with Manuel Benson (1.78m), who scored and assisted.

The median height for both starting lineups was 1.76m.
Exile in Ayr said:
We lost the second half 4 nowt. Burnley were premier league last season and we were league 1 is right enough. Tony Mowbray strictly speaking is correct but I think Pope, Mee, Tarkowski and Macneil leaving makes them weaker than last season. He seems to have discarded those stats in his assessment of their strengths over us.
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Some people were going on about our young lads and us not having a great deal of Championship experience in comparison, yet they had a 20 year old at centre half in Harwood-Bellis and he dominated. Granted he's had loan spells at Blackburn, Anderlecht and Stoke, but he's still a boy.

Zaroury caused us a lot of problems - 20 year, 8 appearances in English football. Signed from the Belgian league.

Vitinho, 23 at left back also signed from the Belgian leagues - also in his first season in English football.
Joebaker1 said:
Second half yesterday was hard to take. We were poor in possession and their change of shape meant that both Hume and Cirkin were constantly targeted and exposed.
It is disappointing that TM was unable to respond to that from a tactical perspective - I don't think he did respond.
Similar performances going forward will see us struggle at the wrong end of the table.
However, yesterday was the first time this season that we looked lost and out of our depth and this was on the back of a vg FH performance.
The league as a whole will remain tight for a while yet, most teams on any given day are capable of beating each other.
Our injury situation is having an impact and will continue to do so for a while yet. Let's see what the next two or three games bring, if we get back to being competitive, involved and in the game both halves then I think we will be fine.
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That's what worries me.

They dominated the game from the delayed restart after our second goal, and we didn't do a thing about it. Conceded a goal early in the second half - no response. Kept doing the same things. Turning the ball over cheaply. Concede again and it continued.

You're two nil up - look after the ball. Cut out the blind passes, back heels and flicks, and look after the ball. Take the sting out of the game. We showed we were technically proficient enough to play around them to get the goals in the first place. Keep the ball and be patient with it. Wind the clock down.
 
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ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
I think theirs about 20 teams better than us in this league. I am under no illusiion. I am not dreaming. But this game shows that we are getting to the time where we must think if they still aren't developing after x amount of time then we need to something about it. It was horrible to watch. I didn't enjoy it at all. I am wishing I hadn't put in for yesterday as a day off. I am dreading the rest of the season if it is anything like that.
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Fuck me.. the long, dark winter nights must piss by in your house.. what a ray of sunshine you are.
 
ShieldsBlackCat2015 said:
I think theirs about 20 teams better than us in this league. I am under no illusiion. I am not dreaming. But this game shows that we are getting to the time where we must think if they still aren't developing after x amount of time then we need to something about it. It was horrible to watch. I didn't enjoy it at all. I am wishing I hadn't put in for yesterday as a day off. I am dreading the rest of the season if it is anything like that.
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your workmates were glad you did though
 
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