Patrick Bateman

Benson's agent earning his money!

You miserable git 🤣 I've been with my son in the family corner for many matches this season, have enjoyed it a lot actually, a very different and pleasant experience being sober and away from the other end of the ground. I actually took one of my son's friends to a match too and what I noticed is that they both like the fan zone, they both liked the band, they love the goal music and many other things I would've classified as 'noddy' in years gone by. Granted that's a sample of 2x 9 year olds, BUT, that is the future customer base. Personally, I actually like all the street stalls behind the Kingsland too, much better at that side of the ground now. I'm all for a better home end for those that want to go there and the safe standing will be good too. My only question is why can't the away fans be moved to blocks 1-4 in that corner? Little change required for policing/coaches, family corner is still the opposite side as well, less changes required and the Northam is still next to the away fans for the melts wanting to do cut throat gestures and then run away after the match ends.

I've always liked Wednesday as well, great club, decent fans. Was good again today, St Marys feels very very different again and rightly so, great atmosphere.

Full of shit

Way too harsh and completely unnecessary, he's been a completely different player this season and this happens to many goalies once.

Who?

Doesn't matter what the ECJ say is legal or not in this country. If a UK court has made a ruling post Brexit, it takes precedence over what the ECJ say ... so unlucky Liverpool, Man United etc. Fact to back up the statement I made: https://www.supremecourt.uk/faqs.html#:~:text=The relationship between the UK,11pm on 31 December 2020.

Fucking hell. This club is useless.

No.

Much better to watch, I really enjoyed that today, it was a bit more mixed up with plenty of the patient build up play mixed in with some incisive passes and running. Very nice. Bree is a much better full back than Manning for the players we have in front of him and Aribo has been a pleasant surprise recently too. More of that please!

He was decent again today, I like that he has a little physicality about him to muscle others off the ball.

Completely agree. Commercially the club is awful. How they can be out of stock of some of the kids strips before Christmas is beyond me. Money sitting on table, yet they don't have stock.

He was so bad. What did Bree do wrong??

That was dreadful

That made me laugh. I only agree on the basis of the screeching, it does get too much and often the push to include all others means we get worse pundits. I mean bad pronunciation is now prevalent across TV, it is appalling how many people can't speak properly; I don't mean regional accents, I just mean speaking badly with any accent, using the wrong verbs / tenses, the fact that nearly all pundits speak with a glottal stop and the dropping of the letter 'g' at the end of words. I don't know why people can't speak properly anymore? Anyway ... yes, the screeching of female pundits does my head. But then you have superb female sports presenters like Hazel Irvine making the snooker a pleasure, Gabby Logan, Claire Balding and Sue Barker (although retired). But they are probably considered "old school" now as they don't screech and they speak properly.

Especially if he's still being played aged 45

So he's right, it is over 100 years. 2023 - 1921 is 102 years, or am I missing something?

Seconded. In true fickle football fan fashion of course!

2005/6 peak ... good days!

I prefer the authenticity of this league. Obviously we want to watch the best players we can get and need money to do that and I think we all enjoy the odd occasions where we give the "big clubs" a shock. But the teams, the players, no bloody VAR! But yes, I want to be promoted still - football is completely hypocritical.

Thank you

90+ min winner, clean sheet ... that'll do!

Absolutely, 100% this. I posted earlier about the dicking about, but it's so true - we look like we're going to break and counter, but stop. Pass. Pass. Pass again. By then, the opposition know they have time to get all 11 men back and then nothing happens apart from the insipid passing from one side of the pitch to the other, via 4 or 5 players, only to be in the same situation on the other side. It is slow, ponderous and insipid. I don't mind possession based football as it happens, it can work well, look pretty - Pochettino's Saints did it well enough, although the "get it forward" brigade hated him too. But what pisses me off is the lack of ability to finish off a counter attack without a sideways or backwards pass. I think there were a couple of times today when exactly that happened - a break, ooooo, edge of your seat, something might happen. Stop, pass sideways. Fuck off. (All I want is to mix it up a bit - it shouldn't be solely about possession, sometimes, let a break happen and the players should be encouraged to pour forward to support, just sometimes)

That was quick!!

Boring. Slow. Ponderous. Error prone. No finishing. Dicking around in front of their defence. Poor crossing. Weak tackling. Team of 'nice boys'. Preston deserved to win that one.