Holmes_and_Watson

All square at half time. VA just about the better side. Didn't get a good view of the pen, but the player had to go out of his way to concede it. Both sides leaving some space on the flanks to get behind. VA were caught a little forward when they conceded from this. There was a second not long before the break, Nancy did nothing with. VA had a nice cut back before the break, but sadly no AA to put it in. A second chance near their keeper towards the interval could have gone better too. Both sides will be thinking they can win this.

Nice finish for VA equaliser. Nancy expecting it to come in, as VA had looked decent in previous ones. Instead it comes out, a nice cut in to get the angle and a shot from range. All square.

Occasions on each flank, where there's space to cross, and bodies in good positions in the middle. Instead, the ball is stopped, and the player waits to try an intricate pass that gets promptly intercepted. Very frustrating. VA get one back from a free kick, that their keeper looks to have been able to do a lot better with.

A couple of mins later, it's an unpressured cross to a very unpressured header and VA are 2 down. There wasn't much quality in the opening 15. But VA tried to get forward and had a couple of decent opportunities from corners. Let's see how much fight is left.

VA keeper makes an excellent double save from a penalty. Nancy's third effort goes in. 'keeper high kicks post in sheer frustration, possibly wondering why none of his team mates could get it clear. 0-1

Don't forget, The Hunt leaves our gated enclosure at 9am on Sunday. Got to get out there sharpish before the organs of our prey fail or burst.

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Has that coin throwing ban been lifted? 🙂

There you go. No way SR would pick him, when they could reassign Ben Chorley and take him through any coaching badges he'd need to be a manager.

Has he grown a beard and bought pullovers? Standard SR pre interview requirements. 🙂

Funereal black would have suited this season. 🙂 It does look nice.

Our Turkish colleagues have done well, and he's apparently more involved there now (last refuge) He has money in it, so his involvement may be linked with that. SR considered him to be "Mr Football" which says a lot about their grasp of things. Despite the local focus, I'd imagine there would still be shared data services and links. SR just have to find some best practice in anything, before sharing it. 🙂

It does. But we'd just need to set up a temporary monkey chicken petting zoo, and let the light show and music blasting through an award winning radio station beat it any time we liked. 🙂

Sorry your keyboard isn't working and is typing randomly. When it's working let us know if you remember the name of that 'keeper. 🙂

Just wanted to point out that this is now over the fabled 30 laughing emoji mark. 🙂

I know MLG has a lot of previous form for amending his posts, after responses and reaction have already been given. But disappointing that this is only a couple of weeks after the last time. This, and the pretence that he hadn't, shows that he's clearly incapable of learning anything. It's one thing to disagree with someone on a forum. But something else, if they are just dishonest.

One blessing is that they didn't have a lot of the squad on longer contracts. Whether that's through self imposed limits, or league limits, at least they didn't get carried away there. There can be a major clear out, without too many baggage players. One of the articles said VA's budget was quite substantial for the league, as it was. With the focus on "Frenchfying" it, perhaps they've seen that a cohesive, lower budget squad could work pit better than a team of strangers. If SR can add a few definite stand outs, who could be playing above, then all the better. Attracting them is an ask though.

"...set about building a team capable of fulfilling the new owners' ambitions: Ligue 1 in the medium term. Two years later, the club was relegated to the National League and was unable to extricate itself immediately." That's about all anyone needs to know. If anything, admittedly with some hindsight, SR gave it too long. Don't be too sure that things won't be laid at his door. There's a lot of squad building and gelling to be done to pick up the pieces. There may be more things behind the scenes to reverse or realign. That's a lot to do with what's happened, diverting the resources of those coming in.

Whitey banned for his on field offside chest measuring in the WSL. 🙂

I'd much prefer bitter, hurt rants about poor decisions, us being over aggressive or downright lucky, as an opposing manager talks about our win.

Not long after Vance visited the Vatican. With the US government and the Vatican being historical paragons of virtue, there is only coincidence. Back to radio for the bit where Infantino comes out and announces a World Cup host.

BBC speculating on the new pope being selected due to Trump (either for or against).

It's the hipster ceiling. The financial outlay to get higher up is often much more beyond this point. So, you can be feted by media, and have wins under your belt, and have a well earned philosophy that produces results. After this, it gets harder. And the media shift attention to the next manager further down who is getting wins under their belt. We're just really thick, falling for it time after time.

Can't be. MLG looks down on "entry level" video scouts (while telling us about his own freelance scouting). MLG has his sights set on being an academy teacher, despite not being able to count to 2, and being wrong in nearly every discussion he gets involved in.

1) Had no idea what was on them, or what to do with them. It's very frustrating. 2) There wasn't a slot on his MacBook for them. 3) Still upset at joing SaintsWeb thinking it was GitHub, and only finding Gits.