Dman

Broja running at Maguire in his current form is something that really excites me. CR against Bednerak is something that really worries me. 2-2 I’m going for.

It’s still nonsense though. Teams plays 3 times a week all the time. We’ve just had a 2 week break where the players fucked off on a relaxing holiday. International tournaments is a prime example where a heavy load of games are played in a short period of time, often in high temperatures. Non league, 3 games a week is a regular occurrence and 90% of the lads have spent the week grafting on a building site whilst not playing. The whole exhausted thing is just an excuse, often made by the bigger clubs, when they lose a game. Not buying it. They have the best facilities in the world to recover ffs.

Even more drivel. Somehow even stranger and more absolute bollox than the original post. To put your absolutely nonsense theory to bed. What you’re saying is that there are currently 22 premier league referee’s plus probably double that in linesman and every single one of them is in on this big conspiracy to cheat everyone other than 4 or 5 clubs, despite getting 0 benefit from it personally. You’re talking absolute shite.

What a load of drivel, as per from you.

I’ve said it before. He’s out most important player. JWP or Diallo can play next to him, but not together. Romeu has seemingly got better with age. Top player. I hope unlike Fonte, we don’t try and be smart and think he can easily be replaced, I think he can play at this level for a while yet.

VAR is just a video replay. You still have the same people controlling it, so naturally, you’re going to get the same decisions. VAR in itself isn’t the issue. It’s the humans controlling it.

Yeah it was a weird one. To be honest, I think they got it wrong, knew they got it wrong, so made up any excuse to excuse their wrong doing. It’s amazing that something so simple as a video replay, can be royally fucked up by POGMOL. I can excuse on field mistakes. The pace of the game, being the man in the middle can be a really difficult job. I can also excuse a differing opinion on a foul, football is about opinions. But absolute nonsense like this is just unacceptable. It’s a farce.

Agree with this. Although, I do think with a bit of work and exposure to that role, he could do well there. He’s quick, strong and seems decent enough on the ball. His best position is RWB in a back 3, imo.

Ability and defensively wise, maybe they’re equal if not better, however it upsets the balance of the team. Having a left footed player at left back offers us natural with and the ability to whip a cross in that side, rather than KWP who needs to cut back often into the same space in which the attacker is in.

If we’re going to continue to play with 2 ‘10’s’ rather than out and out wingers / forwards, He is by far (Armstrong aside) our most suited to that role. I think he’s done alright this season, if I’m honest. Seems to be playing with confidence. Id give him a new deal and f**k off Redmond, Theo and Djenepo (if we can find a buyer for any of that tosh). Still an area we need improvement in though.

Best performance I’ve seen from us in my recent memory. To a man. Very much deserved. Need to tidy up in front of goal, glad it didn’t cost us today. Easy win Saturday if we play like that.

50 ‘lad points’ to you. Well done, Sue. Lads, lads, lads!!!

The odds on us winning something is very, very low though. Even if we have a relatively successful cup run (I say relatively as coming 2nd,3rd,4th isn’t a success imo), we still would need to pull off an unlikely victory in the semi final / final, as shown in our recent ‘successful’ runs. Personally, I don’t foresee us winning anything for the next 15-20 years. Probably even longer at the rate the gap of the bigger clubs is getting. I agree with Coalman here, if a player ‘wants to win something’ he’s not going to want to stay with us. That being said, I don’t think the players would just down tools if they knew Ralph was going… realistically he’s not a huge name and he’s not loved by the squad in the same way Poch was.

Huge loss for Brighton. Very good appointment by Newcastle. Potter could well follow him up there at some point next season.

If I were him, I’d hold off signing a new deal. 1 - because another season like this one, he’ll have some decent sized clubs sniffing around. Especially if he’s got 6months or less on his contract. 2 - the longer he waits, the less time he has on his contract, the more desperate we’ll become and will result in a larger ££ for him. It seems like more and more players are letting their contracts dwindle and becoming free agents. Even at the highest level (Pogba, Mbappe etc..). I could see this becoming the norm (players hold all the power), which isn’t great for a model like ours.

Agreed. Salisu will be key to how I rate our summer window. If he has no intention to sign a new deal, I could see him being sold… it’s a bit of a worry, if I’m honest.

Amazing he’s managed to blag his way on to talkSPORT to be honest. Imagine hearing the transfer is £45m (to Everton, who are pretty well known to be unable to spend big due to FFP restrictions) and thinking, hang on, that doesn’t sound right…. 😂😂😂

He was always going to end up at either Newcastle or Everton. I can’t believe people even thought this had a chance.

Nice in theory, but in reality it won’t work like that. If they’ve got a £30m offer from us or a £40m offer from Newcastle, then they’re not gonna throw £10m away to spite them. The only thing is if Newcastle won’t agree to add a buy back clause, that could be a deal breaker.

If true, worrying. Would suggest there’s a chance Chelsea can get him out of our loan deal. Doesn’t bode well for the summer if Newcastle are serious.

I know a player or 2 (U23) from clubs around here, who’ve been shipped out on 2/3 loans to different clubs over a season or 2. Generally speaking they hate it and find it very difficult to settle. But I do agree with your last point, I guess it comes down to how much you back your ability. That being said, it would take a brave man to turn down the opportunity to join Liverpool. Not the sensible move, in my opinion, though.

The same one sung to Ronaldo every week, yet no fuss made (from what I’ve seen) there. Not racially motivated at all, basically being called a Sex offender

Silly boy. With Jota, mane, Salah, Elliott, Diaz his opportunities will be limited to non.

Agreed. First season he done well getting them into the top 4 and integrating a lot of the younger players (Mount etc.), which seem to just be forgotten. Second season, they became slightly too predictable to play against. The only thing with Lampard for me is he seems too nice and I can imagine giving the players a fairly easy time of it, where as your tuchel, klopps etc. Are just perfectionists and demand ridiculous intensity at all times (the difference between a good and great manager I guess). That being said, If (big if), he’s given 2 / 3 seasons at Everton to turn the tide and build his own squad, I think he could do okay there.

Who’s winning? 15 - love dman tonight.