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Injuries on a par with Ross Stewart.

Reminds me of a story in the late 1990s where an LNER fast train was stopped at a red signal in rural Lincolnshire and the train full of passengers got a full view of one of the locals shagging a 🐐 Story was in FHM where the red tops picked it up from, everyone in the barbers was laughing at it! Really foul.

At least their hologram in goal has temporarily relocated to Staffordshire but yes, mini Rasmus will be in the dug out awaiting instructions as normal.

That’s a big old drive for the fans. Players and staff will fly of course.

Tricky one. I’m not adverse to criticising SR and the abject club leadership but on this occasion it’s easy to revert to hindsight. Dom had a serious injury, hadn’t pulled up any trees after that at Cambridge, and isn’t the hold up player we’ve sorely lacked post-Che. He isn’t better than AA at this level, and Archer had prior form at Champ level. As it’s turned with hindsight, I’d have loaned Archer out/sold him as he’s only been bothered v Birmingham, and given Dom a further opportunity, but it really does require hindsight.

Unless he develops the natural instincts and positioning of a professional goalkeeper, he really won’t. I wish him all of the very best and hope has a stormer at Stoke so we can sell him, his career gets going whether Stoke buy or not, but it requires him being 1000% better on the goalkeeping basics than he’s ever been here. We are a car crash, so it’s certainly possible…but I wouldn’t be lumping money on it. If he had the raw potential of a Tim Flowers circa 1988 monitored by John Burridge, my view would entirely different.

Beat Man U at home during the prime Fergie years 3 times in a row. Would never happen now. We had a good record v Newcastle when Keegan was there and the years afterwards up to 2004. Did better at home to Arsenal after Wright retired and regularly beat Spurs, Chelsea. For some balance so this post isn’t too sepia tinted - we did concede 4 in 5 minutes at White Hart Lane under Branfoot, 5 at Sheff Weds, 5-0 at half time at Goodison - but at home we were hard to beat and the odd surprise away win at the big clubs.

Slightly corrected for factuality.

Was certainly the case with Kelvin at that level in 08/09 who received POTS and also Dave Beasant kept us up in 95/96.

Or at least until Mini Rasmus gets sacked after a 3-0 defeat at the Ammonia Shed.

Zahawi corrupt, Jenryck will be joining them soon so he will at least get forgotten in his level of corruption compared to Bob. Houchen as a Reform Mayor and you’d have a (corrupt) house.

Gavin has not been served by the club in terms of his development. Financially, maybe more so. Ralph was part of the issue early on, because his feud with McCarthy after the Brighton home game the season before and SR probably struggled to shift McCarthy with the albatross of a contract from Semmens. So when Gavin needed to be taken out of the firing line he wasn’t due to stubbornness. His confidence was shredded before it got going, nice words from Martin at the Forum in August 2023 but the actions didn’t match, struggled badly again with a porous and ponderous defence and midfield in front of him. Major injury, wretched loan spell in Belgium and then this season’s car crash. To be clear, this doesn’t absolve him of not having natural goalkeeping ability - compare him to Tim Flowers signed from a Wolves side plummeting into the basement. Timmy at the same age was raw but far more of a natural keeper than Gavin. A key difference was the signing of John Burridge to bring him along, mentor and instill high standards. Anyone who witnessed one of Budgie’s warm-ups will know what I mean! Tim could be brought in gradually without any bullshit.

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I hope it works out for him and Stoke - we aren’t finishing top 6 this season and it isn’t going to happen for him here. I’ve never seen a natural goalkeeper there as most fans haven’t but change of scenery, better coaches and 1000 miles better manager than anything SR has ever appointed, who knows? Stoke demand their full backs do damn sight more to stop crosses coming in so easily and freely, and he won’t have Stephens, Manning or Wood in front of him in fairness. THB has not been great this season either. Robins is certainly not a pass it around 50 times within 15 yards to toss one off over possession stats manager either. He needs a tidy first few games with the position basics for them to build some momentum. De-Bazballing almost, forgetting the SR ‘good with passing’ corporate guff and work with their keeping coach on the fundamentals.

Or it’s Lallana joining in subtly?

Unfortunately Tyler has a MLT-type gait and movement (MLT could be actually fairly rapid early on in his career but always had a languid look) without any of the considerable and eye catching match winning output to go with it. MLT was good in the air earlier career as well.

Wilcox not Mr Popular at Man U https://www.redcafe.net/threads/jason-wilcox-director-of-football.482067/page-62

Agree with that but Solak won’t bin off Ankerson or at least limit him to Goztepe only (as he promised to do) so the only option is to sell.

He’d get free headers and shots - would you want to get close enough to mark him without fainting from the BO/stale beer fumes?

If he does, more likely to offload him so hopefully so.

The Minnesota killing is really backfiring on Trump and Vance https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgpnwnqygro

Good job that Trump’s economic policies are working and getting those prices down…oh https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1dz0dz0zkvo

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Beat me to it. Had all the hallmarks of a Bazunu family member/agent.