The Cat

Looking forward to Forest away.

Surely that's a penalty? Kicked his foot, which tripped him up. Jon Moss basically guessing and gave a dive.

Bit unlucky really. Previously linked Joe Worrall has been skinned a couple of times out by the touchline which means he'd be a good fit for us to replace Bednarek.

Not sure. I guess we need to read the police report if they release one. Looks like they shut some of the gates but wonder why? Was it because people had jumped fences? Was it because there was loads of people getting turned away with fake tickets? It was undoubtedly shit for the people who turned up early with legit tickets and then didn't get in.

Here's another take on it. Long thread btw.

Couldn't stand the guy until about 5 minutes ago when I saw this, now he's one of my favourite all time footballers.

Incredible performance. Casemiro was nearly as good. Barely put a foot wrong all game.

One shot on target 😂😂

OMG Courtois. Unreal.

He's not even the best right back on this pitch.

Courtois 👏👏👏

I seem to remember it was something like £30million with a few more as add ons. The add ons were low because they gave us a big wedge up front rather than the normal staggered payments over a few seasons.

Of course. He's not a bad at all, has ups and downs but is a decent squad player. We could obviously get better regular starters in that position but I'm happy for him to stay.

Interesting in that he's my MP and no doubt a few others on here too.

Wasn't he originally carrying out some sort of player liaison role where he was linking with the players on loan and their clubs to monitor their progress?

Lots of players leaving is something I heard last night. Also "I thought they were going to offer Long a new contract but not so sure now." None of this is earth shattering news, just sharing anything I get in the vague hope that it increases my credibility amongst a bunch of people, who outside of a select few, I've never met and never will.

Johnstone is slightly better but really isn't that great. There are so many better options.

Do you like anyone or anything?

I believe he means it's just the start of the rebuilding that Sports Republic intend to carry out. Some things, like this, can be done now and will be public knowledge. Others will be more internal, behind the scenes changes but are important in the day to day running of the club. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with the club.

I'm not sure what the reason for the resistance was, sadly the conversation I had didn't include that part. Most of the occasional info I get is very much second hand so is also reliant on my mate repeating what he was told correctly!

Told them first 😉

This article suggests otherwise. Things have changed so much in modern football. Strikers are better, the ball curves more and moves faster through the air. Simply standing on the near post just doesn't work well enough anymore because if they do the ball will continually be whipped past them into the far corner. https://www.keeperportal.co.uk/myth-goalkeepers-beaten-near-post/ Here's also an Instagram post from Kasper Schmeichel who knows a thing or 2 about goalkeeping.