VectisSaint

Might be something to do with the fact that his dead leg injury from a couple of years ago is apparently still causing him trouble.

Don't forget Mongboards are inhabited by Helmets, almost everyone who goes to football these days is a helmet apparently. Only the Chief Helmet (and his little mate) are exempt.

Leicester highlighting what we did wrong in that game. They are not dropping deep thinking they can defend their lead. Instead they continue to play the way that earned them the lead. All in spite of what the clueless Sky commentators think.

Man City in 1938.

Perhaps you misheard people saying he was a duffer.

Permission granted.

... quite right and according to Helmet in Chief everyone who posts on an internet forum (mongboard in Chief Mong's terminology) is a helmet, apart from him and his "mate" of course... Who cares if the forum has lost it? The only benefit of posts here is to cause amusement for Chief Helmet.

So, we should try to sign someone who doesn't give a **** Think we have more sense and hopefully we won't do business with Spurs anyway.

With the possible exception of us, who are not capable of beating anyone at the moment...

Not sure this is anything to do with 3 at the back though, I have seen this happen several times this season when VVD gets caught out when we have been playing a back 4.

You mention 3 players, but Verbal is right. We will also be losing Ramirez, probably Isgrove, Caulker and Stek, hopefully Kelvin will also retire. Juanmi implies he may want to go. We may not need to replace ALL of the potential 7 or so, unless we fluke our way into Europa again, but if Ronald is still here he won't want to have a significantly smaller squad than he currently has, and there is precious little apparently coming through from the Academy, though hopefully Stephens will get the place freed up by Caulker.

Augsburg drew Liverpool. If we had qualified we would have had the fixtures that Augsburg got (not the ones Midjyttland got) as they inherited our seeding place. Of course we wouldn't have got Liverpool because the draw is rigged to ensure teams from the same country do not meet, so we will never know who we may drawn. All academic now anyway.

1 out of 3 if you're lucky.

As you say, football matches are not random independent events. It is highly probable that their next game will not result in a loss.

Sadly that is not the case. The defeat has a significant impact on the next result, these are not discrete events in terms of probability.

We played quite well after the first 20 minutes. But that is no good. We are becoming quite good at playing well when we go behind. But because we have almost forgotten how to score it is a complete waste of time. Playing well when you're losing is not anything to big up.

Coaching what? Hopefully not goal keeping...

This ridiculous thread is still rumbling on. Clear that we are selling no-one in January, and we need to keep Long AND get a new striker in (which is what is being indicated by Ronald) to make up for JRod not being available. We don't need to sell to bring in a new striker, we need to invest.

Hope you're right, but probability and form would say otherwise. Expect a reaction from them.

Chances of Spuds losing two on the trot?

Good idea, he would probably struggle to make an impact in our u21s like he is for Spurs reserves.

Think he's only missed a couple of games when he has been available. He missed much of pre-season, then had a minor injury, then on his first outing after recovery he was injured quite badly by a freak accident in the U21s. Has looked decent in the few games he has played once he had some sort of fitness back, the last couple of games. Seems well able to cope with the PL, but I suspect we won't see him at his best this season given the pre-season/early season nightmare. Not many outfield players recover from that sort of start until the following season. Pre-season is so important for the whole of the season. Maybe after Christmas he will start to show some return, he will be a good player for us, just not yet. I've seen enough in the little he has played that his range of passing is very good and is just what we need. What we have to do is stop comparing him to Morgan, he is different and it would take a very high class player to replace Morgan.

One parody account outing another.

Because to some extent last season we still did it, not as much but it was still a part of our game. This season all semblance of it has gone, and our fitness levels are way down on what they were.

You can't suddenly start playing that way. Ronald has a different way of playing and his training methods don't focus on the high levels of fitness that it needs. Its a great shame because many teams now do what we used to do and are reaping the rewards, while we have thrown away our very effective style.