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3 minutes ago, Changing Times said:
I suppose I'm the opposite. I don't like penalty shoot outs, they have nowt to do with a game of football really. Be like settling The Masters with a putting competition or something. Obviously they are a necessary evil but I'd prefer matches to be sorted out with an actual game of football.
Yeah, I get that.
Like last night, Real Madrid were played off the park by Man City but have scraped through to a major semi-final because City couldn't finish and they've scrapped away goals.
Tonight, Aston Villa were lucky to beat Lille on penalties, who were much the better team on the night.
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1 hour ago, Changing Times said:
They've strengthened the format by removing replays. Yeah right. I suppose it's better than saying that the game in this country is run for the benefit of half a dozen clubs, who incidentally, would drop being part of football in this country in a microsecond if it suited them financially to do so - hence the clubs who were supporting the Super League not long ago, and still do support it whatever they might say publicly.
I've no doubt they've got absolutely zero interest in protection the competition, or the lower leagues, but I've always hated replays so it doesn't bother me particularly.
I know I'm an outlier with that, but I've never liked the financial argument as it always seem to be about keeping clubs afloat when they wouldn't be able to without it, which I don't think is healthy, and it certainly doesn't help smaller clubs in a sporting sense.
I'm more annoyed about the FA Cup final continuing to be played before the end of the league season, that's really diminishing it.
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In the last 10 seasons, and I'll exclude goalkeepers, these are the players we've signed from League One:
Matt Crooks (after relegation)
Uche Ikpeazu (after relegation)
Sam Morsy (after relegation)
Duncan Watmore
Anfernee Dijksteel (after promotion)
Marc Bola
Paddy McNair (after relegation)
Marvin Johnson
Lee Tomlin (mid-season after relegation)
James Husband (after relegation)
Albert Adomah (after relegation)
It's not a big list of players at all, and almost all of them, bar Husband and Ikpeazu, were decent signings.
You could also easily exclude 7 of those players since they'd played the last season in the Championship, leaving the list as Watmore, Dijksteel, Bola and Marvin Johnson.
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2 minutes ago, SussexBoro1981 said:
Really don’t get this obsession with signing league one players, our record is atrocious when it comes to signing players from the lower leagues. Our best season recently was with premiership loans. Really hope we go for quality over quantity, I’d be happy with 3 top players and fill the gaps in the squad with youth.
Calum O’Hare
Josh Brownhill
Che Adams
All top performers at this level, all available for free and all at the age you can probably still move them on 3 years from now. You would pay more in wages but you would be looking at big transfer fees to bring players of their quality in.
Che Adams was signed from League One by Birmingham, after being signed from non-League by Sheffield United.
Josh Brownhill started his career at a League One club and was signed by Bristol City on the back of a League One loan.
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The vote for Boro's goal of the season.
I've gone for McGree's against Birmingham, even though I think Forss' against Sunderland was the best finish.
I prefer a cleaner build up.
I expect Greenwood's free kick will win though.
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FA Cup replays have been officially scrapped and all rounds will now be played on weekends again.
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21 hours ago, wilsoncgp said:
To be fair, I'm pretty sure they are one of the only clubs who have female coaching staff and she was head of their academy and continues to be now. It was always communicated as putting her in charge in the interim and she could put her hat in the ring for the main job, but they would be doing their work to try and hire the best person for the actual manager's job and it was never said that she was that person. They put her in charge as they said they felt she was the most suitable at the club to do it in the interim and given her 20 years of background of working with men's teams at non-league and academy level, I don't think it's entirely one way or the other to suggest that was the truth.
Dale Vince is what he is, he goes against the grain and as someone who does that whilst having been a successful businessman, I'm sure he's not beyond kissing his own *** in the process. Forest Green are more than just a club who appointed a woman as interim manager for the men's team, though. They're also recognised as the world's greenest football club and that comes as much from him as anyone. There's plenty of knobheads in football and perhaps Vince is one of them. But when it comes to positively putting your money where your mouth is, he has to be right up there too.
She was replaced by somebody younger, who was also without any senior managerial experience.
She was made interim manager for 2 weeks in pre-season and was never under consideration for the actual job, they were presumably already negotiating with Southampton for David Horseman given the speed of his appointment.
Arranging a press conference and giving dozens of other self-promoting media interviews for that spell was odd.
It was purely a publicity stunt, one of many from Dale Vince.
I had no issue with her being appointed, I think Dale Vince's antics surrounding it were embarassing.
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2 minutes ago, wilsoncgp said:
Something picked up on in the announcement. A Freudian slip or an oversight on McNair's part?
"The 24-year-old extends his stay on Teesside until 2027 and, after Dael Fry and Jonny Howson, he is the club’s longest serving senior player currently in the dressing room."
McNair would be ahead of Jones having joined the year prior. And it surely isn't related to injuries as Fry is also out. Seems strange to mention it and not to check.
Not that it will come as much of a surprise to anyone that McNair is leaving. And given the contracts have started being handed out, it perhaps alludes to the club switching focus to next season already. Sure Carrick has said in the past that they wouldn't worry about them until the summer.
I think it'll just be an error on the writer's part, but I'm expecting McNair to move on anyway.
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23 minutes ago, Aphex_Boro said:
Forss would be the only one I wouldn't mind leaving
His fitness record just isn't good enough to rely on
He's actually got 2 years left on his contract anyway, I thought it was only 1.
So no rush on that front.
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Get Carrick, McGree, Howson and Forss extended, then we're cooking.
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Really pleased with that, he's not perfect but he's a key player for us and offers a real threat.
It's also a really nice success story for our scouting and for himself from a non-league background.
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New 3 year contract for Jones, get in there.
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1 hour ago, Changing Times said:
Why? They aren't a bad club are they?
Their owner is an attention seeking knobhead.
"I'm going to appoint the first female manager in English men's football, why can't people be more like me?".
Had a major press conference announcing her time in charge.
Gave dozens of interviews across the media bigging himself and the club up for it.
All done for publicity before replacing her 2 weeks later, after she'd managed one friendly, by a Horseman.
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The world can breathe a sigh of relief, Forest Green Rovers have been relegated from the English Football League.
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Southampton winning their game in hand.
That's Preston out of the race and Southampton have snuck back in to the automatic promotion race.
They still have Leicester and Leeds to play.
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West Brom's spot is definitely up for grabs now too.
Just a shame it's not available for us.
Hull and Coventry still have a solid chance.
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19 minutes ago, ITK said:
More clamour for league one and two players. Buy those players and that’s where we will end up.
A team full of League One players is top of the Championship 👍
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Rutter over Armstrong is the only one I'd question.
6 goals and 17 assists as a striker doesn't trump 20 goals and 12 assists for me.
But I've not watched much of Leeds, so maybe his performances are exceptional to the point that Armstrong's significantly better return is outweighed.
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5 minutes ago, scotty189 said:
just noticed on another thread Cheick Kone, playing for the u21, must be on trial ?
We only recruit from West Brom and Villa now. 😂
We're doomed when Danks doesn't know any of the players from both clubs anymore.
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14 minutes ago, AnglianRed said:
IMO if thats what he chose as his handle, he must be okay with it. I only use TJ because I'm lazy.
Its a real shame they stopped the use of images on the forum, as I loved the cartoon Jewish penguin he had as his avatar. 😁
It's surely more that it's a username that quite often leads to unfortunate sounding sentences like "Do not believe what The Jew says and you will be okay"
Obviously TLF10 was just using his username, but that's a grim sentence to read if you don't realise it.
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If we can bring back Akpom, we'd be crazy not to leap at the chance.
I doubt he'd have the same impact as last season, but if he's even half as effective then it'd be massive for us.
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2 minutes ago, northern boro said:
The EFL's supporter of the season award has gone to West Broms Dave Heeley.
Can't argue with it, raising £3m for charity is brilliant.
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5 minutes ago, Neverbefore said:
I think he'll come pretty close to triggering the clauses. He's nailed down his starting spot in the team 4th in the premier league, he's probably ahead of schedule to what even villa thought.
Will never know the thought process in letting him go so quick. We had pretty much every card in our hand asides from him being keen on the move.
He might do, but it's probably not going to happen for a few years, and the club obviously can't use that money until we get it.
We're losing a huge chunk of it to Man City too.
I'm still disappointed that the club sold him, especially when they didn't bring anyone else In to replace him and also sold Crooks soon after.
I don't blame Rogers for wanting to go, he'd have been daft not to want it, but it wasn't all up to him.
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I could be wrong, but I think the second yellow was so soft that the referee knew exactly what he was doing when he did it.
No chance he'd have given a yellow card for such a minor incident if he'd thought it was leading to a red card.