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On 10/2/2023 at 1:40 PM, Leesider said:
Is 12 the correct answer🤔
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Maybe it's because terms haven't been agreed with his current club?
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Will they have to spend time on a barge waiting for their visas?
Will we have to wait until the end of the season for the Home Office to process them?
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21 hours ago, ReservoirSmog said:
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Has anyone looked at the match highlights on the MFC website. There are several views of the disallowed goal, including from just behind the goal line, and I'm not convinced the ball was fully over the line when Crooks crossed it. The assistant referee was still running back towards the goal line when he flagged it as out.
Another comment, something I've noticed many times last season, and during yesterday's game, is how poor our marking/awareness is of opposition players coming into the box from the opposite side of the goal to the player with the ball. Everyone seems to get drawn to the ball or the area in front of goal.
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3 hours ago, Bruce said:
Edinburgh. Born in Saltburn but moved a lot...
(Marske > Lossiemouth > Singapore > Redcar > Lossiemouth > Weymouth > Watton (Norfolk) > Yeovil > Gosport > Edinburgh > St John's, Newfoundland > Little Rock, Arkansas > Cardiff > St John's, Newfoundland > Cardiff > Melton Mowbray > Edinburgh)
Witness protection, or on the run?
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I wonder how many games televised by Sky we have won? May just be me but when I discovered we were on Sky I felt an instant foreboding.
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23 hours ago, Lee. said:
Could be worse, we could have ended up with Tony:
Wasn't that his first dance on Strictly?
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5 hours ago, scotty189 said:
I'd take Rooney, would certainly bring so e excitement and feel good factor
We'd have kids running across the pitch every week to get his autograph and/or a selfie.
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I think the problem Wilder has, and his comments to some extent support this, is that we do not move the ball forward quickly enough. Teams come to Riverside to sit back and hit us on the break. Reading even did it at home to us. It's proven more successful for teams than trying to attack us. Any manager bringing a team to the Riverside is likely to be happy with a draw, so not conceding is their priority. Unfortunately his reliance on attacking CDs has been stymied, either by injury, poor team selection, or disappointing recruitment. Dael Fry defends well but is reluctant to make positive forward movements or passes. Clarke has been disappointing after his first game. Hopefully Dijksteel has regained his place after disappointing performances in that position by McNair. Also, hopefully, Coventry don't adopt the same approach as Reading.
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Is it possible that Wilder's apparent lack of faith in some of our strikers is more the case that he has decided to tweak his formation in an attempt to bolster the defensive side our our game and to try to reduce the incidences of us being hit on the break?
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47 minutes ago, J.T. said:
To be fair, the club have been playing this game for years, so I really am not surprised by the way it’s unfolded…
Loads of hype around season ticket sales time (“marquee signing”, “going to smash the league”, etc.)
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Sell our saleable assets->
‘Try’ to sign players that excite the fans->
Deadline passes->
“We worked tirelessly to make it happen but unfortunately the club wanted too much/another club came in last minute/ the goalposts were changed late in the day”What's all the fuss about? We got our marquee signing, albeit a year later and only on loan.
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On 8/13/2022 at 12:46 PM, Barnaby said:
Why are some people assuming that Fry will automatically go now that we seem to have signed Clarke?
We now have cover/competition for the three CB positions. That is Wilder's declared aim for each position.
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1 hour ago, Tudders80 said:
But even here you are saying that Fry only plays in the "tough" games.
Whether we like it or not wilder seems to prefer lenihan in the central role to Fry. That's the position wilder sees Lenihan in. We have said for years that one of our biggest downfalls is square pegs in round holes. I'm not saying lenihan can't play rcb, but his best position is centre half. Simply him there. There are two players vying for that 1 position. And wilder wants lenihan in that position. Whether thats because of leadership qualities, better positional sense or any other reason, that's wilders choice.
Wilder's declared aim is to have at least two players vying for every position.
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55 minutes ago, Redcar Rioja said:
I think our defensive frailties are more tactical rather than personnel. No doubt a LCB would improve things but Dijksteel is as good as we will get in Wilder's formation. I don't think it matters a great deal between Fry/Lenihan although after being an advocate for Lenihan's experience I think Wilder needs to revert back to Dijksteel, Fry and McNair as his back three. They may not be ideal or balanced in his eyes but they were far more effective than we are currently witnessing even allowing for Lumley being behind them.
Watching us at times is bordering on playground kick and rush football, when you see 40 plus 8 year olds all chasing the football. Attacking is great to watch but leaving your soft underbelly exposed every single time is inviting being punished. Wilder's game plan has been sussed by opposing Managers and unless he tweaks it and makes some fine adjustments it's going nowhere. More importantly he has to realise that he can't stick to the same tactics and set up when our opponents have changed to counter it. You can't expect to win games if you are conceding at least two goals per game, in that lies madness!
The issue to me seems to be a lack of discipline or cohesion in our centre backs, inasmuch that when we get caught out by a breakdown in our attack we have two of our centre backs too far upfield. Maybe that's Wilder's intention but I would have expected that if one of our centre backs goes forward the other two stay back to cover. If one overlaps down the left the one on the right drops back and vice versa.
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4 minutes ago, JTG said:
and in a lesser team that sits in deeper he'd look much better imo, like when he plays for England.
Bit of a slight on the national team?
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14 minutes ago, Borodane said:
Which is why it's very weird that we signed off on selling Tav before we had replacements in. Why didn't we do like all other teams do and hold off on the deal untill we've brought some players in ourselves.
Maybe there was pressure from the buying club and the player? Bit like we are, presumably, with Larsen.
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2 minutes ago, sambaDTR said:
With his build he should just wipe every attacker who comes near him. Keepers always get protection from refs. 👍
If he had eyes in the back of his head.
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12 minutes ago, Liquid said:
Not ITK but he might have met his agent in Amsterdam and flew over from there.
I base that on the report that his agent went back to Norway for a couple of days.
Didn't someone comment on a flight from Teesside to Amsterdam a couple of days ago?
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Maybe it was instigated by the club to flush out a source and now the *** has hit the fan.
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8 minutes ago, DocMartin said:
I appreciate cars are far more dangerous mind, so we best just revoke his licence and wrap him up in bubble wrap for now
Don't suffocate him! 😧
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13 minutes ago, JonnyMFC said:
Stand by for 10 pages of 'we hate Spence' v 'I hope he does well' 😂Don't you mean "another 10 pages"?
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1 hour ago, Rob said:
I thibk that's just journos trying to cover *** from them saying 2 weeks ago nearly there
We all know how hard it is to get a doctor's appointment...
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2 hours ago, ManBearPig said:
Not sure what’s more annoying..
No breakthrough with Spence,
a slow transfer day
Or these flipping mobile adverts making the site unreadable 😫
Try DuckDuck Go app. It's a browser which has the option to turn off ads.
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