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Comment | Jackson: I've Loved Every Day Under the Boss
at 12:45:32
TimmyH: true, but who's to say that that was Jackson's best period? He didn't get much chance to show before his injury and hadn't played much football in months previously so presumably wasn't at his best.
Anyway, I agree that we need more up front, though finding a ready made 20-goal striker in league 1 is going to be almost impossible. Most with proven records would be going up to the Championship. |
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Comment | Chambers: I Never Imagined I'd Play 800 Games
at 10:43:51
Bobsthename : personally, I felt that Chambers became the boo boys favourite to pick on. On the forum or news threads hwere you could always find someone managing to pin every goal conceded on him in some capacity. He just became an easy target.
I'm sure a neutral would have had a different opinion. Also worth remembering that he played a lot of games out of position at fullback and did a half decent job considering.
Was he amazing? No. Was he a decent centre back? Yes. Was he a good captain? Yes. Did he care about the club? Yes.
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Comment | Town Confirm McKenna Appointment
at 09:24:38
I'm not unhappy at this appointment at all. I think a league 1 club can either go for a league 1 manager or take a gamble.
However, what I don't understand is the club's direction here. Do they want quick returns? I assumed they did considering they sacked Cook so quickly when, in reality, the poor-ish run we were on wasn't that long.
But then, if you want a quick return why go for a completely untested manager?
Either it's a long-term project or it isn't.
The worst thing they could now do is give this fella 9 months and sack him. Total waste of time. So, let's hope they do intend to go for a long return plan.
Lets remember that it took Sir Alf an dSir Bobby several years to get the team working the way they wanted. |
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Comment | Butcher: I Want to See Football With No Heading
at 16:12:10
Linkboy13: "The players have a choice whether they want to head the ball or not at the moment" isn't really true for any defender or really and striker is it? Some wingers get away without heading, but that's about it.
Any player choosing not to head isn't likely to have much of a career I'd suggest.
However, I do agree that I can't see how we can ban it. It would essentially make wing play impossible, as the keeper would grab every cross coming in.
But then people thought banning the backpass was unworkable and that worked out pretty well in the end. |
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Comment | Butcher: I Want to See Football With No Heading
at 15:46:13
BlueRuin69: I know it's cool to use "woke" as an insult these days (even though it really just means that people consider the feelings of others, which should never be an insult), but how on earth is stopping people from dying young of dementia being "woke"?
I'd hardly call Terry Butcher a classic example of woke would you?
I'm not sure banning heading is workable but let's not put this important discussion in the gutter from the start eh? |
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Comment | Cook is No Gamechanger
at 10:45:16
My biggest problem with Cook is his refusal to accept that he did a poor job last season. He took over a team scraping the play-offs under a manager most of us thought wasn't very good.
Then he made us worse and blamed it all on the squad.
A good manager gets the most out of his squad.
McCarthy (whose football I didn't enjhoy watching) took over a team shipping goals for fun who were bottom of the table. Without changing the squad at all he got us winning. His very first game was a 1-0 win.
It can be done and Cook's avoiding any blame doesn't speak well for him I feel.
As for this season, he has recruited well, except he didn't sign any leader or midfielders who can defend until Morsy on the last day. He has Evans, Carrol and Harper who are all basically the same player. He should have 2 players in that mould and two who can tackle.
He expects his fullbacks and wingers to sit high up the pitch, so the defence hs little or no cover.
He recruited a series of coaches with no experience, and not a single one who is resposible for defensive coaching.
We barely make any tackles at all, which is why teams find it so easy to score against us. All of this seems obvious, yet Cook has yet to change anything at all.
I'm sure Morsy will make a difference, but relying on one player is a big mistake.
And in the second half, even our good attacking play vanished.
As for Chaplin, I'm unimpressed so far, but then 95% of the balls to him were hoofs from the back and he's about 4'6" and he was marked by someone around 6'6" so I'm not sure what the team were expecting to happen there. |
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Comment | Keane: I Got Recruitment Wrong at Town
at 09:17:08
Len_Brennan summed Keane's time up very well. I can't believe someone here said they'd have him back! He ruined our club for years! In fact we're where we are as a result as Evans changed his policy completely after the failure of Keane. Before that he had invested.
Keane also doesn't sound like he's learned at all. If he really thought he was motivating our players he has a pretty low standard.
It was also interesting to read Evans was questioning his player positions. I know exactly what he was referring to as well, because for a period he played 4 centre backs, 2 of them at full back. At least one of them was a very young lad from the youth team. Seems even Evans realised that was a crap idea! |
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Comment | Keane: I Got Recruitment Wrong at Town
at 09:13:22
cornishnick: I think you mean successors, not predecessors!
Also, you are comparing him to Jewell, McCarthy, Hurst, Lambert and Cook. Hardly a glittering roster! Jewell left us bottom of the table, as did Hurst, Lambert got us relegated and Cook so far has failed, but the signs are hopeful.
And McCarthy did better.
It's like saying Hitler wasn't that bad if you compare him to Stalin! |
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Comment | Dyer: I Agree With Tyrone, Johnson and Patel Hypocrites
at 10:24:20
Europablue, I don't think the idea of white privilege is telling white people they are racist it is about letting them know that, without them doing anything at all they already have advantages over others that they probably didn't realise.
It's hard to understand from our viewpoint (I'm assuming at this point that you are white) because we haven't had to live through it.
I don't think there's any offence intended by it, it's just meant to make us stop and think. Though, obviously like everything these days some from both sides will run with it in all the wrong ways.
As for kneeling being offensive to you, I'm sorry but I just can't see how it is. UYes, BLM have taken it up but I think of the NFL players when I see it as that was also in a sporting context. Others might not, and that's understandable but, regardless, I just can't see how you can be offended by it personally and nor can I understand why you would feel the need to boo your own team who are doing it for reasons they have explained, regardless of how you wish to interpret it. |
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Comment | Dyer: I Agree With Tyrone, Johnson and Patel Hypocrites
at 09:15:36
Europablue. No, by making the comparison dozzells made the equivalence. Inssure not intentionallyaand I'm happy to accept their reasoning. But bringing Nazis into any conversation is always going to be contentious.
It was used as an example of an offensive gesture, but I would argue that taking the knee isn't offensive at all, let alone anything like a Nazi salute.
Anyway, people have the right to disagree with whatever they like but they have to be responsible for their actions and consequences, whatever they might be. With regards to the government, it was obvious to all that they were stoking up racists and giving them a platform.
I will completely agree however with the points here that pointing out race and diversity all the time is not the answer. The answer is indeed to treat everyone the same, in this case just treating them as footballers and not black footballers. Ignoring race completely from the equation is the way we need to go. But we're a long way from doing that.
Also social media has made things much worse. After 90 and 96 everyone felt sorry for Pearce and Southgate etc and that was the general feeling. But I'm sure if twitter existed they still would have had some abuse (though not racist, obviously). Social media sadly gives a voice to the idiots of this world who then feel that their opinion has the weight it doesn't. |
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Comment | Dyer: I Agree With Tyrone, Johnson and Patel Hypocrites
at 23:36:44
Well, by using that example you are equating them I'm afr!
Anyway, I have no problem with you having an issue with it even if it isn't one I personally understand.
My issue is with those that booed their own team who were doing nothing more than attempting to show solidarity.
Disagreeing is one thing but booing is another entirely. |
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Comment | Dyer: I Agree With Tyrone, Johnson and Patel Hypocrites
at 23:13:23
Atty, that's a pretty crap argument. Anyone getting selected to represent their country would surely do so with pride.
If it happens to be in a country where a few hundred people posted racist tweets is surely irrelevant. It would be letting them win to give up.
If black players didn't play where they received racist abuse they probably wouldn't play at most grounds in the UK either. |
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Comment | Dyer: I Agree With Tyrone, Johnson and Patel Hypocrites
at 23:11:01
I'm afraid that's a false equivalence dozzells bobblehat.
Firstly because a nazi salute is just that, and only that.
Taking the knee is not. Also, you also seem to be equating BLM with the Nazis. I think that's going pretty far don't you?
I also very much doubt that those that booed their own team had any proper understanding of BLM and felt the need to show their dislike.
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Comment | Dyer: I Agree With Tyrone, Johnson and Patel Hypocrites
at 22:22:47
Dozzells bobblehat I'll have to agree to disagree on that one I'm afraid.
It's a gesture, nothing more. Yes, it's become associated with BLM but if someone says they aren't supporting BLM with it who am I to argue?
I certainly don't see how anyone can feel it justified to boo. |
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Comment | Dyer: I Agree With Tyrone, Johnson and Patel Hypocrites
at 20:40:06
Dozzells bobblehat, what I don't understand is what problem any non racist can have with the team taking the knee.
It isn't aligned with BLM, as the players made clear. The gesture itself isn't offensive to anyone. So what is the problem?
The gesture started in the NFL long before BLM was a thing. |
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Comment | Speculation on Town's Available Players Gets Under Way
at 12:36:55
BurleysGloryDays: there might well be an issue within the club at the moment, as evidenced by the gradual decline over the years but Keane inherited a squad not far off the play-offs who had been assembled pretty cheaply and was given money.
I would say that not just the application but also the initial identification that there was an inherent problem was completely wrong!
As for Hurst, again McCarthy had done wonders with the minus £8m he spent in his time here (I was happy he went too I should clarify) and I would argue that the decline wasn't an ingrained attitude at the club but just basic problems caused when you can't spend any money.
Hurst gutted all the good players and bought in league 2 players who had never acheived much (Jackson, for example, was 25, hadn't played about league 2 and had a best ever goals record of 14, he was never going to be a world beater!).
In deciding he needs a completely new squad Cook has given himself the problem of having to sell before he can buy because of FFP rules. If he just tweaked 4 or 5 he would find life much easier surely.
Anyway, this is all conjecture, let's hope it works out! |
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