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Hudders leading at Southampton. Sacking Darren clearly working out for them.

The first half was poor, despite going in 1-0 up. We just couldn’t keep the ball and gain any control in midfield, and we looked nervous at the back, though still a threat in good moments. Second half was a bit more solid, but still with good moments. Overall fuck it, we just needed the three points. Beadle never put a foot wrong. Poveda looks a player. Bernard easily the most consistently impressive of the Summer signings.

I was at that one. Always quite liked White Hart Lane as an away game, proper football ground.

Just renewed mine, but fuck me it was a lot of effort. Haven’t used my PayPal account for a few years and had an old, deactivated phone number stored against it. Ended up having to phone their customer services as they kept sending 2fa verification codes to the old number. Reminded me why I hate PayPal. 🙄

Fucking poor execution in the final third could cost us. Good start but we need all three points today.

🤣 It was much easier getting into the home end…or so a mate says. 😉

We could have had a worse deadline day. Both look like reasonable signings for a relegation scrap.

Or just posting a load of bollocks on social media because he’s got nothing to do and he’s bored?

Not a big deal but good on him. Yeah he clearly cares about his hometown club. And less controversially than Paulo Di Canio 🤨

Robins has called Wednesday fans who booed Palmer last night “idiots” and “absolute clowns”. Look, there are plenty of perfectly serviceable insults in the English language that don’t refer to ethnicity, and I have no problem whichever cretin made those gestures last week getting banned. But I have never agreed with entire teams taking the knee. This is a good example of why. It can further provoke and inflame situations. Black player acts like a snidely twat and winds fans up. They give him stick. One or two make it racial. So now we can’t even boo him if he does anything annoying or the same thing gets brought up. Just ban people for racism and move on.

Bierith was recalled by Arsenal from his Motherwell loan…but he’s gone to Sturm Graz for the rest of the season. 🤷

This guy rates him…

Oh fuck off. Coventry for the 3rd time in a month. Maybe if we sign Coventry we’ll give him a debut against Coventry.

RIP

Dawson better watch out with Beadle about…

Really hope this isn’t true. The guy just oozes class. We should hold out for a decent transfer fee.😉

Watford, who we are due to play on 27th Jan are at home to Conference leading Chesterfield in the third round. So barring a fairly big upset, even if we lose again to Cardiff, who were fairly shit, we probably won’t have a league game that weekend.

I really hope this interpretation is correct. In fact, you can probably say that we only have any hope of staying up this season, if this is correct.

Agreed. SPOTY has never been a truly objective measure of sporting achievement. Even if it was, nothing really stands out from 2023, other than maybe a golfer for absolutely pulverising the Yanks in the Ryder Cup, but it’s a team event and we play as Europe. You can make a case for Broad for his career as a whole, and he did bow out in a brilliantly theatrical manner. But unless you really like cricket, it’s a bit so what, England did not regain the Ashes and had a terrible World Cup. Leon Edward’s should have at least been on the shortlist, but MMA doesn’t have that big a profile in Britain.

We need to strengthen at the back in January for sure. But a month ago I thought we needed to strengthen the entire squad in January to have a prayer so things are clearly moving in the right direction. The team spirit is still spot on, the players are buying into Röhl‘s methods. As a previous post pointed out, we are making chances. In relegation battles I always tend to look at the sides who are creating, and think they will get over the line when push comes to shove. Absolutely delighted Cadamarteri got another goal. Finally its happening with the youth team.

Also used by Brentford as a data input to the algorithms they use in their recruitment setup…which is hardly a miserable failure. But yeah, simplistic statistics with no context can say whatever you want them to say.

Fucking get in. Always new Musaba would come good 🤣👍

Bloody hell that’s sad news. R.I.P

Yes. They are both authoritarian regimes. If a small number of powerful people come to the conclusion that sports washing is a waste of time, and/or start to disapprove of the crazy money being paid to a handful of superstar imports…then yes. Could happen.

Well that was a pleasant surprise. Was thinking that the positives were that we didn’t fold, and we kept plugging away. It’s clear that the players believe in Röhl. We just need more reasons to believe in some of them. That was a start. Hopefully Hendrick’s anaemic displays after he first came here were down to lack of match fitness, and the goal is a sign of better to come. A point against the best team in the division is something to hang our hats on, a reason to believe for a little while longer.