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We’re just permanently on the naughty step these days.

Really? Röhl is supposed to know for sure, after being here a week, that Wilks, with 50+ Championship appearances before he signed for us, was going to be THAT shit?

Goals is the problem. We need to find a few from somewhere or we’ll be dead and buried by the time the January transfer window opens.

“non Wednesday football” it says. Not non Wednesday egg chasing. 🙄 To be fair South Africans are bloody annoying so I hope we twat em. In a sport I really don’t understand the rules of. Sometimes kicking it into touch on the full is good…sometimes it’s bad.

This

The season that keeps on giving…giving kicks in the balls. 😡

Refs changing their decisions…they never seem to do it in our favour. 🙄. Watford‘s subs have livened them up.

RIP

Decent enough first 45 minutes of the Danny Röhl era. As solid as we were two weeks ago with a little more creativity. Goals needed, fuck 1 point.

Sounds like an interesting position. What’s the pay like and who do I email my cv to?

Got to say, Chris Powell is a very, very good assistant manager for a team bottom of the Championship. I wouldn’t have been that disappointed if he’d got the main job.

Manchester Arena sold out for this shit as well. It’s an eye opener as to how many complete knobheads there are in the world these days.

Not real boxing, but I’m in a boozer where the Tommy Fury card is being shown. What a truly revolting little shitbag Dillon Danis is.

Our fanbase will be 100% behind Rohl until someone misplaces a pass against Toytown…then the usual trying to prove you’re a bit more knowledgeable than everyone else bullshit will start.

Still on paper this England team should still easily dispatch this opposition. It’s a perfect illustration of the old adage that football isn’t played on paper. You need to function as a unit, however technically and/or athletically inferior the opposition may be man for man.

Poor this so far. An Aussie team who’s best players are about Championship standard holding their own.

Tbf I think I probably did. 🤨 Basically it’s another intelligent gamble. If Chansiri makes enough intelligent gambles maybe one will come off. Abso-fucking-lutely delighted it’s not Colin.

Wednesday will probably get bought by a Saudi in about 2029. The next day there will be a huge breakthrough in battery technology which makes electric cars way cheaper and cleaner than petrol/diesel models.

Interesting result in a friendly that’s just finished. Georgia beat Thailand 8-0 in a friendly, their all time biggest victory. This is five weeks after they had their all time biggest defeat, losing 7-1 at home to Spain in a Euro qualifier. Obviously a big difference in the standard of opposition. That must be some kind of a record, a team that’s been playing competitive football for a while having their record win and record defeat so close together?

Actually that article was quite interesting if you stick with it and avoid getting wound up by the unnecessarily inaccessible terminology, likes pivots (wing halfs) and interiors (inside forwards). The most interesting bit was the part about teams only really being in their official “formation” when in possession and during a build up phase of play, and that how they actually get into that shape (after say defending a corner) is often critical to its success. Nobody is ever a 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 or whatever out of possession, because they have to react to wherever the ball is, and whatever runs are being made.

The way these islands divide on sporting terms is idiosyncratic to put it mildly. Olympic Games - Uk and the Irish Republic. This is political and legal reality as recognised by the rest of the world for the last 100 years. Football - England, Scotland, Wales, NI, Ireland. One independent state and four top level sub-divisions. Other countries top level subdivisions do not get their own national teams. Lombardy does not play Catalonia. Texas does not play Sichuan. Rugby - England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. This reflects the political reality as it last was in 1284. Commonwealth Games - England, Scotland, Wales, NI, IoM, Jersey, Guernsey. Fuck knows.

“Sporadic verticalisation”. I assume that means the occasional early ball. 🤣

Casement Park named after Roger Casement. Yeah that’s a bold move, possibly something to do with Sinn Fein now being the largest party in the NI assembly. Hopefully the Reservoir Prods won’t try to blow the stadium up or anything.

I’m trying to visualise how it would work with Vaulks, Bakinson, Byers and Pato. Let’s face it, we need a sense of humour this season.

Defence was better organised, I’ll give him that. It was fairly turgid stuff going forward though. We actually created a bit more at West Brom.