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1 hour ago, BOF said:

 

But I can't shake the feeling we're on a precipice at the moment. One that will probably remove Red Bull from the top over the next few years, or at least it'll give F1 a huge shake-up.

The irony is, last time there was a big engine shake-up, Mercedes shot off into the distance and weren't seen again by another team for about 6 years. And who has Max been linked with recently?

 

what precipice are you talking about?

15 hours ago, Delphinho123 said:

This guy is just the pits. Only one more tournament and then he’s gone. Remember that people. 8 years completely wasted. 

thing is, who would the incompetent FA appoint to replace him?, do we actually think they will make a good choice?

sounds like he did well.

Fully expect Sh*tgate not to pick him, and i aint joking.

Feeney & O'Reilly dont seem to be doing too well at Union, both have had injuries i think, and even when available havent played that much from the look of it?

looks like Feeney has started twice, off the bench once, and on the bench and not used 4 times.

Looks like O'Reilly played 30 mins in his first game, the injured for 7 games, still injured by the look of it.

1 minute ago, Adam2003 said:

To be fair that other guy is probably Polish which might work in his favour (the manager who persuaded Cash to declare and was chasing similar second-generation connections has left, right?)

no idea tbh, you could be right?

2 hours ago, sne said:

23/24	unknown injury	Nov 8, 2023	Dec 11, 2023	33 days	4
23/24	Hamstring injury	Aug 20, 2023	Sep 25, 2023	36 days	5
23/24	unknown injury	Aug 20, 2023	Sep 24, 2023	35 days	5

 

https://www.transfermarkt.com/philippe-coutinho/verletzungen/spieler/80444

seems to have been excellent.

At booking holidays and away days.

Does he have a sister or five?, might have Neymaritus.

On a serious note, was it a 2 year loan?, sure i read that somewhere?

Just now, Tom13 said:

He's rotated with Konsa there, often not starting the bigger games when everyone's available, and he's not first choice for Poland either.

thats a weird one, isnt the guy he is competing with, playing at championship equivalent level or something?

19 minutes ago, omariqy said:

Emery’s PPG and rolling 5 game PPG extended beyond this season to show his entire spell so far.

 

i have done something similar, a 5/10/15 game PPG average for 23/24, with conditional formatting for colour coding of PPG etc.

defo had a bit of a PPG drop off over the last 15 games or so, specifically over the 10 game stretch.

Just now, villa4europe said:

I think there is an added laziness to it too, we looked toothless and didn't create much upfront largely due to tactical ineptness which they could analyse and slaughter Southgate in a way that the majority of the general public would be bored by, or they could just write an overly simplistic piece about us not scoring because world class Kane wasn't there,l

too many heads nod along to the 2nd one for them ever to bother with the 1st

They could also write a piece on us looking disjointed without Kane because Southgate overplays kane in needless games vs the lesser teams in the qualifiers but they won't do that either 

ye.

the fact is, Southgate has the tactical nouse of an under 12s coach, im entirely not surprised that he doesnt/cant get the best out of probably the best England squad in half a century.

Just now, Tom13 said:

Come on...

come on what?

19 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

Huh? He's played for Italy mate.

Donkety Donk has played/plays for Belgium.

Zaniolo may get in the Italy squad.

Coutinho had played for Brazil while he was fit and with us.

Olsen is a Swedish international.

Would you want to keep any of them in the summer?

11 hours ago, villa4europe said:

Scanned over the various player ratings in the rags, it's 5s and 6s

Guardian said England are disconnected without kane

Daily mail said he's just not the same player for England as he is for villa

Neither mentioned the fault of that being big nose... 

no media would mention it, Sh*tgate is a media darling, not one of them would ever speak against him tbh.

8 minutes ago, useless said:

The buyback is only fifteen million if Hull get promoted, it's less if they don't, probably around ten million as that's what Collomose has reported the buyback to be. I think It's pretty much guaranteed that we will be buying him back, but whether we do so to use for our squad or to sell on for a profit is another question

 

Interesting, i thought the buyback deal was "only" if they were promoted.

If there is a buy back regardless of promotion or not, thats good, assuming he would want to come back to us (as he wanted to leave as not a first teamer - so not sure why he would be happy to come back as a squad player......which is what was offered in the summer).

3 hours ago, PieFacE said:

 

:"Him coming back will be like a new signing"  

Crikey, i really hope we can offload him in the summer.

is he locked in to England now?, or does it not count as its a friendly?

On 21/03/2024 at 18:23, KAZZAM said:

20 mill a season is big money but comes at a huge cost of promoting gambling again. 

who cares tbh.

make hay and all that.

6 minutes ago, nick76 said:

@limpid Official confirmation from their side

 

it just says that the player has been invited to train with a PL club for two weeks, nothing to do with a permanent transfer etc.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68580638

i wonder if this might impact their promotion?, 3 seasons worth of breaches they are being charged for (before they were relegated).

2 hours ago, Dante_Lockhart said:

Dybala is coming according to James on Twitter.

who is James?

1 minute ago, StefanAVFC said:

You're right! I can't count  

looking at manures remaining fixtures, and i know they have averaged only 1.7 PPG so far this season, i can see them getting 2 PPG for their remaining fixtures.

However, they could also totally not, you never know with manure.

29 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

Surely this shows how hard it is for United to catch us. They need to average 1.8 PPG to even get 67.

For us to get 66 (which we would need to finish below them unless some wild stuff happens with GD) we'd need to average 1.1 PPG which would be the worst PPG average for Emery with us by a mile.

3 wins should be enough to put United out of range tbh.

pretty sure Manure need to do 2 PPG to get 67 points.

47 points currently, 10 games to go, 20 points needed to get 67 points, 2 PPG.

The problem is, that however bad the private ownership/self(ish) governance has probably been overall, to have a "Govt body" throwing rules etc around is even worse, Govt bodies are usually completely incompetent, pander to interest groups and overall make things much worse overall.

Govt involvement in rule making within the game, is a disaster imo.

9 hours ago, YLN said:

Watching that mic'd up business with michael owen and Howard webb about the red vs spurs. Yeah look it's probably a red, but listening to the fourth official shouting FOUL FOUL and then the AR2 ref shouting down the mic WATCH THE REACTION. Like do you want to calm down? Why are you shouting? 

Just ramping up the noise in the ref's ear. Just seems very unprofessional and unnecessary. Yeah it was probably a red, but if it was given as a yellow i don't think anyone would have complained too much.

Hard not to give a red when the assistant refs are losing their **** minds though. 

9 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

They are **** useless. Embarrassing. Not fit for purpose.

They all give a yellow for that in a City v Liverpool match. Very likely a talking to if it's first half as well.

i work in a safety critical environment, where clear, precise and structured communication is mandatory, ie: passing correct, steady, formulated information etc, as well as ensuing clear understandings and making sure wires arent crossed, emotions arent overtaking your comms, steady emotions etc.

Everything i hear, see etc from the VAR/Ref comms is beyond amateurish.

the story where they said they would go to the airlines to discuss comms protocols after the offside eff up (Liverpool), i honestly cant believe a professional body (FA/refs etc), didnt think of all this in advance, it shows the level of incompetence and lack of understanding of the impact of comms and VAR, any half competent professional would have put all the comms protocols, training, processes at the top of the list when introducing VAR/direct comms between parties.

its pretty shocking tbh, honestly.....coming from the background im in, i am genuinely shocked just how amateurish it all is.

i dont want to be hyperbolic, but yeah.....from the perspective i look at it, its seriously amateurish, almost to the point of negligence, the lack of foresight/management of implementing VAR effectively is just mind boggling.