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  1. KentVillan
    I think he put a bit more force into it than the usual cynical stuff you see, and if you want to go in hard like that you need to make it look a bit more like you’re trying to play the ball. It was the combination of clearly not playing the ball at all AND going in with a decent amount of force that gave the ref the opportunity to red card him. I agree 100% that Sky 6 are probably just getting a yellow for that, but whatever, we need to be smart. The frustration is that McGinn is usually the one keeping our players calm and trying to avoid pointless yellows. Usually he throws his weight around in an aggressive but smart way. That tackle was silly, and he knows it.
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    I think a lot of you have lost the plot here. Yes this kind of thing is often a yellow, but we can really have no complaints about it being a red, and absolutely no chance is an appeal going to be successful.
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    He was never in a billion years going for the ball
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    Clear red card. The actual “danger” is more like a yellow probably, but because it’s so obviously intended to hurt and not win the ball, the ref had to show the red. It’s violent conduct.
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    Depends who’s doing the overrating. In terms of pure disgusting bumlicking it’s probably Pep or Big Ange, although one is an all time great and the other is a pretty decent manager I think. In terms of being preposterously overrated as a coach and tactician, it’s got to be De Zerbi or Poch
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    Yeah you’d like to think a proper boxer isn’t letting someone just wind up a haymaker like that. Glad he’s done it though, need to put an end to this bullshit
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    Good night
  8. KentVillan
    Weirdly this looks more like how you’d have expected a Ngannou fight to go before the Fury fight
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    Ref was truly awful. Our game plan was good, but a few of our players were too casual on the ball. I’m not sure Iroegbunam is ready for this kind of game. Good thing is we’re through relatively unscathed, to try and win the tie at VP, assuming Pau sub was just cautionary.
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    Ref has been pure shite. Hasn’t really been biased one way or the other, just consistently shite
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    Second game for the club, away at Ajax, good to see we’re being patient haha
  12. KentVillan
    Yep he’s been poor, and he’s one who should be going full throttle here
  13. KentVillan
    Well the way Martinez is playing suggests it’s a plan and not just us being shit.
  14. KentVillan
    Something to bear in mind is with a thin squad and a massive game on Sunday, it’s really important we make this a low energy game. I think that’s part of Unai’s plan here, to have the players feeling fairly fresh at the end of this.
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    I think we're playing well within the confines of the plan, it's just a classic bore-them-to-death plan. A few players need to be a bit sharper on the ball, some of it is too casual, but bar the odd scare, it's been sensible away football.
  16. KentVillan
    I don’t think back 3s actually help you get more attacking talent on the pitch. At the end of the day, attacking football is a consequence of how you move up and down the pitch, how you move the ball around, not how you line up on paper. I’d go with Konsa and Stones as CBs in a back 4, with one DM (Rice) and then the rest more or less picks itself but with a few judgment calls here and there about who starts and who comes off the bench. I wouldn’t try to shoehorn everyone in. Just make full use of the squad as needed.
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    That would make a lot more sense, although it would have the unpleasant side effect of allowing Newcastle to do a City
  18. KentVillan
    If they were doing that for an extended period of time (ie 5-10 yrs), then of course that would be a problem - although it’s the owners’ problem, not the league’s. If it is just the short-term investment needed to secure Champions League football and profitability at a higher level, it’s probably just an accepted part of the plan. There’s a big difference between this and what Leeds and Portsmouth did.
  19. KentVillan
    The problem with FFP is that it’s a gigantic bait and switch. It was supposedly brought in to prevent a Leeds / Portsmouth scenario, and yes, to some extent it does prevent that from happening. But it ludicrously forces clubs with enormous external resources to either treat those capital injections as something like debt (Villa) or to play accounting tricks to disguise that money as revenue (all the Middle Eastern owned clubs). So the main effect is to just pull up the drawbridge after Chelsea, City, PSG, etc had carte blanche to spend their way to established Champions League status. The worst thing is it may force clubs to undermine their identity by cashing in on academy talent, as that brings the biggest FFP benefit. The whole thing is a fkin shambles when it’s being tightly enforced while the fit and proper test is routinely ignored for club takeovers. It’s like there are two parallel universes, one where the rules are strictly enforced, and one where they are laughed at, and we seem to operate in the first universe. It’s completely bent
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    Does anyone actually know how FFP works
  21. KentVillan
    Decent performance for them
  22. KentVillan
    The mad thing is this Matty Cash beef they’re trying to create. You’d think he’d Ben Mee’d half their squad the way they bang on about it
  23. KentVillan
    They’ll get some points out of those games probably, but yeah it’s a tough run of fixtures. If we can beat them next weekend they will be very deflated
  24. KentVillan
    Actually played well today, which makes it funnier
  25. KentVillan
    If both FA Cup finalists have qualified for CL / Europa via their PL finish (which is fairly likely based on recent history), then they go on league position for the next Europa place.
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