I notice that Attendance FC's crowds are now consistently lower than ours after the modest increase to our capacity. How are they dealing with that?
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Honestly, kudos that they can get >29,000 for a home game against Plymouth while they are mid-table. Would we?
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Wayne Rooney derby though, who wouldn't want to go to that......
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Jamie Vardy.
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See Auntie is all about Lord "still no team trophies" Kane finally saying something mildly controversial today - country before club and how he can't understand all the withdrawals.
I thought the quote I saw from Cole Palmer was more interesting - that he was in the form of his life before the Euros, but wasn't picked to start.
Maybe that's why players aren't fussed (why Ben Foster quit the England set-up for example) - that no matter how bad some players are, they still start every game. -
I thought it was interesting that some commentators said that Kane turned up and played, even when he clearly wasn't fit, like it was a good thing.
It wasn't a good thing.
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Lyon wot gave us a shitload of £ for some players, are butt-fuck loads in debt and have been given a transfer ban and will be relegated unless they sell players in Jan.
I imagine their instalments to us were already sold off to a 3rd party. Hopefully.
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We could just buy Mangala back at a discount.
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Anyone know how he has been getting on at Everton?
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Fatawu, Leicester's big prospect on the wing, out for the season with an ACL he did playing for Ghana. (Although considering Cooper's record, he'll probably start at the weekend)
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SSC appears to be wearing a current Forest 'travel tracksuit' thing (the sort of olive and yellow one) for his pre match press conference.
I mean, he obviously isn't, but but still. Tee hee.
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Simpler than that - Adidas have produced identical merch for both clubs with just the badge changed: shop.lcfc.com/en/2024-25-olive-training-1-4-zip-mens?queryId=b1c8275c93f8b441741dc872c304b4e5
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I’m a big fan of that colour combo, but I’m not paying the robdog price on the club site. Will wait till April when they knock 50% off.
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The manure circle jerking media coverage, over a new manager who hasn't taken them for a single game yet, is nauseatingly over excited.
Let's hope it's as massively misplaced as the last manager that they got nauseatingly over excited about.
Of course the talk is largely about statistics elsewhere, and manure the brand. Little actual football discussion involved.
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Depends where you look, I’ve watched quite a few analyses on YouTube (of varying quality) of what his favoured formation and approach is, which United players fit, which don’t and who he might want to sign to fill the gaps. But not much space for that on telly
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This is one of those 'perceived wisdom' things that is a complete crock of shit. Formation and selection is not tactics. If you understand players attributes, what you as a coach want of them, show them how to play that, and get their buy in to actually give it a proper go, then who knows where they will play.
You speak to a fan, and they will say things like 'we have to play 4-4-2' and he's a 'right winger' or 'can play number 10’. Lazy. Dim.
Speak to a player, or a coach, they will tell you what a player can do. 'Left foot, right foot, can go on the outside, good acceleration, not a great engine, quality delivery from wide, not good in tight spaces'.
A good judge, coupled with good coaching and management, will take attributes of a player and utilise them, with player buy in, to work on a position, and improve attributes for the position (consider how TAA has improved defensively this season).
A lot of thinking about football these days is like modular building blocks. Plastic Lego football. Getting the block you need, and using it exactly as is. It don't have to be that way - although the lack of patience and restricted transfer windows mitigate against actual building. What modern football has is commoditisation of the football experience and all it's building blocks.
The days of taking a washed up troublemaker striker, and turning them into the best defender in the country, are probably over. Not because it wouldn't work, but because it doesn't fit the modern state or criminal enterprise ownership financial model of former community assets.
Manure can't currently buy a competitive team in the timeframe that saves a coach their job. Not in off the shelf modular parts. So to be successful he's going to have to do some old fashioned coaching and team building, and get some of what he's got to run in different areas, and kick in different ways.
