So when Yates went off, he looked around and eventually gave the armband to Williams. When he went off, TV showed him looking around for someone to pass it on to but didn't show who ended up with it...?
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To be fair, he's generous with that. Some fans want to see more of Reyna, but I've seen enough.
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I think he passed it to Elanga.
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Anyone who thinks Origi indicates the bench is strong shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a football ground, let alone get paid for it.
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Based on the limited minutes he’s had for us, that’s harsh. The guy’s played and done well at Dortmund and played against top teams in the champions league so he can clearly do it.
We can’t just write players off because they didn’t instantly look like world beaters the minute they land here.
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Problem is (and I know he is a loan), but we don't have the luxury of a squad that can absorb expensive signings for an extended period until they acclimatise (see Mangala last year, Sangare this).
If we spend a lot that player needs to hit the ground running straight away.
The big 6 have that luxury. And we are further hindered by having to sell players who do acclimatise quickly before we've had much from them to balance the books.
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Russians.
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That's largely true...but it's also at the root of the catch 22.
We are only in the market, because of the financial doping higher up the food chain, for the players that are less likely to be of both the requisite quality (probably from an easy-oasy warm weather league) and of the requisite physical preparedness (probably from a blood and thunder league lower in technical ability). The ones that have that, and can adapt quickly because of it, attract higher prices that we can't afford.
If we find one, by accident (or develop one that a bigger club can't be arsed with), they are bought by someone higher up the food chain because we have to keep gambling cash to get lucky sometimes, and we can only afford that if we churn our successes. It is an entirely intentionally constructed dilemma.
If we only buy proven players of a value commensurate within the defined pricing structure, we can only ever fail because of financial pressure, or too shit team pressure. We have tried to quantum leap the structure to get ahead of enough teams that develop slowly. But pushing the financial alarm. My preference would have been for football and coaching incremental improvement, which would have activated the not good enough alarm.....but either routes leads to the same conclusion. Likely crisis, unless there are enough teams in more crisis. Last season there were....this season there aren't - we are part of the 'more crisis' group. Luton have gone for the incremental improvement route, and haven't yet delivered enough crisis to keep us safe.
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In other news we need Russ off predication thread duty, stat.
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Please start one before Chic gets here. I can’t deal with another caps-locked anger-pun.
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YOU CALLED M'LUD?
It got results didn't it?
Miserable sod. It's not my fault that your glasses are too powerful.
I am pretty sure that our set piece expert doesn't exist. Did the Spuds actually take anything other than a short corner?
Anyway, we were one Murillo master goal and a Chris Wood tap in from scaring the bejesus out of them. Pity in the second half they turned up and we didn't. I am thinking the Bromide in the tea at half time is back.
Wolverhampton scumderers is a must win really. I will coordinate with my people and come up with the appropriate winning formula.
Chicago: Looking for points.
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Some pundit idiot on talkSPORT thinks Maddison shouldn’t have got sent off as Yates should have been sent off in the first game for sheer number of fouls and because ‘he brings it on himself.’
Murphy thinks Maddison was lucky to stay on. It Yates should have been sent off for a second yellow for asking for VAR.
Big six bias.
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If you listen to talkSPORT you have to expect pain.
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So basically Yates wears a short skirt, and was therefore asking for it?
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Yates is brilliant at winding people up. If you can't take it you should be sent off for being such a fucking baby.
Maddison should have gone. I have had players kick me, elbow me, and punch me because I was mouthing off to them because they were better than me and I wanted to get the advantage for my team. It nearly always worked.
Not sure we would have won but it sure would have made things a tad easier.
Anyway, the experts are a bunch of tribal mardy bum footballers and irrelevant pundits (see Richards Keys and Roy Keane.). They have an agenda and it's annoying. The coverage over here didn't even mention it. So they are just thick.
Chicago: Professional football fan.
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How much tit was he showing?
