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Post by Henry Pratt on Aug 17, 2024 20:42:06 GMT
Yeah, so we’re going to be alright this season aren’t we? Terrific away performance today. Very noticeable that we kept switching from a back 4 to a 5 throughout the first half and we largely snuffed them out as a result only the penalty shout for them (and I’m fairly convinced that the ref didn’t give it simply because he’d let the tug on Pye go so had to let the subsequent tug go as well) whilst we hit the post at the other end and Wooton had a decent chance with a header. They started brightly second half but having weathered that pressure we began to dominate and the three goals were beauties (albeit that I thought the keeper should have done better with the first, as he got a good hand to it). Wooton and Bate were excellent, but my MotM was Touray. Kept Rob Apter in his pocket all game to the point where we was subbed off and then dealt with the more direct balls to the lanky guy they stuck on him for the last 20. Looked equally comfortable in a 4 or 5. More of that please, Ibby. Also, I’ll call it now. Jayden Fevrier will play in the Premier League. Quick, strong, direct and skillful. If we keep playing him in advanced positions, the sky is the limit. We’ve had a fairly gentle start opponent wise, but you can only beat what is in front of you. Happy days. I'd say we were always going to be much better than alright. As I and others (mainly suedehead) have banged on about, we pissed the league below. We then strengthened the squad significantly and the cherry on the cake was a player who's going to have a career in the Prem. We've got one of the strongest squads in the league when they're all fit. The only spanner in the works was the injury situation. It seems as though we may be able to tiptoe past it - once we do, we are so going to kick on. Ours odds on promotion were ridiculous. The fact that no pundits tipped us was equally ridiculous. Meh, more fool them. We're going to have a real go at this league with one of the strongest squads. We're going up again. Mark it.
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Post by Dinsdale on Aug 17, 2024 20:44:54 GMT
Injury crisis, what injury crisis?
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Post by chadders on Aug 17, 2024 20:45:04 GMT
Touray was absolutely sublime today. What a vindication for both him and Challinor.
Not much to say about Bate that’s not been said. Head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch. Camps and Diamond need to watch and admire rather than trying to emulate him at times but let’s hope he’s a rising tide that lifts everyone around him.
Fevrier is a very special player. Once he gets up to speed, he’s going to be absolutely crucial.
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Post by suedehead on Aug 17, 2024 20:49:07 GMT
Yeah, so we’re going to be alright this season aren’t we? Terrific away performance today. Very noticeable that we kept switching from a back 4 to a 5 throughout the first half and we largely snuffed them out as a result only the penalty shout for them (and I’m fairly convinced that the ref didn’t give it simply because he’d let the tug on Pye go so had to let the subsequent tug go as well) whilst we hit the post at the other end and Wooton had a decent chance with a header. They started brightly second half but having weathered that pressure we began to dominate and the three goals were beauties (albeit that I thought the keeper should have done better with the first, as he got a good hand to it). Wooton and Bate were excellent, but my MotM was Touray. Kept Rob Apter in his pocket all game to the point where we was subbed off and then dealt with the more direct balls to the lanky guy they stuck on him for the last 20. Looked equally comfortable in a 4 or 5. More of that please, Ibby. Also, I’ll call it now. Jayden Fevrier will play in the Premier League. Quick, strong, direct and skillful. If we keep playing him in advanced positions, the sky is the limit. We’ve had a fairly gentle start opponent wise, but you can only beat what is in front of you. Happy days. I'd say we were always going to be much better than alright. As I and others (mainly suedehead) have banged on about, we pissed the league below. We then strengthened the squad significantly and the cherry on the cake was a player who's going to have a career in the Prem. We've got one of the strongest squads in the league when they're all fit. The only spanner in the works was the injury situation. It seems as though we may be able to tiptoe past it - once we do, we are so going to kick on. Ours odds on promotion were ridiculous. The fact that no pundits tipped us was equally ridiculous. Meh, more fool them. We're going to have a real go at this league with one of the strongest squads. We're going up again. Mark it. Even now we’re 20/1 for the title, 11/2 for promotion, nobody is paying attention. Barry was 22/1 for top scorer yesterday.
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Post by Nik on Aug 17, 2024 20:53:57 GMT
Champions elect.
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Post by 1994hatter on Aug 17, 2024 20:56:08 GMT
Touray was absolutely sublime today. What a vindication for both him and Challinor. Not much to say about Bate that’s not been said. Head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch. Camps and Diamond need to watch and admire rather than trying to emulate him at times but let’s hope he’s a rising tide that lifts everyone around him. Fevrier is a very special player. Once he gets up to speed, he’s going to be absolutely crucial. I’m so happy to see so many comments about Touray. He was great last week and was even better today. Had some proper numpty in front of me who kept trying to get me to agree with his opinion that Touray is dogshit. He also said Horsfall is a liability aside from his aerial ability. Then said “Addai is miles better than Hinchcliffe” after about 5 minutes. It may well turn out to be the case but I’m not sure 95 minutes (at that stage) is a big enough sample, and I switched off immediately with the mispronunciation.
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Post by Barmy Blue Army on Aug 17, 2024 20:58:26 GMT
Yeah, so we’re going to be alright this season aren’t we? Terrific away performance today. Very noticeable that we kept switching from a back 4 to a 5 throughout the first half and we largely snuffed them out as a result only the penalty shout for them (and I’m fairly convinced that the ref didn’t give it simply because he’d let the tug on Pye go so had to let the subsequent tug go as well) whilst we hit the post at the other end and Wooton had a decent chance with a header. They started brightly second half but having weathered that pressure we began to dominate and the three goals were beauties (albeit that I thought the keeper should have done better with the first, as he got a good hand to it). Wooton and Bate were excellent, but my MotM was Touray. Kept Rob Apter in his pocket all game to the point where we was subbed off and then dealt with the more direct balls to the lanky guy they stuck on him for the last 20. Looked equally comfortable in a 4 or 5. More of that please, Ibby. Also, I’ll call it now. Jayden Fevrier will play in the Premier League. Quick, strong, direct and skillful. If we keep playing him in advanced positions, the sky is the limit. We’ve had a fairly gentle start opponent wise, but you can only beat what is in front of you. Happy days. I'd say we were always going to be much better than alright. As I and others (mainly suedehead) have banged on about, we pissed the league below. We then strengthened the squad significantly and the cherry on the cake was a player who's going to have a career in the Prem. We've got one of the strongest squads in the league when they're all fit. The only spanner in the works was the injury situation. It seems as though we may be able to tiptoe past it - once we do, we are so going to kick on. Ours odds on promotion were ridiculous. The fact that no pundits tipped us was equally ridiculous. Meh, more fool them. We're going to have a real go at this league with one of the strongest squads. We're going up again. Mark it. For me that's getting very carried away. But, hey, people see these things differently (for me we didn't piss the league last year and two games tells you very little) and you do you. Just so long as it's not all doom and gloom when we lose a game or go through a slump or, God forbid, finish midtable. My experience on here, generalising somewhat, is that's the same people who think we're world beaters that will then call for DC to go after a bad start or period.
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Post by chadders on Aug 17, 2024 21:02:19 GMT
Yeah, so we’re going to be alright this season aren’t we? Terrific away performance today. Very noticeable that we kept switching from a back 4 to a 5 throughout the first half and we largely snuffed them out as a result only the penalty shout for them (and I’m fairly convinced that the ref didn’t give it simply because he’d let the tug on Pye go so had to let the subsequent tug go as well) whilst we hit the post at the other end and Wooton had a decent chance with a header. They started brightly second half but having weathered that pressure we began to dominate and the three goals were beauties (albeit that I thought the keeper should have done better with the first, as he got a good hand to it). Wooton and Bate were excellent, but my MotM was Touray. Kept Rob Apter in his pocket all game to the point where we was subbed off and then dealt with the more direct balls to the lanky guy they stuck on him for the last 20. Looked equally comfortable in a 4 or 5. More of that please, Ibby. Also, I’ll call it now. Jayden Fevrier will play in the Premier League. Quick, strong, direct and skillful. If we keep playing him in advanced positions, the sky is the limit. We’ve had a fairly gentle start opponent wise, but you can only beat what is in front of you. Happy days. I'd say we were always going to be much better than alright. As I and others (mainly suedehead) have banged on about, we pissed the league below. We then strengthened the squad significantly and the cherry on the cake was a player who's going to have a career in the Prem. We've got one of the strongest squads in the league when they're all fit. The only spanner in the works was the injury situation. It seems as though we may be able to tiptoe past it - once we do, we are so going to kick on. Ours odds on promotion were ridiculous. The fact that no pundits tipped us was equally ridiculous. Meh, more fool them. We're going to have a real go at this league with one of the strongest squads. We're going up again. Mark it. I’m as encouraged as the next man but we’ve played two ordinary sides. Cambridge would be bottom half of L2 on last week’s showing. Blackpool were pedestrian apart from the odd glimpse. Peterborough, Bolton, Birmingham are going to be a very different proposition.
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Post by Barmy Blue Army on Aug 17, 2024 21:08:44 GMT
I'd say we were always going to be much better than alright. As I and others (mainly suedehead) have banged on about, we pissed the league below. We then strengthened the squad significantly and the cherry on the cake was a player who's going to have a career in the Prem. We've got one of the strongest squads in the league when they're all fit. The only spanner in the works was the injury situation. It seems as though we may be able to tiptoe past it - once we do, we are so going to kick on. Ours odds on promotion were ridiculous. The fact that no pundits tipped us was equally ridiculous. Meh, more fool them. We're going to have a real go at this league with one of the strongest squads. We're going up again. Mark it. I’m as encouraged as the next man but we’ve played two ordinary sides. Cambridge would be bottom half of L2 on last week’s showing. Blackpool were pedestrian apart from the odd glimpse. Peterborough, Bolton, Birmingham are going to be a very different proposition. Yeah, Cambridge have narrowly avoided relegation for the last few seasons. Blackpool though, not lost at home in the league since November and made a run for the POs last season. Everything changes though from season to season though. And look at how we started our last few title campaigns too. 10 games in and we'll have a much better feel. I'm doing it. 1 game at a time.
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Post by girojim on Aug 17, 2024 21:09:44 GMT
Just watched DC's interview. Reminded me of the non league days. Blackpool are ex premier league, surely they have a pressroom.
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Post by nelly on Aug 17, 2024 21:10:47 GMT
Touray was absolutely sublime today. What a vindication for both him and Challinor. Not much to say about Bate that’s not been said. Head and shoulders above everyone else on the pitch. Camps and Diamond need to watch and admire rather than trying to emulate him at times but let’s hope he’s a rising tide that lifts everyone around him. Fevrier is a very special player. Once he gets up to speed, he’s going to be absolutely crucial. I’m so happy to see so many comments about Touray. He was great last week and was even better today. Had some proper numpty in front of me who kept trying to get me to agree with his opinion that Touray is dogshit. He also said Horsfall is a liability aside from his aerial ability. Then said “Addai is miles better than Hinchcliffe” after about 5 minutes. It may well turn out to be the case but I’m not sure 95 minutes (at that stage) is a big enough sample, and I switched off immediately with the mispronunciation. You get some clueless tw*ts at every ground. Old trash House and the emptyhad have probably got more of them.
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Post by advent on Aug 17, 2024 21:20:43 GMT
Just watched DC's interview. Reminded me of the non league days. Blackpool are ex premier league, surely they have a pressroom. The interview was filmed on a tin opener
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Post by Bredburyhatter on Aug 17, 2024 21:21:13 GMT
Blackpool fans singing 'where were you when you was shit'... we was playing against Fylde behind the back of a pub, you fcukin clueless b*stards!!
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Post by County Blue on Aug 17, 2024 21:32:33 GMT
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Post by nelly on Aug 17, 2024 21:40:36 GMT
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