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2 minutes ago, The Prophet said:

Apparently his da was telling anyone who would listen that he's staying

Staying in London?!!! Worrying!!!

10 hours ago, Groundhog63 said:

Can anyone provide any evidence of any club in the entire history of, let's make it easy and narrow it down to just English, football where a manager has stood down for cup games and let "the guys" do them? 

 

😂

 

Even by N-O standards, that's Whacky af 

Stephen Big-Dog Bruce used to do it for league games!

1 hour ago, tombrownnufc3 said:

'theatre of dreams'  on the ticket  they still calling that shithole stadium that ffs , there hasn't exactly been much magic over the last decade there and your leaky roof looks like it's going to fall down. More of a nightmare than a 'dream'

Wet dreams!

2 hours ago, Toontimes said:

Commented on Trevan Sanusi’s Instagram post on his new contract

 

Can someone please interpret this? What does it say and mean?

17 minutes ago, Conjo said:

 

Looks like a young Paul Dummet with his marauding emergency tackles and hopeful hoofs under no pressure. A bit worrying when the highlights are average

I sort of agree. He doesn’t read how wingers are trying to beat him very well, but he’s so quick and got great physical strength that he can recover and get the tackle in. Losing half a yard on say Mbappe in champions league though would be costly.

Also his passing is average. He uses a lob wedge that the winger/striker has to compete for or bring down on their chest or at an awkward height. I’m used to Schar pinging a 5 iron into feet.

Would definitely take him though. Recovery pace, 1-on-1 fuel strength like Joelinton. He’d be better than Dan Burn most likely, and certainly better at de fending than Hall. 

3 hours ago, LFEE said:

My 15 seconds of fame. Not sure if it was worth 12 hours of my time… 

 

https://x.com/domscurr/status/1788587702314561859?s=61

Were you the girl doing kickups on the street?

Next year’s targets: a semi-final in Europe. Top 6. Deep run in a domestic cup. 
 

In dreamworld we’d win the Carabao Cup which gives us a boost to go on and win the Europa League. If I’m being really greedy, we avenge Manure in Carabao final!

55 minutes ago, nemtizz said:

 

Our new gaffa xxxx

Dislike

2 hours ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

 

How can you say this when he hasn't scored a single goal for us 

The ability to finish belongs to a player, not a club. I could have said the same about Isak before he’d scored a goal for us. Eddie says the same about Elliott so I’m in good company :-)

13 minutes ago, Sima said:

51 first team appearances with 0 goals for an attacking midfielder is a concern.

This is one of those posts quotes in 2 years’ time to acknowledge you called it wrong. “Yeah but in fairness, there wasn’t much to show at that point.” 
 

Anderson can clearly finish and he will do for us if given the chance. 5 goals next year, 8-10 the year after 

3 hours ago, nufc123 said:

Timber will be like a new signing for Arsenal.

Well that fell flat! 

On 18/04/2024 at 21:21, midds said:

She's a good woman. She deserves me tbh

 

If it wasn't for the restraining order...

What on earth did Hurley do to you that you took out a restraining order?! I personally would have let her carry on!!

5 hours ago, Erikse said:

 

Roy Keane said (about the Ronaldo situation at Man Utd):

"People are obsessed with the pressing game these days."

 

He said it as if pressing was a strange thing to care so much about. It was quite telling of the difference from when he played. I remember it from when I was a kid, the strikes rarely bothered to put much energy into chasing down the defenders or the goalie, and there was definetly not much organized press with several players involved.

 

 

 

Yeah strikers didn’t need to press as centre backs were going to hoof it. Or give a pass to the full

back to play a channel ball. I still doubt the idea that football requires more now. All the off the pitch advancements have extended longevity in most other sports despite performance levels increasing there also. 
 

F1 cars have more downforce than years ago. Alonso and Hamilton are racing into their 40s. Tennis players are stronger. Federer, Djokovic, Nadal have gone on longer. More cricket is played than years ago. The England cricket team’s getting older. Anderson, Broad played late, etc. 

I’m just not sure I buy that because striker’s press a bit more the game’s harder overall. It just changes the balance of off ball running. If attack and wide midfielders are pressing more, defenders are in fewer battles than before and so resting more. 

2 hours ago, SteV said:

Yes, but like everything, things have moved on. The physical output required during a match from a modern elite level player (especially in an Eddie Howe team) is far, far greater than what was required in previous generations.

Training, nutrition, sports science, sleep science etc have moved on also. Are you suggesting that the gap between the exertion required to play 90 minutes has grown more than the loads placed on players on training and their ability to train for that exertion? Why is that not the case in other sports? Runners still run a normal marathon distance. Tennis players still play the same amount of sets and matches. Cricketers play more cricket. 
 

Are there more sprints in football now compared with 1990s? Longer distances run? Arguably, with 4-4-2 hoofball being pervasive in the 1990s more stamina was required as it was a game mostly full of length of the pitch transitions. 
 

This idea football has “moved on” seems easy to say but difficult to prove. 

16 hours ago, SteV said:

And constantly having to flog himself for 90+ mins every week due to lack of viable alternatives doesn’t help. 

In my day playing 90 minutes each week wasn’t “flogging” but desired as being a normal footballer. 

13 minutes ago, Groundhog63 said:

I know "it's not the same" but there's a certain irony of us frothing at the mouth over having to sell Bruno, Isak or Botman to progress then salivating over the prospect of nabbing relegated/promotion team's best players. Especially newly promoted. 

Definitely a food chain  😂😂🔗😂😂

If the market forces a player sale that’s just football. If contrived premier league elitist rules force the sale that’s a disgrace!

He was always fit as a fiddle under Bruce. Perhaps 2-day training weeks are best after all!

4 hours ago, Away Toon said:

Hall appears to have the skill set to play the fullback role similar to what Rico Lewis does at City. Might be a bit too revolutionary for Eddie though.

Zinchenko for me. 

Eddie is my King. Lewis is my left back. That is all. 

Sir Eddie doesn’t believe in playing possession football for possession’s sake. I think that’s where he has to adapt going forward. Well coached possession football reduces the amount of high intensity reactive running a team has to do. It means matches are played at our intensity and not the opposition’s intensity. If games are played at your intensity, and you train for that intensity, you’re less likely to suffer injuries. 
 

it’s like in rugby where teams play France trying to keep the ball on the park to tire their massive forwards. Their forwards don’t train for high ball in time play, so they get tired and need replacing or risk getting injured. 
 

We need to control games so they’re played on our terms. Then we can conserve energy against minnows rather than go toe-to-toe to the death with Luton and the likes!

The worst thing for me about losing to Man Scott is not the difference in quality but core body strength. Whenever there’s duels for the ball or a battle to get it under they always our strength us and come out with it. Watching Dan Burn running with Foden and struggling to knock him over shoulder to shoulder, or watching Bruno lose out to Kovacic or Willock lose out to Silva. 
 

I can take teams having more technical quality than us. But not team should be physically stronger than us. We should be bossing duels.

I think this season will be the absolute making of Eddie Howe and of us. He’ll have gone into the season believing in his methods but with question marks about whether they would work actually at the top level. He’s now been fully tested and will have learnt loss about  where he needs to improve and what the team needs to succeed. I’ve no doubt he’ll learn his lessons and implement them over the summer. I expect next year we’ll be comfortably top 6, the style will have developed a little, as will his use of the squad, and our squad composition will be almost bomb proof.

i just feel sorry for his wife and kids who absolutely won’t see him for the holidays!

1 hour ago, Kanji said:

Why are some of the greats just magnified in all sports? their durability - MJ, Lebron, Messi, Ronaldo, Federer, Novak, Tom Brady. etc etc etc

Jimmy Anderson! (Broken back in first 2 years, ever-present the rest)

2 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

It wouldn't even be back-up. It would be someone ready-made to step in. If he's left-footed he can start at LB.

 

I think most top teams have at least 3 top options.

 

Dias Stones Ake Akanji

Saliba Gabriel White Kiwior

VVD Konate Matip Gomez

Pau Carlos Konsa Mings

Varane Martinez Maguire Evans

Schar Botman Lascelles Burn

 

Ours is the weakest by a distance.

I agree overall, but I don’t see us as weaker than Manure’s lot. 

I just want to finish above Manure for one season in my life! Let’s just break that duck at least as a consolation