Tiresias

Looks like McClaren has just told him a bad dad joke

Potter is doing a fantastic job there, I am not going to argue over who is better really of course think Howe for what he has done but they are quite different. The one thing I worry about the Potter for England noise is he seems a systems manager who has taken his patient time building a squad out of fairly low key parts to play the football they want to play. His first season wasn't very successful but the board were patient and trusted him. International manager you don't have the time to put complex systems in place for the squad, don't have the time with them all to subsume to the system and will have a hell of a lot more problem dealing with Egos which at Brighton has been less of a problem.

What a clownshow of a club

7 maybe harsh but depends how parsimonious your scoring is. Joelinton imo was better than Bruno and definitely worthy of MotM

I mean yes is a stretch but there are idiots out there

I dunno, I appreciate it is maybe poorly implemented but as a measure to make sure clubs aren't spending beyond their means it still strikes me as sensible but it does seem bafflingly implemented. Nottingham Forest's spending looks very worrying to me as i think they are very probable to go back down and then can they afford that? Equally you look at the bonkers spending of Chelsea and you think are they really earning enough to offset that? (The answer is yes by all accounts but it still looks baffling). This is all aggravated by clubs taking full advantage of the Covid rules that were there for good reason and yet some clearly taken the piss with it. We are hamstrung by Ashley's total uninterest in developing our income. We will fix this and there will be a lot of low hanging fruit for the new regime to get the income up so our spending power will progress. The other problem is the Bruce years led to us having a squad with very few saleable assets to raise funds. Of the players we would be willing to sell we could maybe get £15m for Miggy max? This is a situation of the clubs making even if it's not the present owners own fault. Unfortunately though FFP is not about making the top of the league more fair, and never will be while the clubs have voting power. If you were serious about that you would look at wage caps seriously.

In defense of Charnley is that he was only following orders, the problem with Charnley is that he was only following orders

You can't have it both ways you can either stop play everytime a ball brushes a hand no matter how accidentely (and you get situation with players holding arms behind backs etc) or you try and have the refs decide if it was accidental or not which will often be common sense but also often end up in very bad calls. The latter probably results in both more sensible less pedantic refereeing and also in more disputes so it's always a bit of a tradeoff.

hahahaha

I think I have seen him fronting long running dutch post punk outfit The Ex

Any indication of what pissed off the wolves manager so much?

Maybe a bit of Jared Harris?

I'm telling you it's max von sydow lol

Nah, nlearly Max Von Sydow, beyond a doubt

They are good but also blunter than us so if our defense holds its form can see this as either a 0-0 or a win

just put this shit in twitter nonsense thread, can we have actually decent links from proper outlets here

I was thinking that Spurs team could go far with Conte then realised Dier is part of it and no matter if he scores and no matter if everyone says he has played well I'm sorry you don't win anything with Dier in a squad

I think he has matured, but I don't buy that he always was just needing service. Our championship season with Rafa he had every opportunity to take by the scruff of the net. No doubt he and rafa not perfectly matched but he was played when Gayle was injured, whole squad focused round him as focal point and he couldnt hit a barn door. I think he has matured and we got him too soon unfortunately.

If Mitrovic can do what he did in championship and not make any fuss finishing he can do very well. I do feel agrieved when people think we mistreated him. He always clearly had a player in him but he had plenty of chances and just went to absolute shit all the time. Same first time in premier league with fulham.

I doubted some saying he should play out wide as alternative to Almiron but he seemed to be drifting wide to those spaces as Almiron came inside. Maaaybe.

I had similar worry kinda but remember we have actual coach now who may try and teach players and help them understand tactical roles not just throw them on randomly

Mad how much of this guys career was in lower leagues. Really weird how that happened you would think he would stick out like a sore thumb for more than his ridiculous height. I guess most scouts saw he was really tall and thought there's classic lower league clogger defender

They were rubbish to be fair, it's not the greatest gauge of our level. I got really frustrated at the media reaction to our hammering of arsenal last season though, when all the talk was how bad arsenal were when they were far better than forest here, and we played really really well like today. We played how I want us to play, we were aggressive, pressed effectively controlled the game. You can't ask more, and if we play like that every game (we won't) we will get plenty of points this season. We will also have poor performances, bad luck and just get turned over sometimes but that leaves me so confident that we will be one day doing that with a more complete squad with depth (god we lack depth if either of the two brazilian gods get injured we will drop points) and be doing that regularly to most teams in the league

Absolute team performance is the thing, we've been so beaten into being used to 9 useless headless chickens running round a pitch under Bruce that when someone actually did something it was really obvious

yes he plays better football than rafa he also has been given Bruno ffs it's not a competition lol I will adore Rafa forever for signing on when he did and for doing what he did with class and dignity in very trying circumstances. Shouldn't be remembered as didn't play as good football as after the takeover lol