Bimpy474

whats the idea of a smaller pitch- are they aknowledging half their squad cant run? and didnt they have a wankfest last season when we had a 48k crowd? Condensing the pitch so they can stop the other team playing, Stoke used to do it under Pulis.

Some of the posts in there about how we will fare this season are educated bollocks, "not 3 worse teams than us", "worst squad in the division", "Rather have Hughton in a relegation fight", "Their defence was like a sieve in the c'ship" They don't do themselves any favours by not doing a little bit of research do they. 'Spazrocket' is a wonderfully crafted insult in that thread

Derisory offer, getaway

I always get the feeling with Rafa he likes players to settle in first and is very reluctant to let them play straight away, this lad might have the advantage that he's played in the Premiership before. But i can see Mbemba possibly start at RB until Rafa trust this lad enough. Not that he seems to trust Mbemba that much either. I'm waiting for the uproar when Colback starts ahead of Merino as Rafa wants Merino to settle in first

Did he leave the atomsphere

So we're not really going to buy until we shift some of the dead wood. Fair enough and as some have said, what's not to understand about that. But and it's a big one, if we stick to that principle and go we with what we have (not enough quality imo) if we can't shift the players we don't want. Are the club going to risk the Premiership and fortune in money that comes with it for the smaller amounts that would be payed to the players we can't shift, a few who are in the last year of their contracts. Long term thinking really isn't what this club does, it's so short sighted and if it back fires we go down, and we'll be even further behind than we already are. If we then come back up again, we'll be so far off the rest it'll be scary. While i get we have too many players, surely short term spending now will benefit us later.

Which is not usually something you say to often about him, which is a massive shame as he's a great footballer.

At the very end of that, Rafa is talking to the 4 centre halfs. No Orc in the 4 which is not surprising.

He soon showed them what we were missing. Shut up.

Not after Rafa's patter last Thursday night! That's what i was asking for, surely no one is still holding on to any hopes now. I had such excitement at the start of this window, now it's like being a slow deflating balloon.

The way we seem to be shopping now, i reckon a GK like you say but 2 loans if we're lucky. And maybe buy in the bracket you said, if we get rid of some of players and their wages that are unwanted.

No one is still holding on to the hope we might sign a couple of big buys are they ?

I was just saying the coin is the fairest way imo to decide who goes 1st, after that it's down to the players to not buckle under the pressure. Did they factor in when a team wins the coin toss for which end the penalties will be taken, if it's in front of their fans or the away fans, are they at home, are they away ? There's a few different factors that could affect things than just who goes 1st imo.

Someones arse. You have coin toss for the winner of that to decide whether they go first or second, as fair as it can ever get. How is a coin toss to give one team a 60% chance of winning as fair as it can ever get? The coin toss is a 50/50 isn't it. Then the winner of that can go 1st or 2nd, that's as fair as you can get. Fucking about with a straight forward penalty shootout, something no team has ever complained about when they've gone second is utter nonsense. It's fiddling with rules that are ok, instead of changing the ones which are dumb as feck. But a coin toss isn't fair. It's nothing to do with how good a team is at football Aye, but once this rule comes into force what happens if there is a statistic somewhere that says the team going second wins 60.3743% of the time? Do we now say it's unfair for the team going first and we now need to revert back to the old method? Professional footballers not being able to cope with the stress of going second in a shootout, give me fucking strength - no wonder people say they are wrapped in cotton wool. Tbf I don't really feel passionately one way or the other about changing the shootout system. It was more the fact that bimpy couldn't see anything more fair than a coin toss I had issue with Of course i could see it was more than ffs. Whatever you say.

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Think they've actually managed to be more rotten than we were, some achievement like.

i am a bit old school with the reffing like.

Someones arse. You have coin toss for the winner of that to decide whether they go first or second, as fair as it can ever get. How is a coin toss to give one team a 60% chance of winning as fair as it can ever get? The coin toss is a 50/50 isn't it. Then the winner of that can go 1st or 2nd, that's as fair as you can get. Fucking about with a straight forward penalty shootout, something no team has ever complained about when they've gone second is utter nonsense. It's fiddling with rules that are ok, instead of changing the ones which are dumb as feck. But a coin toss isn't fair. It's nothing to do with how good a team is at football Do you really want to see the penalty shootout turned into a game of tennis tie break because of a percentage that sometimes says it might be unfair ? I don't, it's nonsense. I have to ref the fucking things, it's ok when there's 5 fucking officials and Krytie TV helping, not when it's just me on me Jack Jones, with parents who think their little fuckwit diving spudfaced spacker has been treated unfairly. Fuck off with it.

Someones arse. You have coin toss for the winner of that to decide whether they go first or second, as fair as it can ever get. How is a coin toss to give one team a 60% chance of winning as fair as it can ever get? The coin toss is a 50/50 isn't it. Then the winner of that can go 1st or 2nd, that's as fair as you can get. Fucking about with a straight forward penalty shootout, something no team has ever complained about when they've gone second is utter nonsense. It's fiddling with rules that are ok, instead of changing the ones which are dumb as feck.

But they had to win the coin toss to choose, which is fair is it not ?

Someones arse. You have coin toss for the winner of that to decide whether they go first or second, as fair as it can ever get.

It'll be renewed this season

Oh ffs, meddling in something that's so straight forward. Basically the shootout is now done in the style of a tennis tie-break. New page shootout wanker.