Fantail Breeze

Didn’t know it until now but apparently it’s disgusting a newly promoted League Two team with a catchment area the size of a postage stamp in London didn’t sell out Wembley.

Nobody is saying that but it’s always good for a hyperbole reactionary post to nothing.

Not sure I share your confidence with this. Would also be a bit of a shambles to go through another transfer window without the right people in jobs. We’ve got the money to spend but as we saw and was reported in January it turned into a bit of a mess.

Would take a draw, as long as we can stumble over the line I’m not really that fussed. A loss would be harmful to morale. We’re probably 3-4 points from guaranteeing safety, have plenty of games that we can achieve that from.

This post on a WBA forum: “Has to go, I don't think any manager would have got us promoted, but we're literally relegation bad under Bruce. His only answer has been to go back to exactly how Ismael was playing, except even more insipid.” Does he always revert to copy the previous manager’s tactics in a hope it might come off?

Absolutely nothing to justify that fact whatsoever.

Thought he got it horribly wrong today with his in game management. But, unlike Bruce, I have some hope he’ll learn from it.

Seemed very wound up and that made him lose his head a bit. Still miles better than captain calamity though.

Decent managers know to just kick him and put three players on him and he’s completely out of the game.

Not sure what game people were watching, he was the best player on the park. Things like goals and assists count for zilch when you have stats like headed duals won.

They’d won every game (other than the Cup final) since the war started, before yesterday. That’s definitely not been the problem.

Tuchel doing a fairly crap job of the league this season considering they won the league back in August. Would be mildly amusing if they totally collapse out of the top four.

This.

Could we get Sterling or is that too ambitious? Would be ideal for us, imo.

I’d use Ronaldo’s tears as lube if they send him packing like.

Shocking they didn’t win their group, never mind the play off game. If you play two games against Northern Ireland and Macedonia and fail to score, you deserve fuck all.

Yup.

It’s always seemingly natural to jump to the complete hyperbole opinion when people offer an alternate viewpoint. What people are saying is that he’s done well, but because of his limitations tactically, we’ve not done as well as we could have (i.e win something). He’s a great speaker and I can imagine he breeds spirit and morale etc. but we’re set up far too defensively and his in-game management is appalling, imo. I’ve enjoyed the success that we’ve had, but equally I don’t want us to go through this good period without actually winning something. I don’t necessarily think he needs to go, but he needs someone beside him with a bit more about them, I don’t think his backroom staff has what it needs. But I’m never happy and always want to do better than we are.

What another fantastic signing that was.

Are they? When was the last time you saw a handball given in Sunday leagues for the shite we’re seeing now, after the rules were changed specifically for VAR. It’s not just grassroots too - we’re playing FA Cup games where some games do and some games don’t have VAR. What a farce. How is that fair? Referees are humans. They’ll make mistakes. You’re never going to get perfect decisions, but football is very subjective, so even with an AI robot - you’ll still not get perfect decisions. Two people will view one foul very differently. We’re measuring offsides now in a way that’s not even possible to measure them with the technology we have. May as well measure a hair with a metre stick. It’s all shite and a pointless addition to the game at only one level.

Do you hate ASM? He’s one of the worst for it. Almiron and Wilson too. Hayden to some degree. I don’t disagree by the way, but they’re not cheating, they’ve recognised something and exploit it. The worst of these is when players are running back towards their own byline trying to shield the ball and collapse to the floor as soon as a player arrives behind them, given as a foul almost every time despite nothing occurring.

VAR. I can deal with what you’ve mentioned because I don’t watch pre-match or post match crap anymore, or any highlight shows, SSN etc. I tune in to watch the matches and that’s about it. VAR you can’t get away from. The biggest disgrace of it is that it takes grassroots football away from elite football. It should be the same game, played with the same rules - it’s not anymore. It’s ruined my enjoyment of football, it’s made it farcical. There are so many things wrong with it and so many reasons not to have it, but it’ll stay and probably get worse. We can’t be far away from adverts during VAR breaks or “this VAR decision is sponsored by…”

Sort of adds fuel to the bias fire when you’re constantly trying to silence criticism.

The state of those ‘stats’

Gerrard and Lampard are everything I expected them to be. Love it.