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It's the good old glass half full/half empty syndrome again, depends on the individuals viewpointOr what is factually correct
Very unusual behaviour for a moron who just happens to be a referee to be in the company of just one other moron. There's generally a little group of them most match days accompanied remotely by further morons in a little room somewhere with video cameras.His book will be interesting .
Always pleased to see talented or skilful people leaving Man Utd. Having a very positive view of him during his time with us, made it worse him being employed there.Lives in Barnt green
Wish they would re-employ Steve Bruce. Didn't he stay living in Cheshire so to be close to his beloved Old Trafford?
We've played 19 matches and lost only 2 so "unbeaten" in 17.Except
Sound familiar?The key word being “unbeaten”
"Fifteen matches in and Juventus find themselves in sixth place in Serie A, still unbeaten in the league but incapable of a win
Seven draws in their past nine games under Motta and the fans have started to lose patience,
It's still early in the season to cast wild judgements. However, Motta has made some curious decisions that have attracted scrutiny."
So it's not just us!
What's the Italian for DeJa Vu?
"Against Empoli, a 0-0 draw, the media noted that Motta's substitutions nearly cost the team a defeat as they began to allow the opposition's counter-attacks"
Not trying to make any particular point here, just found it interesting to compare
As CC clearly is not going to utilise Fabrotta, a LB is imperative to enable him to play others to their strengths, Conor Townsend has only got one game at Ipswich should we consider getting him back on loan?No..I’ll play instead
I think Styles has been fantastic since coming in to LB.He has…but I agree with the poster in that we should be playing “proper” LB and using styles further up the pitch .
Swift and Grady both gone in 6 months. Madness to extend surelyI think Grady is gone now..just waiting for the window to open
Because from the resources which are currently at his disposal the manager isn't achieving what Zippyandbungle expects. If you're going to ask leading questions could you make them a little more challenging please? That one was far too easy; even for a Sunday morning. I don't see much of a future for you as a pub quiz hostI expect better from you
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I’d really like to see him tried in midfield instead of MolumbyAt the moment I think we would be better to put him in (or Diakite) for Mowatt who looks a bit spent.
You say that but his assist to the assist was superb. Without that there isn’t a goal.I’m with you
I thought he played very well today. Should’ve put that effort mentioned above on target but he’s definitely played his way into starting the next game for me.
You think he’s to blame for those two goals?Yes
And no doubt the usual suspects will blame The head coach.Because he’s blameless ??
The board (or people that invest the £s) said at the start of the season that we are in a transitional period and Corberan is a big part of that and more importantly that fans need to be patient ...which is where I think your argument falls down. You are not showing patience.The simple answer is that even during a transitional period which we were in last year also , you would expect better results than we have amassed so far, better use of the options available to him and evolution rather than stagnation which is where we are?
The board have said they expect us to be challengingfor promotion and we are...why would they sack a manager that is achieving what they expect?
Yes. From being top, we are now adrift by 10 points and 13 goals difference. Leeds have scored 33 and we have scored 19. We have a mountain to climb.And unfortunately a draw against the blades in isolation would be decent for any in this league,but we have now pressure on ourselves due to many of the wasted opportunities to get 3 points when we turned it in to 1.
I agree 100%, but unfortunately some fans are unable or unwilling to buy into a long term plan. I'm not particularly meaning our fans, it's true across the board in football.I don’t think there are many that don’t appreciate are in a better place than when he came,most agree that he has improved us over the last two seasons.
I can understand why there are some fans upset, especially how we let Oxford back in the game, as an example.I’m not sure how you know “it’s nonsense”?
But in my opinion, we should all be sticking together and showing our support for the team and manager. All the talk about Carlos is nonsense, and he is going nowhere. We are in difficult times and we must trust the people in charge at all levels at the club. Can we just concentrate on what we should be doing as supporters. I don't hear Carlos complaining about how quiet it is down the Hawthorns at times.
Couple of questions/minor observations from a quick skim read.I can probably assist
1. Why are The Albion Foundation (TAF) moving their offices to the Birmingham County FA at Ray Hall Lane?
2. 'MM started the next agenda item by saying IS will invite Andrew Nestor to attend a future AA meeting, in the same vein as Shilen Patel attended one earlier this year'.
Here's hoping a few more Albion Assembly Members can make this one, it would be a little embarrassing if there were more representation from the Albion than from it's Assembly Members.
3. 'IS updated members on the creation of a ticketing working group, and committed to gathering further information before they got together for the first time. He said they were experimenting with accessible features on the app, and reiterated the club’s desire to move to it full-time in the future'.
So what happens regarding supporters who for whatever reason have no interest in using the App moving forward?
4. 'HLJ continued to the next item, matchday operations, and explained there had been encouragingly low numbers of arrests (four), ejections (around 20) and supporters who were refused entry (four) across the last seven Hawthorns matches'.
What were the arrests and ejections for across the last seven home games? Just being nosey. I imagine the four who couldn't get in must have been swaying all over the place as one of my mates practically trips, falls and gambols through the turnstiles unhindered on a fairly regular basis before doing some weird looking sway dance to his spot then doing the same sway dance at half time and on his way out. I'm genuinely a little concerned for his safety (yes I've had an adult conversation with him about this) and the stewards appear completely oblivious to his presence.
5. 'He (HLJ) said the club had written to and suspended more than 40 people who were being difficult towards stewards and fellow supporters......'
Could we have some examples of what 'being difficult towards stewards and fellow supporters' entails to discuss whether the stewards and offended supporters may actually have invited some 'difficulties' upon themselves?
6. '......with many invited to the stadium for a discussion and then allowed back on the promise of better behaviour. The fan referral scheme has also been used for more serious offenders, some of which have completed an education programme and subsequently signed a behavioural contract to improve the way they act at football matches'.
Do these 'discussions' involve a lecture and a verbal slap on the wrist or is there a two way communication process and are 'more serious offenders' expected to write lines for teacher on successful completion of said 'education programme(s)' before signing their 'behavioural contracts' on threat of deportation to Britain's former colonies and current dominions? If so I'd prefer a first class flight to Australia please but New Zealand or Canada would be just fine.
7. Food on the concourse; something for the club and their external providers to chew over. My son and his mate both had the Festive Turkey and Bacon roll thingy on the Smethwick concourse at a recent home game. Both rolls were stone cold and the bread itself was so stale it was stone hard. Apart from that they were just about edible apparently. According to several people nearby the pies were also cold. Not good enough really, especially given the prices charged for matchday 'refreshments'.
It's only December. As long as the top teams continue to amass as many points as they can, and the vile continue to plummet, this will be the only reason I will show any interest in their results.You’ll do for me
Liverpool do look good I have too say.Liverpool do indeed,but the wheels can come off very quick with the Salah contract issue.
Chelsea are also starting to look a challenger again.
Wolves at homeWe will get them at their place in the 4th round
By sacking CC we would be ruling out signings in January and quite possibly it could lead to a points deduction for financial breaches this in turn would have a knock on effect on succeeding years including wages , transfers and budgets in general. We’ve just had one narrow escape from administration we do not want to be going down that path againI’ve seen this mentioned a few times,so the questions are
This is the nub of it. Those complaining about the recruitment of Racic, Frabotta, Dobbin and such seem to overlook - deliberately or otherwise - that we don't have any leeway to spend a meaningful amount of money on players. This may change when we can say goodbye to high earners - low product players like Wallace and Swift.If there was no leeway for spending ,how did we sign Mikey Johnston?
The expectation of some fans is unrealistic. The only game available to this club at the moment is the long game which may be influencing Cc to be cautious.