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What’s the obsession with clammering for 4-4-2? We got promoted playing predominantly 4-3-3, arguably overachieved last season playing predominantly 4-3-3, York won the league playing 4-3-3 and Rochdale got promoted playing 3-4-3. 4-4-2 would just leave us overrun in the middle of the pitch and is why hardly anybody plays it these days.

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cassidystash wrote:

Very harsh les.
Hurst, Rose, Smith, JB, Butterfield, Denton & Richards will be pushing your selections I reckon. Wouldn’t be too unhappy with any of them as starters.

We certainly have a stronger squad than last season when the starting 11 was pretty much nailed on every week. Some nice selection headaches for Butler to work through.

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Whatever it is, it’s incompetence and amateur hour at it’s finest…again!

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Northumbiron wrote:

BTW The OWS is a joke! It had Dawson, Ewing and Brogan in tonight’s starting XI.

And Boycey! Amateur hour.

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alcazar

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I see this post has ruffled some feathers in the FB group. Fansy is a wanted man!

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It is 100% narcissistic.

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What’s your better than expected league position Rene? You had us down to finish 8th – 12th the other day.

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We played 5 at the back for the 3-1 win at Boreham Wood which was one of our best results and performances away from home last season…which shows it can work at times. Doesn’t seem to work all that often though and would prefer not seeing it.

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cassidystash wrote:

Another Man U “legend” secured. Darron Gibson, 31 games in 7 years (Wiki)

Well he did score a cracker against us in the League Cup when United came to town (minus Sir Alex who couldn’t be bothered).

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alcazar

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Another flirt with the playoffs would be a successful season in my eyes. We just don’t have the finances to power our way to that top spot.

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Northumbiron

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It’s clear for all to see on the GoFundMe page…top donation of £500 made by the Iron Trust.

As a trust member I too would like to know where this donation has been sourced from. If it’s out of someone’s own back pocket but under the Trust’s name then fair enough…if it’s out of Trust funds that should be going towards shares in the club then serious questions need to be asked.

As already echoed on here, Keegan is a legend, but not so much an Iron legend, and I don’t believe he is deserving of a statue at our club (the renaming of the Iron Bar or similar would be much more appropriate IMO).

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The John Atyeo statue at Ashton Gate cost £70k in 2016, so I do wish the Trust a lot of luck in trying to get anything tasteful for £10k.

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Probably an honest mistake but found it a bit odd that the email says…”The Iron Trust invites fans of Scunthorpe United, Hamburg SV, Southampton and Newcastle, as well as football fans around the world”…and clearly misses out Liverpool.

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Absolute scumbags. One of the good things to come out of this tournament is that usually everyone hates the English…now literally everyone across the globe hates the Argies!

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Sounds like he’s Bangladeshi so might be a Roj connection

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We played almost the perfect game for 55 minutes, it was fairly even and we gave as good as we got even with the Argies dirty tactics (how did Enzo not get sent off for quite literally punching Anderson in the back of the head?).

We then take the lead…and initially I lay the blame with the players for almost instantaneously retreating into their shell and moving further and further back towards their own 6 yard box. Tuchel then waited 17 minutes until the 72nd minute to change it by bringing on a defender (Konsa) for Gordon (probably our best outlet). This just calcified that shitty defensive mentality and told the players to try hanging on to the lead we had. He should have made more positive changes to try and get a hold back on the game, at least bringing on someone who could stretch the game in behind (a la Rashford/Saka/Watkins) or a midfielder who can retain possession and move us up the pitch (a la Mainoo). But no, he just brings on more defensive players, let’s arguably the world’s greatest ever player have the ball and do whatever he wants with it…and the rest is history.

Ultimately I lay the majority of blame on TT for getting it wrong…but that “shirking into our shell” mentality was certainly initiated by the players to start with.

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TT was brought in exactly for this game. The type of game that Southgate couldn’t quite get us over the line in. TT has failed miserably.

Still struggling to get my head around the mentality switch as soon as we go 1-0 up. Bringing on defender after defender is telling your team to sit deeper and deeper and try and cling on for dear life. We had no outlet, everyone could see what was going to happen. What did Argentina do when they went 2-1 up…they left two players on the half way line so that we couldn’t pin them back in their own area!

So, so frustrating.

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alcazar

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All club information is still to all fans, is it not? I haven’t seen any cases to suggest otherwise? Only difference is you either pay for Iron Insider and you get to watch the full interview, don’t pay and you get to watch a snippet and read the full written version on the OWS.

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To play devil’s advocate, did anyone raise these “second class citizen” claims when we were in the EFL? For those with short memories there was a thing called IronPlayer which was in force for over 10 years. You could only watch full match highlights and video interviews if you paid the annual subscription. Heck, if you were an out-of-towner you could only listen to the live radio commentary if you subscribed!

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Let’s hope it’s with the intention of bringing in a new quality no.1 rather than toying with the idea of Campbell again. Jones is a decent enough keeper but probably not of the standard required if we’re serious about promotion.

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Not usually bothered about the shirts in any way and haven’t owned one since 2008…but these are bad. Nice to see the unity crest being used in the details but that’s about it, awful designs.

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MK Iron wrote:

When you can name 7 but only use 5…

Forgot that part lol. But agree, doesn’t make much sense to me in naming 7 outfield players and no keeper on the bench.

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To play Devil’s advocate, when do you think it’s necessary to make 7 outfield subs? Surely a keeper on the bench for the odd occasion it’s needed is a risk adverse approach whilst causing minimum impact to outfield options?

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cassidystash

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All the naysayers need some Positivity Dave wristbands (yes that’s a thing for anyone who doesn’t frequent the FB group) haha!

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Iron Age wrote:

Do we need any more evidence of the corruption of Infantino, FIFA and Trump after the unbanning of the US’s top player?

They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. Corrupt scumbags only interested in the dollar!

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Rooney couldn’t do it at a World Cup though, only one goal in a game we lost vs Uruguay and ensured we were packing our bags to go home after the 2nd group game.

In true Mike Bassett spirit, repeat after me…”we’re better than the Mexicans, we’re better than the Mexicans…”

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No doubt it’s going to be a tough game. Although the way it’s being touted is as if the Azteca is higher than Everest and Mexico have have won every game there since 1899! They’re used to playing teams like Guatemala and Honduras et al. and their best player is a 35 year old striker about to ply his trade in the Championship with Wolves.

Nothing to fear lads!

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Iron-awe wrote:

No problem with the tactics of Paraguay it’s the standard of refereeing I am fearful of tonight after witnessing what Paraguay got away with. Glad France won and loved the way Mbappe laughed in the Paraguayans faces in response to their intimidation. If that was an acceptable FIFA refereeing performance than the game is in trouble and it is all about the money all along.

Was about to post exactly this. How Paraguay came away from that without a single yellow card (other than for one of their coaching team) is absolutely insane. Was rooting for Paraguay to start with but ended up having zero respect for them and glad the French prevailed.

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Beckham didn’t run around a lot?? Did you ever see him play!? Always one of the hardest working players and usually covered more distance than any other player on the pitch!

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Hope not, 2 up front would suggest a return to 3-5-2 / 5-3-2 is on the cards…which none of us want to see!

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