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alcazar wrote:

cassidystash wrote:

Give me a example of ANY year where common cold deaths are anywhere close to Covid levels. Selfish attitude IMO, thankful that we’ll never meet. Open your eyes to what’s happening in the real world rather than just your house.

Im on about the new moronic variant.
And if you confuse death figures by including first off those who died WITH covid alongside those who died OF covid, then confuse things further by insisting that anyone who dies of anything including road traffic accidents, within 28 days of a positive test, be recorded as a covid death, what do you expect from the more intelligent of us except scepticism?

Open YOUR eyes.

And your comment about never meeting? Is that a threat?

You forgot to give any year where common cold deaths exceeded Covid.
How can “thankful we’ll never meet” be regarded as a threat? To me you’re a Covid risk, I have no desire to be near you. Is ignoring factual evidence a sign of intelligence then? That’s an interesting stance.

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Give me a example of ANY year where common cold deaths are anywhere close to Covid levels. Selfish attitude IMO, thankful that we’ll never meet. Open your eyes to what’s happening in the real world rather than just your house.

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I’m guessing at the percentages obviously but that is pretty much what I was trying to say. If Loft only gets 2 chances per game and scores 10% he gets 1 in 5. If a creative midfield supplied 5 chances per game he’d be a 20 goal a season man. So are the strikers the real problem?

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alcazar

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WonderGoals wrote:

If we do fail to stay up it’s definitely the lack of quality strikers will hurt us. Midfield and defence are solid enough, it’s just the last bit you need to score, we don’t seem to have.

I think you’re being very generous WG. Strikers are clearly a problem but, whilst the midfield might be ‘solid’ it is seriously lacking in creativity IMO. Prem strikers score maybe 60/70% of chances, L2 strikers maybe 10/15% so if there is little in the way of creativity and the strikers only get 1 or 2 chances in a game we’re not going to score many. Regarding the defence – ‘solid’ is not the first word that comes to mind, some improvement lately I grant you but a way to go before we can be consistently called solid.

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O’Hara looked good but Watson has improved greatly. However IMO there needs to be a credible alternative to ensure this improvement is maintained.
Howard looked impressive on the EFL highlights programme.

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I think Thompson has played CB before, seem to remember it being mentioned when we signed him.

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Heath wrote:

Suggests to me that Hill is trying to get through to January with our players rather than those on loan. Quickest way to get players in January is to send back the loan players he doesn’t rate and get 5 new ones in if the rules allow it.
Let’s hope the rules and current deals allow him to send this lot back and that Hill has good contacts and he alone chooses the loan players.

Another option would be to get the most out of the loanees whilst they’re here. It’s a matter of opinion of course, but I think a couple of the loanees have shown enough to have played some part yesterday. Our top goalscorer (excl. pens) surely worth a go if we’re trying to win the game.

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WG wrote:- Jarvis is more consistent throughout the 90 minutes.

Yep, can’t argue with that – he’s consistent all right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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alcazar

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It’s looking like Hill doesn’t fancy the loanees. Gallimore before Hackney & Bunn before Scrimshaw.

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The OWS:- “Graeme Lee’s first home match in charge of Hartlepool saw a five-match losing streak in League Two come to an end with a dramatic 2-1 victory over Rochdale.”

George Taft:- “We’re focused on each game at a time and we’re going there to win. They’re on a good run but I think it’s something we can do.”

Well George I suppose a good run of one win in a row might suit us at the moment.

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I guess they can’t advertise Financial Manipulator?

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bartonscorpion

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Unless the ST Sports Editor wrote the report for the BBC?
Would the ST have gone to Stevenage given their relationship with The Club?

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Could be a 4-2-3-1 maybe or 4-1-4-1, either would mean Rowe out of position.

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Difficult! If the EFL loan is not repaid it seems we’ll be very limited on who we can recruit. Surely any OOC will not be fit for 2 or 3 months and, if we can’t pay a fee, we’ll be lucky to get much in the way of quality. Is Iwelumo still playing and available?? Tomi Ameobi is a big lad and could still be young enough.

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I think that’s right, Hill seems to like an enforcer up front and, although he’s got the build, Loft can’t (or won’t) do the job. Unless his agent is a miracle worker I can’t see an upward move which he seems to think he’s worth judging by his recent performances.

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Straight swap for Johnson Clarke Harris?

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You’re safe.

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They had 3 CBs to look after Rondon who’s merely a highly paid Loft. Not sure Everton would have scored against The Iron!!

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Ferrite

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Lucky you.

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Lord Kitchener wrote:

With players getting fitter and better game on game, you have to wonder, what the feck was going on under Neil Cox?

He’s a nice man remember, too nice to the players maybe? If so, they certainly didn’t reward him for that did they. Too much carrot, not enough stick, sounds like Keith might have a different approach.

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IRONINTHEBLOOD

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Absent!! Injured or cantbearseditis?

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lesgeo wrote:

Say, we are cruising along at 3 – 0

Now les, there’s optimism but it surely has its limits. (I presume you’ve had a couple?)

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Agree, difficult to introduce youngsters into a shambolic team. When/if enough of the regulars gain some confidence by winning a few games there could be an opportunity.

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Sanfran49

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Good player, oh for one like him now to shore up this defence.

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cassidystash wrote:

Shocking display IMO, biggest robbery since Brinksmat! Massive hole between the 2 CBs all game, Taft, Thompson, Kenyon, Pugh, Loft & Jarvis terrible,

I must have been watching the wrong game, I see that Pugh & Jarvis are on the MOM shortlist. Shows how easy it is to win when you play for The Iron.

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LOft can’t be expecting to move anywhere upwards, have a moneybags NL team identified him as the man to fire them into the EFL or does he have an exceptional agent?

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Sanfran49

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Shocking display IMO, biggest robbery since Brinksmat! Massive hole between the 2 CBs all game, Taft, Thompson, Kenyon, Pugh, Loft & Jarvis terrible, the rest slightly better except the ‘keeper who was excellent (bizarrely he could have been MOM in a team that lost 6-1!!) Loft & Jarvis were so bad that O’Neil & KDT could start on Saturday and couldn’t be worse (could they?) There were a few bright spots when we actually passed the ball accurately and looked like a football TEAM but there needs to be much more of that if we’re to survive.

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But hoofing it forward will only work if you have players able to win a decent amount of those hoofs and stop the ball coming straight back. We don’t have any forwards capable of winning more than about 1 in 20.

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lesgeo

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Sanfran49 wrote:

Don’t understand why any of the loan players are stating
Wilson, Pugh and Jessop would put in much more effort.

Jessop not exactly blowing them away at Trinity. I suspect the fitness issue might be a factor, Cox hasn’t done them any favours has he?

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Sanfran49

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vader wrote:

Calling Loft a striker is an insult to other strikers.

Terrible today, extremely lightweight for a big guy. Sadly there is no alternative at present. ( Please don’t suggest Jarvis!!)

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