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Agree Les. As soon as you cease to present a threat in the opposition half you give the opposition 3 or 4 players that can operate without jeopardy or responsibility.
It’s a big problem in the Scunthorpe Sunday League. It’s fecking suicide in a World Cup semi final.
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Well the best team won.
Allegedly Tuchel panicked and got on the phone to Gareth after Gordon scored.
What should I do Gareth when you go 1 up in a big game? Obvious Thomas take off your most dangerous player and bet out ball. Replace him with a pedestrian centre back.
5 at the back is the way to win this. Only 35 minutes to hang on. Don’t take my word for it. Andy Butler agrees. 5-4-1 is the formation that wins games.
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It’s just an opinion Deery. Remember just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you.
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VAR will be under orders to review every English tackle to see if they can spin a red card out of it.
Argies will need to be at least a yard offside and England will need to be at least a yard onside.
Infantino hates Europe who give him no votes and lots of criticism. The Trump incident proves he will manipulate the integrity of football to suit his own ends.
Two European teams in the final is his worst nightmare. Trump won’t be too keen either, particularly his 2 least favourite European countries.
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When I used to live down south I used to pay for iPlayer but that was to enable me to watch games I was unable to attend.
Maybe you got some “inside” information and manager/players exclusive interviews as well. Can’t remember now but wouldn’t have bothered watching or listening to those anyway.Imagine paying money for an Andy Butler club interview!
Tried the magic spray around groin strain area. Probably just a precaution to take him off.
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Shouldn’t moan. They beat us last year.
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Agree with all the above. 5 at the back first half looked clueless.
Butterfield and Jones tried hard to create something. Rest of the didn’t seem to know what position they were playing. A (very slightly) better team than App Frod would have punished us first half. I’m not a professional coach of course but is playing 3 centre backs without a left footer amongst them ever a good idea?
Especially when you play a right footed right back as your left sided man.Must be saving our left sided centre backs for the second half. Oh no Evans and Barrows right footed as well. Oh shit we don’t have a left sided centre back at the club. We had best keep pretending left back Horton is a centre back then.
Bit better second half with the players at least looking like they knew where to be. Zero chances for Frod. Richards and Beestin pretty decent. Rest OK.
Rose off injured again (groin) which is a concern.
Won’t be bothering with the 5 hour round trips for the next 3 friendlies.
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Thanks from me too. Struggle to get through an hour of bantz without a lot of alcohol.
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I meant of course Hugh. Apologies for my mistake. Unlike fansy I occasionally make an error.
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Great marketing ploy that would be fansy.
Don’t tell supporters what the fixtures are unless they pay. We’ll be sustainable in no time.
Will go down particularly well with the 2,000 odd that have already paid for half the fixtures.
You should be OK though Awaywego. Can’t see the other 23 teams being smart enough to jump on this idea. They weren’t even smart enough to see the value of FC 100,000.
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Disclaimer: I have never bought a replica kit and am unlikely to ever do so. Also it’s about 50 years since any accusations of being a fashion victim have headed my way.
However, assuming that was the home kit on show at Brigg last night at first glance I thought “So we’re starting the friendlies in washed out training tops again”.
After a couple of minutes realised they had numbers on the back and an unhealthy number of clashing logos. Forget style for a moment (which is generally mutually exclusive with all but about 5% of football kits) I mentally congratulated the club and supplier on getting a kit onto the players backs for the first time in a don’t know how long by the first friendly. (Awaywego can probably be more exact on that one).
After about 10 minutes I stopped noticing it – understandable as there was a bit of football to focus on.
Half time I reflected my main gripe is the same as my main gripe last year. If you are going to have a swathes of claret on the kit does it have to be such a washed out shade? Make it vibrant which would also help tone down the inevitable clashes with our sponsors logos. Don’t recall Villa, Burnley or West Ham ever going with a half arsed shade of claret.
Anyway by middle of the second half it had obviously melted into my consciousness and I found myself thinking “It’s not so bad and certainly better than last seasons shocking effort”.
At this rate I’ll be buying one by Christmas.
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2 different 11’s each half.
4-3-3 ish first half with Brennan, Richards and trialist in midfield. Energetic work out against a Btigg side that didn’t seem to have the quality of previous 2 pre seasons.
3-0 at a canter.
Then the dreaded back 5 made it’s 1st appearance of the season so inevitably we conceded. Possibly the line up was to give our excess of full backs a game. Played two of them at centre back (Ogle and Horton) and another in midfield. Butterfield took things fairly easy and Smith showed some nice touches.Beestin watching from the crowd as was Mahady apparently.
Overall good workout and suggestions that while our first 11 is weaker than last season the squad depth is stronger.
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Joe Hart makes a lot more sense than Wayne Rooney.
That’s a pretty low bar though Bully.
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When you can name 7 but only use 5 it would be madness to not have a sub keeper for 2 reasons.
First you’re pretty much gifting 3 points if your keeper gets injured. Don’t know the exact odds but I suspect a club is fortunate to get through a season without at least 1 keeper injury. We have had 2 broken arms for keepers in the same game in the past.
Second if a manager can’t deal with any game situation choosing 5 outfield players from 6 then you have either got the wrong squad or the wrong manager.
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Do we have any on here NI?
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Not having WG’s incredible memory of other teams players capabilities I’m going to reserve judgement until we have played a few games.
How well the new lads perform in an Iron shirt and how well Smith and Hurst deliver on past promise will make the difference between playoff push and flirting with the bottom 4.
We understandably won’t be challenging for automatic promotion given once again there will be half a dozen clubs with significantly bigger budgets and 1 or 2 of them will have spent wisely.
Neither do I think we are relegation fodder even if most of the new lads disappoint. Will save my prediction until end August/early September. Need to be sure he who is always right isn’t having another flirtation with 5 at the back.
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