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Bluewonder said:
Calm down

Stick Rodri in that team and it's title-challenging again
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Wouldn't say title- challenging but today was a good performance relative to what we have seen from our boys this past few weeks. If the Gvardiold header goes in and Erling scores the penalty we are home and dried and on the up again.
Small margins. Everton are good at getting clean sheets as Pep has said. But we weren't good enough in that we didn't win the game and that's how we are judged.
An experienced energetic defensive midfielder in the January window plus a defender to give cover for our injured back line and we will have a breathing space to fully stop the rot and go on to have a better season than we are right now. Remember players will be available to buy. Dias was a January signing and what a player he has proved to be for us.
At the moment we only have eight first team players available. It's still horrendous for Pep and for all of us. But we must show more fight in trying to get the win.
Hope Jack is back for Leicester
 
kaz7 said:
False nine wont work now , we had sane, ffs , raz and peak kev feeding them, peak gundy and jules and in form phil , it would be a utter car crash now

When i see it written down i think how the fuck have we gone from that to this , players get older of course but we didnt replace the others well enough
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Yes.
We could have got Zirkzee, Gazpacho and Varane....
 
TinFoilHat said:
We aren't the only ones.

Looks at Spurs, but no one is talking about them as going into freefall.
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Spurs haven’t won a shite for 60 years , they’re a nearly club , we aren’t , when we get compared to that footballing circus then you know we really are a load of shite , it’s like comparing Susan Boyle to Margot Robbie
 
glauberbertistossedshirt said:
It actually had decent writing. Unlike the fantasy worlds of other soaps, Brookside was a more honest attempt to depict everyday conflicts and societal ills. And what a better location to depict conflict and societal ills than scouseland
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It really did. We often stop an episode half way through to discuss how accurate a reflection it was of society at the time. For my sins I had a Dipper bf late 70s/ early 80s so I recognised a lot of the traits his family had in those fictional characters who were so rounded and believable. We are just up to Damon and Debbie, the issue of Damon being jobless mid 80s in Thatchers Britain was powerfully portrayed, as was the helplessness of Billy Corkhill when he lost his job. Neither me or dear OH are Scousers but my experience with long gone ex Bf means I do know, and can explain the reality of life on Murkyside to him in those days ( he's posh Cheshire and even the bloody miners strike passed him by - I lived in a town badly impacted in 84, so Sherwood made educational viewing for him too - aided by my first hand stories of folks I worked with who had family members in the pits/ on strike plus a coppers wife. Really the have and have nots in the mid 80s.

Anyway we like our Brooky don't actually watch much TV although it doesn't sound like it does it with my post?? :-)

Sorry off topic - one thing Brooky really passed me off with was the Dipper supporting Grant family. Thank gawd for Rod Corkhill who would be very happy today!

BTW I know where Pickford buys his multiple scratch cards from, get our goalies on them maybe magic potion for saving pennos!!,
 
At one point in the second half, Everton were on the break and they had 7 or 8 running forward in support. City won the ball back and there was zero intention to spring a counter attack, we just revert to type.
Truth be told, we have had a very formulaic system for the last few years and it's been damn successful, arguably at the cost of not being particularly exciting, but that now seems to have morphed into an utterly predictable pattern of play that teams have finally come to terms with. When you combine our drop off with other teams learning to frustrate or even beat us we end up where we are now.

Obviously there are more factors at play than just my assertion above but I am genuinely missing some of the style of play from our early success when we could transition from defence to attack in 3 passes and score with breathtaking speed.

January is looming large and we can't just rush into buying players at an inflated fee, particularly if they are panic buys. Hopefully the club will above panic buying but I'm not sure some of our fans will cope if we elect to save our money until genuine targets become available. We may just have to brave a dire season and truly rebuild in the summer. By then we will hopefully have a far clearer picture of the 115 situation and plan accordingly.
 
If you can't keep a cleansheet and can't score a penalty. Then you don't deserve any points. Am grateful for a point.
What disappoints me most is Blue on Blue fighting in Block 211.
What have we become?
 
Booing is a bit excessive. Don’t think it’s dawned on many that we’re going to have to slog it out for top four until end of the season.

Probably had it too good for too long.
 
That move when the ref played "advantage" (which was good refereeing) but then our shot was blocked and Everton nearly scored from the counter attack.
That was almost the Mother of all farces, especially when the original culprit was then yellow carded.
 
paulsimpson said:
Wouldn't say title- challenging but today was a good performance relative to what we have seen from our boys this past few weeks. If the Gvardiold header goes in and Erling scores the penalty we are home and dried and on the up again.
Small margins. Everton are good at getting clean sheets as Pep has said. But we weren't good enough in that we didn't win the game and that's how we are judged.
An experienced energetic defensive midfielder in the January window plus a defender to give cover for our injured back line and we will have a breathing space to fully stop the rot and go on to have a better season than we are right now. Remember players will be available to buy. Dias was a January signing and what a player he has proved to be for us.
At the moment we only have eight first team players available. It's still horrendous for Pep and for all of us. But we must show more fight in trying to get the win.
Hope Jack is back for Leicester
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I wouldn’t let Jack anywhere near the team tbh , hes in a Vuitton , young baby , Chinese chicken wings bubble world of his own , not scored a goal in the whole of 2024 . Doku all day long - and Doku is like speed boat without a pilot - but he scores one in six.
 
flb said:
I wouldn’t let Jack anywhere near the team tbh , hes in a Vuitton , young baby , Chinese chicken wings bubble world of his own , not scored a goal in the whole of 2024 . Doku all day long - and Doku is like speed boat without a pilot - but he scores one in six.
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The ol’ Darren Huckerby comparison. Yet Huckerby was better than Doku.
 
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