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56 minutes ago, rudemedic said:

Original thread is 

 

 

Think the mods may want to lock that or put it behind a special Athletic paywall as it appears to be linked in the article.

Thanks! 

@Matt Something worth your thoughts here mate.

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12 hours ago, League one forever said:

But Bender if you’re reading this can you start the Newport away thread please. (It kinda feels like your job now )

12 hours ago, disjointed said:

I don't think bender is a person, I may be wrong but I'm sure Ackey said it was a bot. 

I'll ask @Matt to give the rust bucket a kick.

2 hours ago, Worcester Owl said:

While we're on the subject of unusual club names, Jeff Stelling was on top form when he said "They'll be dancing in the streets of Total Network Solutions tonight" after that team won a game a few years ago.

Another example of how teams evolve, as they are now called The New Saints, and have been since the mid-2000's.

Anyone would think a commentator's job is to comment...  

1 hour ago, Summerdeep said:

 

There was a time when penalties for handball were only given when they were blatant offences, such as defenders diving to push the ball round the post or over the bar like a second goalkeeper, sticking out an arm to punch away a cross, or whatever. Then sometime around a couple of decades ago, referees suddenly started awarding penalties for handballs that were clearly involuntary or accidental, including when the ball was blasted against a player's arm from virtually point-blank range. The introduction of VAR at higher levels made this even worse, such as with the ludicrous penalty awarded against Croatia in the 2018 World Cup Final. 

 

It's one of countless features of the modern game that I find so alienating and made me lose all interest in watching matches, even on TV. The comment in the above post about the ridiculous power-games and posing of modern referees is also a good one. Before I stopped watching football completely, I saw numerous examples of referees and linesmen who gave a goal by ruling that the ball was a couple of inches over the line, despite the fact that they were 30-40 yards away from the action and couldn't possibly know that this was the case. As you say, it's essentially a 'Look at me, aren't I clever?' kind of thing.

Agree - and the same can be said of offside, which was a rule to stop goal-hanging and not to decide which single pixel of shirt is further forward than the other.

14 minutes ago, doctor evil said:

There is a quite big difference between a suspension for picking up 5 yellows and getting sent off every 5 games...

But have Norwoods indiscretions been any less petulant / stupid? It's not like he's a battling ball-winning midfielder is it? 

Posts hidden.   No one needs to be attacked for their opinion, equally no one is a more valid member of this board than anyone else - you're all welcome equally if you can behave like mature adults. 

Knock it off or the mod-preview stick is coming out. 

16 hours ago, Monty Burns said:

lno you go round sweepin enuf of my litter but any chance you (or somebody) else could link me in to this said pod?

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1 hour ago, LightDN123 said:

She’s seemed bitter? Why is she on the radio anyways ? (I don’t know who she is). 

I don't think she came across as bitter, no. It was more of a "They seemed to do well and I think he did enough to get the job" vibe, nothing more.  

1 hour ago, Roger Ritchie said:

She's an ex player I think. I have heard her before she is quite good. I wasn't aware she was married to Redfearn. 

Yep - she's very well regarded in football, and was a big part of Leeds' Academy set up for a while. She talks a lot of common sense on Football Weekly and wrote a brilliant article about the England Euro win in 2022. 

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14 minutes ago, Roger Ritchie said:

The Neil Redfearn's wife podcast bit. She seemed upset that Neil hadn't been offered the job fulltime - fair enough. But she claims he is 8 unbeaten. Didn't he only join a few weeks ago? After the league wins? 

On Football Weekly she wasn't really specifically talking about Neil, she'd already said he'd come in with Thompson, so I expect it was more a generalised statement of "they were asked to do a job, went unbeaten and didn't get the job" - which is entirely true, but obviously doesn't tell the whole story either. 

I really like her as a journalist, and you can't really blame her for looking through tinted lenses in favour of her husband. 

Feels like my "I'll check Monday" idea was ill-judged, as there's a barrage of lockable nonsense above.

If someone wants to start a new FOOTBALL ONLY post about the important win over our local rivals please go ahead. If anyone posts non-football content in that one I'll just stick them on a few days of mod-approval. I get that it was a noteworthy event but we're 15 pages in and people seemingly want to just try and show how hard they are on an anonymous forum. Weird world, init. 

1 hour ago, whittles left foot said:

Grass might be a bit long on Saturday.

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67147218

And he's not been fired?! 

I'm enjoying the ramble chat - but to be a Debbie Downer, I think we have to put context on "experienced". 

Someone coming in who's had a few years being average elsewhere or someone coming in to a barely-funded team which is already down is not quite the same as coming in today, is it?

Today we have a team probably outspending every other in the league, one of the best (on paper) strikers in the league, multiple players from League One, etc.etc.etc. Then on the manager side we could be looking at someone with genuine success on their CV. Mellon as an easy example has four promotions. When was the last time we even remotely considered someone of that calibre?

Of course it could all go tits up. And this is Latics, it probably bloody will. But we're not comparing apples right now, this is all new to us. 

4 hours ago, ceskylatic said:

We’re now a National League club with National League players, bar 3, maybe 4 players.

Right - but most teams in this league don't have any players you'd consider to be of a higher bar. Indeed many teams have players of a lower one.

It's of course unrealistic to think we can win 4-0 every week, but equally our expectations given the budget and all the trimmings we have is surely to be top 2. Anything less than that is a failure.

53 minutes ago, JohnnyPimp said:

Fellow ST holder looking for one adult and one child ticket.

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Totally onboard with the walk round London advice - but skip the top of the Shard and do any number of the free ones (some booked, some just roll up)...

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I'll counter by saying I've had "season tickets" (multi-game packages) for the NFL in London for about 10 years now and it is always a banging day out. You can drink in your seat, if nothing else. I am at both Spurs games this year (can't make Sunday this week either, sadly) and would highly recommend it, even if as a one-off "well I gave it a go" type event.

And with that very sensible and simple post....

49 minutes ago, JoeP said:

Maybe @BPAS needs to revisit the psychology behind fan thinking because I can't see much reason for complaint right at this moment...

You're still just coming down from your DU-departure orgasm. It'll wear off!  

16 hours ago, LaticMark said:

It's must be time for . . . 

I got twitchy yesterday, but thought I'd let it roll on.

15 hours ago, Longlostfan said:

go one I'll say it in the absence of BP- Jamie Vardy?

I suppose first and foremost its important to say I didn't put all that much effort in - there could be a dozen better. However, what I meant was pedigree entering the league as opposed to after they left it. 

9 minutes ago, Frankly Mr Shankly said:

 

Yeah I thought that. It mainly mirrored my thoughts on the situation.

 

I don't think Neal Eardley will be heading into after-dinner speaking any time soon mind.

I think you are supposed to preface that with "BLOODY EARDLEY" mate.  At least that's what the Main Stand used to do... 

1 hour ago, Hemel latic said:

Undoubtedly a side in poor form, if not a poor side per se. But worth noting they have only lost one game at home, all other games have been drawn. Any away win is a good win, particularly as it would be our first of the season. 

Conversely, they've only scored once at home in that time and we've arguably the best-pedigree striker the league has ever seen and a team who've scored 6 in two games.  No fucking about, no worrying about them scoring - get at them, get a couple and hope their heads drop from having that "we'll never get two" feeling.