17 Jan 2025 20:13:58
I assume this is rubbish but a mate just called me to say we are trying to nick Omar Marmoush off to toes of City.
I think he is misguided any getting old news that is way past its sell by date.
I love the rumours and usually hate the facts.
17 Jan 2025 21:39:58
I doubt our new wage structure would allow us to hijack a deal that Man City are involved in and more importantly need.
17 Jan 2025 23:02:43
Bill, it’s just an out of date rumour but it’s all part of transfer window fun.
18 Jan 2025 08:19:48
Agree with the fun bit
I would sooner be boring and actually go for players we badly need, an EXPERIENCED CB and ST.
please no more youngsters, we bring them in and then let them go, it's like the hokey kokey with our SD's.
While I'm being negative again, still no news on this brilliant FOS we are supposed to be getting nor anything on the so called SB project
And don't get me started on Maresca's game management. I don't know what he says to the team at halftime but whatever it is, I wish he would not enter the dressing room.
18 Jan 2025 09:56:13
Bill, I have no issues with the age of any player. The CH from Ajax looks an amazing talent and I would love us to sign him.
We have been buying and selling players for as long as I can remember.
When the team is winning very few fans bring up the subject of “game management. ”
Last season we came out at half time and got slaughtered every match under Poch. This seaso it’s just been the last few games.
18 Jan 2025 13:21:14
So far Tom, hopefully it changes on Monday night.
18 Jan 2025 23:39:46
Poch did get us to 5th in the league and only lost 1 of last 15 so we didn't get slaughtered everya5ch Tom thoughnonly 31 points from first 21 matches disappointing even allowing for 14 players on the injury list.
19 Jan 2025 04:12:26
JBS, I think Poch got us to 6th. My point about Poch wasn’t very clear. It wasn’t about the end result it was how we performed after coming out for the second half and a Poch team talk.
19 Jan 2025 09:19:12
Tom
Same thing seems to be happening after Maresca"s half time team talks.
19 Jan 2025 09:54:00
Bill, I haven’t said there isn’t something going on after the recent EM half time team talks.
Al I’m pointing out in is for his first 15/ 16 games in the premiership they seemed to be fine and when we came out in the second half under Poch, we came out and initially underperformed.
I would just add that in my opinions if the team went on to win a game after a flat second half performance not many, if any, would be mentioning half time chats by the manager.
The manager of any club deserves criticism if performances aren’t good enough. At the moment EM is getting pelters and that’s fair enough. My “guess” is it’s a combination of issues that has caused this drop off in “results. ”.
19 Jan 2025 13:14:16
Their rouble is Tom we are mentioning his half time influence as he is not getting results and the performances are worse second half.
19 Jan 2025 13:15:24
Just out of curiosity, what are issues you believe are causing the poor second half performances?
19 Jan 2025 13:59:50
Bill, the results in the last 5/ 6 games have not been good but the previous 15 game results were ok. So I find it hard to believe any half time “chat” is any different now than it was at the beginning of the season!
I am obviously only guessing but generally we have bossed most matches. So, the half time talk for us is “carry on doing the same thing. ” While the opposition are having to find solutions to combat our superiority. If they stop us per foot obviously creates a problem that our manager has to deal with.
I guess I’m saying my criticism over the last few games is our manager hasn’t found solutions that allow us to continue to dominate a game. I keep making reference to the Fulham game and the Gusto/ Neto fiasco. It was obvious but nothing was changed.
All that being said, our overall play has been enjoyable to watch and the manager should be judged over a season and not 5/ 6 games.