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Sounds like a good reason not to vote for her 😂 violent insurrections should be avoided four years of trump will fly by ! in all seriousness, if he is going to win then the glass half full view is that he can’t run again and in four years time the dems may have a good candidate able to serve two terms. I’m simply unconvinced by Harris. She may be ok once elected but she seems pretty meh and not sure she’d do well on the international stage where you need to be able to strut your stuff these days.

Probs not an issue for us then …..

Won’t be anyone new for Wednesday RVN in charge (and auditioning )

Likely that RVN will play a strong side

Palace looked way better with Mateta lone striker and Wharton in the team

At least the on field ref gave it var not supposed to get involved unless it’s a howler on field unless Michael Oliver is involved

Especially because it’s Oliver on var Ridiculous call

That’s not a howler

fair point and Moore has had European games to prove himself we haven’t used league cup fixtures to give alves a proper runout. but it’s been well known in football that Moore was potentially a generational talent. Alves hasn’t seemed to come back from his ACL with the same levels that he was showing. Could be that in two or three years that things have changed around but for now, that’s where we are. Haven’t seen much to show that any other of our 17/19 y o should be pushing for a game day squad place.

He’s exceptional none of ours are at his level

The early goal in the second period certainly knocked the stuffing out of them but we’d gone behind in the first half and kept going. the period between goals 2 and 3 wasn’t recognisable from the first half when we were behind. in the first half, nuno pushed four up to press our defence in possession - wood, the two wingers and one of the midfielders. That made it tricky to find winks or Ricky because the passing lanes were quite blocked. But we generally managed to work it out. Can’t recall many passes into the midfield in the second half - not only did they continue to press 4 across but they also pushed another midfielder into the space that Ricky and winks occupied. that should have led us to work out where the spaces had then been left and to utilise them. The point is that our coaching team didn’t appear to manage that.

Both teams weakened by England players unable to play them more than us we were comfortable and then made a right mess of the last fifteen mins and almost blew it

Their squad looks too strong for them to go down - mind you ……………

And they conceded twice in the second half to lose 2-1

Shame for Ipswich But they needn’t worry about their first win - it’s coming

Lateral thinking If he’s committed to getting a couple of players out to release funds and he doesn’t manage it then he’s very much in control of some of the budget

I was a bit over dramatic - true but pitches where you open with spinners in the first innings are not prepared for five days. This one barely made it to day 3 and yes - we batted dreadfully through the match imo. teams can decide to play ‘one day cricket’ in tests which will accelerate the result but the pitches should surely be prepared to allow for seamers on day 1 at least.

That final test strip should be reported that’s not prepared for a five day game - horrific however, our application with the bat was sadly lacking (‘that's who we are mate’) and our tactics with the ball after they were 7 down was strange

No probs we rode our luck last season on the basis that the opponents weren’t good enough to take those big chances - that’s a reasonable approach in the championship. But we were the best team in the division with many of the best players we need a coach in the prem who is going to make the most of a fairly weak squad - imo cooper just doesn’t have the tactical nouse to be that man.

I think Cooper can be best summed up as follows he makes big nige look like a tactical genius at PL level he is not the answer - we need a coach that makes us better as a team than the individual parts and that’s not him

You said we won on xg i was just pointing out that we didn’t (plus the reality of the game as a whole rather what might have happened if their player didn’t get a concussion)

Was it? they battered us for an hour - they just decided to try and walk the ball in rather than shooting. We had a really strong twenty minutes in the second period when they mentally fell apart.

They weren’t properly set to defend our structure in the first half - we needed to make more of that they made tactcial changes at HT which effectively nullified us and our coach was impotent thereafter ……

Perhaps my memory isn’t what it once was but did Ricky really have a starting position next to winks last season when mads had the ball/ first pass was made from mads to a CB ? I seem to think that he moved up into midfield as we worked the ball around - hence it wasn’t so easy to cut off passing lanes to him as it was for forest yesterday. He just looked way too static compared to how we played last season ????

Players must have eaten a few at half time judging by the pile of crap they produced in the second half …..