Fear Of The Fox

Ward must have hired the most talented agent in the universe. His agent has convinced everyone that Ward is a goalkeeper and clubs are paying millions in his client's bank accounts. Bonkers.

Absolute cinema. Hollywood.

Dorcel, with French commentary.

7-0 Southampton. Ward 2 OG. Coady 2 pens conceded.

One of the issues is that we're still a team which can be bullied by the opposition when it comes down to physicality. Birmingham were atrocious yesterday imo. No tactical plan at all, their only plan was to make this a scrappy affair. I'll risk it and say they'll be in the relegation battle zone.

Ipswich deflected shot goal incoming.

Sky with a groundbreaking stats overlay: Stansfield, 1st goal in Championship this season.

I'm leaving it on but I'm launching the new Madden now. I'm sure I'm gonna have more fun playing Madden than wasting my time watching this dross.

Tbf I've seen tanks like the Neubaufahrzeug turning quicker than Birmingham's No4 CB.

I think you should audition for commentating in a football videogame.

What football?

Seriously, is it so difficult for them to hire proper decent refs? This one is atrocious. The way he moves, the way he whistles. Wtf is wrong with him?

Good to see some things never change. Like Gray doing 360s around himself for 2 minutes and passing back afterwards.

The city or the team?

OK, whatever. Let's discuss it again tomorrow afternoon after they thrash Wrexham.

Spotted what exactly? The fact that all Still's teams in France were playing fascinating attacking football with fresh tactical ideas? Also, do we have a striker like Downs who will score 20+ goals this season?

Southampton will break all records in goals scored because of the manager they appointed. So from the beginning there's no comparison. We just hope to finish 2nd behind Southampton. Will Still has more tactical knowledge than the other 23 managers in the league combined.

Sheff Wed is a private company owned by Chansiri. This is why a lot of us for many years are calling for ownership changes like the ones in Germany.

The alternative is to rebuild now the scouting team with knowledgeable people and hire a DoF with vision to build a talented young team utilising also the academy. We simply can't go up and leave Rudkin and Co in charge. If the current team is strong for the Championship it will be reflected in the first 10 games of the season.

Yes this is the way forward but it will mean a full rebuild next summer. We're talking about 14-15 new players maybe? A young team full of thirsty talents. Good luck with that with our current scouting team.

I'm also positive for the season but then I think if we go up we'll still have major issues, possibly bigger than we have now. And instantly my excitement is gone. 😒

I don't quite see how their situation is so similar to ours. Our problems started in PL when BR managed to relegate a mid table team. This was an absolute crime which totally derailed everything. Ofc our board is liable to this monumental disaster. After this was a matter of decisions. Rebuild and risk further decline? Keep the somewhat PL quality and go up instantly with excessive wages? Scouting and transfer logic was atrocious also, manager appointments laughable. Correct if I'm wrong but the major issue wasn't the transfers amounts, it was the wages to certain non footballers like Ward, Soumare etc.

Exactly. I think as a fanbase we've forgotten that success was achieved when the team worked as a collective. Ofc there were always these individual player moments but all lines were giving 100% in every game. Fatawu having 3 magic moments per game doesn't mean anything if our CBs also have their 3+ "magic" moments.

He loves his kebabs though.

The wife legal card is overused and it's really annoying to be played all the time. Do you really believe they're poor as a family they can't afford to pay?