volpeazzurro

Good luck to the lad. No way did he appear to get a fair throw of the dice here. I hope gets his head down and proves everyone wrong. He's just a young man and I wish him well.

Interesting reading, thank you.

Whilst I agree with some of what is being said, a lot of this is also down to some pathetic individuals. Whatever is on sale, whether it is a football or concert ticket, we all know what we realistically value that ticket at and, more importantly what we can afford. I wonder how many people have shelled out for Oasis tickets as much for the kudos as their supposed love for the band? I know at least 2! Never mentioned the band before but now apparently their biggest fans! No-one cares. Life is about choices. I'd had Leicester City season tickets for years but when my two kids were born it would have been too much of a struggle to be practical so I did without. Later, with the aid of the Family Stand and free under 8 tickets, things got more on a level keel so I started going again for the last 20+ years again. You have to cut your cloth. It's part of life's lessons. Unfortunately some people get too caught up in a me me, want now want now, consumerist society, or merely blow money to look good in other people's eyes supposedly to enhance their rep. The proof is in the pudding, that's why dynamic sales are working, largely due to dumb individuals.

I have to say I'd pick exactly that side. Cooper needs to wake up. In a normal situation his pragmatic approach might be fine, particularly against the reputed much better sides, but not now in our current situation because: 1. We just haven't got a good enough defence to simply defend for 70 minutes and hope for the best and attack in the last 10! We need to show the opposition at least some kind of threat to stop them overrunning us. 2. He should know that we're going to be getting a points reduction of anything between 6 and 12 points. Narrow respectable defeats or the occasional pragmatic draw are simply not going to be good enough. We need 3 point wins! With the exception of Arsenal, regardless of any current reputation, we simply have to try and win against Everton, Bournemouth, Southampton, Forest and Ipswich. No excuses! These are the sort of games that will decide our season. We used to be a team that never used to respect reputations. It requires fight, guts and belief that should be instilled by the manager. Relegation is one thing, but relegation with a whimpering dithering pragmatic team is quite another. You can get relegated yet still keep the pride and respect of your supporters. 3. That nauseating 3 man defensive midfield has to go. Ndidi is like a pathetic flapping fish out of his depth in that number 10 role and adds nothing whatsoever. Even if Buonanotte occasionally gives the ball away at least he's trying to do something positive and will only improve. Even Ayew would offer more there. Mavididi should absolutely be on the left because Reid offers absolutely nothing in comparison, there's a reason he wasn't playing for his last team!

Wilf's just completed the new FA Prostate awareness course.

You can't sell who doesn't want to go for whatever reason ie financial or doesn't like the club or place on offer (see Ward), or that someone that nobody wants. Some players would be out of pocket. Some wouldn't fancy moving abroad or even to certain areas in the UK, particularly if married with kids. To them it's just a job sometimes.

I don't think there was a host of potential buyers knocking at the door?

He did his best to put himself in the shop window and there were no takers. Can't say that I can see many Premiership teams he'd actually improve.

There's more than a fair chance Potter didn't actually want the job!

Wonder if playboy Top managed to make it to that one? 🤔

I agree. Yesterday it was almost predictable, he was like watching CoCo the clown with a big red nose. Someone would pass him the ball and you could almost hear the joke horn sound as he once again tripped over his big flat feet! All that was missing was the bucket of confetti 🎊

Christ, don't put JJ on the left, he flaps like a nervous wildebeest on the right let alone on the left where his mission in life always seems to be to make sure he's in the wrong place, at the wrong time, in order to give the ball to the opposition like a labrador with a tennis ball!

Not too despondent after today. Be honest, Spurs, Fulham and Villa. We'd expect to lose to Spurs and Villa but hope for a draw away to Fulham? We got 1 point as expected. In our next 6 games, ignoring Arsenal, we've got Everton, Bournemouth, Southampton, Forest and Ipswich. Those are the sort of games that will define our future. However, if you don't play creative players or goalscorers, then don't be surprised when you don't score. Neither is it worth defending for 70 minutes with our defence because it's not good enough because most teams in the Premiership have a midfield or forwards that can carve straight through that approach! There were some positives. Mads is a good keeper. Okoli, for his first Premiership match did OK bar one blunder but they can all do it. I think Skipp will improve with more games. Mavididi and Buonanotte made a difference, the latter is not only industrious but has a great touch in forward positions ... Ndidi hasn't! With him, Mavididi on the left, Fatawu on the right, hopefully Edouard or Vardy could bag a few. They would certainly give defences more of a problem than Cooper's more pragmatic approach and stop lesser opposition flooding forwards whenever they want because they'll have their hands full! Ayew was industrious and tried hard. The other new boy quiet but needs time, he's just arrived. Reid seems a waste of space and no way should he be ahead of Mavididi. Let's hope after the international break and time to work with the squad that there's a more positive approach. Weren't the officials crap today!

Wow! How very sad indeed he was quite a character here. RIP.

The comment was about 'being a beast at Celtic', hardly a comparable Premiership.

Ok, Scottish Farmers Premiership 🤣

Hardly Premiership football though was it, got found out at Palace, bloody useless!

They wouldn't be, they'd be sabotaging them.

He was an utter useless lazy bone idle twat here for nearly two years he deserves booing.

Bar about 1 possibly 2 teams it's way below the Championship standard. I watched quite a bit on television last season and at times I've seen better grassroots football! Is it just down to waiting for offers? Don't we have our own people being a bit more proactive and trying to find our better young players suitable clubs? I genuinely don't know.

That's all well and good but it's about gaining experience and credibility surely. Even if he plays every game for Dundee he may have well have played for an English second division side, at the end of the season, even if he shines there, surely it will mean very little?

Skipp for Ndidi, otherwise the same for me. Ndidi, though fine without the ball trying to win it back is a liability with it now. Skipp appears to be fine at both and will get better as the season goes on I think.

Is Dundee really the best that could be done for such a promising young prospect?

Absolutely.

Cannon is an odd one. When I saw him last year I definitely saw promise in him, certainly as a goalscorer. At least his instinctive shots that didn't go in were on target as opposed to Daka's which were invariably stupidly blazed over or similar instead of trying to pass the ball into the net. I suppose Daka was admittedly more mobile as a midfielder/striker but those sort of tactics are starting to wear a bit thin in football fashion because if there's no end product, what's the point? I still think that there's room for a more traditional goalscoring striker, Harlaand doesn't do too bad does he! Unless there something in Cannon's personality or behaviour that we're unaware about. I think he's probably a more fox in the box opportunist type striker and surely they have to be a great option to bring on if your other tactics aren't working? Ayew admittedly has his place with his type of game but surely Cannon offers something different. Unless as a club we've managed to drain every ounce of confidence out of him?