MPH

Ooh no bueno from the Uruguay keeper..

Uggh, got up to help my son get changed after being in the pool and I missed the goal

Fox sports have a woman commentating on the Saudi Arabia game 

3 minutes ago, cropstonfox said:

Massive mistake, Hope I'm wrong

SURELY we can’t fall any lower…… 

2 hours ago, lanefox said:

Puel is misunderstood by the majority of our fanbase 

He was a terrible communicator with the players and came across as aloof and arrogant to them. This was the main cause of the breakdown in relationship between them.

31 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

I mean, we all know it's FIFA's greed, but broadcasters will see the ad revenue and want to keep it if they can

Oh absolutely. I’m sure there were congratulatory email responses saying “ great decision!”

34 minutes ago, Foxin_Mad said:

What proof? He has done **** all ever in his whole history of management? He a useless twat, I cant believe people still stand up for the guy, I cant believe that anyone actually sat down there and watched a game last season and thought yeah hes doing a good job here, because he wasn't. The players were unfit and couldn't defend for shit, the games we won bar 2/3 were the result of a Fatawu or James worldy. What sent us down was probably James being out and Fatawu going off the boil. There is absoluely nothing so suggest that twat keeps us up in any way shape or form given the trend of results, and the performances that were absolutely stinking the place out. I reckon after Oxford if we kept him we would not have won another game at all, probably getting a few 4-0 spankings along the way. 

no one said anyone was doing a good job? I think you’ve jumped into the middle of a conversation. I took exception to someone saying that Marti was worse than Rowett or as bad. The evidence suggests other.

Absolute golden opportunity by Tunisia to equalize..

and I’m monologuing so I’ll go enjoy the game

Goalie went on a safari expedition!

Great opening goal after 7mins for Sweden!

Sweden are playing with Gyorkes and Isaac.. quite a strong strike force on paper.

1 hour ago, Jaspa said:

Designated pink boots 2026. Quartered football, brought to you be PepsiCo, McDonald's & affiliates. 

 

Ivory Coast & Ecuador meant to be somewhat underdogs this competition.

so whilst all boot suppliers didn’t collude to get pink boots at the same time, all their market research pointed to the same thing

That Konan… he’s an absolute barbarian..

32 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Our form was getting worse under Marti though, and I think that loss against Oxford in his last game would've just carried it on if he had stayed

 

The club and the players hadn't had the kick in the bollocks of the points deduction yet either and I think that just made everything around the club even worse

 

They are just both shite managers - Rowett did take us down and I see no reason to believe Marti wouldn't have

but that’s just guesswork.  Cifuentes was certainly not my choice of manager, but the evidence is clear- Rowett was worse for us.

But anyway, my point was I think they should come good… their physicality should come good second half

Oooooh

Ivory Coast beat France like a week before the World Cup kicked off… I’m sure the French were too scared to  give 100%.. no one wants to miss the first game..

2 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Not sure we would have

 

Marti's average points in the league was 1.31 - over the remaining 17 games that would be 22.27 points

 

We were on 32 points after the Oxford game so lets say 54 points if he carries on his ppg

 

But then you still have to take off the 6 points deduction - leaving us on 49 points and we are still relegated

 

That also doesn't take into account that our form was getting worse - and also wouldn't include the availability / form of both JJ and Fatawu which made things harder for Rowett than it was for Marti

 

Last 5 PPG - 0.8

 

Last 8 PPG - 0.875

 

Last 10 PPG - 1.1

 

Last 15 PPG - 1.33

 

Over the remaining games I doubt there would have have been much difference between the two

 

We may have won a couple more games under Marti but we probably draw less / lose more than we did under Rowett

I actually think if we’d have gone in to the last several games with a different manager we would have picked up even more points..than the average.. as you say, our form was getting worse and I don’t think it would have with Marti… he’s not my hero and I don’t rate him, but I think the proof is there that he’s not as bad a manager as Rowett.

14 hours ago, Ric Flair said:

Get rid of Winks and loan out Skipp and Smallbone would be an OK piece of business. Either of them stay and i'd not be keen.

likely to get Aribo..

48 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Marti was taking us down, too.

you can’t actually prove that. It’s just a guess. We KNOW Rowett took us down. People say well if you take our points deduction away we would have stayed up, but take ours away and we have to takes Brims away too which still puts us down

Marti averaged 1.34 points per game, Rowett averaged 1. Ironically, if we had stuck with Cifuentes, his points average would have been enough to stay up.

22 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

I don’t think you’re understanding what I’m saying. 
 

Rowett did a poor job I know.

 

But Marti did an even worse job IMO

Marti left when we were 14th, Rowett took us down…

19 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

it's so blatantly an attempt to create more ad breaks.

 

gonna be pure shite when Sky and TNT want in on that and you've got a "hydration break" in Newcastle the Saturday before Christmas 

Just for the record, the hydration break had totally come from FIFA and isn’t a request of the home nations or their broadcasting companies..

Just now, Vacamion said:

 

To quote Bruce Forsyth -  Good Game, Good Game.

 

(one for the kids, there)

 

 

this crowed is so much better than last games crowd..

Deflection so can’t blame the keeper really..

Fantastic!