Corky

Watkins would've cost £30 million. We needed Castagne and Fofana more last summer.

I'd rather we tried to tempt them down to watch the County.

It's a shame that people would only come down to Grace Road to watch franchise teams rather than an historic county club.

10 minutes ago, The People's Hero said:

Err ..... yeah. Indians love cricket. The stadia are huge. The games are ridiculously well attended.

 

The Oval is not going to impress or entice them. Some sort of £££££££££££££££ deal going on perhaps.

 

Maybe Surrey CCC and their ilk (hello Notts!) haven't got quite enough money to bully the smaller counties with yet?

It needs to be closely monitored if it ever happens (I don't think it will). You can't have grounds staging games from other competitions and the counties profiting from it.

1 minute ago, The People's Hero said:

It works as follows.

 

Surrey CCC usually get everything they want.

 

Surrey CCC become arrogant and entitled.

 

Surrey CCC request something ridiculous.

 

We await to see whether the sport at large has any integrity left now I suppose.

I may be completely out of touch but isn't a massive part of the IPL actually being in India and going to the packed grounds there? 

29 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

I seen Surrey want to bring IPL games to the Oval. 

How does that work?

If we can't have both, next Sunday. We have a chance to respond to defeat tomorrow.

Highlight of the game was the Palace PA bloke still shouting the scorer's first name and expecting the crowd to shout the surname.

14 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

Good grief some of you are absolute fannies. 

 

Leeds will be a horrible proposition for Liverpool next week and Chelsea have some very tough games to come too.

 

Start worrying when half our side is out tomorrow and/or we hit a slump.

 

 

Chelsea are thumping Palace. You know what? Why don't we do the same in two weeks time?

It's unrealistic to expect teams around us to keep dropping points. We're doing fine, generally. 3 defeats in 17. We should embrace the challenge.

3 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Pretty much shouted 'are you watching Gary Neville?!' down the mic 

And Neville didn't actually criticise his attacking ability.

Still, it gets Carra his clip on Twitter and no doubt G Nev's response. Berk.

1 minute ago, Clever Fox said:

Of course you are right but it sure helps if the chasing pack drop points.

 

It allows our players go into game more confident and relaxed which can make a huge difference.

 

I identified tomorrows game as huge for us in Feb and so it's turned out. If we win I think we will comfortably make top four.

 

If we lose it puts a lot of pressure on players going into games.

 

 

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We were in a better position last year and they certainly weren't relaxed judging by the end of the season displays.

Even if the teams around us don't win, we need to win our games. We aren't going to lose our way into the top four. They aren't all going to slip up.

Next five games are huge.

10th April and a game delayed due to snow.

Good old England 

4 minutes ago, Vacamion said:

 

Carragher seemed to be suggesting that the intent to touch the ball was enough to rule out offside.

 

I've never seen it interpreted like that and put the suggestion down to Carragher being

 

a) Scouse

 

and

 

b) a git.

 

 

Yeah, I thought it sounded odd. Never heard intent when missing the ball as a defender as a reason for a decision before.

49 minutes ago, Langston said:

 

Lovely free-kick, so pleased for him.

 

Did he ever take one for us? I suppose it would've been when Knockaert was the main man.

Unless I've got this wrong, Carragher seemed to get Cash's involvement completely incorrect. I thought you had to touch it and then it was decided if it was deliberate such as a back pass or an attempt to block a cross. If he doesn't touch the ball it is irrelevant?

1 minute ago, coolhandfox said:

We did the same as Leeds, we had more shots and possession then Leeds.

 

Sometimes it about luck and that producing that little bit of quality at the right time.

 

Agreed but it means Man CIty have to keep going which means they could do us a favour against Chelsea.

Leeds also have the ability to play with freedom now their objective (staying up) is assured. If they drop two or three places then it's not a huge deal. If we do our season has a different look again.

The title race is done, Man United aren't consistent enough to catch Man City.

1 minute ago, yorkie1999 said:

Clever manager, probably told them to let them have the ball, but make sure you do something with it when you’ve got it. Man City’s defender ain’t the quickest so you have to counter when the attackers are all around your own box, not give them time to get back by playing it around in defence. 

That goal had looked quite likely in the five minutes before, Leeds managed to break quickly a couple of times.

I see Fernandinho had his customary off-the-ball lunge at the end.

1 minute ago, NaijaFox said:

He likes Lingard

Not sure, he mentioned something about him only getting because of injuries this time.

Southgate has this reputation as a good public speaker but he does talk down plenty of players too.

1 minute ago, Ric Flair said:

He shouldn't be behind either, his performances in the league and cups this season has him well and truly up there with the best attacking midfielders in the league. From December through to his injury at Villa he was a big game player and match winner. Goals and assists coming out of his ears and pretty much matched what Grealish was doing, although they play in different positions anyway.

I'm not sure Southgate wants the lot of them- Maddison, Grealish, Lingard. Grealish only seemed to get in because Southgate was bored of all the clamour, not through any great positivity about him.

Just now, st albans fox said:

Good result - keeps Man City ‘honest’ for longer 

Agreed, they've still got to play Everton and Chelsea and if the title is wrapped up and they are still in Europe they may drop off.

Hopefully Leeds can do the same next week  

On 09/04/2021 at 10:33, davieG said:

How Lingard has pushed Maddison to the brink of Euro 2020 England heartbreak

 

https://www.whoscored.com/Articles/fjXWunlNXkeNiT15iMgfeA/Show/How-Lingard-has-pushed-Maddison-to-the-brink-of-Euro-2020-England-heartbreak

Maddison wasn't going anyway.