Anag Ram

Delighted to have our first three points.
Burton aren’t great so we shouldn’t get too carried away but a win’s a win.
Hope they will relax and gain confidence.
Would like to see a second forward next to Collins for the two home games this week.

Delighted to have our first three points.
Burton aren’t great so we shouldn’t get too carried away but a win’s a win.
Hope they will relax and gain confidence.
Would like to see a second forward next to Collins for the two home games this week.

Don’t step on his foot!

Don’t step on his foot!

He looks ready 
 

Cannot wait to absolutely smash this lot, put the last week behind us, and get this season going 🐏
C’mon Paul!

Finished The Newsroom last night.
Season 3 started strong and tanked alarmingly.

The last episode I found utterly embarrassing.
If AI had been around then I'd have presumed Sorkin had thrown a couple of episodes into ChatGPT and asked it to wrap stuff up and write a final episode based on that with the proviso that it was as sickly sweet as possible.
It's always hard to wrap up a great series, but Sorkin mailed it in with this imho.
We'd forgotten we had paused Colin from Accounts to watch Newsroom so we went back to that after, and it really is good.

The Newsroom would get a 7/10 over the 3 seasons.
Colin from Accounts is a solid 7.5/10
One other thing. I'm 85% sure that Sorkin wrote The Newsroom to run over 3 seasons because, ya know, you can do that when you wrote The West Wing.
But that makes it weird that it felt so rushed and so poorly executed at the end. 
Then again because of adverts that are in from season 4 with no way of forwarding past them, I've never seen the end of The West Wing, so maybe that was as vomit-inducing at the end.

You’re not Max Bird’s parents are you?

He’s more S&M than M&S

He waits outside the menswear section of Marks and Spencer.

I like the green third kit.

You’re not Max Bird’s parents are you?

I like the green third kit.

Well Klopp is Warne’s hero!

I’ve never had any trouble with the police. I bung ‘em a few quid and they’re as good as gold.

I’ve never had any trouble with the police. I bung ‘em a few quid and they’re as good as gold.

You’re not Max Bird’s parents are you?

I guess my feelings are that we were led to believe this was going to be a fit, hungry group of players. 
The friendlies (and yes I know they’re no real barometer) saw us playing some nice stuff to feet. I was a little alarmed at how easy teams found it to create chances, even though (esp Stoke) they missed a lot.
When I saw the team for Saturday I thought we would struggle to score, but I thought we would be well-organised and difficult to break down. With two very experienced central defenders and an upcoming defensive talent, we should have dealt with Wyke and Co without too much trouble.
What I saw was very chaotic and troubling.
Bradley looks like he’s going through a crisis of confidence. Nelson regularly over hits passes. Cashin doesn’t seem to know how to play alongside them.
They aren’t bad players, they are good players playing badly. I think our defending will improve dramatically. I am less confident about what will happen in front of them. In order to get the variety we need in midfield, we need two new players.
We have three hardworking but toothless old forwards and we seldom look like getting on the end of crosses. Collins raised hopes with easy goals when unmarked in friendlies but when he is marked creates no threat at all. Washington might help another score, as might Waghorn, but we haven’t got the pace or guile to make half a yard to score goals. 
I think that will take two more players. That’s four to find, just to become competitive. 
I really hope Warne gets those four, because I don’t think any manager would succeed with what we have. Sibley and Barkhuisen will offer more from the bench, with occasional starts. 
I think we also need to have more faith in Bardell and Rooney who have energy and enthusiasm to play progressive football.
Warne seems to want success, but also wears his heart very much on his sleeve. Good managers should look full of energy to put things right, not dejected, no matter how bad they are feeling.
The players need lifting up, not to be vilified. They have to believe they are good enough to beat Burton. I’ll be rooting for them. Even if they lose, I will settle for passion, positive play and a shape which will be effective over the course of a season.

 

 
 
 
 

Haha. Would be hilarious.
What a shame we couldn’t reunite Sharp and McGoldrick.
Separately, getting Sharp would be like having one Krankie 😊

I guess my feelings are that we were led to believe this was going to be a fit, hungry group of players. 
The friendlies (and yes I know they’re no real barometer) saw us playing some nice stuff to feet. I was a little alarmed at how easy teams found it to create chances, even though (esp Stoke) they missed a lot.
When I saw the team for Saturday I thought we would struggle to score, but I thought we would be well-organised and difficult to break down. With two very experienced central defenders and an upcoming defensive talent, we should have dealt with Wyke and Co without too much trouble.
What I saw was very chaotic and troubling.
Bradley looks like he’s going through a crisis of confidence. Nelson regularly over hits passes. Cashin doesn’t seem to know how to play alongside them.
They aren’t bad players, they are good players playing badly. I think our defending will improve dramatically. I am less confident about what will happen in front of them. In order to get the variety we need in midfield, we need two new players.
We have three hardworking but toothless old forwards and we seldom look like getting on the end of crosses. Collins raised hopes with easy goals when unmarked in friendlies but when he is marked creates no threat at all. Washington might help another score, as might Waghorn, but we haven’t got the pace or guile to make half a yard to score goals. 
I think that will take two more players. That’s four to find, just to become competitive. 
I really hope Warne gets those four, because I don’t think any manager would succeed with what we have. Sibley and Barkhuisen will offer more from the bench, with occasional starts. 
I think we also need to have more faith in Bardell and Rooney who have energy and enthusiasm to play progressive football.
Warne seems to want success, but also wears his heart very much on his sleeve. Good managers should look full of energy to put things right, not dejected, no matter how bad they are feeling.
The players need lifting up, not to be vilified. They have to believe they are good enough to beat Burton. I’ll be rooting for them. Even if they lose, I will settle for passion, positive play and a shape which will be effective over the course of a season.

 

 
 
 
 

You’re not Max Bird’s parents are you?

Oo-er. So sorry for any upset caused.

You’re not Max Bird’s parents are you?

Yeah, Bradley will be okay. He’s just going through one of those stages. Sometimes you get on the field and even kicking the ball seems weird.
He just needs to get himself together and he will become the leader we need him to be.
 

You’re not Max Bird’s parents are you?