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The Key Club King

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  1. I can't keep up with what formation we have played this season, but we have tried them all, including Herbert Chapman's "W-M" formation from the 1930s. It has made little difference as the style of play remians the same. Whenever we play 442, then 3 at the back is immediately though to be the solution to all our problems, and vice versa. Having said that, didn't Cashin play left back tonight in a flat back four?
  2. Ah, I've fallen for that logic before I'm afraid. We think we are in a mini slump, when in fact we were in a mini-period of success and the slump is the normal state of affairs. Gets me every year!
  3. It really does not matter about the formation or which personnel in what position. This is how Warne wants to play - pragmatic, hard-working but with little movement or creativity. It's like watching the straight lines English football of the 1980s. I genuinley cannot stand any team who will take any opportunity to lump the ball in the box from a free-kick from absolutely anywhere on the pitch. This makes sense for a team with little resources, but we are the wealthiest team in the division! Warne seems to consider these as our best chance to score rather than back our players to pass the ball around and create space. The sooner this season is over, the better. Either we bore our way to a joyless promotion or he gets sacked for not achieving it. I wish I had that option like on Football Manager where you can go on holiday and come back at the end and hope everything has worked out alright.
  4. Steve Gibson recently converted £107m worth of debt into shares, as he has done before and was fully expected. If he had not done this and just left the club with the debt and a spiral of problems occured similar to Derby, would Middlesborough's CEO/CFO be blamed? Having said that when I went to the loo at 2am whilst having a post night out curry with my mates at the Moghul on Green Lane in 1996, they ran off and left me behind and the owners definitely held me financially responsible for it.
  5. That's a great synopsis. Thanks. Looks like things are moving in the right direction. I'd expect it to take a good few years to get to where we were but maybe the reputation we had before, along with being Cat 1, means it may happen sooner than I anticipated.
  6. I don't know much about our academy but it's seems as if results have improved a lot since last year. Obviously there were struggles last season as we were starting from scratch, but has our improvement been a result of our much maligned recruitment team? Whilst we are lamenting the potential purchase of another 30+ year old striker, is it that our recruitment focus has been on stocking the academy up with future talent and getting it back to where it was pre administration?
  7. There is a lot going on in these accounts and it is only 9 months but it's probably reasonable to say that with our wage bill that high (in L1 terms) we are not sustainable unless the owner bankrolls the club and covers the losses. That's something worth considering when we spent half the season moaning that we did not buy Peterborough's reserve striker. Clowes is indeed a saint!
  8. I remember when so many people here thought that Jody Morris was the brains behind the Lampard era. His time at Swindon has now dispelled that myth. Though Lampard's subsequent spells at Chelsea and Everton suggest there were little brains involved at all.
  9. So many on here embarrassed by our songs highlight the problem with the atmosphere. We are too self conscious about what we look and sound like to join in with something that isn't cool or original. It really isn't that important. As Adam Ant once sang "ridicule is nothing to be scared of". Though the alternative lyrics to that are the best football chant I've ever heard: "East Stirling, East Stirling, Cowdenbeath are nothing to be scared of."
  10. Ince, Hendrick, Bogle, Christie, Plange, Jozwiak, Luke Thomas, Brayford. Some good sales there where we got peak value. Even Will Hughes was sold for less when he moved on. Sales is a mixed picture overall skewed by the fire sales around the periods of administration. Having said that, selling Goddard was the Derby equivalent of Leeds selling Eric Cantona. Never understood that.
  11. Let me be clear - Will Hughes is better than Max Bird. I just think that Bird is not suited to our style of football which is largely about running around a lot and flinging the ball in the box from anywhere. He'd be better off in Peterborough's team - which is a great shame in my opinion.
  12. Like Will he will go on to a team in a higher division. Oops, I did it again!
  13. Can we not be a bunch of moaning Minnies about minor refereeing decisions? Go on the opposition forum and they'll be saying the same things about the ref. It was a good game that Peterborough edged as they were better than us, not because we might have had a throw in awarded to us in our own half.
  14. I suspect Bird is a good footballer that plays for a team that has no aspiration to play good football. He would be better off with a possession based team. A bit like Rowett selling Will Hughes.
  15. Surely the way to deal with a voiceferous, antagonistic crowd would be to ignore the calls and abuse and make the right decisions anyway. This is what she did. Almost all refs will favour the home crowd - which is the root of home advantage. She certainly was not swayed by the 400 Wycombe fans in the corner.
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