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Cambridge is gonna be a nightmare, innit? Already considering setting up an account there and buying tickets to their cheapest game just to make it look legit

Cambridge is gonna be a nightmare, innit? Already considering setting up an account there and buying tickets to their cheapest game just to make it look legit

Never paid enough attention to notice before but… have there always been two tosses for penalties?
It just feels like that if one team won both, as Newcastle did last night, they’re getting a HUGE advantage in the shootout?
Wouldn’t it be fairer, that the team who win the toss get to choose end or order and the toss loser decide the other?

Adams has provided much needed midfield steel… but he ain’t it.
Just not good enough on the ball.

When was the last time we could say a midfielder ran the show?
I’m not talking playing well, I mean conducting the orchestra. 

When was the last time we could say a midfielder ran the show?
I’m not talking playing well, I mean conducting the orchestra. 

When was the last time we could say a midfielder ran the show?
I’m not talking playing well, I mean conducting the orchestra. 

When was the last time we could say a midfielder ran the show?
I’m not talking playing well, I mean conducting the orchestra. 

There are four ways five-at-the-back works.
You use it if your midfield is poor but you have ball-playing centre-halves - so your defenders are keeping the ball.
You use it if you have underlapping wide centre-halves. 
You use it in a one off match in which you know you’re soaking up loads of pressure.
Or you use it if you have an insane sweeper. 
We’re none of these.

What’s that?

What’s that?

I was driving around Belper with my dad practicing for my driving test with that Burnley game on the radio. Radio Derby never mentioned Jeff’s disallowed goal so I got to be angry again when I saw the highlights!
Funny what you remember, innit?

And at that… I always thought Coutts was potentially the best of the lot but did his knee just before McClaren came in!

Directly contributed to 22 goals in the league (24 all comps).
He’s potentially the league’s POTS not just ours.

Directly contributed to 22 goals in the league (24 all comps).
He’s potentially the league’s POTS not just ours.

Directly contributed to 22 goals in the league (24 all comps).
He’s potentially the league’s POTS not just ours.

Wolves away was f****** b*******, Bent gets clattered by Batth, clean through on goal but Ince scores from the resultant loose ball.
It’s either advantage and a goal or a red and a free-kick.
Free-kick and a yellow.
 
Not sure Collins missing would have the same impact as Martin, mind. Martin wasn’t just our goal scorer, he was our creator as well.

Wolves away was f****** b*******, Bent gets clattered by Batth, clean through on goal but Ince scores from the resultant loose ball.
It’s either advantage and a goal or a red and a free-kick.
Free-kick and a yellow.
 
Not sure Collins missing would have the same impact as Martin, mind. Martin wasn’t just our goal scorer, he was our creator as well.

That's certainly my take on it.  We overcommitted financially, with Morris was happily covering the shortfall each month, up until he decided he couldn't afford it and stopped.  The EFL issues (on top of accumulating debt) basically prevented a sale, and then a combination of those 2 factors plus COVID pushed us over the edge.  There's no super secret conspiracy, or pots of missing money to find or anything.
Regarding Pearce, the only major issues you can have with him are the overcommitting and the amortization method stuff.  If Morris had committed to covering the shortfall, then I'm not sure what Pearce was supposed to do about it.  Almost every football club in the country is reliant on their owner putting money in to keep the lights on, we weren't unusual in that respect (and are still in that kind of position now, to some degree).  And for what it's worth, I suspect the NDAs are mostly around this stuff - what guarantees Morris gave to the club about putting money in, and whether he stuck to them or not.
And of course, the amortization method was signed off by at least 4 separate sets of accountants, including the EFL's own choice of independent forensic accountant, so it's hard to pin blame on Pearce for that.

No offence… but doesn’t not being that engaged with an England team that’s repaired relations with the tabloids whilst coming off a World Cup Semi-final and Euros final in 2/3 tournaments say more about you?

There were two teams in that game… I’ve banged on about it before but we still lack a midfielder that can dictate the tempo. Jorginho and Veratti* gradually started controlling that match as Modric had done three years prior.
 
*Veratti alone made more passes than England’s ENTIRE midfield that night.

I’m hoping Connor Bradley’s emergence forces Liverpool’s hand into playing Alexander-Arnold in midfield. If he excels there he might be it.
Wilshere’s the one. At 32 he should be the one pulling the strings in this England midfield. Instead he’s been retired for three years.

There were two teams in that game… I’ve banged on about it before but we still lack a midfielder that can dictate the tempo. Jorginho and Veratti* gradually started controlling that match as Modric had done three years prior.
 
*Veratti alone made more passes than England’s ENTIRE midfield that night.

There were two teams in that game… I’ve banged on about it before but we still lack a midfielder that can dictate the tempo. Jorginho and Veratti* gradually started controlling that match as Modric had done three years prior.
 
*Veratti alone made more passes than England’s ENTIRE midfield that night.

No offence… but doesn’t not being that engaged with an England team that’s repaired relations with the tabloids whilst coming off a World Cup Semi-final and Euros final in 2/3 tournaments say more about you?