cannable

Had my dog put down today. 
ducking gutted.
Not looking for sympathy or anything. Just helps if I keep on saying it. 

Had my dog put down today. 
ducking gutted.
Not looking for sympathy or anything. Just helps if I keep on saying it. 

Had my dog put down today. 
ducking gutted.
Not looking for sympathy or anything. Just helps if I keep on saying it. 

Had my dog put down today. 
ducking gutted.
Not looking for sympathy or anything. Just helps if I keep on saying it. 

Had my dog put down today. 
ducking gutted.
Not looking for sympathy or anything. Just helps if I keep on saying it. 

It’s why I was so harsh on him last season. The issues he had in his game last season are being exposed now. 
His impact on general play for us was exaggerated because he was just about the only creativity we had in the side and his passing was sloppy.
There is a top player in there but he’s still a diamond in the rough. 

The general jist of the press conference was that he didn’t particularly mind Barkley going out. The BBC appear to have just focused on one comment to make a story.

Gay players are a feature this year so expect to see stuff like 'Bamford sidelined for 2 weeks, anal fissure.'

First film I’ve ever seen applauded

Ahhhh Ulloa.
Always reminds me of summer 2014, went for £8,000,000 back when that was eye watering having scored 14 league goals the year previous and yet we somehow would only be getting about £9,000,000 for Martin had Pearson had his way! 

Ahhhh Ulloa.
Always reminds me of summer 2014, went for £8,000,000 back when that was eye watering having scored 14 league goals the year previous and yet we somehow would only be getting about £9,000,000 for Martin had Pearson had his way! 

900,673,236 step overs!

900,673,236 step overs!

Tomer Hemed? Glenn Murray getting started over him for Brighton and is a decent goal scoring target man. Might be a good idea to get a bid in.

It might be the place to be soon what with the Pearson sympathisers and Keogh haters. I get that conceding in the last minute is a ***** way to lose a game but some of the tripe I've read tonight has broke my tripeometer.

He wasn't in the team because of his end product though… he was in the team because he allowed Fozzy and Bryson to produce more end product.

I wouldn't really trust WhoScored's ratings when it comes to centre-halves. Always seems to overate the big 'head it and kick it' types.

In that 5-2 Fulham game we scored from a 10 man 20 pass move that never got the credit it deserved.
 

Y'know, it's never really been mentioned on here before but it really is a shame that Ipswich away was Eustace's last game in professional football.

Y'know, it's never really been mentioned on here before but it really is a shame that Ipswich away was Eustace's last game in professional football.

I hate hate hate that word.
Surely if we had 'bottled it' we wouldn't have produced the fight backs we did against Millwall and Huddersfield? We'd have just rolled over.

Y'know, it's never really been mentioned on here before but it really is a shame that Ipswich away was Eustace's last game in professional football.

Much needed post @sage
Too easily people are saying "433 didn't work" and "players are bottlers" but so much more went on this season. 
Omar was alright but he was a total hot head. So eager to press and chase (which is what gets fans cheering because they're stupid) that he too often left us exposed. And like you say, Cyrus is crazy. He's either a really crap good player or a really good crap player. He's so up and down that I can't decide if I rate him or hate him.
That goal v Forest was disgusting. More so than the first Brum goal.
A Grant goal kick. Hoofed long to Bent. And as soon as the ball flies over the halfway line 6 players are gone. Can't remember who won the header for Forest but it put 6 players out the game. Then Omar committed suicide. 1 header from their own half put Forest on through on goal. 
I loved how many players Mac used to get beyond the ball. But this was just poor decision making. But there's been little to no danger of it happening since... Or scoring much.
Many asked for a Plan B. But the problem is one we're seeing now. We've got so many options but very little depth to cover any specific system. 
McClaren was very unlucky to lose all 3 DM's. Eustace and Thorne just knew that role. They took so much ***** work off the other 2 midfielders. 
The other mistake Mac made was the tinkering of the defence.
We'd already lost Thorne, Eustace, Martin. So our spine had taken a blow. Then he seemed to set about systematically destroying confidence.
By tinkering with the defence we started to see the worst of Forsyth. Cyrus had broken completely. Then Whitbread, Shotton and Buxton couldn't get settled. Kept getting traded all over the place. And Keogh never knew who his partners would be. He even appeared at RB himself 
Then to kick a team that's down we had all the speculation and panic around Newcastle. 
The lessons to learn from this season were blatant. And I wish Mac had been here longer to show if he can learn. I wish we'd spent £25m on just a Thorne and Martin with a good defender thrown in. Maybe loan a winger because Mac was really good with wingers. He didn't like them to play 90mins and if we had what he called "a full back game" then he gave himself all kinds of options. Dawkins was a great slowly slowly catchy monkey alternative for building play. Ward and Russell very much for exploding play. Ibe for ridiculous ability to go through defenders with the ball. Far more direct than anyone else. No going around them. Through them!! He was improving too. 
So much to take from this season. So much to build on 

I hate hate hate that word.
Surely if we had 'bottled it' we wouldn't have produced the fight backs we did against Millwall and Huddersfield? We'd have just rolled over.