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Just now, hintonsboots said:

That’s exactly what you are now doing.?

And now you've policed my policing. Your move.

1 minute ago, Caerphilly Ram said:

Finished 1-0 to Charlton.

It’s the second game of the season, we’re still behind other teams in terms of fitness (which showed in the second half), we’ve created chances throughout and had pressure with the number of corners (something we didn’t tend to do in away games last season). So yeah, the end result is disappointing but there were promising signs. We will get better with more time playing together and a few more additions. Don’t let the result ruin your weekend folks, plenty of football to go this season! ? 

I'd be much more concerned if we weren't creating anything. That's harder to fix.

Bit confused about posts saying this is an historic problem, as heroic as our efforts were last season, creating clear-cut chances was a problem all season long. We created 4 or 5 today.

Haven't got much more to add about the game that hasn't been said, but in terms of analysing the fans' performance, I've seen more posts saying "calm down, season isn't over" than I have posts resembling a panic.

We don't need to police each others' reactions when we're all having the same reaction.

At the end of the match, someone should do a post about how it’s important to score

Leaving space at the back in pursuit of an equalising. This is fast turning into one of those horrible games that’s great for the neutral.

Hopefully that goal wakes us up a bit.

Just now, Big Trav said:

We've stopped pressing as aggressively as we were and they're starting to dominate

And they’re pressing much more effectively.  Bird in particular unable to take as many touches.

If only the players tried to score while we were on top like we suggested, we wouldn’t be in this position.

Just now, Yani P said:

Who is this Harry Hann that Barks keeps mentioning?

Pretty sure it’s this guy

1 minute ago, nottingram said:

We really do look excellent but no way Charlton will keep playing into our hands

Every opposition fan must’ve thought the same thing about us under Cocu

It’s great when clubs like Charlton engage the young fans in the community. You won’t find many clubs letting a primary school child have a go with the camera like this. 

Saying "he's always injured anyway" has the same energy as a girlfriend dumping you and saying "she wasn't a looker anyway."

Yes she was, and this is a massive loss. 

1 minute ago, ThePrisoner said:

 

That pun should put us back into administration

We're making better signings than the era which got us into the trouble in the first place.

2 minutes ago, Mostyn6 said:

we have to face it... we need a rich idiot willing to pay over the odds for us to survive as the club we currently are. There's no realism of value that works. It's either someone pays more than we are worth, and we rebuild, or they don't and we are booted out of the Football League. The EFL cannot bypass rules just to keep a decent-sized club in the league. The HMRC won't accept peanuts. The footballing debts MUST be paid in full. DELL want 100% of what they're owed, which is increasing with every loan that Q take from them.

It needs a sugar daddy to survive. End of..........

To be honest, this has been our reality for most of this calendar year. You'd have to be nuts or mega rich to buy Derby County, preferably both. We've been superb at attracting the former.

I think Gasly's moment has passed anyway. He's been outdriving the car and his team-mates for two seasons, but seems that Tsunoda has closed the gap this season. Going to be much harder to stand out.

Think the most talented drivers ready to take a big seat aren't in F1. Pato O'Ward drives for McLaren in IndyCar and he's got another test coming soon. Palou or Herta are also good shouts. And how Oscar Piastri isn't in F1 already is a travesty, I think it won't take long for him to prove he's future WDC material

22 minutes ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

 

 

I think Wilson was in the Championship team of the season this year.

Why waste your time replying to posters like me who clearly don't know what they're on about?

Rasiak and Idiakez never hit the same heights as 04/05 again. In fact their careers seemed to follow the same trajectory as soccer am’s popularity.

6 minutes ago, roboto said:

Allow it. ? 

I think he's done alright, but not looked special like he did for us in that season. We'll see if they stick with him for the Prem campaign or maybe get someone in ahead of him.

Hot take here, but I think it’s easy to conflate spectacular goals with spectacular performances. Wilson is incredibly gifted in striking a ball, but average in many other regards and would often drift in and out of games. The spectacular players were Tomori and Mount, without whom we would’ve struggled to finish in the top half.

Thanks everyone, particularly @David who is right to take full credit for the beard I have today.

Too young to do the 90s, but I could make a cracking 00s side. Phil Brown even managed to select it for a good chunk of the 2005/06 season.

27 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

I hated his time as manager.

I did think it was the wrong appointment at the wrong time. "But Leicester..."

I hated the way we played and how bad at playing it we were.

However, with hindsight, he was set up to fail. Looking back I don't hold anything against him. Stuff that seemed bizarre to me at the time did have a thinking behind it.

Doesn't everything in the first part of your post back this up? The fans were as quick to decide he wasn't right for us as the players. I don't blame Pearson at all for applying for a job, getting it and tackling it with the skills and knowledge he possesses but from our point of view it was a totally nuts appointment.

@cannable really hit the nail on the head when he said that Mel Morris didn't understand football and this appointments lurched from one type of coach to another almost by the month. But not understanding football is no excuse anyway. Takes about 10 minutes of googling "what makes a club successful" and a further half an hour of reading to learn that it's generally a good idea to keep a sense of consistency when appointing coaches in football, if you can be sufficiently arsed to do it.

Every time we've done this, it's gone exceptionally well. 

I too give people chat for wearing the same item of clothing twice. 
 

11 hours ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

But then the FIA / F1 have never been particually adverse to having events in questionable countries. (Protests against human rights abuses in Bahrain - Bernie said "oh don't worry, it's just some kids throwing rocks")

F1 raced in South Africa through virtually the entire apartheid era, then almost immediately stopped racing there when it ended. 

F1 is escapism turned up to the max, but too often the people running it also appear to be escaping from any moral responsibility.