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Brightside... one less game without Curtis.

6 minutes ago, Carl Sagan said:

I remember when Diana died everything (including football) was cancelled for ages - which seemed totally ridiculous. It would be absurd not to do likewise for the longest-reigning monarch in the history of England and the United Kingdom. I'm an ambivalent Republican but she was a fantastic Queen if we were going to have one, and as a nation it's important we mark this moment and the transition. It's what Britain does well and the world expects of us. Me and Mrs Sagan went to Buckingham Palace last night and are at the memorial service in St Paul's this evening.

Only 1 game was cancelled for that.

Again though, you're throwing a lot of s*** at a wall which I haven't built.

Allen drops his shoulder and runs into several defenders... Analysts:

Lamar evades a defender and steps out of bounds... Analysts:

That's it, that's the end of the comparison.

Is Josh Allen great? Right now, yes. Would I rather have him than Lamar? Potentially, because he is that good, let's see how Lamar is this year.

As for the racism, just google it. There's endless articles and analysis on it. Because it does exist, and has done for every single Black QB where the bar for athleticism and intelligence is far higher.

31 minutes ago, David said:

Come on, nothing to do with colour, most teams are full of BAME players so no need to take it down the racism path.

Lamar runs more than Allen even though he has had better RB’s at his disposal. The more you run, the more chances of getting banged up are. 

Allen rushed 122 times for 763 yards

Jackson rushed 134 times for 767 yards playing 4 games less than Allen.

You also have to consider Allen is a bigger guy than Lamar, plus the obvious bias as Lamar is your guy.

There’s institutional racism at QB, that’s just a fact. White ones are seen as smarter, more traditional QBs. Black ones are just athletes. Listen to every narrative and it’s still there like it has been since the NFL started, if you can’t hear it still then I don’t know what to tell you. It’s there every single time. Until you get a black Tom Brady, it’ll probably never leave - that said, they’d probably get knocked for being unathletic.

Your stats are meaningless when you missed the prime word I used, which is elusive. Allen drops a shoulder and creates contact, Lamar doesn’t. Both arguments, for what it’s worth, are useless because stats show you’re just as likely, if not more so, to get injured as a pocket passer than a running QB. Which is how Lamar got hurt last year. 

Something not quite white about the praise Allen's running into tackles gets compared to Lamar's elusive running.

46 minutes ago, David said:

Freedom of speech does not give you freedom of consequences.

This is it all it actually boils down to.

Calling everything off is nonsense. The rest of the country still has to work, but chuck your bit of fun in the bin. Can I not work because I need to sit at home and be sad? The one place people can actually come together a bit too, should they wish to. It's virtue signalling at it's finest by organisations trying to look good rather than be logical - it was already announced that they could go ahead and it's up to the governing bodies, and this is the nonsense decision we get.

36 minutes ago, RadioactiveWaste said:

She is very old and was sure to happen sometime.

The media all acting like this is it. Bit of a grim deathwatch IMO, could be kept private until an announcement.

I'm no monarchist or believer in the devine right of kings, but, reasonable respect for the queen herself and the personal tragedy of losing a loved one.

Zero respect for how the tv and newspapers are going to cover this over the coming days. I remember their nauseating and hypocritical coverage princess Dianna. 

Was reading earlier that the drip feed like it has been is intentional so it doesn't shock the nation. Weird to me, but there we go.

I don't subscribe to many conspiracy theories, but I'm pretty convinced she's been gone since before the jubilee.

Either way, looks like this is it.

32 minutes ago, LittleEatonRam said:

He won't last in the job. English managers can't cut it with the big clubs, especially in Europe.

Sure you know this, but his first managerial job was abroad and he's managed abroad far longer than he has over here. So, if anyone might be able to buck that trend, it could be him.

13 minutes ago, B4ev6is said:

I doubt it mate

I doubt you.

Tuchel sacked.

Big game this. We will be fine at home, despite last week. We need to find a way to beat teams away, especially the bad ones. Bouncing back would be huge. 

It’s as bad as the big screen. A couple of huge dead zones on it now, and this season they’ve stopped showing replays until half time which is annoying. 

Wildsmith in net, Cashin at the back, Bird and Knight in midfield, Sibley behind the striker. Fill in the rest. That should be the foundation. 

9 hours ago, Wolfie20 said:

Interesting how the marks vary from one poster to another. None of the substitutes contributed anything which could have changed the game yet Sibley scores anything from 4 to 7 - he was much nearer the former, scoring him as a 7 is farcical.

Sibley had his poorest game of the season. He has been our best attacker this season, gets dropped and brought on out wide. Baffling. 

Wildsmith 7

Knight 7

Forsyth 5

Cashin 5

Stearman 5

Dobbin 3

McGoldrick 7

Sibley 4

Hourihane 5

Mendez-Laing 6

Bird ? 5

Collins 4

Barkhuizen 6

Thompson 3

Osula 3

We needed to make changes as we had lost the flow of the game as it was, but the subs made completely confused our shape. The obvious choice was to straight swap Sibley for Didzy and then go with Dobbin for Barkhuizen if you wanted to keep it the same. The real change would’ve been Roberts for Fozzy though. Thompson confused things, and Hourihane and Sibley both looked lost as they both wanted to play centrally and not out wide. 

Took the goal well. Still think his general play was pretty bad. Think I’d trust Curtis Davies to dribble at a man more than him. 

Got what we deserved. Had a few second halves where we’ve been asleep at the wheel and we have finally been punished. Subs weren’t good but we were already all over the place after half time. Somewhat fortuitous to be 2 up. 

dropping the second best attacker in the league. 

Hard to criticise too much based on what we had at the start, which was essentially bugger all. 

I think we could have done with some more players in the 23-28 age bracket but they’re not easy to come by on free transfers or loans either, so it’s no surprise we struggled for them. 

Keeping some of those we had was just as important though, but now we really need to get contracts signed with those so should we fail on promotion we can at least demand something closer to value. 

Could’ve gone with another right back, I’d have liked 1 more wing option and Orsula will determine whether the striking department was good recruitment or not. But as I said, to just get where we are and with the start we have had (at home) then we have to be pretty pleased. 

Perfect for us armchair away fans (who can't get tickets this season)

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Literally forgot about Chester

44 minutes ago, sage said:

We did develop our own but had to sell off the family silver to pay the bills. 

We may not see an academy player break into the first team for a few years. 

For sure, not disputing that one. That said, struggled with developing strikers. Even Plange was a signing not long before he came into the first team.