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  1. 22 minutes ago, royal white said:

    The amount of conspiracies going about already is frightening. Utter fruitloops

    Yeah, I will say on first viewing it did look worryingly deliberate. 

    But, on second viewing you can see the power issues and the smoke billowing out of the ship before it seems to lose power and drift into the bridge. 

    Just a very unfortunate, tragic accident.

  2. 1 hour ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

    Obvious question- why would he cop out?

    It's in his own interests to play, so even if it's true that he doesn't feel its quite right, it makes no sense to go soft.

    Not in his own interests if he feels playing would do more long term damage, I suppose. 

    Seems like he did that when he first got the injury and now we're nearly 8 weeks later and he's still out. 

    But, it all has come from some ill-punctuated facebook post, so also more than likely nonsense and he's just not been cleared officially yet. 

  3. Doesn't sound that random or out there to me, imagine it's fairly common. 

    Bolton staff say he's good to crack on medically, but Baxter still doesn't feel right, Evatt feels like that's a cop out or is soft, they fall out over it. 

    I wouldn't be surprised by that given Baxter's injury history or given Evatt's personality. 

  4. Stevenage A

    Draw - 75 pts

    Reading H

    Win - 78 pts

    Bristol Rovers A

    Win - 81 pts

    Portsmouth H

    Loss - 81 pts

    Shrewsbury H

    Win - 84 pts

    Port Vale H

    Win - 87 pts

    Peterborough A

    Loss - 87 pts

    Playoffs at best going in dropping points in every big game to the teams around us and meagre semi-final defeat. 

  5. Russel Wilson was more than fine last year, he was far from the problem in Denver. 

    I think it's a very smart pickup especially for a cheap deal for the year, then Fields sit behind a similar style QB and Superbowl winner for a year to learn how to play the position properly. 

    Steelers just continue to be a phenomenally run organisation with one of the league's best coaches. 

  6. Not to sound like some ITK muppet, but I work with a fella that is very good friends with a board member. 

    Outside of Sharon, Evatt isn't well liked within the boardroom, and if we don't go up this year patience will be running very very thin with a number of them. 

  7. 7 minutes ago, Traf said:

    I'd be tempted into a change in formation, but it's not going to happen.

    4-3-2-1, perhaps?

    Coleman
    Jones Toal Santos Iredale
    Dempsey Sheehan Thomason 
    Bangaverage Collins
    Jerome

    I think a slight change is pretty much essential given the lack of proper striker options but he won't deviate from the 3 (or 5 however you see it) at the back, regardless of if he should or not. 

    With that in mind, I wouldn't mind seeing something like:

    Coleman

    Toal, Santos, Iredale

    Jones, Sheehan, Thomason, Ashworth

    Williams, Collins

    Bod

    More of a 3-4-2-1, which is what we should have been doing when Dapo was here, and having Collins and Randell Williams as the wide/inside forwards that both can drop deep to collect a ball and run at defenders or can get wide and get balls in or run beyond Bod when he drops in as he is capable on the ball himself.

  8. I refuse to believe any single person could find themselves moaning about Sheehan this year. 

    About the only player that has looked consistently capable of playing higher than this division. 

  9. 2 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

    Are you talking about playoffs? If so I would fancy our chances as long as key players are back, fresh and rested. 

    Not a chance. 

    It's autos or bust for this lot, we'll get hammered first game in the playoffs by any of them.

  10. They're not wrong about the goading the fans though. 

    They were all upset about it when Wigan did it but then go do the same for a draw...

    I personally don't mind it, bit of theatre, but you can't pretend to be angry about it one week and then up to worse the next. 

  11. Yet more evidence of mental fragility from Evatt. 

    It's no wonder his squad capitulates in games that matter is it. 

    Barnsley is massive and this isn't the way to get the players and fans collectively up for it. 

  12. 6 minutes ago, boltonboris said:

    Don't think you be any more classless than abusing your goalkeepers family to the point where he no longer wants to play for his boyhood, local team. Vile pricks

    Hell of a nibble that is.

  13. 14 minutes ago, Casino said:

    Nowt wrong with Cogley in the first few months

    Yes there was, in fact I believe I made similar comments at the time, he's quick and can get into pockets of space well but once he's there is lacking ability wise to do anything about it. 

  14. 8 minutes ago, Cheese said:

    We're joint 2nd on goal difference, with a game in hand on 2nd place - who lost at home to Charlton last night.

    You obviously know better than me, and Ian Evatt. So what's the obvious solution that means we win every single game?

    Move the ball quicker through the lines, drop Maghoma his style of play slows down our transition passing, drop JDC his final ball is appalling, start Collins and have him drop into the pockets to collect the ball and be the creative force in the final 3rd. 

    Couple of simple fixes, the pedestrian passing in low impact areas does nothing but bump up possession stats that Evatt can tug himself off on camera to.

  15. I will, admittedly, always be quicker to sour on Evatt than most because I simply don't like the bloke. Think he's an arrogant, insufferable, bellend. 

    I tolerate him for as long as he is improving and advancing our position as a club, but the longer we languish at this level the less that becomes the case. 

    He will obviously get the rest of this year, but for my money we won't have enough, next season he gets until Christmas to have us as overwhelming standouts or it's curtains for me.

  16. 1 hour ago, tomski said:

    I was more annoyed by our players shoving and handbags at the end. Bit late for me.

    Aye, always had no time for being annoyed at the opposition celebrating. If you don't like it, beat them. 

  17. Great city, the square, castle, river, Jewish Quarter all just nice places to be and all easily walkable together. Great food every where you turn as well, it's not just a cheap booze destination.

    Auschwitz as sobering and depressing as it is, is a must. 

  18. 10 hours ago, Big E said:

    You are lying. Leigh is full of Wigan fans

    I grew up in Culcheth, a decent amount of young fans developed over my youth in their years in the Prem. Cheap seats, easy to get to, can watch their "main" team play (United, Liverpool, Everton), could see why; but then they got a weird sense of entitlement as a fanbase. 

    I find Wigan weird, love to beat them to put them in their place but never really saw them as "rivals" until these recent lower league years. On their rise to the Prem I actually almost looked out for their results, in a local team doing well sort of way. Hard to really hate a club when that's my prevailing thought of them as minnows fighting up the leagues, the fans will filter away now the Prem days are long gone and they'll drift down eventually to a natural level. 

  19. 45 minutes ago, gonzo said:

    Liverpool have a tremendous sqaud but take Alison, Van Dyke and Salah out of the team they arent the same either.

    Plus another couple of defenders and your best midfielder suspended.

    Any team would struggle with a cobbled together defence and new keeper, especially with a system as finely tuned as ours.

    I really wish people would stop calling Thomason our best midfielder, makes me a bit ill. He's currently the best we've got to play that deeper "ball winning" role supporting Sheehan but he's far from our best midfielder in any other regard. 

  20. On 16/02/2024 at 19:32, Eddie said:

    Was it lonergan that had a belter? One of our keepers around that time had a cracker

    Lonergan's song was to the tune of Mrs Robinson, one of the better ones from memory. 

    He came in to my work the other week, sound fella by the way, and I very professionally resisted the temptation to serenade him with it. 

  21. I know it's risky stuff from openers but I do like how they both like to get bat to ball, get the scoring rate up early on and try and get the bowlers on the back foot, reclaiming those early overs for the batsmen in theory.

    It gets the pair of them in a bit of bother losing wickets in the teens and twenties but it ain't half fun to watch. 

  22. My recollection of the Sordell signing was we spent all summer trying to get Wilfried Zaha to sign and when he finally told us to sling it we only had a few days of the window left, so we panicked and went after another England U21 forward based on nothing but word of mouth. 

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