Not really up for football but going to do the Chorley/Fiorentina double this week.

https://www.acffiorentina.com/en/news/all/news-men-first-team/2024-07-22/viola-touch-down-in-england

 

Anyone remember our only season in the Anglo Italian Cup in 93/94?

5-0 Home win over Ancona then 3 draws with Brescia (3-3- at Home), 1-1 at Pisa then 1-1 at Ascoli, saw us go out at the group stage.

The first final in 1970 was abandoned with Swindon leading Napoli 3-0 in Napoli due to crowd trouble!

1 minute ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Santos has gone backwards in the last 12 months imo.

He’s a shadow of the player he was & he doesn’t look that arsed about it.

Agreed.Hopefully this new lad from Wycombe either makes him get back to his best or if not replace him 

3 minutes ago, Burndens Bogs said:

Santos has gone backwards in the last 12 months imo.

He’s a shadow of the player he was & he doesn’t look that arsed about it.

Absolutely, that forward in the 2nd half brushed him with ease off the ball, we shouldn’t be looking to build the back line around him anymore 

2 minutes ago, thebells said:

Apart from the fact we played a different formation in the first half?

We adapted from 5-2-3 to 3-4-3 throughout that half. And of course we invite pressure on; that’s how we play and how we play well. 

Maybe a different starting formation but very quickly reverted to the same as last season 

 

Just now, 1969 said:

Maybe a different starting formation but very quickly reverted to the same as last season 

 

I disagree. Formation only changed second half out of necessity when Collins went off.
 

But as friendly matches ago, against a top level opponent, I thought we handled it pretty well. Stay positive. 
 

 

Collins has a cut/bruising, doesn’t sound serious.

Emphasis on the boys backing each other on the scuffles “We’re going to need that this season”

Light on numbers - working hard to try and address that.

Generally pleased with performance and  where they are up to pre-season 

Santos was knocked off the ball by a player that cost Everton £27.5m (Moise Kean), so in his defence, I would say that he did pretty well against him except for that one glaringly obvious fuck up.

28 minutes ago, Steejay said:

Santos was knocked off the ball by a player that cost Everton £27.5m (Moise Kean), so in his defence, I would say that he did pretty well against him except for that one glaringly obvious fuck up.

Aye, Kean's also played 15 times for Italy.

https://www.acffiorentina.com/it/news/videos/prima-squadra-maschile/2024-07-26/highlights-bolton-vs-fiorentina-1-1-brekalo-adeboyejo

 

3 hours ago, Sweep said:

cruciate as well, that's him fucked until the new year at the earliest

I hope you stand on an upturned plug at least 3 times this weekend for that ^.

Twat.

Seems like it's a trait of Wanderers teams over the years - play against classy fancied opposition and every player is up for it: massive work rate, passion, drive and determination. Play against struggling sides in the league and the lacklustre performances creep in.

Psychological.

1 hour ago, Wanderlust said:

Seems like it's a trait of Wanderers teams over the years - play against classy fancied opposition and every player is up for it: massive work rate, passion, drive and determination. Play against struggling sides in the league and the lacklustre performances creep in.

Psychological.

Spot on. They need to show this type of desire when things get tough against the shitters in league one. 

5 hours ago, Wanderlust said:

Seems like it's a trait of Wanderers teams over the years - play against classy fancied opposition and every player is up for it: massive work rate, passion, drive and determination. Play against struggling sides in the league and the lacklustre performances creep in.

Psychological.

Steve Peters. Get him in.

What a shocking support by them expected a decent turn out even if uk based Italians

farmers league 

 

 

There ladies and Gentleman should be our next Captain

 

3 minutes ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

 

Actually a good tackle that. Very unlikely to get penalised in our league.

49 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

What a shocking support by them expected a decent turn out even if uk based Italians

farmers league 

 

Surely this is a wind up😂 of all things to call Italian football on

7 minutes ago, tomski said:

Surely this is a wind up😂 of all things to call Italian football on

Wank mate thought they travelled in numbers loud & passionate

 

10 minutes ago, radcliffe white said:

Wank mate thought they travelled in numbers loud & passionate

 

I know you're joking but, there was a fairly big group of them towards north/east corner, made a bit of noise at one point and 3 lads sat behind us. 

Didnt understand why they wouldn't have got tickets in away end. 

That's such a great tackle. Obviously the Italian player was going to act like he'd been shot. Glad he's back 

10 minutes ago, noxid said:

That's such a great tackle. Obviously the Italian player was going to act like he'd been shot. Glad he's back 

Agree 💯 

That type of tackle can really get the crowd involved.Something I think we missed last season a proper hard but fair defender.Was for me one of the highlights last night

49 minutes ago, boogs said:

I know you're joking but, there was a fairly big group of them towards north/east corner, made a bit of noise at one point and 3 lads sat behind us. 

Didnt understand why they wouldn't have got tickets in away end. 

There was a row of 10 in front of me in ESL.

They spoke in Italian throughout but young lad was in full Wanderers strip.

And some of our fans were in their end, for some reason.

1 minute ago, Marc505 said:

And some of our fans were in their end, for some reason.

Let you buy in south lower 

Another thing I noticed was Dan seems to have put a bit of beef on