The Fish

If we could find a Shelvey who is younger and puts in a shift defensively that midfield would be outstanding.

Yeah, but with a longer recovery period and added dressing room contretemps. Honestly think their biggest issue has been recruitment. Playing that style in all competitions means you're going to burn through players like three ply Andrex after 6 pints of bhuna. But they've only signed 4 first team players in the last 2 seasons. 9 of their first team are over 30, their midfield's average age is 27.6 and that's distorted by 19yr old Harvey Elliot.

You mean Steve, Steve, Steve and his son? Alex Bruce was fired by Robbie Savage ffs, how across details do you reckon that prick is?

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Didn't someone on here say, ages ago, that the way he has his teams playing means they'll have one unbelievable season, then be so physically, mentally and emotionally fucked that the next season is a bit of a bust?

A lot of his good work isn't necessarily doing something exciting with the ball. He presses well, he keeps attacks ticking over and all that. I do think Joelinton is better, but I'd swap Longstaff for JoeL, rather than Willock. I mean, ideally we'd have a true blue defensive midfielder who would allow Joelinton and Bruno to play their football further up the pitch, but it's not January yet and really excellent DMs are a rare breed.

Forgive my ignorance, but you know when an MP makes a claim in the chambers? Is it against any rules for another MP to have a team of factcheckers, in a room somewhere, feeding them accurate information by phone or something?

I know nothing about this guy, other than he shares a name with a shitty Superman villain.

10-12 for me.

Think Willock is going under the RADAR a little because of the focus on Bruno and Almiron.

Like that's ever stopped me in the past.

Some/a few people would agree with you.

Did he remark that people resistant to change are troublesome?

eXpected Curmudgeoning

Your xC is high

Roy Keane fucking hates praising players doesn't he?

Nope, because he's contained to that one thread. Sure no iteration of that giant thread has shifted off the first page since their creation, but the rest of them can avoid it. It's like a Scientology church, they know there are mental cases inside, so they just stroll on past.

@edit_kev on twitter, also the guy behind @WyAyeScout Well worth a follow.

How good do you reckon their zooms are?!

'become' They've always been quite the boiled beige sand and vanilla wholemeal sandwich, of a club.

My genuine reaction to this post was to laugh, shake my head and mutter "you fucker".

Thing on the Athletic about him. He didn't know you could make 5 subs in the Championship. And in the part about recruitment being based on who the staff already knew rather than anything data driven, there's a line about Erik Pieters He's pulled his recruitment straight from the Tory playbook.

I said what I meant and I meant what I said.

Him, Rooney and Lampard. It's almost like simply being really good at football isn't a guarantee of being much cop at managing.

Look, I love attention, I think my position on that is clear. But why, in the world, am I getting drawn into a conversation about historical politics by the likes of you? If I had any say in the running of this country three things would happen. 1) we'd invest a fortune to close the tax loopholes, 2) we'd invest in the arts and 3) xG would be taught from primary school.