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Lessons learnt today

Lessons learnt today

Lee Trundle said:
Now only 2 teams in the top half with worse defences than us (even then only by a single goal)

Boro have scored 39 more goals than us, Sunderland 19.

So despite all the protection afforded to them, turns out Lindsay and Storey still aren’t very good.
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And we've got them signed up for 2 more years.
 
Pennyhome said:
Can not believe how shit a loan Delap has been
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He really didn't do much at Stoke despite starting plenty of games. I'm generally not sure what he's actually done in the game to warrant the reputation he's actually got. He played the odd game for Man. City in league cup and seemingly that's worth of mass hype and big money bids from other clubs, he's miles off that and not as good as Nmecha was.

Cannon came with little hype, got his head down and adapted after 5-6 games and now you just don't think he's ever going to miss a one-on-one while having a tidy all round game.

He's got everything to have a long top flight career (if Everton ever sort themselves out of course).
 
Durutti said:
@FTF called it the other day: he's a big unit who bullies players at U23 league players. Against big championship defenders he's laughable.
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Been a big, big disappointment for us so far and with his underwhelming spell at Stoke in the first half of this season he must be concerned that his contract at Man City will be his last at that level.

Perhaps he’s just benefited by the two key factors in his favour at youth level - his size (and aggression) and his dad - and this City contract is the only one he’ll ever have in the Premier League.

But you’d have expected Lowe to have worked out that picking him tonight, in favour of Parrott, against big Championship defenders was a stupid decision.

Not impressed at all with Delap or Lowe.
 
No issue with Lowe getting sent off and showing some passion, a few months ago people were calling him out for sitting on his arse at Burnley.

I love the passion and fight, he's there with his players fighting and sticking up for them when they were being refereed atrociously, it was only a matter of time before it boiled over, remember the Scott Laird incident years ago? Same thing.

Ledson, Lindsey, Brady, Woodburn, Delap all need shipping out.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
No issue with Lowe getting sent off and showing some passion, a few months ago people were calling him out for sitting on his arse at Burnley.

I love the passion and fight, he's there with his players fighting and sticking up for them when they were being refereed atrociously, it was only a matter of time before it boiled over, remember the Scott Laird incident years ago? Same thing.

Ledson, Lindsey, Brady, Woodburn, Delap all need shipping out.
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I would tend to agree but it was 3-2. We were massively in the game because the players Lowe didn't start had dragged us back.

Do that shit 20 mins in when your players are playing like fairies.

I hate Lowe because it's all got to be about him, hence him trying to be smart last night with the fucking selection.
 
Durutti said:
I would tend to agree but it was 3-2. We were massively in the game because the players Lowe didn't start had dragged us back.

Do that shit 20 mins in when your players are playing like fairies.

I hate Lowe because it's all got to be about him, hence him trying to be smart last night with the fucking selection.
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Ledson I can understand the selection, it was literally him or Woodburn.

Lindsay was played for the cross field switches which was working, however, in every other aspect he was diabolical and Diaby should start over him at any opportunity.

Delap was given a chance and was poor I think quite a few were happy with Parrott being dropped because of his lack of goalscoring.

Whiteman was unusually poor, Potts as well.

I think last nights result confirmed what we already know, some of the players are simply not good enough for a sustained promotion push any team with a bit of technical and passing ability it becomes like a hot knife through butter.

Ledson simply doesn't have the brain to be a mediocre player at this level let alone a decent one, Burnley, Millwall, Swansea he switches off all the time for goals which ultimately cost us when we're a low scoring team.

I don't think Lowe makes it all about him, his head went because of the referee's performance last night, once the red mist descends it's curtains for logical thinking.
 
Ron Burgundy said:
Ledson I can understand the selection, it was literally him or Woodburn.

Lindsay was played for the cross field switches which was working, however, in every other aspect he was diabolical and Diaby should start over him at any opportunity.

Delap was given a chance and was poor I think quite a few were happy with Parrott being dropped because of his lack of goalscoring.

Whiteman was unusually poor, Potts as well.

I think last nights result confirmed what we already know, some of the players are simply not good enough for a sustained promotion push any team with a bit of technical and passing ability it becomes like a hot knife through butter.

Ledson simply doesn't have the brain to be a mediocre player at this level let alone a decent one, Burnley, Millwall, Swansea he switches off all the time for goals which ultimately cost us when we're a low scoring team.

I don't think Lowe makes it all about him, his head went because of the referee's performance last night, once the red mist descends it's curtains for logical thinking.
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The last paragraph is just madness. You are a pro manager with a team pushing to equalise...you don't lose your head unless you are a fucking amateur. Managers spend their lives fuming at refs, they don't lose it like that. I'm fine with it, but not in the context of that moment in that game. He can't hack it at this end of the table mentally and last night it really showed.
 
Durutti said:
The last paragraph is just madness. You are a pro manager with a team pushing to equalise...you don't lose your head unless you are a fucking amateur. Managers spend their lives fuming at refs, they don't lose it like that. I'm fine with it, but not in the context of that moment in that game. He can't hack it at this end of the table mentally and last night it really showed.
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Yeah, I think the main thing about Lowe's reaction to this is, it's so lower-league.
 
Durutti said:
The last paragraph is just madness. You are a pro manager with a team pushing to equalise...you don't lose your head unless you are a fucking amateur. Managers spend their lives fuming at refs, they don't lose it like that. I'm fine with it, but not in the context of that moment in that game. He can't hack it at this end of the table mentally and last night it really showed.
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Loads of top managers lose it:



You probably was slating Lowe for being sat down the other week now you are slating him for showing a bit of passion. Wish he nutted Joe Allen.
 
Durutti said:
The last paragraph is just madness. You are a pro manager with a team pushing to equalise...you don't lose your head unless you are a fucking amateur. Managers spend their lives fuming at refs, they don't lose it like that. I'm fine with it, but not in the context of that moment in that game. He can't hack it at this end of the table mentally and last night it really showed.
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In most jobs, you'd get sacked for grappling with people. It's daft to me what we let people get away with just because it's football
 
Durutti said:
The last paragraph is just madness. You are a pro manager with a team pushing to equalise...you don't lose your head unless you are a fucking amateur. Managers spend their lives fuming at refs, they don't lose it like that. I'm fine with it, but not in the context of that moment in that game. He can't hack it at this end of the table mentally and last night it really showed.
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I take he you have never heard of Jose Mourinho, he has been sent off 3 times this season alone. He hasn't done badly over the years as a manager.
 
Yeti said:
I take he you have never heard of Jose Mourinho, he has been sent off 3 times this season alone. He hasn't done badly over the years as a manager.
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Yeah, Mourinho is a great example actually. He will shit house, piss, moan and antagonise until the cows come home and makes it work for him to get preferential treatment. You wouldn't have seen him do that at that stage at 3-2 with two goals unanswered. You could call his mother and he'd wait til after the game and cause a full scale riot like that, sure.

That's my point. The timing. Lowe has derailed the game (and potentially the season) because he doesn't have that same self control. It's small time.
 
Durutti said:
Yeah, Mourinho is a great example actually. He will shit house, piss, moan and antagonise until the cows come home and makes it work for him to get preferential treatment. You wouldn't have seen him do that at that stage at 3-2 with two goals unanswered. You could call his mother and he'd wait til after the game and cause a full scale riot like that, sure.

That's my point. The timing. Lowe has derailed the game (and potentially the season) because he doesn't have that same self control. It's small time.
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' And Gerrard has slipped ! ' , ' Liverpool 0 Chelsea 2 ' , ' Park the bus ( or two buses ! ) ' , ' The Special One ' - we've heard and seen it all before it's a distraction away from his players .

Sometimes it doesn't always work out as with Man United with the City fans laughing at him & his team , calling him Maureen but it'd be water off a ducks back , or with Spurs ? ; but he still gets hired ! .

Head coach of Roma , Europa League winners , the ultimate wind up merchant now winds the Dutch up .

Totally different levels .
 
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Parrott would make a decent quality winger or 10 in this league, but his complete indecision every time he has the ball means he won’t make it as a striker

Runs into trouble so often and let’s chances go begging

If we could get him back without the requirement to play him as a striker I’d be very interested
 
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