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Mattster

FFS, now I'll have to pay for childcare I'll instead be providing myself.

Mattster

Not necessarily. Just not within 24-48 hours of the announced death, which 'may' be seen as distasteful/too soon. I mean, the new King has yet to even address the public and won't do so until 6pm this evening. Not saying I 100% agree with it but it's a plausible explanation which you seem to have b...

Mattster

An actual explanation could be that there is huge elation caused at a football match / sporting event, which to many, is not appropriate during a period of national mourning. Therefore, a 'mark of respect' is to avoid that situation. If that was the explanation then it would need to be postponed th...

Mattster

I think you’re missing my point, that being that the absence of a particular ‘mark of respect’ doesn’t equate to disrespect The example you gave of absence of a particular ‘mark of respect’ (not holding a minutes silence) was one that would very much equate to disrespect in the eyes of the majority...

Mattster

No it’s not the case, it would only be disrespectful if having decided to postpone all matches some clubs decided to play them anyway. It’s like a minutes silence. It’s not necessarily disrespectful not to hold a minutes silence to mark someone’s death but if you do decide to hold one then people m...

Mattster

Not really, it's just football making the decision, which they feel is right, to show a moment of respect for what is a momentous occasion for the country. Our late Queen was a patron of the FA and William is the President of the FA - perhaps this also was part of their decision. Racing paused, cri...

Mattster

No, they’re not two sides of the same coin. Making a gesture as a sign of respect doesn’t mean making a different gesture (or no gesture at all) is disrespectful. Nonsense. Doing something and saying it's a mark of respect does not make it respectful, unless the act itself is respectful. In which c...

Mattster

Irrelevant. The PL and EFL have decided they will pause football for the weekend as a mark of respect. That's all there is to it. The implication of pausing football "as a mark of respect" is that going ahead with fixtures would have been disrespectful. Otherwise it's not showing any respect, it's ...

Mattster

Yet to see anyone actually explain how going ahead with fixtures this weekend would have been disrespectful.

Mattster

I did notice an Oldham scout* at the game against QPR and wondered who he was there to watch. Sound like he should get some opportunities with Oldham's striker situation since Hallam Hope ended up in hospital. I think Joe has the physicality to cope with football at that level, hope he does well. Re...

Mattster

Potter to Chelsea will have a certain irony for Brighton's fans.

Since the majority of them transferred their allegiance the opposite direction when the Tony Bloom era got into it's swing.

Mattster

ClaretAL wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 05, 2022 2:17 pm
Is Richardson injured?

He's gone on loan to League 2 Grimbsy, started at the weekend.

Mattster

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 05, 2022 1:50 pm
90+1: 4-3

Their left winger practically caught the ball in the buildup.

Mattster

From looks so far it's Healey-Byrne at right back, Armstrong doing a Charlie Taylor impression as a wing back at centre back. Lewis playing left wing. Costelloe as a striker.

Mattster

Mattster wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 05, 2022 11:13 am
Costelloe drops down to the U21s for the first time this season. Will either be him or Lewis partnering McGlynn up front with the other being on the wing.

Unless we match up to the first team squad. In which case would probably be Costelloe in the "Tella role", Lewis in the "Brownhill role".

Mattster

Debuts for Franchi, Healy-Byrne (I assume in central defence) and Lewis. Costelloe drops down to the U21s for the first time this season. Will either be him or Lewis partnering McGlynn up front with the other being on the wing. Franchi, Healy-Byrne, Sassi, Armstrong, Dodgson, Lewis, Bauress, Helm (C...

Mattster

Being streamed for free

https://t.co/VF3hdMKhTd

Mattster

If we'd stayed up adapting Ben Mee and Pope to the system would have been really hard to do but selling/releasing would have been even harder to justify to the fans. Weirdly I think it's best for all parties that we got relegated and had this opportunity to do a hard reset at a lower level, but you ...

Mattster

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 04, 2022 8:44 am
Not sure how Pope dropping the ball onto a Newcastle players head is a push or foul.

Lascelles pushed Pope into Schar.

https://twitter.com/BakerFPL343/status/ ... WZMrA&s=19

Mattster

RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Sep 04, 2022 7:51 am
Why? Let’s be honest, the one yesterday is never ever ever a foul on the keeper, the one on the Pope would be seen by many as not a foul and minority (Burnley fans) as a foul.

Both pushes/fouls, so it tickled me is all.

Mattster

The decision at Newcastle today was equally as bad. Willock barged into the goalkeeper as the ball went into the goal. However, Mitchell clearly pushed Willock into the goalkeeper but VAR ignored it. It’s absolutely incredible I can't lie, I've enjoyed the Newcastle fans whinging about this one aft...

Mattster

By the sounds of it he should have a good chance of getting plenty of games which is the main thing, he was also linked with Portsmouth but would have had a lot more competition for starts there so I think this is the better move for him. Hopefully he fares better than the last central defender we l...

Mattster

Personally don't see any attitude issues with Roberts, all seems invented to me and picking up on select details to fit a narrative. In terms of his role in the team it seems pretty clear to me that Roberts is being asked to move into the right side of central midfield when we're attacking to allow ...

Mattster

Like everyone has said just hope he can stay injury free. If being greedy I hope he does so well this first half of the season we can recall him and send him to League 1 for the second half.

Mattster

Definitely needs some first team football - goodness knows who is going to play up front for the u21s now though - best of luck to him Could possibly be the new lad Marcel Lewis taking Richardson's spot in the short term. Looks like he was a 10 / attacking midfielder for Chelsea which is kind of th...

Mattster

Could be an initial loan? Wouldn’t be as difficult? Still additional parties to get agreements from and extra details to sort. Would be very surprised. If they were done separately I could see it happening but if the deals are made absolutely dependent on each other it really complicates things fro...

Mattster

Heard there’s a possibility of Lowton being included in a deal for Obafemi. He has been mentioned from Swansea’s end rather than ours although I’m sure we’d be open to doing that. Sorting one deal in the time remaining would take some work, getting a part exchange started from scratch to be complet...

Mattster

Lewis looks like an U21s signing.

Mattster

He wouldn’t be the player to drop deep like Jay Rod is doing and hold the ball up, he’s an Andre gray in behind type with pace. Jay playing so deep lying also gives us the go long option too He does drop deep for Swansea, him doing so created the space for Piroe, who was playing more as a 10, to sc...

Mattster

I wouldn’t be going about 4-5mil had seemed to be the limit we will spend on one player all summer, he’s not the player to play the jay rod role, the lad from Brentford or Callum Robinson more suited to that role Disagree, he's perfect for Kompany's setup. He's also got the skillset to play the rol...

Mattster

ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 31, 2022 10:57 pm
You don't have Muric as homegrown but he's been at City since 2015. Costelloe is not homegrown, not been in England long enough.

At least my totals were right then

Mattster

mdd2 wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 31, 2022 6:06 pm
Thomas dob 30/01/2001 according to CT's list on here

Yep, ignore me on that one. Brain fart.

Mattster

Thanks for that. Means if we sign two more over 21 the likes of Norris, Long cannot be involved. As Thomas wasn't 21 on January 1st 2022 doesn't he count as an under 21? If so we have three slots if Phillips moves on. Forgot about Long and Westwood. So we'd be on 26 currently. 25 once Phillips leav...

Mattster

Clubs in the Championship shall be permitted to name up to a maximum of 25 Players, of which a minimum of 8 must be a Home Grown Player. Under 21 players (other than those who are on loan at the Club) do not need to be named on the Squad List to be eligible to participate in a League Match. A "Home...

Mattster

claretandy wrote: ↑
Wed Aug 31, 2022 4:45 pm
He would be better on the ball than Charlie.

He really wouldn't be.

Mattster

The FIFA kit wasn't a placeholder then, looks like we'd submitted our designs as would be expected. So that would make the right one our third kit. FIFA.jpg The cuffs are a bit different so looks like they weren't given an actual picture of the kit, so whilst we can expect something similar to that...

Mattster

I think if we get promoted it's very realistic that we sign him permanently. His distribution is very important to the Kompany's setup here. Clubs like City don't provide pathways for their own academy players direct to the first team except in rare cases (eg. Foden) - they prefer to sign players fo...

Mattster

Can't claim to know loads about him but from watching the avaliable videos he looks to make his impact from very similar areas as Brownhill has been this season, on the inside right.

Mattster

I think using loans to secure higher quality players actually states our intentions of promotion this season. Hopefully a few could be turned into permanents and then we can use the loan market again (2 allowed in Prem IF promoted). IF we get promoted I'd say we wouldn't have much trouble turning M...

Mattster

Full time, first win of the season

Mattster

Richardson taken off seems a weird one there. Fingers crossed it's with a view to first team duty at the weekend.

Mattster

All the intricate buildup we've been trying all season and it's the most route one of goals we score haha

Mattster

ClaretAL wrote: ↑
Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:13 am
HANDS OFF!!!

https://footballleagueworld.co.uk/sourc ... ey-player/

It's Football League World, anything they claim as an "exclusive" is made up.

Mattster

He's a poor manager. With the squad he had at Fulham in the EPL he should have kept them up, with the squads he had with Fulham and Bournemouth he should have walked the league title but instead limped over the line both times.

Mattster

Roosterbooster wrote: ↑
Mon Aug 29, 2022 3:21 pm
Not with his wages. But with his talent he'd absolutely walk this league if he sorted his head out

Chelsea apparently paid him out of his contract so wages shouldn't be a major issue for whoever wants him. Anything he gets would essentially be a pay rise.

Mattster

I'm not really enthused by Tella, not entirely sure what he offers. Looking at his underlying stats the only thing he's good at is pressing/defending. His main source of goal/shot creating actions are winning fouls but that's pretty much entirely down to the fact that Southampton have Ward-Prowse o...

Mattster

Not aware of any further cards being handed out to players or staff for the incident? Seems weird.

Fundraising exercise IMO.

Mattster

tiger76 wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 25, 2022 12:29 pm
Makes sense if we want 2 keepers comfortable playing out from the back, although where that leaves BPF and Norris I'm not sure.

Would suggest one of them is on their way out, BPF the most likely to have a market.

Mattster

Chris Boden breaking some transfer news - Denis Franchi, PSG B, Italian goalkeeper in for a medical today. Good with his feet apparently.

Mattster

Well he didn't have a plan B last Saturday against Blackpool, he was made to look naive and incompetent. He must learn and learn quick or we will be at the bottom end of the table come May with the likes of Rovers Conversely, against Luton and Watford he made changes which got us back into the game...

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