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Dingo

It certainly has been miserable at times. Can’t disagree with that, but I’m still enjoying the ride. Curious to see what happens in the Jan transfer window. We’re only a well timed run away from getting out of it, and just imagine how good that would feel.

Dingo

There’s loads to play for yet. Plenty of time to find some form. Yesterday was a good performance, it’s something to build on. And if the season ends with us being relegated. So what? We’ve done it lots before and life goes on.

Dingo

I agree with you mostly re strategy and team selection. But I’m also comfortable with the idea that Kompany needs this season to learn, adapt and improve, and then we can see if he really is out of his depth or not at this level. It’s rare that young, inexperienced managers get it right straight aw...

Dingo

It's premature to start calling for Kompany to go. I think he's a good manager who has lots of potential, as do lots of the young players we've brought in, but the tough start has undermined our momentum leading to low confidence and our style not clicking alongside many mistakes (giving the ball aw...

Dingo

Come on, lads. We're well in this game. It's inevitably going to be scrappy as both teams low on confidence, but we only need a marginal increase in performance levels and we can win this.

Dingo

He's only played 4 games for us? I don't understand how a player can be written off so quickly, or why anyone would want to to do that, especially when making a step up to a higher level.

Dingo

I like the way we're approaching games. I agree it is a process that will evolve over time, hopefully to a point where over the course of the season we'll start extending those very good periods we've had in each game so far and the better results will come. The over-reactions are surprising so earl...

Dingo

Ilkley claret wrote: ↑
Sun Aug 27, 2023 5:10 pm
Not good enough to play inverted full back role I’m afraid

Based on today’s game or his performances for us since VK came in? What exactly do you think he didn’t do well enough today?

Dingo

I thought we looked very good for much of the game. Considering we’re only two games in with a substantially new starting 11, there’s a lot of promise there. Sure, we were sloppy in key moments defensively, and at times the shape and patterns felt forced, similar to the start of last season with the...

Dingo

Frustrating not to win but I thought QPR were very good today. Sure, they were fortunate in the first half not to be a couple down, but their last ditch defending and blocking was solid. Second half their management of the game was excellent and their shape was compact and tight; really restricted u...

Dingo

Why not keep them both?

Barnes had his best goals return when playing with Chris Wood, so maybe a Barnes-Weghorst front two is just what we need to tear up the PL next year…

Dingo

He’s a solid left back with the added versatility to play at centre half which is useful in a match day squad, plus he’ll be keen to be back in the PL, so I expect he’ll still be with us next season. If I was him, and depending on who we sign, I’d be keen to stay and see how the first half of the se...

Dingo

It's an interesting article but kind of gives the impression that this is all a new thing whereas it's been a big topic for a number of years and clubs have been very careful around it for a while (not to say that some won't end up being hit with cases on it). Also doesn't seem to mention that club...

Dingo

Everton, Leicester and West Ham being relegated would freshen things up in the PL but I’d bet on Southampton, Forest and Bournemouth.

Dingo

Millions of reasons... Off the top of my head, with no inside knowledge, main guesses would be the intercompany loan that was used to buy the club and whether it should be impaired or some similar matter related to the group structure. Or, and this wouldn't surprise me, some form of delay in the AM...

Dingo

Relatedly, I read this report published a few days ago on agent fees and the dual representation scheme that seemingly creates artificial payment structures to avoid tax: https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/03/30/football/ Of interest to us is that in 2021, 100% of our transfers allegedly used dual re...

Dingo

And that will lead to loads of smaller clubs going bust as no transfer fees will be paid to them. No-one wants to see clubs go bust but we can’t say for sure that would happen. It’d be a risky and unsustainable business model to presume that you can always sell players on for increased value, so I’...

Dingo

I disagree, the two parties signs a professional agreement and the player should hold up his part if it. If a bigger club want to pay him more money, he should've requested a release clause. It's like arranging for a builder to build your house extension, would you agree that it's fair for them to ...

Dingo

I think players should have the right to move clubs if that’s what they want, and clubs should be obliged to facilitate that. It’s just unfortunate when you get these messy situations that should be dealt with privately but become public, though once a club refuses player requests, few options are l...

Dingo

Whatever happens this season will be one to remember for life. In terms of the three major outcomes left, we either continue as we are and gain automatic promotion (highly likely), we drop into the playoffs and go up (that’ll be a rollercoaster of fun), or we have a spectacular downturn in form, dro...

Dingo

I’m still keen to see him back in a Burnley shirt and hopefully that’ll be next season. More experience for him at that level can bode well for us if we go up. Assuming Utd won’t want to keep him permanently, I think he’ll get the chance to play for us next season in the Prem.

Dingo

I like Long but it is a shame he didn’t leave earlier to play more games in his professional career as he’s missed out being a regular starter somewhere for his best years. He’s a very good defender and it would’ve been good to see what he could’ve done. When he signed his last contract with us he’d...

Dingo

Delighted. I’m expecting teams will vary their tactics more against against us in the second half of the season so I’m intrigued to see how VK adapts to a more varied challenge. And keen to see how our young players handle the mental challenge of being the front runners, especially towards the end o...

Dingo

I’m pleased he’s continuing and I’m pleased the decision has been made quickly. He’s developed a team that is consistently producing great results at tournaments. This sustained period is the closest we’ve looked like winning a tournament since 1996. We’ll be well placed at the Euros to continue tha...

Dingo

How close to that record can we get this season alone? We shouldn’t be too far off.

Dingo

On the whole I'm pleased with Muric in terms of what he offers as a package. He has some great strengths, but there's a reason he signed for us in the Championship and not for a PL team, that being he has areas for improvement which I expect him to develop whilst he's with us. It's his first full se...

Dingo

I'm not particularly concerned about our defence and there's a risk that we can read too much into one bad result. There are many more weaker defences than ours in the league as we've seen in our games (including those more vulnerable from set pieces), and we don't even concede that many set pieces....

Dingo

If he’s back with us in January or next season he’ll have my full support. I hope it happens.

Dingo

The Accounts for Kettering Capital Limited now overdue (last date was yesterday), they could be in the works at Companies House, but that is all four of ALK's English based entities now with their first set of accounts overdue. Aren’t there mandatory financial penalties for late submission of accou...

Dingo

Even without that save his performance was excellent. Just observing the difference between him and Gunn reinforces how valuable he is in terms of retaining and controlling the ball. Norwich are a very good team but they were playing deep so with Gunn launching it every time he received it they just...

Dingo

I've not seen anything of yesterday's game yet due to work but curious as to whether Vitinho played significantly differently to Roberts in terms of team strategy. For instance, was he dropping into a back three as Roberts does? Was he tucking in centrally when we're going forward rather than going ...

Dingo

I am sorry to disagree but we were nowhere near excellent tonight. We were pedestrian on the ball giving the Stoke defence too much time to organise. When we got the ball out wide, which we were good at, the final ball wasn't good enough leading to too many corners and not enough attempts at goal. ...

Dingo

We were excellent tonight. Always disappointing to concede so late but that’s football. Another point closer to the top and another game unbeaten. It feels like we’re close to consistently winning. Onwards to Coventry.

Dingo

A great interview. I can't recall hearing Bellamy speak at length before and he's clearly an intelligent, thoughtful and articulate person. Some implicit criticism of the previous management team relating to club culture and playing squad, and thought his comments on promotion were insightful with t...

Dingo

I can’t see VK consistently playing Roberts were he not following his instructions, and I expect if VK thought Lowton or Egan-Riley would be better in the role then he’d play them. How can we as fans presume to know better? When Roberts plays slightly differently behind Benson or JBG or Vitinho than...

Dingo

Delighted with where we're at. No team reaches perfection, so I find the critique of our defending (vulnerable to counter-attacks and at set-pieces), build up play (too slow, not direct enough) and our attacking (don't create, or take, enough clear-cut chances) really harsh when the team's applicati...

Dingo

He was fine defensively until the last minute (and as I've said on the ratings thread he probably expected it not to reach him and his body shape wasn't set for anything other than not letting it go past him), a bit sloppy in possession but was overall ok He certainly wasn't the worst full back in ...

Dingo

How do you buy a top flight football club? I'm not an expert in football finances, and I'm just trying to clarify things in my own head, but I guess there are three models in terms of the source of wealth or funds to do so: 1. you buy outright with pre-existing monies (i.e., very rich people or grou...

Dingo

Who’s constructing an agenda against him? Look at the replies. Subtle implication and supposition about his character, personality and motivations. He’s only been here 12 months and he’s done pretty well on the whole but he gets a lot of unfair scrutiny which goes beyond his contribution on the fie...

Dingo

He’s playing well, he’s enjoying the new style (as he said in a recent interview), and he must have the confidence of the manager given the other options we have there. I don’t understand the desire to construct an agenda against him when he’s only ever been committed when playing for us since he si...

Dingo

Not wanting to put a downer on what was an outstanding performance, but we are having a really hard time with set pieces recently. Two good free kick positions tonight wasted and we have seen so many wasted corners and FK's in other games. Obviously Twine will play a big role in that, but should we...

Dingo

The paper focuses on scouts who observe players from U12 up to U17 who had not yet been signed up to a professional club or academy. I think the ‘weakness in the system’, as you put it, is that these scouts generally felt that they were unable to identify whether the players they observed would make...

Dingo

How soccer (sic) scouts identify talented players - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17461391.2021.1916081 . Article here from academics in the Netherlands based on self-report studies with scouts. Key points being: 1. Scouts who observe young (under 12) players don't think they can reli...

Dingo

If we kept Pope a bit longer we'd have only been delaying the inevitable in the hope of an increased fee which may have not even materialised. But doing so would have most likely undermined and delayed VK's attempt to implement a new style given how key the keeper is to this. I think the club was co...

Dingo

I've just started reading this book that came out the other week - Ostrageous: How Greed and Crime Erode Professional Football and We All Look the Other Way - https://www.boomdenhaag.nl/en/webshop/ostrageous-how-greed-and-crime-erode-professional-football-and-we-all-look-the-other-way - The author a...

Dingo

I thought Barnes did ok yesterday. I was pleased to see him dropping deeper and getting more involved, and at times he held the ball up well and linked players in. There were just two issues that came to my mind. First, relating to his physical ability, he doesn’t look sharp in terms of finishing. T...

Dingo

I’ve been, on the whole, mostly impressed with Muric. He helps us control the game from the back and this is integral to the new style, he’s made some excellent saves, and his distribution is generally very controlled. Errors are inevitable playing as we are out from the back and inviting the pressu...

Dingo

Frustrating but promising. Hull made it very difficult to play through them which is difficult for any team to break down. For the Hull goal, from where I was sat I thought Roberts was correct with the offside as he was claiming Estupinan came from an offside position to knock the ball on, rather th...

Dingo

I'm really pleased with where we're at. I had not expected that at this stage of the season our performances would be so accomplished or that VK's philosophy would be so embedded in our style already. Yesterday evening we were excellent and only fine margins stopped us from getting the win.

Dingo

His performances this season are demonstrating why letting him go was the right choice, and the circumstances at the time meant the deal we got was a good one. He’s too good for the Championship and keeping him when his preference was to play in the PL would have had little benefit for us, particula...

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