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Can't say I'm bothered about missing out on Moore. I think RR's right in that there'll be a lot of brinksmanship over the next few weeks. I mean Goode...
Stubbs definitely looks at least League One potential and may cut it in the Championship. Last year the club were apparently saying that Wood was cons...
I tend to agree. You do occasionally get some cases. For example Marcus Browne seems to have found a club that suits him in Oxford. You also get the i...
I think this was really the only viable appointment. If it hadn't happened and we had to go looking for someone else I think that would have been disa...
You just described Paul Scholes. Seriously though, Wing currently has one trick. It's a good trick. Get the ball 25m out in a bit of space and score...
I think there is a plan, it just hasn't worked. If you look at the Gibson era, the pattern is quite clear. 1) Splash the cash and buy trophies. It w...
@selwynoz I think that's a really good analysis. It does highlight that we don't have a "spine." Thing is, a successful team generally grows a spine, ...
I wonder if we will end up getting stuck with players like McNair, Saville, Fletcher, Britt and so on. They aren't going to move somewhere for lower w...
Maybe grasping at straws but I think I see glimmers of hope in our last 2 home defeats: we scored consolation goals. I'm not sure but I can't remember...
Realistically, play off challenging team playing away at a bottom six team that hasn't won at home all year and is just about safe from relegation onl...
That's a relief and the rest of the results tonight were good. Not mathematically safe but it would now take a very strange set of results for us to g...
I guess it must be 3-4-3. Asking a lot of Dijksteel who hasn't played this century. At this rate we may see Woodgate back as a player before the end o...
Realistically that was utterly predictable. You don't end up in the bottom six without a reason. The problem is not the players' ability it is thei...
Yes, you are right. I got it wrong. I had thought that the 12 points is carried over to next year if they are relegated without the deduction or if th...
@redcarred Wigan only get 12 points deducted if it is enough to relegate them. If they would survive then the 12 points are deducted next season inste...
Some odd choices there. It makes me think there have been various issues behind the scenes. I guess Warnock subscribes to the first rule of football w...
@andy-r that is roughly my preference but we would be torn apart down the left. Fry has struggled on the left of a three but then so has everyone. I...
I wonder if, in part, we're suffering a Pulis hangover. When he leaves a club it seems he does so with the players so drilled they're basically broken...
That has relegation written all over it. If Woodgate had picked that team and formation we would all be shouting for him to be sacked. The performance...
Have no idea what is going to happen today. I do think that 3 at the back and 2 up front is the best way of playing to our strengths but if Warnock ha...
Realistically this was sickening but unsurprising. To an extent we got lucky against Stoke and unlucky against Hull. We ended up looking better than w...
Can't ask for more than that. Possibly the most comfortable win of the season. There was nothing magic about it just picking most of your best players...
@grovehillwallah Looks like he's decided attack is the best form of defence. Not what I expected. I literally have no idea what will happen today. We ...
Just before Woodgate got the sack I was about to post my thoughts on a team. To an extent it almost doesn't matter what formation you choose because t...
Bloody hell. It had to be done. I have sympathy for Woodgate. He was handed a hospital pass but no one is going to say no when you get offered a ch...
I think that what is happening is that Woodgate has only recently moved from being a senior pro to being a manager. In every organisation, managers te...
I try hard to be balanced. Things are rarely as good as they look and rarely as bad. I was against the appointment of Woodgate, not because of who he ...