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Off to Barcelona apparently. Cucurella might play LCB in a 3 sometimes too.

Potentially a very, very good player but that move really suited nobody in the end. Wouldn't be surprised to see him reunited with Lampard at Everton.

It's Andy Turner, what do you think? The striker Rotherham are after is Ashley Fletcher.

Did I really read that somebody said it should be treated as attempted murder!? 🤣🤣🤣

Obstruction as a law doesn't exist anymore. This was clamped down on a few years back now. You used to see players taking the ball to the corner & then not even being in possession or playable distance of it but blocking their opponents - this is now correctly penalised. Players as always get...

What isn't covered under the current laws? Agree on the open to interpretation bit, as I said before the new guidelines for EFL officials can only be seen as a positive step but we'll have to see how it plays out. There was definitely an increased threshold for fouls vs Sunderland - both...

It will happen, still thrashing out the finer points of the Colwill part of the deal I think but Cucurella is as good as done. Good deal for Brighton btw, Cucurella is a good player but massive fee + a real prospect in Colwill is great business for them.

No. Our entire team, tactics & recruitment strategy are all geared around an identity & style of play - as with all successful teams. You can be pragmatic within that to a point but ripping it up & starting again is a sure-fire recipe for disaster.

A lot of that isn't about wasting time though per sé, it's more about disrupting momentum - that won't be changed by stopping the clock, it just means games will go on for considerably longer. I am not against the notion of trialling it, in fact I believe it has been done at very low levels...

If Walker or Waghorn go out on loan it will be to free up budget, not because Tavares is better than them

Of course, but how many reasonable agents do we know? They'd definitely be asking the question. 😆 Completely agree on your point just think there's a better solution. There has been a directive to officials to clamp down on time wasting this season so we'll see what happens. Might take a few...

Because it creates more problems than it solves imo. If I was a player's agent, first thing I'd be doing is demanding my client gets a 33% pay rise if we're expecting him to play an extra 35mins or so every game. It can be managed properly without this but it rarely is. If we look back at...

All fair points but I don't have too much issue with a lot of it, it's part of the game. All that should happen is the time is added on but it almost never is. If we're going to look at stopping the clock every time the ball goes out you're looking at extending matches by over 30 minutes & all...

Just enforce the laws we have rather than invent new ones.

No chance. Now again when circumstances dictate as per Sunday but can't ever really see us starting that way.

The very foundations on which SBT is built 😁

Fair enough, just shows how differently people can see a game, especially when it's the club they're invested in involved & the tinted specs take over!

He wasn't at his best. As @SlowerThanPlatt says, Whoscored is great but the algorithm they use to convert stats to their rating system is iffy at best.

Not sure where he's got that from, it's the absolute opposite of how any Russell Martin team plays: 76% Possession - 1st in the Championship 89% Pass Accuracy - 1st in the Championship 90% Short Passes - 1st in the Championship 7% Long Passes - Fewest in the Championship 3% Crosses Rotherham...

Old hairy hands at it again... Now taking credit for the growth of women's football. https://richardajkeys.com/index.php/blog/331-lionesses-you-ve-changed-everything