I imagine the intensity of the games is much higher than he's used to so it's hard for him at the moment to maintain the level from when he first joined.
Clearly got technical ability, but probably needs a pre-season to adjust to the physical demands.
Wright travelled halfway across the world during the wekk, looks tired and stays on. Simms, on two goals and cuasing problems goes off.
Similarly Sheaf on a yellow stays on instead of Eccles, though I can understand wanting to keep the midfield general on when we're looking nervy.
Hope we can get some goals early on and allow those that have been on int. duty a bit to come off early. Going to be knackered with the fixture list coming up otherwise.
That was my first thought.
And frankly why shouldn't govts be allowed to act like a business and do a hostile takeover? Aren't we always hearing how public bodies need to be more like private ones? Frankly if you've come begging to the public purse for money then they get to dictate the terms...
I wasn't clear.
I overall agreed I'd play Bellingham more advanced with Rice and Mainoo deeper, leaving Maddison on the bench
I also meant that if I were to pick maddison I'd drop Mainoo for him and have a middle three of Rice-Maddison-Bellingham
Always surprises me that in comparison to players managers and coaches get paid far less and have much smaller release fees.
I think teams should focus a bit more on the coaching and managing rather than just always looking at new players
Yep.
The only way HS2 had a sliver of a chance of proving worthwhile was when it got to the north and Scotland, where the journey times are a big difference. Even then it really needed to connect to the Eurotunnel line to really make sense.
If they had been genuine about it being to make the...