Not under Mark Robins. So many myths and bogeys have been dealt with.Would anyone actually be surprised if we somehow manage to lose today?
Would anyone actually be surprised if we somehow manage to lose today?
If this Bolton team try and play football I think we'll be ok. If they all sit behind the ball we'll struggle to break them down and might have to rely on another Allassani style goal from last week.Would anyone actually be surprised if we somehow manage to lose today?
If this Bolton team try and play football I think we'll be ok. If they all sit behind the ball we'll struggle to break them down and might have to rely on another Allassani style goal from last week.
If he starts Hiwula, Baka and Godden I'll pay £10 to a charity of your choiceThis is the best time to play Bolton his season I think we need to take advantage of this fact and win - I think we will do it,
Team I think MR will plump for.
Marosi
Mason
Dabo
MacFadzean
Rose
Shipley
Westbrooke
Kelly
Hiwula
Baka
Godden
I think we will win 2-1 not as easy as some think it will be!
Allasani didn’t score last week
Would anyone actually be surprised if we somehow manage to lose today?
Can't see a youth team having the organisation and footballing nous to park the bus for 90 minutes. Besides, they're - 12 points. They need to win!If this Bolton team try and play football I think we'll be ok. If they all sit behind the ball we'll struggle to break them down and might have to rely on another Allassani style goal from last week.
Can't see a youth team having the organisation and footballing nous to park the bus for 90 minutes. Besides, they're - 12 points. They need to win!
Can't see a youth team having the organisation and footballing nous to park the bus for 90 minutes. Besides, they're - 12 points. They need to win!
We got three good players out of it last year. Loanees are part of the mix now - 2 or 3 each season.
Plenty of permanent players stay little longer - like JCH
If they are rubbish you are not stuck with them
The most likely way to find wingers
A player like Bright can work his way up the hierarchy - L1, Champ, Prem
Prem Clubs become a source of talent they otherwise could not get access to Armstrong and others now plying their trade in the Championship.
On a cost to quality ratio, usually pretty good
I could go on....
But it also makes long term planning almost impossible. Look at the year we had Kent, Armstrong and Murphy on loan - we looked great. Season after we got relegated. It's too high a level of player turnover.
Plus all the financial advantages favour the teams that already have the money. Player goes out on loan and does well - increases in value for the team he's contracted too, not us. If he's shit we suffer because we're playing a player who's not good enough.
It's a system designed to favour the bigger clubs.
Just because we have done well with some of them, Henderson, Armstrong, Murphy etc, it doesn't mean that the loan system is good for the game.
Look at the league in February. Clubs that have been struggling bring in two or three on loan and transform their season. Good for them, but it's to the detriment of other clubs.
OK, we get to see emerging talent, but again to the detriment of our own developing youngsters.
As to your " the most likely way to find wingers", a strange comment that I cannot understand. Surely that could just as easily be the best way to find goalkeepers/ strikers/ et al.
Cost to quality for us, I agree, but again at a detriment to the game as a whole. It distorts things, and allows the Premier League teams to stockpile talent. If there was not a loan system, they would have to play at the level to which they were suited.
You going nick?Really looking forward to it today
Really looking forward to it today
You have two front men on the bench. One too many. I'd have Will Bapaga for BiamouUnless Allen is fit enough for the bench I’d run with this, should have enough to do the job without taking unnecessary risks on players
--------------Marosi-------------
Dabo--McFadzean--Rose--Mason
--Westbrooke---Kelly---Shipley---
---Jobello--Bakayoko--Hiwula----
Subs
Wilson, Hyam, Pask, McCallum, Eccles, Biamou, Godden
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You have two front men on the bench. One too many. I'd have Will Bapaga for Biamou
Did you turn Fifa off afterwardsLast night I saw a scoreboard that had us winning 7-0 on it!
I think it gives you a chance to get a player well above what you normally would for a season. Let’s be honest young players from our own academy of the same quality rarely last more than a season or two before leaving for better things anyway.
At this level squad turnover makes a bit of a mockery of the idea of building a squad over several seasons anyway. We’re likely to finish this season with only one or two players in the first team that were here last year (Mason and Kelly).
I like the try before you buy thing in theory as well, but the buy bit always seems to be locked in (see JCH).
I had a dream that we won 2-1 with a winning goal in the 6th minute of injury time scored by Kanye West.
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