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Evo1883

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #71
Get players in early next season, a good competitive pre season schedule that isn't half our matches against non league / league 2 and we need to start well .. cheers
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #72
djr8369 said:
Rob Gurney caught on mic at half time during the Brum game describing the calls as “reactive nonsense” was priceless.
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Even this forum has the same temperament as a toddler at times. Euphoric when we’re winning and raging when we’re losing. One minute we’ve got a great team, the next it’s totally back to the drawing board.
 
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skybluecam

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #73
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Even this forum has the same temperament as a toddler at times. Euphoric when we’re winning and raging when we’re losing. One minute we’ve got a great team, the next it’s totally back to the drawing board.
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SBT Wednesday 7:45pm: Absolute heroes the lot of them, whatever happens tonight I’m proud after Sunday

SBT Wednesday 10pm: Collins out, Thomas out, Kitching out, they’re shit bottlers
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #74
Sick Boy said:
Arguably without the cup run we’d have got into the playoffs but we’ll never know.
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Play offs is no guarantee.

I the play offs last year but Wolves and United away surpassed even the Middlesbrough game for me.

I'd happily be a midtable Championship club for a while if you get those moments.
 
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AOM

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #75
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Even this forum has the same temperament as a toddler at times. Euphoric when we’re winning and raging when we’re losing. One minute we’ve got a great team, the next it’s totally back to the drawing board.
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The Simms and Wright threads are good examples of this. Proper emotional roller coasters
 
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Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #76
skybluecam said:
SBT Wednesday 7:45pm: Absolute heroes the lot of them, whatever happens tonight I’m proud after Sunday

SBT Wednesday 10pm: Collins out, Thomas out, Kitching out, they’re shit bottlers
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Exactly this. If anyone needs some perspective, always read Robins’ post match interviews.

They’re mostly spot on and he’s frank in his assessments. First, he knows we need more quality to get to the next level (needs to be down ‘sustainably’). Secondly, he’s acknowledged that our lack of depth has finally caught up with us. Just look at the amount of injuries we’ve had against Man U and Hull

I said sarcastically that as soon as I’d seen the team, I should’ve turned around…

AOM said:
The Simms and Wright threads are good examples of this. Proper emotional roller coasters
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Yep, first half of the season I got sick of people around me comparing them to Vik and how they’d have spent the money on a ‘proven championship striker’…

Every year, the same people make out of pocket comments about players to get proven wrong (again) and the routine apology on SBT about how wrong they were.

It is nice that even when Wright or Simms make little mistakes, they’re encouraged now rather than moaned about.
 
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We'll_live_and_die

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #77
I think criticism of Simms especially was valid earlier in the season. He was lethargic, off the pace and genuinely looked disinterested and lost. As the season has gone on he's shown us what he's capable of and in some way shown that the criticism was valid. He's so much more than he showed earlier in the season.

Wright though looked dangerous from the moment I saw him in the Leicester game and it was clear he just needed to settle into the new country and team to get him firing.

People claiming they're not good enough were wrong for sure, but some criticism was definitely justified at the time.
 
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Balli001

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #78
Evo1883 said:
Get players in early next season, a good competitive pre season schedule that isn't half our matches against non league / league 2 and we need to start well .. cheers
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Every team from championship downwards plays lower division sides in pre season. Robins has often said he finds it nothing more than a fitness exercise. Not sure what the obsession with playing bigger teams is
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #79
Balli001 said:
Every team from championship downwards plays lower division sides in pre season. Robins has often said he finds it nothing more than a fitness exercise. Not sure what the obsession with playing bigger teams is
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Because if the games are all too easy then it isn’t much of a fitness exercise.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #80
Wright and Simms did look fucking awful when they first started though. Neither looked like they’d seen a football before.
 
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robbiekeane

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #81
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Even this forum has the same temperament as a toddler at times. Euphoric when we’re winning and raging when we’re losing. One minute we’ve got a great team, the next it’s totally back to the drawing board.
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It’s crazy
 
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wingy

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #82
Balli001 said:
Every team from championship downwards plays lower division sides in pre season. Robins has often said he finds it nothing more than a fitness exercise. Not sure what the obsession with playing bigger teams is
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I'd take a friendly with MC if their still a draw by then, home of course!!
 

Balli001

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #83
Brighton Sky Blue said:
Because if the games are all too easy then it isn’t much of a fitness exercise.
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We didnt exactly test ourselves last season or this and yet we made 2 wembley appearances and a top 6 finish
 

mmttww

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #84
shmmeee said:
Wright and Simms did look fucking awful when they first started though. Neither looked like they’d seen a football before.
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This is re-writing history to suit a narrative and forgive bedwetting earlier in the season. It's a massive oversimplification of what happened in the first few months. Not having it.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #85
mmttww said:
This is re-writing history to suit a narrative and forgive bedwetting earlier in the season. It's a massive oversimplification of what happened in the first few months. Not having it.
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It’s not. Neither of them looked close to £8m strikers. They weren’t winning things in the air, weren’t using their bodies, first touch made Godden last night look like Messi.

It was probably all mental, first proper pro club, new to the country, but they genuinely were much much worse than they are now.
 

shepardo01

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #86
Great_Expectations said:
What?! You can’t say such an alarming statement like that and leave us hanging?!
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Matt smith

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #87
I can’t see him not going if vik doesn’t

but I think vik will go
 

Mucca Mad Boys

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #88
shmmeee said:
Wright and Simms did look fucking awful when they first started though. Neither looked like they’d seen a football before.
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Wright's very first contribution where he hit the crossbar against Leicester showed his quality. In fact, correct me if I'm wrong but it may have been you who'd written him off based on his highlight reel where a comparison was made to Bakayoko.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #89
Matt smith said:
I can’t see him not going if vik doesn’t

but I think vik will go
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He’ll have earnt it if he does and will flourish at the right top flight club.
 
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Matt smith

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #90
Brighton Sky Blue said:
He’ll have earnt it if he does and will flourish at the right top flight club.
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Completely agree, might be what has to be needed to recruit adequately
 

covcity4life

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #91
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Even this forum has the same temperament as a toddler at times. Euphoric when we’re winning and raging when we’re losing. One minute we’ve got a great team, the next it’s totally back to the drawing board.
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The change in mood from some posters from Sunday to wednesday is crazy.

Be adults.
 
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messiahrobins

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #92
djr8369 said:
Of all the calls and texts on CWR I wouldn’t class someone speculating we might bring 9 players in as nonsense compared to some of the drivel on there.
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I dont know why they allow texts and whatsapp messages, Should just be a phone in.
 
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messiahrobins

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #93
Rich said:
I don't think it's masked anything to be honest, we're quite a thin squad and always have been. Really if our first choice in a position isn't playing we don't have backup to the same standard.
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Yes agree with that which is sort of what i meant as for some reason Doug didnt see the thin squad as an issue or surely he would have brought more in January, we didnt need to spend big as we just needed a fuller second string.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #94
messiahrobins said:
I dont know why they allow texts and whatsapp messages, Should just be a phone in.
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Think you need to text that in mate
 
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messiahrobins

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #95
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Yes and no.

First things first, there has to be a mitigation that we just look leggy and don’t have the depth required to keep the team fresh.

However, looking at our results against the top half teams - it’s awful. Last season, we didn’t lose those big games and this season is the opposite. Therefore, we’re clearly lacking somewhere.

We’re close, and just need extra quality to take us up the table. Robins has said this countless times and it will come.
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I feel we lack experience thats what hurt us. Losing Mcfadzean was a blow as i think had he been here, even if not playing regularly he would have helped Kitching and Thomas and maybe they would make less errors, i am pointing more of a finger at Kitching than Thomas, last night Thomas was just knackered and cannot blame him, but Kitching has made some big errors, Norwich first one comes to mind
 

hill83

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #96
Too many details in this thread from what he said on CWR. You lot need to calm down.
 
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SAJ

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #97
messiahrobins said:
Yes agree with that which is sort of what i meant as for some reason Doug didnt see the thin squad as an issue or surely he would have brought more in January, we didnt need to spend big as we just needed a fuller second string.
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How do you know Doug didn’t see it. They would have had targets. Sometimes for whatever reason it doesn’t come off. There is no point then panic buying someone. I would have thought all of our fans wouldn’t have wanted a repeat of what Mowbray did when we dragged in a few donkeys that just made us worse.
 
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messiahrobins

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #98
SAJ said:
How do you know Doug didn’t see it. They would have had targets. Sometimes for whatever reason it doesn’t come off. There is no point then panic buying someone. I would have thought all of our fans wouldn’t have wanted a repeat of what Mowbray did when we dragged in a few donkeys that just made us worse.
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We didnt need to spend big, could have just got some teenage loan players from the PL perhaps to cover the positions we have no cover in.
 
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Broken Hearted Sky Blue

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #99
messiahrobins said:
Yes agree with that which is sort of what i meant as for some reason Doug didnt see the thin squad as an issue or surely he would have brought more in January, we didnt need to spend big as we just needed a fuller second string.
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Ccfcisparks

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #100
Mucca Mad Boys said:
Wright's very first contribution where he hit the crossbar against Leicester showed his quality. In fact, correct me if I'm wrong but it may have been you who'd written him off based on his highlight reel where a comparison was made to Bakayoko.
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Lol he did. A few times too.
 
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djr8369

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  • Apr 25, 2024
  • #101
messiahrobins said:
I dont know why they allow texts and whatsapp messages, Should just be a phone in.
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“Boost from Tile Hill” did give me a chuckle this week just as Rob and Oggy were so appalled by the comments.
 
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skybluericoh

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  • Apr 26, 2024
  • #102
wingy said:
I'd take a friendly with MC if their still a draw by then, home of course!!
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Yeah me too, that said, would have to be prepared to fly half way around the world to do it and put up with pep moaning about ‘his’ players having jet lag
 
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