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Reply | Aaron Drewe
at 08:47 10 May 2024
Mentality.
This is why when people say a player doesn't work hard enough or doesn't care enough, it needs context. To play at Championship level in this country is extraordinarily hard - or at any professional level. Not only do you need ability, yoiu need dedication and a massive will to succeed. i don't think we quite appreciate that enough sometimes. It is, of course, why players like Richards will ultimately fail; it's why 'talent' (whatever that is, exactly: I personally don't really believe in it to much of a degree - almost everything comes through hard work, not some magic 'talent') isn't enough. That goes for any particularly competitive career though, I guess. |
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Reply | Aaron Drewe
at 08:41 10 May 2024
Agree Derby.
Some fans have this lovely romantic view of the 'youth system' being kids aged 8 joining the club, being coached for 10 years, and then being a first-teamer. In reality, this is vanishingly rare, not just at our club, but *anywhere*. Of course it is! The best players in my district in the 80s were with clubs, but within a couple of years they'd been overtaken by other players who a couple of years earlier were nowhere near as good. Then, as you say, we have to compete with other teams: if we have an outstanding talent at aged 13, we'll probably lost them (see Elliott, Harvey) - and there's not much we can do about it. It's much easier for a Chelsea or a Liverpool to have a successful academy, because they can just cherry pick the best talent elsewhere. Equally, if a smaller club has a talent at 13, we can take advantage of that ourselves.
If you're only counting youth products as players who've been at the club since the age of 10, then almost no academy system 'works'. That's why, when it does happen, there's a big fuss about it. It's why Man Utd's Class of 92 is so revered: because a success like that is and was still pretty much unheard of in modern football. |
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Reply | Opening day of the season
at 16:42 8 May 2024
Live sport absolutely is viable though and Sky will have done the maths based on years of FL coverage. The reason it's viable is that live sport is one of the few things people still watch 'live' - therefore it's one of the few places advertisers still want to advertise. |
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Reply | Liam Rosenior
at 14:14 8 May 2024
I don't think that's a concern - yet.
Brighton have been appointing managers who have managed at the top level in bigger leagues and managers who have gone deep in major Euro competitions. Marti not in that bracket - yet.
Won't be long. |
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Reply | Opening day of the season
at 14:13 8 May 2024
Sky are claiming they will choose all fixtures for broadcast until FA Cup 3rd round before the season starts, and after that, the rest of the fixtures by end of november.
I guess when they're showing so many every week, it makes it easier to decide.
Interesting. Until the end of the season, I'd rarely watch a football league game that wasn't a QPR game. Are they effectively assuming that most games will have a viewing number of the amount of fans of the away side who normally only go to hime games, plus a few others? |
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Reply | Rayan Kolli
at 14:10 8 May 2024
One I'm cautiously excited about.
Looking forward to him getting more opportunities next season! |
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Reply | Liam Rosenior
at 11:47 8 May 2024
Not a chance he'll drop to championship.
He'll go prem or abroad.
Not many prem clubs have changed manager, really. |
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Reply | Dunne to Blackburn
at 21:58 7 May 2024
it was pretty miraculous. I wouldn't downplay it too much. |
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Reply | Irish Cafu
at 17:52 7 May 2024
This physically hurts me. |
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Reply | Irish Cafu
at 17:06 7 May 2024
Well, Cook, Colback and Fox all have a year to run. I think that's enough for them for now. JCS has 2 years left. |
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Thread | Irish Cafu
at 15:53 7 May 2024
Ain't going nowhere |
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Reply | Palace put price tag on Eze
at 15:39 7 May 2024
Well, not rated above Bellingham, Palmer, Foden, Saka etc etc. That's not the same as 'not rating' him.
Southgate clearly likes him. Was going to be in his initial bigger squad for World Cup 2 years ago before his injury. But when you look at the players in his position, it's very, very hard to crack that nut. |
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Reply | Liam Rosenior
at 15:37 7 May 2024
I can't see Marti going to another Champ club unless it's like a sort of Southampton or Leeds type scenario.
Gulp. |
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Reply | Work to do
at 10:15 7 May 2024
I think an issue we have is that we have three strikers. None are prolific enough. None really seem quite good enough.
But I also think we are not going to be signing one striker, certainly not two, if we can't offload at least one of them first. No way we're going to be paying 5 strikers for 1 poisition. |
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Reply | Ainsworth 'Titbit' via the Stevenage Forum
at 11:32 6 May 2024
Woah there Bosh.
Jury is very, very, very firmly out on Nourry. The reality is we simply have no idea at all what sort of operator he is yet. He might be a boy genius. He might also be completely out of his depth but luckily is surfing the Marti wave. |
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Reply | The Coventry Conference – Report
at 11:30 6 May 2024
Brilliant stuff Clive.
Thanks for all your efforts over a difficult season. It's funny, we come to the end of it and think 'what a horrible season' - in fact, it wasn't. The first third was. After that and certainly since the halfway point we've been pretty consistent. Frustrating at times, some awful results, but also some amazing ones. A solid mid-table team. Agree with every word on Marti.
Everyone wishing you a happy summer, but of course, we all know you still provide us with a ton more stuff - player ratings etc etc. Looking forward to that.
Cheers. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 21:21 4 May 2024
Well he’s played more games! Overall, yes i think he has been. Is that controversial? I can see why people think Hayden might have been a better signing, but he’s often been sub or subbed. Like him a lot, just think Andersen on a free overall a better signing, yep. |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 14:41 4 May 2024
I'm not getting super excited. 4 signings in Jan and all played their part, but Frey has been unconvincing; Hayden has been great at times, but average at others, Hodge not really figured (crucial goal side). Andersen been good. Hope for a slightly better big hit rate than that this summer. |
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