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Reply | Utterly Sick of It
at 00:34 18 Sep 2024
Agree. Couldn’t make tonight but said the same thing before the Luton Cup/League double. Then we went and won both…
We could conceivably get into the Qtrs of the League Cup with some focus and ambition, get a couple of big pays days in the process, bring some respect to the club, and have a big day out. Lots of clubs or our size have reached the latter stages of the cup competitions over the last 20 years.
Saturday is one of 46 league games in a league where everyone beats everyone anyway.
Our full strength may have lost anyway because Palace might have upped it. But you have to go for it. We should not be tossing off the cup competitions. It’s simple. Winning breeds winning. Better to win today or give it your best go and then look to get a result against Millwall. How many times have the club tossed off the Cup game midweek only to lose on the next Sat anyway?! Commercially it is better to win a cup game too. I just don’t get the mentality. Experiment/Rotate against Millwall. There’s a small upside there too as they won’t have prepared for it! |
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Reply | Devasated
at 20:53 12 Sep 2024
Sounds like you were a great brother and no doubt your brother hugely appreciated everything you did for him. RIP |
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Reply | Frey’s big start, Madsen’s quiet wins, Field’s conundrum - Column
at 00:19 12 Sep 2024
I’m in a minority here. And I rarely post much now.
I think off the ball work is hugely underrated by fans and the data lads haven’t got their heads around it fully yet. You don’t need to win a tackle, make a block or nail an interception to be good off the ball.
You need to track runners and close down space, and block off passing options. Macro “fan” football stats don’t capture this. I’m sure the “pro” stats do.
How many managers in a row have made Field a stalwart of their side since he signed? All 4. Marti even dropped Hayden and played Field at 6 for the run in last year. Look at the Leeds and WBA games, our best two performances, they had Field at the heart of it. He started our last 10 games for all these comments about Cifuentes’ trust in him. Colback, Hayden, and EBD didn’t.
It’s an easy narrative. I just personally feel many fans, including Clive (who I rated enormously) have it wrong and underestimate the off the ball work.
Watch him off the ball. IMO, he is elite. He is in a different league to our other players and players we’ve had since relegation.
Should he be better on the ball and/or become better on it?! Yes, absolutely. Just don’t underestimate what we have. |
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Reply | Frey
at 22:26 30 Aug 2024
Exactly. He may not be the quickest, but he knows how to play centre forward. His movement and anticipation is good. It was there for his first goal on his debut vs Norwich. You could see it then.
This season he is match fit and match sharp. He wasn’t last season. He’d not played football for over 6 months when he joined us. And then he picked up a niggle.
He’s fit now. He’s that bit quicker and sharper, and he’s so physical. Very hard to manhandle him. So the ball sticks well. And then he looks a proper striker in the box.
Note he did his own pre-season on his own dime, I believe, for two weeks before our pre-season started. The bloke is really making an effort. He’s the right sort. |
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Reply | Where's the Luton Town (w@nk w@nk w@nk) Match Thread Match Thread?
at 21:12 30 Aug 2024
Madsen is absolutely coasting here.
He has touched it once this half where he preceded to play a hospital pass backwards to Paal.
He began the half by not anticipating a very good headed lay off from Frey. Otherwise, not in the game at all. Oh, and again. This time a chest lay off lost.
No idea who is marking Morris at corners now. Was Colback earlier. Either way it’s pretty unforgivable not to mark their no. 9 properly. |
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Reply | Where's the Luton Town (w@nk w@nk w@nk) Match Thread Match Thread?
at 20:56 30 Aug 2024
Yeah, he’s done a good job. Great bit of play to set up Dembele with a chance he should have scored, certainly hit the target with at the very least.
We’re not getting enough support near to him. Madsen has to take the blame for that. |
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Reply | Where's the Luton Town (w@nk w@nk w@nk) Match Thread Match Thread?
at 20:34 30 Aug 2024
Yeah, good first 15 and now we are on the ropes.
Madsen is having an awful game. He’s receiving decent passes - not perfect ones - which he appears completely unable to trap. His balance looks poor. He’s giving Frey hardly any support and not moving enough when our defence has it to offer a ball out to feet. Complete passenger so far.
Lloyd needs to be a bit more careful with the ball too. Can’t keep turning it over. |
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Reply | Celar
at 23:42 27 Aug 2024
He was much better today. Tidy in the build up. Used his body better to regain possession. He looked more assured througout.
It was positive today. There is a player in there. Needs a bit of luck in front of goal and needs to build a better relationship with teammates in terms of reading/understanding what each of them are going to do.
But strong signs of improvement.
I still think Frey is the first choice, mind. |
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Reply | The Sad Hatters League Cup thread sponsored by Numptydumpty
at 14:10 27 Aug 2024
If Field and Madsen are the first choice, and Varane, and EBD as back up, PLUS Colback around too, you have 5 players for 2 spots. We can’t sign a 6th! We also have Tuck and Aoraha who need to develop and get game time. I think both could be good enough to make it.
I expect Varane and EBD to play today, Saito and Lloyd, and Cela.
My guess is:
Walsh
Paal
JCS
Morrison
Dunne
Varane
EBD
Lloyd
Kolli
Saito
Celar |
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Reply | Transfer rumours 2024
at 11:25 27 Aug 2024
Arse. Really wanted that lad. Liverpool fans rate him very highly. Tore it up at Dundee last season winning PotY. |
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Reply | Just back
at 10:29 26 Aug 2024
As I saw it. Dembele and Field in the team of the week. |
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Reply | Goals, Shots, XG - QPR laboured to score?
at 10:27 26 Aug 2024
Burnley are the outlier there, I’d suggest, not us. So possible (likely) results and score lines have flattered them. We obviously deserved to beat Fulham comfortably as the xG stats indicate, so we arguably could be see as currently being a tad hard done by when it comes to points on the board.
It’s incredibly earlier in the season and therefore a small sample size. If we average 18 shots a game, we will score goals.
Need to wait to see how the land lies after about 10 games. |
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Reply | Just back
at 14:24 25 Aug 2024
Except he passed forwards loads yesterday. He was the one playing the ball about yesterday, not Madsen. |
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Reply | Smyth
at 10:46 25 Aug 2024
Agree. I bring a mate who is a neutral several times a season as he lives about 100 yards from the ground. He is really likes Smyth. We all know he doesn’t score or assist enough for his pace and the positions he finds himself in. However, he does worry defenders. He gets into those positions in the first place. He wins us corners and dangerous free kicks. I don’t think he should be a first choice when everyone is fit, but as a sub/back up in the squad, I think he’s very much worth having around. I definitely think he’s good enough to play in the Championship. He’s just not starter level for a top half club. He won’t be a starter for us when everyone is fit and available, I suspect. But he should always be in the matchday squad. He is useful. Never underestimate pace and how it helps all our other players. |
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Reply | Just back
at 22:13 24 Aug 2024
How the hell is anyone going after Field?! He was superb. Hit the post and the keeper made a great save from another header. Did all the dirty work and started almost all out attacks. His ball playing was very good, but the number of blocks and tackles he made was outstanding.
And he was playing with a new boy who was clearly off the pace. |
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Reply | 4 minutes.
at 19:13 24 Aug 2024
He didn’t play 7 mins. Clock finished at 95.16 to my memory.
At least 4 minutes short. I recorded 1min 30 of time off in injury time alone, plus everything that went before. Should have been 9-10 min injury time. |
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