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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 06:43 30 Dec 2025
"my words and prophecies"
Lol you self-aggrandizing berk.
Have to say, you're rapturous doom-posting made a bad evening significantly harder to take last night - back on "ignore" you go. |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 22:43 29 Dec 2025
The constant passing back was infuriating, Varane particularly bad for it even by his standards. But if you can't find a pass you get closed down and have to turn back. And there was almost never a pass on. Saito actually started to look better when RND came on I thought, because they've played together, RND made overlapping runs that took defenders away etc, whereas Esquerdinha was more often moving infield when Saito had possession. I just think individual performances and team set up end up feeding in to one another - if you keep getting caught in possession because no one is available for a pass your passing starts to deteriorate and the whole thing goes to shit.
None of which accounts for Vale's almost eerily bad ten minutes on the pitch. |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 22:27 29 Dec 2025
There were poor individual performances all over the place but I wonder though whether the total lack of fluidity was also in part down to the different shape, players in different positions, etc. We just didn't look like anyone knew where to be or where to anticipate anyone else being.
I'm also genuinely puzzled by the fact Plan A in the first half appeared to be playing out from the back through Morrison and Esquerdinha, who between them and Hamer successfully played themselves into trouble over and over again. With a totally shuffled back four you'd think you'd avoid inviting pressure in that way.
One big take away is how dependent we are on Burrell, for his ability to harass defenders on the ball and for his ability to stretch the opposition when he have possession. |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 21:00 29 Dec 2025
Wtf was going on with our defence there? Looked completely disorganised before the free kick was taken, then Morrison, Kone et al just stood and watched as the West Brom players moved ten yards across the goal. |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 20:02 29 Dec 2025
Yeah I've been blinking at the screen for 15 minutes...
We look generally unsure of our shape all over the pitch. And almost no pressure on their back four in possession, Field kind of lumbering around.
Feels like a long night on the way. |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 19:51 29 Dec 2025
Team strips difficult to distinguish. Feel like this has been the case for the pink and black strip before? |
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Reply | Baggie ball bags - Match Thread
at 19:41 29 Dec 2025
West Brom supporters on twitter scratching their head at their line up too... Not sure what that means for the kind of game this'll be, but it's going to be something.
More insights as I have them |
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Reply | How confident are you that we could go up?
at 05:05 28 Dec 2025
Kensal's post on page 4 here is right. On the basis that approx 10 or so teams are in the mix for playoffs, we've about 1 in 40 chance (2.5%). An outside chance but as good a chance as anyone in the mix at this point and enough to keep it interesting for now. The next couple of weeks should reduce the number of teams in the hunt so we'll have a better idea then
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Reply | January transfer rumours
at 08:21 27 Dec 2025
I've come round to thinking Ronnie would be an important signing, on the basis that without JCS we don't have anyone who can play a decisive ball out of defence, which is critical for us to play the type of football epitomised by the Leicester game. And as said above Cook continues to be a concern, so we're not well covered at the back currently |
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Reply | Chair
at 08:06 27 Dec 2025
100% I said on the Leicester match thread how amazing it was to see both flanks firing, it hasn't really happened before and makes such a difference. |
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