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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 15:30 17 Mar 2025
Very valid point.
Maybe on a (klaxon alert) pay-as-you-play deal? |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 15:15 17 Mar 2025
I think with ITK stuuf, we have to consider whether it helps our club or not to release it. Does it help Rangers for a poster on LFW to claim that Cifuentes has told someone who told someone who told someone that Cifuentes and Nourry weren't talking last summer? Or that Nourry is not trusted by those who've worked with him at Rangers?
Lassel's posting stuff on here that sounds right to some of us, but that's only because it ties in with other rumours that we've heard.
Also, Lassel's info is at least third-hand and - let's face it - we have absolutely no way of knowing how true it is, and why it would be leaked and/or spun.
After all, Lassel's source told him last winter that Cifuentes had actually been sacked. |
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 15:00 17 Mar 2025
Agree with this. We were at our best when we had that kind of a mix in midfield.
Edit - would like to see Morgan more involved as well. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:00]
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Reply | Fast start meets fraught end in the battle of logic versus vibes - Report
at 12:35 17 Mar 2025
Thanks Clive, agree with all of that. Still disappointed we didn't play better in possession. Our main ploy was long throws, which was limiting and uninspiring.
Agree about their keeper, too. Saito's goal, while well-struck, was nowhere near the top corner and should have been saved. Thankfully, the keeper moved right just beforehand for no reason and took himself out of it.
Overall, though, a decent enough performance, and better than I thought at the final whistle. |
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 09:03 17 Mar 2025
Will have to just leave this one, Gazza, as we see it completely differently.
I think that's a pretty damning two minutes of football, you don't. And I think it is representative of his poor play in general, you don't. That's fair enough. |
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 23:09 16 Mar 2025
"Why do you think his 'work-rate and effort are inconsistent and questionable'??"
It's just my view, Gazz. I've watched him over years.
1) I don't think he shows enough for the ball when the backs have it, in fact I've often seen him hide behind oppo players.
2) He can (sometimes) be lazy tracking back. For instance, when my friends and I were watching the Boro game, we noticed the period between 47:20 and 49:20. My friends were at the match. I wasn't.
But we all commented that Colback is capabale of these periods where he simply switches off and trots around the place, and - put simply - can't be arsed. |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 18:10 16 Mar 2025
That's a great post, TK1.
I agree about the first paragraph, broadly at least. He has after all mentioned a few times that the club knows what he needs/wants etc.
I agree completely about the recruitment under Nourry. I think it's been shocking and have thought so since last Summer.
I do, disagree, about airing the dirty laundry. It never helps. Ever.
We always find out in the end, so no need to break the omerta mid-season (if, indeed, this is what he is doing). |
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Reply | "By far the most challenging season of my career!”
at 17:24 16 Mar 2025
Or maybe he just likes a whinge? Who knows?
Either way, not sure I like it when a manager says stuff like this. It could be construed as washing the club's dirty linen in public.
The point here is that we don't know what he is saying, why he is saying it, and if we did we would know if he was correct.
We only know what certain people tell us.
We'll know the truth in our family, but only in time. |
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Reply | The Ginger ninja.
at 17:10 16 Mar 2025
Thought he was damn good.
But I wouldn't give a contract to a player who misses as many games as he does, nor to a player whose work-rate and effort are inconsistent and questionable. Unfortunately, imho, Colback falls into this category. |
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Reply | Steve Cook...
at 16:57 16 Mar 2025
The Cook sitaution, more than any other one, strikes me as one that only time and genuine inside knowledge will decide.
Things we don't know yet, or may never know:
1) The exact injury (plantar fasciitis, or a tear of the plantar fascia)
2) The current pain level
3) How much training he's currently capable of - is it all just physio and rehab? has he returned to full ball training? has he returned to full contact training?
4) Given 1, 2 and 3, how affected is he by these issues, are they temporary? how likely is it that he has another year in him?
5) Even if he has another year, is that a 46+2-game season or a 30-game season?
6) If he's not a guaranteed starter, how happy would he be as a sub?
7) Does that mean, we need another captain?
8) If so, how happy would he be with not being captain?
9) Given all of the above, what's his wage for next year? What's his starting bonus? Is he happy on a wage with less starting bonuses?
and, finally, most importantly imho
10) How do we fit that player into the preferred Cifuentes team model that includes a high defensive line, or will we ever build such a team for Cifuentes? |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's draw
at 07:48 16 Mar 2025
Just don't think he was capable of any more, parky. He looked absolutely goosed by the end. It was etched all over his face.
Maybe one of those rare instances where you could see more on the stream than live? |
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Reply | Gaffer on today's draw
at 21:03 15 Mar 2025
True, he didn't look match-fit today, and didn't win much as a result. But he was a hard mark, and that's the first thing you ask of any forward. Impressed with his attitude. |
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