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Reply | MiIlwall Away - Advice Requested
at 16:32 16 Oct 2026
Maybe worth contacting the club beforehand as an out of towner and seeing if you can get a ticket that way. I’m guessing it might be pretty popular so difficult to get tickets without points.
It’s pretty organised leaving the ground after the match - I was bit apprehensive about being penned in for ages but they funnel away fans direct to the station. Borough Market is a lovely post match option after the game for a drink and something to eat. Direct line to London Bridge and a short walk. |
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Reply | Rampant Rangers rout wretched Rams (again) – Report
at 12:51 16 Oct 2026
Yeah. Unfortunately although both young, Kolli and Lloyd are both injury prone with niggly muscle issues, so we have to preserve them a bit with Burrell and Kone not fully fit either. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 08:59 16 Oct 2026
I think most clubs these days in the Prem and the Championship play on semi synthetic pitches. And many clubs at the moment have injuries expecially Millwall and Derby. I think it’s far more likely to be overplaying players in silly schedules and not considering that it’s not a great thing to have elite sportsman schleppimg long distances on coaches between venues and then made to run round full pelt for ninety minutes, getting on another coach for hours and then repeating that three days later with little chance to do your stretching and warm ups in between.
And before people repeat that they used to do that years ago, just go back and look at how they ran around years ago. How much less pressing and running back was there? How fast were they really sprinting and how often? It’s a much more demanding game at the elite level.
And yet with all the money in the game no one is thinking that they’re having people with no real understanding of the demands of the game doing the frigging scheduling of matches with no consideration of the welfare of the players. They literally cannot as they wouldn’t be scheduling us on Wednesday and Saturday when we’d already played on Friday. They wouldn’t have us going between Plymouth and Hull in a three match week with four days in between. They wouldn’t have refs who think it’s perfectly fine to kick someone up in the air, good clean tackle, yes but if someone falls over when they deliberately stop short and have a miniscule prod in the back, definitely a free kick. It’s madness. |
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Reply | Finally saw a win!
at 02:34 16 Oct 2026
Further to my earlier post my first away match this season was West Ham and a creditable draw. I’m off to Birmingham this weekend so hopefully my positive streak will continue. |
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Reply | Derby Reflection
at 22:08 15 Oct 2026
Yes I looked that up Wrexham the other day because I thought they had an old squad compared to us and 16 of their squad are 28 and older compared to five of ours. And the average age is two years older than ours. I like the fact that we’ve invested more in younger players but with a blend of experience. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 11:05 15 Oct 2026
I think he absolutely agrees with the approach. I’m sure he actually said it himself at some point that he recognises the need to listen to advice.
At one point yesterday you could see Smyth just missing a couple of balls where he’d been completely on it before and he was straight off. So yes I do think they’re monitoring tiredness.
I disagree about predetermined removal of players though. Some players with their playing style will be more likely to get injured - so players that make a lot of sprints. Also it takes into account how many minutes they’ve played recently, and the amount of work they got through. I’m sure it’s emerged from the report they commissioned about injuries last season so if they’re following the recommendations from that then it makes sense to me. Burrell and Madsen last season almost certainly got injured from being overplayed and we don’t want that this season. Unfortunately we were not able to influence the Burrell one because of the frigging international break. |
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Reply | Football Finances
at 10:53 15 Oct 2026
You should write an article like that for the mainstream press Clive if you haven’t already. It’s absolutely spot on. I was going to say the same about parachute payments and I’ve been banging on about the Chelsea puppy farm for years. It’s really eroded the lower league’s opportunity to raise funds by selling players to the bigger clubs. They really should limit how many young players they can hoover up. |
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Reply | Alfie Lloyd - Well Done
at 10:45 15 Oct 2026
Yes he’s been managed really well by the club. I think the loan did him good even though he didn’t play a huge number of minutes. It must have been good to experience being promoted and playing with a load of determined players and he scored a couple of goals.
You can really see the progress since he was here last. He controls the ball much better in tight areas and he’s more aware of where he is on the pitch related to everyone else so he’s able to get the ball to them. His pressing seems more effective and I thought he took the goal well as well. |
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Reply | Derby Reflection
at 06:35 15 Oct 2026
Yeah.
We certainly p*ssed them off. Some very full blooded challenges flying in in the second half. Kemper for one was incensed at one point where he was pretty much assaulted with no attempt to play the ball and they were late on Smyth several times, seemingly for the fun of it. Nasty team. |
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Reply | Derby Reflection
at 23:33 14 Oct 2026
Absolutely gutted for Mbengue. A loss to the squad with his pace and commitment. I know he has the occasional brain fart but he put in some good performances last season and will be really disappointing to lose him for the whole rest of the season.I’ll miss his general exuberance on the pitch too.
Difficult to look past that but this was a very solid performance. We snuffed out pretty much all of their chances and those we didn’t Charles dealt with impeccably. Their goal wasn’t happening with eleven men.
Lloyd added something different and is looking much more in control of the ball and his passing. Took his goal well too. Kolli looked much more of a team player, passing when not in a good position to shoot and closing down much better off the ball.
Kemper looked very solid and Smyth is becoming very important to our attacking force. Ronnie, Dunne and Adamson all worked well together and Madsen looks like he’s coming back to his best form and linked well with Kamara.
These are the kind of matches we were struggling with last season and we lost to them home and away so that shows some progress. |
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Reply | Getting Fleeced Down The Bush Match Fred
at 00:36 14 Oct 2026
Yes. I think they must really miss Matt Clarke who’s very solid at the back and their LB situation sounds pretty bad. Let’s hope we can exploit it down that side.
We should be feeling pretty confident after a decent performance against West Ham and still being in the play off positions even after a lot of teams playing today.
The injury situation is pretty bad across a number of clubs including us, Derby and Millwall. I hope clubs are lobbying the EFL to improve the ridiculous scheduling of matches. |
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Reply | Unbeaten away, struggling at home
at 18:26 13 Oct 2026
I’m hoping the lack of Matt Clarke will help us. He was just brilliant at their place last season and seemed to be everywhere at once heading out every ball that came into their box. On the down side they’ve only won three of their last twelve away games and you know what we’re like about being charitable. But even a draw would be an improvement against last year’s efforts cos we got zero points against them last season.
I am a bit concerned about the number of draws we’re racking up and our relative drought in front of goal. But I also hate ‘must win match’ or ‘six pointer’ being trotted out so early in the season. Way too many matches to come. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 17:12 11 Oct 2026
Is it something being covered by mainstream sports journalists Clive do you know? Seems a big issue when so many players are being affected and it also affects the enjoyment of the fans if the best players aren’t available. |
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Reply | Injuries
at 16:54 11 Oct 2026
But how does that fit with Millwall who everybody agrees is a well run club? And they’ve had tons of injuries this season, probably more than us and also had a load last season. They’re also the land of the giants compared to us.
Injuries were no doubt terrible last season and the fault of the club’s strategy. I’m not convinced that we can judge them yet so harshly this season given the injuries have happened partly to those who didn’t have a pre season plus Burrell who was playing international football after a crazy few weeks schedule and a couple of freak injuries to Kone and Kemper.
I still don’t understand why the EFL scheduled two back to back three match weeks followed by a packed international break and then another three match week and then two weeks with no midweek games. It’s a recipe for disaster. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 26/27
at 15:57 10 Oct 2026
Maybe a new Wrexham manager too? They’ve got very high hopes and losing to Derby who were in the relegation places wasn’t in the script I’m sure. |
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Reply | Rest of the Championship thread 26/27
at 13:55 10 Oct 2026
Swansea very dangerous from crosses if today’s match anything to go by. Difficult to be totally sure as Norwich’s defence are pants. They’re safely at the top leading 2-1 at the moment. |
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Reply | Great draw tonight...
at 12:02 10 Oct 2026
Except I didn’t say any of that. Obviously from a playing viewpoint I’d have kept Kemper on. No one is saying any different.
We were talking about player loading when you’ve got yet another three day week. And unless you put on here before Lamptey went on that he was bound to get injured then it’s just the benefit of hindsight. What if Kemper had got injured or couldn’t play on Wednesday? Medicine isn’t an exact science and yet you’re expecting it to be. It doesn’t work like that. Players can be injury free if they carry on playing or get injured even if their minutes are managed. All you can do is maximise the chances of being injury free and minimise the chances of the injuries by being careful with their loading and that’s what we’re doing. |
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