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Bethnal

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  1. He’s rattled despite being one up against his previous club. Should be strolling about the place having a whale of a time.
  2. I would almost prefer it if we didn’t score, which is new territory for me. I almost cannot handle the hope that a goal would bring.
  3. We are so shit it is genuinely unbelievable. I am struggling to believe that this team gets paid to do this every day and this is the best they’ve been able to come up with.
  4. The manager has contributed fuck all this half except the subs and even then didn’t seem to understand why he was making them.
  5. Reckon he’d love a stint at LAFC, Hollywood probably very attractive to him.
  6. Excellent reference. Thing is - I still fall for this, because when he just does the basics and focuses and works hard, he’s good. He’s got something. When he loses focus, starts trying to be The Big I Am and The Main Man, he can’t compute. His reflex to take the game to the opposition is to do all sorts of tricks and - much to our chagrin - he pulls of one in five to a high enough level that it confirms in his mind that he needs to keep trying it, while entirely forgetting that he fails with it 80+% of the time. We are losing to a squad of former Rovers players that weren’t deemed a sufficient standard to hold down a regular first team place, which I think has to be perfect comic irony.
  7. I buckled. I said I wouldn’t watch. I also said I’d not be drinking at home. For obvious reasons, that resolution has been shattered. It is insane - utterly insane - that we can give any credence to the theory that the club is being intentionally sabotaged by its own executive team. But the thing is - what else is it? Maybe there’s a mentality issue at Brockhall, that seems to be inherited by every player that passes through its doors. We’ve been down here for 13 years or so and not been in the playoffs once. We are being intentionally defunded, pointedly, even. The CEO is giving himself a bumper pay rise despite having achieved physically nothing of note. Having improved absolutely nothing about the club. Even the infrastructural expenditure has been about maintenance. Our sponsors are a regional solicitors’ firm with an annual turnover of half the club’s. They were graduated from the back of shirt sponsor. Theres nothing at all anymore that points to a rational action. It’s intentional, it’s malicious and we as fans need to make Ewood (and away grounds) a no-go area for the executive team on matchdays. Nothing else is going to have an effect. If you need evidence - they’ve quietly asked their opponents’ exec team to get their stewards to take down the anti-ownership banners in our away end. The arrogance of that action while pulling in eye-watering sums of money as a wage to manage a football club into a potentially terminal decline is staggering. But I saw that the away fans were taking selfies with Waggott. How nobody there didn’t make that guy so scared he got into his McDonald’s-strewn, travelling salesman saloon car and drove immediately back to Kent, I’ll never know. We were fucking shit, except for Gueye who is my favourite player out on that pitch currently.
  8. Friends and family up north have already said they’re not bothering with a season ticket next season. Today’s genuinely the first time I’ve considered not watching anymore since about 2011-12. I entirely stopped engaging for about 18 months or so, living abroad. Today has been a bit of an eye-opener, on a personal level. Was a little nervous this morning, wondering about the lineup, wondering what Eustace would be trying to capitalise on, while trying to look at it rationally, that Derby are relegation fodder and a mid-table league one side in a championship stadium. Essentially put off a bunch of important stuff due to fretting about this. Did the odd bit, here and there but it’s taken about 9 hours of my day so far. And I’ll get up now and dawdle about a bit, maybe have SNF on in the background and do something else in the flat, but it’ll still be there. And tomorrow, just as it was yesterday, Thursday and Wednesday before. And that’s me as a relative armchair fan. Think about the 2700 that travelled. Maybe a handful live locally or local-enough that the journey isn’t hours each way. But they all turned up, prioritised it over other things. For what? We turn up, we tune in and the people in charge cop out. There are people that have made millions out of this club while achieving nothing. The decision makers haven’t watched a game in a decade. And we’re still turning up every week, buying the shirts, the tickets, the poorly-poured pints, the hospitality, the pies, the Bovril and all the bullshit they spout. And they’re laughing at us. They’re laughing at us not being able to get a protest together for over ten years (25 tennis balls, aside). Laughing at us arguing with each other that no other person in the world would buy and finance us as the current owners do. Laughing at us when they’ve sold our best assets for medium-sized bucks and invested virtually nothing, before telling us they’ve “made significant investment.” Laughing at us when they say that if we want safe standing, we’ll need to crowdfund it. Laughing at us when they’ve talked about how impressive it was to have paid all our bills. Post-match, we’re all prone to hyperbole, but I think - for the rest of this season, at least - that’s me done.
  9. This is a deeply uninspiring second half performance. So little imagination. We get trapped on the corner of the box and don’t know what to do with it. Running the risk of “being the better team between the boxes” again, which is how you wind up in trouble. Some big lads on the pitch and nobody getting enough decent balls into them. Whatever Ismael tried today, I don’t want to see it again.
  10. Who’s the fucking ref? Looks like he’s on work experience.
  11. There’s a fairly compelling netball game on Sky Sports Main Event
  12. He’ll have to do it with less than zero budget.
  13. Looked like his calf, but hadn’t seen an impact.
  14. You and me both, but the opening 7 minutes of this game makes me wonder how bad it would be. Sounds like Derby fans have turned up the volume and we are overwhelmed. Feel for the many that made their way down.
  15. Could you imagine how badly we’d fold in the playoffs? Almost makes it look like we’re being done a favour being kept out of it.
  16. Everything I said earlier about getting an early one also applies to us, so we know how this is going
  17. That’s the lineup I’d have picked, but - ironically - that fills me with no extra confidence, as it’s become clear this season that I don’t know as much about football as I thought I did. Despite being a general fan of Cantwell, I’m glad he’s not starting today, as we need to be at it early and he doesn’t instigate early on. Nothing better than getting an early one against a side that will have very little belief at the minute. Getting two and there’s every chance they crumble. I do wonder how many defeats in the bounce Eustace will be allowed before the crowd eventually turns. They’ve not looked too bad apart from the QPR game, but what little belief there is will be fragile and Eustace is currently experiencing a new manager splat that could become terminal with a heavy defeat at some point. Hopefully that’s today.
  18. Sure, I just think the balance of play would have been very different with the red card. They had the better opportunities (marginally). Draw flattered us ever so slightly, but the fight to equalise was a big statement. Even still, I think they’d be rightly pissed off and so would we, in their shoes.
  19. Gonna suggest that the obvious elbow from Hyam and Dennis’ studs up challenge should have had us at 9 men is the basis for my assessment.
  20. Not judging the manager until Cardiff, as I’ve previously said. A lot of players were just not up to it, today.
  21. Nixon branded it a “coup” I believe. Expert negotiation from Swaggott, apparently. ”football people” know much more about these things than we mere mortals.
  22. Draw’s a good result here. A win would be daylight robbery.
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