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Pears isnt just a standard example of modern goalkeeping and obviously all keepers make mistakes. Hes particularly bad. He has regular spells of making a mistake costing a goal in each game.

Do clubs base the value of a youngster on how many under 21 caps they have?

Obviously it was abnormal in terms of around it but on the pitch it was still the same game. For us we had a particularly bad season under Mowbray, it was his bad season here but interestingly you didnt write it off as a COVID season. They finished 5th in the Championship, that is Barnsley in the play offs. Your friend might well "have played at a decent level" but it means nothing if he thinks that (regardless of style) season was shocking. Even you wouldnt be that hyperbolic. Maybe he is bitter that he then left.

How was he lucky purely because it was COVID? What does that even mean? Why is it relevant that your mate played a high level of football? He finished 5th with Barnsley, if your friend is half as hyperbolic as you then maybe hes lost all sense of reason too because that was a huge overachievement. His general record is underwhelming especially post that spell, but it doesnt mean that in that specific season he didnt do well. And the stuff about him being a yes man. He has been here for less than 2 weeks so how can you have gathered that?

Theres certainly been no bounce and I am far from convinced by his appointment. But come on. I know you love an overreaction and hyperbole but Ismael out and after less 2 weeks hes already a yes man? Behave. And if one player will not be disheartened by his appointment, its Brittain under who he really improved his reputation in that excellent season they had at Barnsley. We were in dreadful form even at the end of Eustace's reign. No matter who the manager is, this happens because of the owners and how they run the club. I was underwhelmed by the appointment (when he was linked you was lauding his stats from wikipedia!) and have been very disappointed in the first 2 games. But lets not go overboard.

Dismal, gutless performance today, the first 7 minutes were obviously embarassing but the second half was arguably worse. Never did we ever even look remotely capable of threatening an equaliser, so slow, lacking in direction, cowardly and lacking urgency. Play off chances gone and I think all but 1 agree with that. Its a similar story. We had an 11 playing pretty much every week that got us into a strong position built on a 6 game run. Post christmas, injuries hit, form cant be sustained, the mental fragility returns and we have another terrible January. This time topped off by the manager who had this team punching above its weight who had enough and now we have a new manager sacked in his last 2 jobs trying to wing it so close to the season end. Some of the standouts (not in a good way) have been mentioned although no one was good. Pears is an absolute joke but will be number 1 next season no matter what. I thought Carter was really poor too, hes seen for some reason as a sellable asset but he is so inconsistent (moreso than Hyam) and has had a few bad injures. He can be really good on his day but he has also had spells of poor form and is very cumbersome. Britain has been one of our best players this season but had a stinker and could do nothing right. Travis has been badly off colour since his injury. Sanderson is an absolute bombscare, no wonder a League 1 side didnt want him. And no wonder a soon to be relegated side was happy to lend us Woodrow and laughed at us, terrible. Cozier Duberry is a waste of time too. Ismael has a drab persona and there has been no new manager bounce and if we put that performance in after a full week on the training pitch then its a big worry.

Why would they purely based on a playing career? And it isnt enough to sustain a successful managerial career. Big name former players have often got jobs presumably partly based on that assumption and its gone wrong. Surely players would have run through brick walls for Rooney? Gerrard comes across as a person totally different to how he played.

They understandably scoffed because his managerial record to date is crap but hes done very well so far at Coventry. I dont get how its relevant in terms of Gerrard though. People like to categorize them together because of the comparisons as players. Totally different people and managers.

Cant afford to do anything but win.

Also, the fact that European games being played midweek (which will obviously be the way to fit the games into the calendar) are the ones that chaddy is slagging off backs up the theory that because he has Sky he wont say a bad word about anything relating to how they move games, but anything on TNT sports deserves stick.

I dont even get why Sky want to show some of the games they are moving. Most TV viewers including places like pubs will go for Forest v City. Coventry v Stoke on Sky Sports main channel might have a reasonable viewing but aside from that, who aside from those teams fans are watching the other games? Which lunatics would actively choose Reading V Crawley or Walsall v Grimsby?

It happened last time, there was initial disdain towards those who deserve it and a general realisation that under these owners we will never thrive. Fast forward a few weeks and Tomasson seemed to go from being lauded for speaking out to a traitor. Albeit he obviously wasnt as relevant in Championship terms as he went off to Sweden. People havent learnt even though its happened again.

Also, this idea that we have moved away from every game being at 3pm. Its not as binary as that. Theres moving a few games. And theres moving quite as many as we see today. Theres usually one or sometimes 2 on Friday, 8 on Saturday dinner, 1 on Saturday evening, usually 2 Premier League and 1 Championship on a Sunday and then maybe one on a Monday. So maybe 14 games moved, 8 of which are all at the same time. It might be the "best league in the World" (straight from the Sky propaganda machine) but it doesnt sit right prioritising people in other countries over people who are going to the game.

But we forced him out the door at the end of the January window desperately. So you have: - desperation to sell - selling in the January window where teams dont do the bulk of their business - selling at the end of an already shorter window so time pressured - he hasnt played as much as he would have done had we waited until at least the summer All of them factors caused him to be sold for less than we could have got for him. I dont get the obsession around England under 21s. Archie Gray had barely played for them before his transfer to Spurs.

There might not have been a big queue late in the January window to sign him. That doesnt mean we wouldnt have been able to get a lot more in the summer though or even beyond. Distressed seller pushing him out the door late in the mid season window where you always get less big money deals doesnt mean that if it was the summer, if we wasnt as desperate and if hes further showcased his ability, then we couldnt have got a lot more.

Derby are both dreadful and their confidence is on the floor. Playing them both and attacking them from the start has to be the way forward.

2 points from 12 games for Derby. Anything other than a win tomorrow isnt good enough and we may aswell pack up now in terms of play off chances if we cant overcome these.

As others have said, the stick is being aimed in the wrong place. The narrative in the main would suggest hes just a one off greedy traitor.

After spending ages criticising my suggestion of playing Ohashi and Gueye and saying how wrong it was. And also how Hedges must start and Dolan doesnt deserve to.

Games will be moved more and more, inconveniencing fans more and more, and you will keep swallowing it up. I understand why it is done, greed, and I also know that clubs and broadcasters alike dont give a shit about supporters who go to games. I understand fully. I just think it warrants being called out because its become disgraceful. I think say 5 or 6 games out of 46 across the top 4 leagues all moved (one at a time, not 8 games on at once) each weekend is more than enough. Decided in 2 blocks so the first half and second half of the season are decided well in advance. And no team shown more than on 2 consecutive weekends without having a break from TV and back to Saturday at 3pm. That would be a fair policy. The current setup is clubs and broadcasters showing disdain and disregard to the fans.

Its obviously not all down to Sky. They, the clubs and the EFL have all conspired to create a shit show that totally inconvenices fans. The clubs shouldnt be agreeing to it. You seem to think giving notice makes it all ok. If I said I am going to rob your house in 6 months on x date, would that make it ok? That being said, for half of the season they dont even bother doing that, the Boro game is only in 4 weeks. "They want to see who has something to play for" will no doubt be the justification but it doesnt so that. Pick them in advance, if you have to suffer the odd dead rubber amongst it, hard luck, but dont inconvience fans with late changes to avoid it. We will have had 6 Saturday 3pm home games all season, less dependant on more changes. 7 EFL games are all shown at the same time on Saturday dinners, why they need that many I have no idea. Surely you cant think that is a healthy situation.

This particular situation seemingly does affect chaddy negatively, albeit in a quite minor way. But hes backed himself so far into a corner that he cant even bring himself to be annoyed. The argument put forward to defend moving so many games this season from sky was "justified" by him because at least they gave months of notice before moving a ridiculous 7 games to each Saturday dinnertime each week. Now they have reverted back to type for half a season and even thats supposedly not an issue.

They clearly would like to get rid of Casemiro, that terrible signing has already been made though so theres no way of shifting him. Its not particularly relevant.

Comments full of people who cant go anymore. Only 4 weeks notice given too to add salt to the wounds.

Weimann has been a very useful addition amongst the squad but has shown signs of aging and now has a serious injury. We shouldnt offer him a new deal.