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  1. Dave
    There fixtures from 29 onwards will save them.
  2. Dave
    I was going to edit the title but I'm having a big think over whether I have heard of him.
  3. Dave
    Don't say the quiet part out loud lads.
  4. Dave
    Quite surprised by the negativity ive seen online after the Brighton game. Brighton are a really good team and produced the best movement I've seen against us all season. It felt inevitable they'd draw when they put on a focal point in Danny Welbeck but it took a magnificent header and it's a good point.
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    I don't agree with the sentiment that this is a bad appointment. He plays a similar system to Steve Cooper and his track record at Rio Ave, Porto, Valencia and Wolves speaks for itself. Spurs was a bit fit but a 50% win record with dull football is something Forest fans will take. He also likes to utilise a small squad which is what Nottingham Forest need. He will tell Maranakis which players he can work with and which players he's bought are duds. Steve Cooper had been publicly saying he wants more signings! Also, I like Steve Cooper, I wanted him to replace Roy when he was at Swansea, however he's won one of the last thirteen and won two of twenty seven away games. There's a split in the camp and he got thrashed 5-0 to Fulham. I know they're outside the bottom three (thanks to the promoted teams being awful) but something had to change. There's no point letting a storm brew. He may go on to be a good Premier League manager over time but the situation wasn't going to improve at Forest.
  6. Dave
    Hopefully the Leeds Ipswich game will be as high scoring as all the stats suggests but I'm worried both teams will see this as a 'must not lose'.
  7. Dave
    Most fierce derby in all of football tomorrow night.
  8. Dave
    I wanted to use it for 25 but the fixture congestion around that Christmas period is going to cause a lot of rotation. Plus a lot of the options have been pretty terrible in comparison to Szmodics, Leeds, Leicester and Southampton players. So this was the first week I could use it without theoretically taking a hit. Which I had to do when Philogene got injured.
  9. Dave

    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    I really wanted AEW to succeed as an alternative but Tony Khan has made it impossible to root for them at this point. Yesterday he was whigning at AEW being 'under constant attack' on Twitter and then proceeded to call Disco Inferno a Worthless Parasite on the same platform.
  10. Dave
    The 2022 winner just couldn't let me have my moment.
  11. Dave
    Let's be blunt, he has been sacked for over achieving last season. The talk of him being replaced after losing to Luton would have been one of the most harsh sackings in EFL history. Since then it feels like hes been on borrowed time given the kid that owns them seems content on turning them in to a Temu version of PSG. So i imagine the next manager will be a name we've not heard of that's used to managing in front of 5000 people and we can judge the owner from that.
  12. Dave
    I think Graham Potter will hold out for West Ham in the summer. There seems to be an inevitable part of ways happening there with the fans wanting a more progressive style of football. West Ham have the resources and infrastructure that he will believe could get him to a level where its perceieved he can make his biggest managerial achievements. The talk of Potter going to Stoke City is absurd. Especially when there's the likes of Tony Mowbray and John Eustace are available. Albeit given how many good managers and players seem to ruin themselves at Stoke it wouldn't surprise me if the only person willing to take the risk is somebody as brave as Steve Evans. I get the impression Steve Cooper is still in a job at Forest because Maranakis hasn't found a big name replacement. He will be the bookies favourite to replace Roy, but if we jump in the next month I'd rather we go for McKenna.
  13. Dave
    He wouldn't come here. There's absolutely no way he would have tolerated the lack of recruitment last summer. The board kept Roy on because they knew they could take the piss and he'd get on with it.
  14. Dave

    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    Yeah I was hopeing this title would change every couple of months given it was invented because the Roman record was becoming a cure for insomnia. The crowd were not behind Rollins last week.
  15. Dave

    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    I hope Punk beats Seth at RR and Seth gets the return win at WM. So many long title reigns at the same time are zzzzzzz.
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    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    I was joking yesterday that they've probably already called Zaslav and told him there's an opening for 'One Bill Phil on Wednesday Night Raw' next year and then a couple of those shitty news sites started reporting the same thing . I laughed at the reports that WWE saw Tony Khan's tweets as a 'declaration of war' but if that happens then maybe they did.
  18. Dave
    The Athletic are reporting its season over for Doucoure. Eze out for a month too. On September 1st it was clear we were three attacking players light to challenge for the top half. Going in to January it looks like we're now six players away from having an adequate squad. A Ward replacement, any cover for Mitchell, better cover for Doucoure, a wide right midfielder, a Zaha replacement and a Benteke replacement. Its amazing given the radical surgery we had to undergo in the Summer 2021, we're sleepwalking in to a similar scenario again by not addressing clear issues summer upon summer.
  19. Dave
    I guess they are short of bang average inconsistent wide players who you don’t really know where they play.
  20. Dave

    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    That Matt Jackson victory lap in Chicago sure aged well.
  21. Dave

    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    To carry on the negative theme, I just want to tell you that Kota Ibushi's three matches in AEW have put me off NJPW for the foreseeable future.
  22. Dave

    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    I have!
  23. Dave

    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    I gave them leeway going in to All In. The weekly show sucked but I thought fair play for making a move that would make Vince notice. Then I gave up when Tony Khan went on his last Twitter meltdown. Nothings ever going to change whilst he's in full control. I watched Full Gear, as even though the weekly show is absolutely terrible, the PPVs usually bang. This one felt disappointing. A company not medically clearing MJF but allowing Adam Cole to wrestle on crutches took me right out the main event. Now I hear what happens and just laugh. MJF crying, Tony Khan wearing a scarf to honour Inoki (who would have absolutely hated him), fucking Luther being shoe horned in to the good Toni Storm stuff, hiring Ric Flair, The Young Bucks in another shitty 'No your our friend!!' Storyline, Kota Ibushi struggling to ride a bicycle, fans laughing at NWA's cocaine spot and then justifying a man drinking another mans blood, a tournament that sounds like Eddie Kingston's breakfast. The list goes on.
  24. Dave
    There has to be a more fair way to implement FFP. At the moment its just luck as to where you were in the football pyramid when Portsmouth sank. This summer showed it more than ever, between Manchester United and Chelsea the only signing I can say off the top of my head that was a good signing in the last five years is Bruno Fernandes. Yet there still allowed to spend nine figures whilst Everton, Wolves and Leicester have all had to reign it in recently. The approach that rich owners can put in as much as they want isn't the answer. Derby County showed that when the club became completely dependent on Mel Morris' and he lost interest. My initial thought was there should be a grace period where new owners are allowed to invest as much as there own money as they want. That way ambitious infrastructure can be created to set those that are serious about a long term project. However the obvious criticisms to this are the Delphon Chansiri's of the world, who recklessly spend as much they want with a two year plan with no plan after. I quite like the Spanish model. It's harsh but clubs will not go under with it. No matter how hard Barcelona try. Maybe implement on budgets on July 1st as opposed to September.
  25. Dave

    Wrestling

    Dave replied to DeadLinesman's topic in Sports

    Swerve should be beating another former Champion or two and then moving on to MJF. Not in some tournament for a mid card title where the groups have been engineered to benefit a man who looks as healthy as Eddie Kingston. Christian's good. Thankfully with Edge's clout he's avoiding the rest of the circus.
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