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Sam
Dave Whelan attempting to take the pressure off Malky Mackay by being an equally intolerable racist prick.
NiceLad
Number 1
Meanwhile, Sheffield United have retracted their offer to Ched Evans to use their training facilities.
Sam
terriersmad
Poe
terriersmad
George14brfc
terriersmad
Vercoe
George14brfc
BR.
Well happy with that result today, best I've felt walking away from Ewood for ages. Leeds can boast about bringing 7k to Ewood every year if they like, they're never gonna get a result here
Tough game at Boro next week, but we haven't lost in 8 so should be going there confident, let's hope we can get a good result.
terriersmad
That was the third. First half made a poor one (probably entitled to go for it, to be fair, but the ref should still have booked him for a poor challenge), second half left a very deliberate foot in, and third one Murphy had had enough of getting sod all protection. May had ten minutes to slow down and didn't. Good, commanding goalkeeping, and he had every right to be unhappy with the player and the referee who hadn't given either free-kick at that point.
Also, I retract my statement about it being a nailed-on penalty. Ref got it absolutely spot on (though in real-time, I really thought it was a stick-on, and Lynch still got lucky):
Vercoe
George14brfc
Yeah same mate!
Yeah it is I am going if we win we go above them!
Dan
Grimnir
NiceLad
gfnx25
NiceLad
George14brfc
Vercoe
hammer9
terriersmad
Having seen it, there's no way that should be given as a foul on the keeper. It's a collision between two players going for the ball, nothing more. If the keeper is a defender no one bats an eye at that collision, but because it's the keeper he gets special privileges about no one being allowed to breathe in his vicinity. Karanka has no grounds to complain whatsoever.
Poor result for us today at Bolton. Disappointing in front of goal again. We seem to go through gluts where we score freely when have droughts. More worrying is that both Lynch and Scannell came off injured. Brentford (and their five-match winning streak) next up.
BR.
First I've heard of that, what happened? Boro can feck off, get in Rudy!
Hope we get another controversial late goal against them at the end of December, preferably a winner right in front of their fans.
Vercoe
What's happened to you lot? Started off really well!
George14brfc
Yeah fair point maybe a foul on the defender though as Duffy is climbing on. Karanka did go very over the top with his argument though.
Tough game for you next need you to get a result!
George14brfc
Not definitely sure. It looked like a fan said something to him and he reacted badly and Williamson and Tunnicliffe ran over to the stewards like to know what was said though. Someone on Facebook said it was racist and a monkey gesture but not sure about that.
Ha ha that would be brilliant!
George14brfc
gfnx25
It's a really, really complex situation we're in now but I try my best to analyze it for you. First I have to stress than none of our defeats, bar Shrewsbury away where we've been just shocking, was down to us being complete shit. In recent times we were dominating but just couldn't finish our opponents off. This is mainly down to our two top strikers, Ryan Lowe and Daniel Nardiello being quite injury prone but we expected that with Loew being 36 already. As a result, others had to step up but Danny Rose lost his form after a good start and so Flickers brough tin some loan signings. First one, Anthony Duffus from Everton was a complete donkey and literally offered nothing. Second Hallam Hope, is a good player but clearly nowhere near match fit so as nothing to offer yet, so we have to play Lowe and Naridello suffering from small knocks sometims which is obviously not helpful.
Second, and this is the real problem, the goalkeeping position. Flitcroft brought in Shwan Jalal as new number one, made some good games and was quite popular until he got injured. When injured, Flitcroft put Robert Lainton in goal and after a few dodgy spells was quite good until DF suddenly dropped him again for Jalal. "Competition for places" was how Flitcroft called it. Then after a few games with Jalal, he brought in Scott Loach on loan but he was quite shaky in his only two games and was sent back with a small "knock" and put Lainton back in goal who unsurprisingly was a bit dodgy on Saturday, so knows maybe he'll bring in Jalal again for the next game.
Third, and this is the point which kind of realtes to my second point, our defence. Who are you actually gonna have confidence in your defence when you're constantly changing the goalkeepers? And when one of our defenders loses his confidence Flitcroft immediately drops him and brings in more folk like Kennedy, Kelly and recently Adam El-Abd
These are the defending set-ups in our last six league games (right to left):
Shrewsbury away: (Lainton) Cameron - Mills - McNulty
Southend away: (Lainton) Cameron - Mills - McNulty - Kennedy
Cambridge home: (Lainton) Jones - Cameron - Mills - McNulty
Morecambe away: (Loach) Cameron - Mills - McNulty - Hussey
Newport home: (Loach) White - Cameron - McNulty - Hussey
Dagenham home: (Lainton) Cameron - El-Abd - Milsom
Always changes, never the same line-up or the same formation. This is confusing for the players and leads to lost confidence and therefore fuck-ups in our defence which leads to silly goals.
As you can see, the problems lie deep inside Flickers' skills of man management and his lack of trust in our players