Tv view was not much better
1st half woeful 2nd half not so woeful 🙄

Thought kasper was brilliant the way he kept warm
And dominating the placing of his bottle outstanding 😉
Pretty much much spot on unfortunately

Wasn’t there so I’ll take your word for it Dunge.

What was the players body language like at the end and during the game? Do the look frustrated/beaten/out of ideas or did they look bouyed by getting over the line?

Gray performance disappointing to day the least
Chilwell better,but poor opposition
Schmeicel distribution better.
Hard to admit but Jon Moss not bad,but still not a prem quality ref.
Just an opinion but as Tileamans form deteriorated he looks rather unfit or overweight to me

We may not be at our best, but at least we not Spurs, their fans are absolutely fuming!!! So sad.
They have just announced a lady ga ga concert at ground.
Apparently this is so they can actually fill ground with fans who are actually happy to be there!!

Thorney - It's an odd change to be criticising Moss for not sending off two players that he probably should have done (Soyuncu and Jutkiewicz, both for a clear second yellow).

Mersey - quite a bit of frustration during the match, particularly at team mates not being where they wanted them or not anticipating the passes. The first half in particular was reminiscent of a pre-season match where nobody quite knows what the others are going to do. That lack of coordination between players is meaning that we generally only create as much as one individual can create, which is not much. And frankly the passing technique has to improve so that we're able to play with one touch instead of having everyone bring the ball under control every time and constantly fail to build any momentum as a result. A common theme is that we're taking five touches to get the ball somewhere that it needs to be reaching in two.
As for the end of the game, it was mostly like a standard Prem win reaction from our players. Nothing notable either way.

Agree with most including MoM, but I'd give Gray a 5 at least, he looked reasonably whilst he was on. Slightly surprised he didn't try harder to take the opportunity of shining against his old club, but I'm factoring in that he hasn't played recently so is bound to be ring rusty.

I thought Soyuncu was off when he did his 'second yellow' foul - he profited immensely from Jon Moss having a rather unusual charitable moment - not normally in his psyche to miss out on waving red cards about!

Nuneaton - He looked like he was expecting it too. I suspect he benefited massively from the advantage rule. Referees are (too often) reluctant to go back and book someone for a yellow card if they haven't actually stopped the attack with that kind of offence. I think if the ball had run to us at that point then he would have gone.

"book someone for a yellow card"

What the heck did I just write?

Thanks Dunge. As I suspected, little to give us or the players confidence going in to the Villa game then.

We need to get back to 4-1-4-1 and just trying what the players know and can work with. That is until work on the training pitch creates more than it did last night!

Well, they won. There is at least that. And the got some much-needed practice passing the ball around in the opponent's half in the second half of the game, even if we weren't creating a great deal in terms of actual chances.

A win is a win is a win more comeback time for Ndiddi chilwell looking better and AV will be down a chance for us to get a win before the corvid 10 shuts football down.

Can you imagine the only joy left to us if the scousers where handed the league but never played enough games to prove they could not be over taken oh the Joy

Is that a bit harsh?

Just a bit.

Honestly, I don't really care what Liverpool are doing any more. Their defeat to Watford took all the interest out of their situation.

As for the dreaded lurgy, I've been thinking for a while now that surely the most sensible thing is the scrap the Euros and allow the seasons across Europe to be extended into June to deal with the domestic league fixtures as best we can.

I don't know why scrapping the Euros hasn't been seriously put forward by most people. Or at least putting it back a year.

Dung Its not the club or the team its the the beep beep Scouse not English fans!!!

comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 4 hours, 50 minutes ago
Just a bit.

Honestly, I don't really care what Liverpool are doing any more. Their defeat to Watford took all the interest out of their situation.

As for the dreaded lurgy, I've been thinking for a while now that surely the most sensible thing is the scrap the Euros and allow the seasons across Europe to be extended into June to deal with the domestic league fixtures as best we can.

I don't know why scrapping the Euros hasn't been seriously put forward by most people. Or at least putting it back a year.
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Probably because Covid 19 is about as deadly as being caressed by a natural yoghurt.

Seasonal flu is much more serious, kills tens of thousands of people across the world every year - and no one cancels any events, washes their hands, closes businesses down and runs around naked screaming about the end of days.

Sorry but that really is simply incorrect, BS. All indication is that we’re at the beginning of a bell curve on it, and that’s if we’re lucky.

Oh I totally agree, at least 80% of the worlds population will end up with a chesty cough and a tickly throat. I’m so glad I’ve stockpiled essential supplies and built a heavily guarded perimeter around my property for the resulting apocalypse

If 80% of the world’s population get it, there will be over 50 million deaths. Maybe over 100 million.

Honestly the media panic is spreading far quicker than the virus. As usual, the casualties are the elderly and those with underlying health issues. Those susceptible to any kind of seasonal flu virus or serious chest infection etc.

To watch the world lose its collective shiiiiit over a new cold virus is absolutely bonkers. We should be washing our hands anyway FFS

comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 2 minutes ago
If 80% of the world’s population get it, there will be over 50 million deaths. Maybe over 100 million.
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80% of the world won’t get it. Stop listening to scaremongering news stories. It’s basically a cold virus FFS

Just over 3,000 people have died after contracting the virus since the first reported case on December 1. Over the same time period, a condition like diarrhea typically kills around 550,000.

I don’t think they will, I was more comparing what your example meant.

But it is going to spread much wider than it is at the moment. Flu is everywhere already. This is still in the early stages of extending its tentacles around the world.

I completely agree that there shouldn’t be panic buying or anything like that; the first line of my article was being flippant. It just so happened that I needed to buy toilet rolls anyway, and there was a deal in Loughborough’s Tesco’s which meant I got a deal on buying two packs rather than one. And as I put them in my trolley I realised what it looked like. But I digress.

But this is something that is going to claim lives, and very likely a lot more than seasonal flu. Maybe it’s future will lie in being just another cold virus, but until any immunity is built up it will be a lot worse. To say it’s no worse than flu is not true, at least in the short term.

If you’re not concerned but still following the advice then good for you.

9 million lives are lost to hunger related conditions every year and it barely makes the news. Why? Because it doesn’t affect the West.

Lives are lost every second of every day through a range of events that prompt no widespread outrage, action or panic. This is absolutely overblown garbage. It’s a mild virus with a very low death rate - mainly impacting the elderly or those with underlying health issues. The rest of us will feel like we have a mild flu and a cough.

Well, this will affect the West. And that’s because it’s beyond the control of the strongest governments in the world. Which is precisely what is alarming people: Nobody can control it. We can barely even influence it.

Except possibly Kim Jong Un.

If your point is that we’re all terrible people for being concerned about those close to us while turning a blind eye to someone in Syria, then point we’ll made but I don’t share that philosophy.

comment by The_Dungeon_Master (U4830)
posted 14 minutes ago
If your point is that we’re all terrible people for being concerned about those close to us while turning a blind eye to someone in Syria, then point we’ll made but I don’t share that philosophy.
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Sorry where did I say you were terrible for being concerned about people close to you?