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Wolves vs. Crystal Palace Match Thread
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 Henry of Peckham  Eton Mess 09 Jan 21 5.52pm |
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Originally posted by Willo
Mr Hodgson has met his objectives of keeping the club in the PL, and of course for 3 seasons, and one suspects they have confidence that he will do so again this campaign. Edited by Willo (09 Jan 2021 4.50pm) Very true ... and anybody who guides a business over the line in these terrible times merits recognition. It's sad participation in the PL has moved beyond playing entertaining football these days. However, the FA Cup was an opportunity to do something for the fans ... and they failed miserably.
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Rachid Rachid Rachid  09 Jan 21 9.09pm |
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Originally posted by Gribbo
With fans in the stadium Roy would be gone by now. The game has moved on and passed him by, and in its current format he is clueless. Without Wilf we struggle and that has kept him in his job. Unfortunately Parish has not got the nuts to sort the problem out. He will be happy with a 17th place finish and bounced out of both cups without a squeak. Would rather get relegated and watch the kids play than watch PVA pretending to be a left back again. And don't get me started on our super Belgian strike partnership.
I think he's lost a split second of pace like when he couldn't get away from Mings against Villa in the first minute but he's brought more quality in front of goal and intelligence since being played as an inside forward.
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| Tim Gypsy Hill '64 Stoke sub normal 09 Jan 21 9.21pm |
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Originally posted by EddieMac
When used to describe literature Turgid can be used to say writing is boring, complicated or difficult to understand which is also what our football could have been called last night. There are many meanings in the English language for the word Turgid. Just because you googled Turgid and got a couple of different meanings does not make them the only meanings. Now off to school you go sir. The problem is, the term is used to describe prose. And even if you could liken football to prose, "complicated or difficult to understand" could not describe how we play. If we could play that way you would not be whinging about the manager. You, and many others seem to think that "boring" and 'turgid' mean the same thing. They do not. You may find Dickens or Shakespeare boring, as they wrote in a turgid style, but they are only boring to the illiterate. But, as evidenced by their continued success at the top of the literature tree, they are certainly not classed as "boring". Turgid does not relate to sport in any kind of way. You can 'shoehorn' (another 'Roy out word' ) turgid in if you you are moaning about a write-up of a Palace match, but not about the actual football played. If you happen to read some lazy hack's use of the word describing sport, it doesn't change the meaning. I doubt that you will comprehend any of this though, as you seem to equate intellegence with knowledge. But puerile comments about schooling are a fair indicator that you will miss the difference between turgid and boring.
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jeeagles  09 Jan 21 11.25pm |
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Originally posted by Willo
Mr Hodgson has met his objectives of keeping the club in the PL, and of course for 3 seasons, and one suspects they have confidence that he will do so again this campaign. Edited by Willo (09 Jan 2021 4.50pm) Happy days generally coincide with good performances. We haven't had many in the past year.
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| TQ_Eagle Torquay 09 Jan 21 11.44pm |
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Originally posted by AERO
Interesting thought ? If covid didn't arrive and we had full stadiums at home ,Who thinks Roy would be still in charge ? I think Roy and the board are being shielded from major fan unrest at our tactics and performances. Agree with this and suspect there’s a few players and managers around the league who are dreading the eventual return of fans. Every game is a training game right now.
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| palace chick South Croydon 10 Jan 21 4.42pm |
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Originally posted by Eaglehamster
We lost by the one goal against Wolves. If it had been us at Crawley today they would have tanked us royally. Well done Crawley. Yes, well done Crawley - I do think we would have given them a harder time than Leeds. Leeds were lacking a couple of old heads in the team and we have a full set in ours ;-) Not saying we would have beaten them though. Probably would have ended 0.0 and we would have lost on penalties ;-)
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ASCPFC  Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 10 Jan 21 4.44pm |
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Did we have a shot yet?
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| jeeagles 11 Jan 21 12.02am |
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Originally posted by palace chick
Yes, well done Crawley - I do think we would have given them a harder time than Leeds. Leeds were lacking a couple of old heads in the team and we have a full set in ours ;-) Not saying we would have beaten them though. Probably would have ended 0.0 and we would have lost on penalties ;-) Including subs, Leeds played 9 players aged 22 or younger. About 5 of them were 18. If we fielded a team like that defeat would be easier to digest. I do think Bielsa is overrated though. We'd be relegated with him.
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