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In the real world he'd be playing for ... oh ... Koln's second team?

Well, one it's as much up to him to prove himself. Professional. Footballer. Etc. Two. He's American and has played for their national team. What's he got to be scared of; the ball?

Agree with the assessment. Would have liked Edwards to come good but it's clear his physical limitations probably mean he won't be any good in the league above and we'll have to replace all of them.

Just noticed. You need a new avatar.

Can he play for the band? Then we only have to see a minute or so each home match before the game starts.

Huile de Serpent?

Jander is definitely in the second group. As for the first, I agree with them all. I should take up scouting for footballers ...

Or 183 minutes of complete turd.

Which were excuses we all used for Mateus Fernandes, weren't they?

So you're saying people who hire managers/head coaches don't really have a clue. I think he should hold out for the Coventry job when Rangers steal Lampard then.

I'd rather be optimistic and have him score 38 goals this season.

Hopefully he'll hang around. He did it enough with us.

They got clobbered all the time. Fellows actually runs very cleverly: body down, slightly forward, ball close to his feet so it's probably very difficult to tackle him. They decided otherwise, however. They did seem to want to target Azaz but he did give a couple back.

He's gone. Just not quite yet far enough. CBA to look, but would be interesting to see if there are still threads on him on the MKD and Swansea forums. If there are, he'll be over the moon to have made such a lasting impression.

Didn't like his bringing on Fraser; thought it was too negative and should have left Fellows on who was doing alright. Could have brought Robinson on earlier too. Overall thought we should have nicked it. Really need a central striker. Let's hope Stewart can improve upon his Bambi on Ice impersonation.

Probably already did a long while ago.

Isn't that part of the reason why they introduced the rule in the first place? To stop goal-hanging?

They only had ten mins to go though. Over half an hour maybe, but ten mins against ten men. Their manager would have to be a PE teacher to fuck that up.

The misspelling was boviously deliberat.

We have to keep him for now and I'd be tempted to see how he gets on. Upper third and let's see what next year brings. I would, however, never again play Stephens, Baz, THB or Manning unless we couldn't sign on the tea lady or use a traffic cone. Much as I'm not his greatest fan I'd put Aribo in instead of Fraser: he's far better even if he's slow. Fraser should be binned. Also not as enamoured as most about Robinson but I agree he brings energy, desire, makes things happen and needs to play to develop so I'd drop Azaz for now. And he needs to learn how to make substitutions properly.

His highlights and analysis of him showed that: he was essentially a third-rate target man, bringing others into the game. We overpaid for him. Same with Quarshie if you watched him: crap on the ball (which is why I said he'd never make the step up to the league above).

"Look at me" (aka bullshit). Suggest ignore those posts from him and just concentrate on the good ones.

First corner to them and Murphy spent ages. Putting the ball down, standing around, picking up the vape thingy that had been thrown near him and giving it to the ref and strolling back and looking up and ... this was about 5-10 mins in and he should have been booked as it was obvious he was time wasting. Good player to be fair though; knows what to do but wouldn't be good enough in the league above. As for Leo, yes it was the case that he did want to collect free kicks but I think he wanted to unsettle the defender as well. If he kept drawing them, the defender got on a yellow, etc it would mean he might have a bit more leeway to do things; it was quite clever but it was also late in the game so slowing things down like that might not have been counter productive. I imagine he was also pissed off at the stupid dive the defender did to get a free kick off him - put both his feet together and then just jumped and pulled his feet back - and was aware that he wasn't being given any space to turn or possibly even move inside. So I agree he'll be fun to watch, haven't seen/read anything from any journos about him but can see both points about his value. For me, the main thing was that there was little time to go and we wanted us to get to the bye-line and put in low, hard, dangerous crosses. I think he didn't want to just get the ball and recycle it.

I think there's always a market for snake oil.

• Flexible Formations: Instead of fixed shapes, teams use hybrid systems and formations that can shift during a match to adapt to the different phases of play. You mean like in every game of football where it's continuously adapting like, er, cause, um, that's actually how the game is played?