The Kraken

It’s really a joke. 3 minutes ffs.

Yeah it’s no surprise at all. I’ve not really watched many games so far, i’ll watch England but not bothered for many others (saying that I’ll probably watch a bit of Netherlands v Japan). Even the 32 game format regularly threw up some crap group games. The time zones also don’t help matters, unless England get through to the latter stages I can’t see me watching any games like the Jocks kicking off at 2am, and the 11pm games are extremely unlikely. So yeah, so far meh but a lot of world cups are average until you get to the last 16.

Sorry, what now?

Russball could be dull at times, but when it went right it was sometimes brilliant to watch. I remember our first game of the season, away at Sheffield Wednesday. We were a goal up and saw out nearly the last ten minutes playing it about and didn’t let the opposition have a single touch. I just remember thinking “I’ve never seen a saints team do that before”. It was just comfortably playing out a victory. Ok, Martin critics would say it was dull just passing it about, but to me it demonstrated a team totally comfortable with seeing the three points out. Also, as we got into the playoffs, our style became a bit more attritional (although saying that our goal still came from a good quick move out from the back). So, for me, some bad bits of Russball but overall I enjoyed the season as a whole.

It’s possible but enormously unlikely. I just had a quick look back through the group stage tables back to WC 2014. There was only one single instance where a third placed team didn’t win any games. In all others 3rd placed had 1 win, and typically 3 or 4 points. Its a hell of a backstop for qualifying, but teams will likely have to at least win 1 game, and perhaps another draw to make sure of going through, or at least a decent goal difference.

Except it is though.

7 goals in 39 league starts for BBD. So he didn’t exactly pull up trees. Theres no doubt that playing him left wing for us was a complete disaster of an idea. Maybe BBD can be an option as a central striker but I’d rather we had Larin plus either LND or a proper target man to replace him. If it’s Larin and BBD as our primary options, I’d be worried. But you never know. BBD was long out of the building by the time Tonda came in, so he’ll at least have a look at him in pre season.

He’s a crybaby who showed he’s got little backbone. And he absolutely bottled the living daylights out of the end of their season. In the early parts of his tenure he rode the coat tails of what had gone before him, then fucked it right up with 2 wins in his last 13 league games and playoff games. 11 points from their last 10 games once he had properly got his feet under the table.

Sadly, this is probably good news for Boro.

TACO time yet again. Im starting to think this Trump guy sometimes lets his mouth run away with him. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cly7nr3jzv5t

Well he sounds lovely.

I also liked the look of Mane. Still only 18 and bags of promise.

Jesus fucking Christ. Your posts make you seem pretty simple, but this is a new low.

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When Canada women got done for spying in 2024 the team were given a six point penalty in the completion and their coach copped a 1 year ban from football activities. So there is precedent there, albeit different associations.