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04 Dec 2025 08:15:06
Great result last night not pretty football but if long throws are back why not bring back two strikers?
We really unsettled them with our direct play and they struggled to cope with the press at the back.
Bijols header was a bullet and struijk wasn't far away again. I did not think it was going to be aos night in front of goal after a couple of scuffs but another cracker.
So bring on Liverpool. Good time to play them as they are scratching around for form?
Bogle seems to enjoy the wing back role as well probably his best showing this term.
Just no more injuries for a while now please. We need a settled side into the new year.!
10 Nov 2025 10:02:43
Another poor performance yesterday. No real fight no quality going forward. Again with farkes teams no real tactics of attacking just keep the ball and see what happens. Bogle who was one of our best last is struggling. Whether it is that he has not got a proper winger in front of him or he is just finding the extra quality of defenders in the prem a bit too much but he is not a threat or he hasn't been.
Bijol is not a real upgrade on struijk. He is not a left sided cb his distribution and passing on his left is poor. And I think forest let him have the ball over rodon. Which is mad because rodon is not the best with ball at his feet.
In midfield we just gave them time to put the ball where they wanted. We needed pressure on the ball. But it never came and the subs were too late again. Stach again was out of his depth. Longstaff looked like he did not know what he was meant to be doing. And amps was chasing around after their forwards and attacking mids.
Forest had a game plan we didn't. They had a manager who changed the course of the game. We didn't. We had players that seemed not up for it. They did.
Where to now with a very tough run ahead. Our good start is fizzling away. Do we have the players or the tactics to deal with it?
1.) 10 Nov 2025 12:02:57
I think whole team didn’t know their roles. Utter trash from woe to go.
02 Nov 2025 00:12:58
Well pick the bones out of that one! To start, we just didn't. Slow, poor and without purpose. We tried to play against Brighton as we did under Jessie a mid block trying to stop them playing through midfield and it didn't work.
We did have some good possession later in the first half but our quality of passing and crossing and set pieces was shocking.
Do we have this one down to a bad day? Did we expect something else from this game?
I would have liked us to give them a better game? They never were under pressure or looked like a team to lose their lead.
Like the arsenal game it's one to learn from and one to not repeat. But like arsenal we are going to this Season meet teams that will hand us our arses on a football shaped plate.
Perri made a couple of really nice saves.
1.) 02 Nov 2025 12:18:07
Perri also cost a goal and got an assist.
2.) 02 Nov 2025 17:39:02
I agree Ben good post.
Aus you wanted a new keeper, well guess what, you’ve got one. In my opinion I thought he did well.
18 Oct 2025 11:35:54
Just seen a couple of really good goals from logan White. He is an academy player i think they said we got him from Bradford academy. Really good goal cutting in off the left wing and then a long range free kick. One to watch!
1.) 18 Oct 2025 16:50:46
Sadly he'll probably be joining Archie Gray at Spuds soon ?.
11 Oct 2025 15:10:47
I was just having a think out walking the dog the other day across the fields at the back of where I live in hull. These fields when I moved in to my house 20 years ago were covered in sports pitches. I think from memory there were 6 footy pitches, two rugby and a cricket pitch.
Up till then hull had one of the biggest Saturday and Sunday amateur football leagues in Yorkshire. The sports mail used to have two or three pages dedicated to the league standings and reviews of selected games.
Fast forward to 5 years back on the same dog walk. Two footy pitches and cricket pitch. The goal posts would stand there for months with odd game on a weekend. Slowly that dwindled to nothing and now nothing and the pitches are not there anymore. It is the same in just about every park that I remember playing on. What is more worrying for sport In general is the lack of kids out playing it.
In my day we would have full 11 a side games with more and more kids turning up and playing. And games lasting 2 hours.
Is this a reason our sports are lacking real skill or maverick players? The pool of talent is not there the kids are not bothering to go out and play. When was the last time anyone saw a big group of youngsters playing kick around on park?
I know a lot of teams have moved to 4g pitches at schools etc. When i played veterans footy we moved to 4g because of bad council pitches. Looking at professional football now it's looking at 11 athletes who can play football. Some of the magic is missing. The amateur or none league players are getting fewer and the only ones who stand a chance of making it are the ones who are enthusiastic enough or lucky enough to get involved in the lessening organised leagues.
What do you think guys? How is the grassroots sport around you? How is it different to when you burst onto the scene?
1.) 11 Oct 2025 16:00:58
Ah, gutted since the local female mud wrestling team folded a few years ago. Those were the days.
2.) 11 Oct 2025 20:33:19
Good post WB.
We've just lost our local cricket club after 130 years!
Kids not taking up the game, young adults either working at weekends or not prepared to spend all day playing the game - its a great shame.
3.) 11 Oct 2025 21:30:38
I was amazed when we moved from UK to Canada the number of organized sports and activities available to kids at good prices and the huge participation rates. Often kids did multiple.
Eldest focused on football, karate and scouts while youngest did Fencing along with karate and scouts.
Both did basketball as well for a year or so.
This part of Canada is very laid back and when I coached football work were happy for me to leave early some days. Very different!
4.) 12 Oct 2025 09:49:29
Yeah Canada. Comes down to money and the will. Not enough spare coin and kids on electronics. No chance. Sport is for the elite.
5.) 12 Oct 2025 10:19:30
Have you watched the Freddie Flintoff 'field of dreams' this series cleggy. He tries to set up young cricket team in Manchester, Liverpool and a girls team in Blackpool.
All the cricket clubs he went to were struggling with one or two teams still playing. I'm afraid more will go especially the city ones.
Unfortunately Canada our youth system has been totally taken apart. When the councils are under funded for so long one of the first things to go are youth clubs and youth services.
Most young adults now will go to a gym regularly but not really play any sports.
We had 3 come down to our 7 a side game on Thursday night. All gym bunnies but knackered after 10 mins of running around!
6.) 12 Oct 2025 11:50:25
Very well thought and poignant post Ben, much the same down here in Sussex too!
Only going one way and sadly that’s the wrong way, mores the pity.
7.) 12 Oct 2025 12:57:27
Top post WB - it's all so sad that it is coming to this.
8.) 12 Oct 2025 13:54:27
Us oldies show the way. Just done true grit this morning 10km and 32 obstacles in mother hills. My 7th but at 63 not too many more in me. Never seen anybody over 50 on the course. Just my bit of proud.
Anyway. Knackered but alive pic on sightings.
9.) 12 Oct 2025 14:46:08
I agree that high level sport is generally for the elite Aus.
If I had the coin, my youngest would have had a chance at being at the last Olympics, but we couldn't afford all the traveling and private lessons.
Making Representative teams here (provincial level) becomes expensive but nicely most clubs have discretionary funds to help the more gifted who's family can't afford it.
10.) 13 Oct 2025 06:31:58
Shame about your kid Canada. We can only do so much.
11.) 13 Oct 2025 13:12:57
Great initial post Ben. I haven't lived in England now for nigh on 15 years, but I coached a lot over there, and scouted many other matches, so was able to see lots of the bigger set ups. The pitches at Roundhay were always a sight and a half, with so many games going on at once! Does anyone know if it's still like that at weekends there?
12.) 13 Oct 2025 18:07:33
This is what Mr Google says!
Roundhay Park has eight grass football pitches for various age groups, including adult-sized, 9v9 for juniors, and 5v5 and 7v7 for mini soccer. The pitches are full-size, have a grass surface, but are not floodlit or indoor.
Adult football pitches: These are full-size pitches for adult games.
Junior football 9v9 pitches: Designed for 9-a-side junior matches.
Mini soccer 5v5 pitches: Smaller pitches for 5-a-side games.
Mini soccer 7v7 pitches: Pitches sized for 7-a-side games.
14 Oct 2023 16:15:56
He said we would be looking at loans primarily.
If the loans are as good as jadon, rodon and spence we should be golden.
28 Nov 2025 09:35:56
RIP Gary.
Great footballer.
Great man.
28 Nov 2025 09:34:10
To be fair dyche showed by keeping Burnley competitive for so long in the prem what he can do. Now he has better players he is showing it wasn't a fluke.
In this league you have out think the opposition. You have to try and find that extra 10%.
I think that's were farke is missing out.
Just sending a team out to keep the ball and play possession football is not enough.
Dyches teams have a real drive and a purpose. Now with forest he can be more expansive with his tactics because of the quality of the squad.
25 Nov 2025 23:39:37
I think okafor is a good signing but he is far from a prem player. He still gives the ball away. Although he is slightly better than his first couple of games. But it is worrying that a lot of our goals against are coming on our left flank.
Either okafor is not helpiNG gabby in his defence. Or gabby is not getting tight enough and stopping the crosses.
21 Oct 2025 12:54:57
And if it comes to a fist fight my money is on dyche!
18 Oct 2025 08:32:56
I agree op. If Charlie had stayed he wouldn't have had many games and not developed. If he had been loaned maybe the same. As not all loans are right or the motivation is not there. But being sold to a team that want you to be their first team cb has forced him to develop or else.
Farke for some reason did not see Charlie as his first choice for whatever reason. So the sale was good for him. You cannot keep them all.
And correct about leif. No one has been clamouring to sign him for the prem.