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Re: Anyone still following Neil Harman on twitter?
Some of the reactions on social media to the Eid al-Fitr celebration at AP have been really disappointing.
Wycombe has a huge muslim community, but the crowd at Wycombe is not diverse at all.
Everyone is always talking about reaching out to the community to try and increase this season's disappointing attendances. The best way to do that is by trying to new things, aimed at groups who don't come to WWFC regularly.
Well... this is a fantastic way of doing that. We could pick up hundreds of regular supporters by showing we are a club that welcomes the Muslim community of High Wycombe. You don't have to agree with Islam ideologically to support this.
Harman once again just proving he's totally fallen down the social media rabbithole of hate. The man has lost the plot.
OxfordBlue
Re: Match Day Thread: Lincoln
you're sticking with 9-0-1 formation and want us to take this as a serious analysis of the game yeah?
Re: Anyone still following Neil Harman on twitter?
Same people who are complaining of poor attendances and lack of engagement from people in the town no doubt.
I would say this is 30 years overdue except for the fact this kind of outreach isn't actually a new thing, just people love to take any given opportunity to show how stupid they are on the internet.
Re: FA Cup quiz
I thought I would do a bit of research on this.
So in the last 1/3 century - 33 years, there have been nine different winners of the cup ,
Arsenal 9
Chelsea 7
Man U 6
Liverpool 4
Man City 3
Everton, Portsmouth , Wigan and Leicester - one each.
In half that time before that (16 years) - when I was a kid - there were ten different winners.
I think that is why it is now so unmemorable. At the start of each season, you can be pretty sure that there is probably a 90% chance that it will be won by one of the big five and honestly it doesn't feel like it mattes too much which one.
DevC
Re: Match Day Thread: Lincoln
I think MB managed to find the sweet spot between possession for possession sake and route one football. Morley could accurately hit targets 50 yards ahead of him before the opposition defence could get into their shape. Then we could mix it up by keeping possession for 10 minutes or so. The point is that we didn’t become predictable, which so often are now. But then I’ve mentioned the M word again. I would love to know the real truth of why we didn’t retain his services, a big mistake in my opinion.
Re: Match Day Thread: Lincoln
I'm not sure it's 9-0-1 but I think you get the point he is making. Kone is so isolated. This piece of play in the Rotherham game really stuck out for me. @frequentstander took the original picture. From memory I'm not even sure there was another player more than 5M into the Rotherham half.
There is more than one way to win a game of football. I'm just not sure this way is going to get us enough points by the end of the season.
Commoner
Re: Match Day Thread: Lincoln
Dodds first few games he didn't change much from what went before but was also without Kone. We know without Kone we are not as potent.
I feel it's just a shame that now we have Kone back, we've moved to this very negative approach in the last two games for the first 65-70 minutes. I could understand doing this without Kone but with Kone it seems mad. Those last 25 minutes against Rotherham showed exactly what we could do with more mobile players.
At Rotherham, the whole game changed when McCleary and Kodua came on and started supporting Kone, getting beyond him, getting into pockets between their midfield and defence. If we have more positive players on the pitch, it didn't look too bad. I was really surprised that he went back to the starting XI at Rotherham that was so poor.
Only time will tell but I worry that if we continue with that starting XI and formation we do not win the majority of our remanining fixtures. Of course, we may well win the majority and get promoted.
The other thing is, with that starting XI it requires at least three changes to go more attacking and means we are so one dimensional. You cannot move that team easily to 4-2-3-1 or 4-4-2 because of how many "safe" players are in the team. I just worry that if we concede first against a better team, we are unlikely to get back into the game with that starting XI. Why would we limit ourselves so much.
Anyway, it's all about opinions. 3 points is 3 points and hopefully we can get three more tomorrow.
Commoner
Re: Anyone still following Neil Harman on twitter?
I had never heard of him, but I read this:- Neil Harman has resigned from the International Tennis Writers' Association after he was shown to have copied large chunks of other journalists' work.
wingnut
Re: Match Day Thread: Lincoln
@ReadingMarginalista just caught up with your comments. Only problem is are our back line capable of speeding it up as required by Doddy? This is my issue with play it out from the back possession/ control Pep ball. How often on highlights shows do you see defenders now trying to do what the coaching manual demands but their feet and brains can’t deliver. If they could they would be playing at a higher level. It’s a bit like asking an F1 mechanic to mend an old banger - pointless and possibly dangerous.
We should play to our strengths not what some skinny bloke at St George’s Park had put in a power point presentation.
Re: Match Day Thread: Lincoln
Why did we ‘accidentally’ win two games? And talking of context, it’s a hell of a lot easier to play free flowing football in the early months of the season when the pressure to avoid losing is nothing like as intense as it is now. Plus, Dodds said very clearly in his interview that he’s encouraging the players to ‘take the handbrake off’ but I sense a nervousness on their part to take risks.