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(02-04-2025, 08:42 AM)Sniffer Dog (Admin) Wrote: Everyone was immense last night but it would be criminal not to mention captain fantastic Ryan Yates. I think that was maybe his best ever performance for us and he had that rat in his pocket the whole match.
And what about Elangas speed and dribbling skills at the same time.
Pundits waxing lyrical about it and rightly so.
It was truly world class and phenomenal.
The chorus around the ground of "Bruno Fernandes, you look like a rat" was one of my favourite moments last night.
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Narrowly beaten for me, by the "he left cus you're sh*t" Anthony Elanga chant
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Where is this talk of fatigue from? Is it just lazy cliched thinking because it’s near the end if the season or have people actually seen evidence of it? Everton just looked like we were frustrated and couldn’t work a way through them.
We had 3 matches in a week including an extra time, you could be forgiven for players feeling it there, and we had a couple of muscular injuries. That’s over and it’s one match a week. But suddenly it’s ‘fatigue’ calls and ‘multiple tournaments’ affecting us. Unless someone knows the physios have measured fatigue in the players that they can’t recover from without a summers rest I’m calling bs.
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The Wembleys on their minds talk is shit too, we have a team of internationals all that have played at their own national stadium and other countries too
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I think it's more trying to understand why it felt like there was a lack of energy/intensity to our performance yesterday compared to normal. Who knows, maybe it was as simple as am awkward opponent and unseasonably hot day!
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(13-04-2025, 07:35 PM)wassy04 Wrote: I think it's more trying to understand why it felt like there was a lack of energy/intensity to our performance yesterday compared to normal. Who knows, maybe it was as simple as am awkward opponent and unseasonably hot day!
Those two factors, plus Wood not being fit, plus Williams playing on the left plus Merino not being familiar plus Elanga not being an out ball.
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I also think there's been a bit of self belief lost.
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(13-04-2025, 05:56 PM)Fumanchew Wrote: The Wembleys on their minds talk is S**t too, we have a team of internationals all that have played at their own national stadium and other countries too
How do you its shit? You dont know what is on players minds anymore than I do.
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(14-04-2025, 02:19 PM)Tricky Wrote: (13-04-2025, 05:56 PM)Fumanchew Wrote: The Wembleys on their minds talk is S**t too, we have a team of internationals all that have played at their own national stadium and other countries too
How do you its S**t? You dont know what is on players minds anymore than I do.
I just think that they’re mentally stronger then people are giving them credit for, morgs has won youth tourni’s, Boly/Sangare have won afcon, milenkovic was at the euros
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They may not have Wembley on their mind but they wouldn't be human if they weren't feeling *some* pressure as it gets to crunch time for the season.
You only had to watch The Masters yesterday to see what pressure can do to people. Though hopefully we finish the season more Rory McIlroy than Bryson DeChambeau!
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(14-04-2025, 03:38 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote: They may not have Wembley on their mind but they wouldn't be human if they weren't feeling *some* pressure as it gets to crunch time for the season.
You only had to watch The Masters yesterday to see what pressure can do to people. Though hopefully we finish the season more Rory McIlroy than Bryson DeChambeau!
Here's a question for you Sausage. Had McIlroy lost last night after heading into the last round of the Masters two shots ahead of the pack, would he be congratulating himself this morning for the significant improvement over his last 10 odd years of Masters golf misery, or would he kicking himself for losing after being in such a commanding position?
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(14-04-2025, 04:41 PM)Paplane Wrote: (14-04-2025, 03:38 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote: They may not have Wembley on their mind but they wouldn't be human if they weren't feeling *some* pressure as it gets to crunch time for the season.
You only had to watch The Masters yesterday to see what pressure can do to people. Though hopefully we finish the season more Rory McIlroy than Bryson DeChambeau!
Here's a question for you Sausage. Had McIlroy lost last night after heading into the last round of the Masters two shots ahead of the pack, would he be congratulating himself this morning for the significant improvement over his last 10 odd years of Masters golf misery, or would he kicking himself for losing after being in such a commanding position?
His expectation would've been to win the tournament, not finish in midfield after two seasons of only just scraping past the cut.
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