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by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
16 Oct 2025, 13:42
Forum: Football
Topic: McCauley
Replies: 70
Views: 865

Re: McCauley

Macauley didn't have much to do with transfers at Brighton either. It was Paul Winstanley who was head of recruitment there and also followed Potter to Chelsea (and recently signed a new contract with them). It was always Winstanley who was the one known for identifying talented players. I don't thi...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
11 Oct 2025, 21:57
Forum: Football
Topic: Nuno In
Replies: 163
Views: 1865

Re: Nuno In

It's quite normal and a good thing to promote a youth team coach to the first team if he's deserving of the step up. To suddenly promote FOUR at once suggests that it's not about merit at all, just a quick and cheap short term solution. In the mean time the academy's coaching set-up has to be worse ...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
11 Oct 2025, 19:27
Forum: Football
Topic: Nuno In
Replies: 163
Views: 1865

Re: Nuno In

Fuckin hell. When I first read that I thought it was just about them carrying on in their previous roles. If they've all been promoted to the first team it just smacks of drastic cost cutting and doesn't bode well for the new manager at all, or for the academy's future.
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
11 Oct 2025, 06:19
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Bands you think of as 'One person plus anybody'
Replies: 74
Views: 515

Re: Bands you think of as 'One person plus anybody'

Maybe I’m showing my lack of knowledge about the band but as someone who’s not hugely into them, I’d say The Cure The Cure had a bass player, Simon Gallup, who was responsible for that bass heavy gothic sound. He played with them for most of their career but wasn't on their first or fifth albums, b...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
10 Oct 2025, 06:17
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Bands you think of as 'One person plus anybody'
Replies: 74
Views: 515

Re: Bands you think of as 'One person plus anybody'

Clearly loads of people just see/hear the singer of the band and don't notice the band members. There's even people on here naming solo artists for fuck's sake. Probably not many bands where the general public don't think of them as being the singer plus anybody.
 
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
09 Oct 2025, 18:03
Forum: Football
Topic: McCauley
Replies: 70
Views: 865

Re: McCauley

You're right, but the issue with McCauley and Steidten were that both were promoted from lessor roles into Director of Recruitment and Technical Director when we employed them. Neither had that role prior. Neither were very good in their roles, I thought. Regardless of how much they had their hands...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
08 Oct 2025, 14:32
Forum: Football
Topic: McCauley
Replies: 70
Views: 865

Re: McCauley

Oh dear. Comebacks aren't your strong suit, are they? I'll let you have the last word though so fill your boots.
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
08 Oct 2025, 14:23
Forum: Football
Topic: McCauley
Replies: 70
Views: 865

Re: McCauley

Lee Trundle" wrote: 08 Oct 2025, 13:46
I suppose I could always change my username if I ever l make myself look like a dick and got things wrong?
Best change it today then. It's long overdue.
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
07 Oct 2025, 17:39
Forum: Football
Topic: McCauley
Replies: 70
Views: 865

Re: McCauley

"Eerie is always fairly positive about new signings" then in same paragraph quoting him saying "he'll be better than that clown Aguerd" What's that got to do with anything? Aguerd wasn't a new signing at that point was he? I did say he usually ends up hating most of them. ​​​​​​...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
07 Oct 2025, 16:04
Forum: Football
Topic: McCauley
Replies: 70
Views: 865

Re: McCauley

Nearly as bad as your mate Loppy insisting on signing Kilman for £40mil, MA son. Ag, like you  weren’t  all for Lopetegui and the Kilman signing.  Eerie is always fairly positive about new signings or at least willing to give them a chance (even if he usually  ends up hating most of them). I'd say ...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
07 Oct 2025, 15:47
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Bands you think of as 'One person plus anybody'
Replies: 74
Views: 515

Re: Bands you think of as 'One person plus anybody'

The Fall Although honourable mention for Marc Riley I think.😁 Mark E. Smith once said, "If it's me and your Granny on bongos, it's the Fall". Riley wrote most of the tunes during the band's best period (78-82) but I reckon Steve Hanley made the biggest contribution to their sound (and som...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
06 Oct 2025, 12:25
Forum: Football
Topic: Arsenal vs West Ham | PL | 4.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Replies: 357
Views: 3351

Re: Arsenal vs West Ham | PL | 4.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

He was the same player, just not playing in the same position. Last season he only started 6 games on the right. 3 of those we were on a hiding to nothing vs Chelsea, Man City & Liverpool. He got assists in 2 of the other 3.  Even if he was played in his normal position he was never going to far...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
06 Oct 2025, 07:42
Forum: Football
Topic: Arsenal vs West Ham | PL | 4.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Replies: 357
Views: 3351

Re: Arsenal vs West Ham | PL | 4.10.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

I think Kudus is a great player but there wasn't much point in keeping him given that he was never going to take Bowen's place on the right and he's mediocre at best on the left. Maybe he could have played as a No 10 but there's not many managers who want that sort of player there, certainly not Pot...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
03 Oct 2025, 13:17
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: Happy birthday To Hammer & Pickle
Replies: 11
Views: 181

Re: Happy birthday To Hammer & Pickle

Prick was largely responsible for killing this forum.   As cunty as he may have been, he was mostly easy to ignore if you avoided the politics threads. The problem was that several people would constantly follow him around on every other thread to start up yet another round of boring bickering. Yes...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
01 Oct 2025, 14:00
Forum: Football
Topic: Welcome Mads Hermansen!
Replies: 181
Views: 2045

Re: Welcome Mads Hermansen!

I can't see how he would've been so good for Leicester in the Championship if he couldn't deal with crosses and high balls into the area. That's bread and butter for 75% of the teams in the Championship. I wouldn't know the actual stats but I reckon as  keeper in the Championship you are dealing wi...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
30 Sep 2025, 14:23
Forum: Football
Topic: Tom Wooster signed
Replies: 13
Views: 194

Re: Tom Wooster signed

Yeah, it's pretty telling that in the last 15 years, we've made a loss on nearly all the 1st team players we've bought except Payet and Kudus, while young players that cost us nothing like Fletcher, Diangana and Rice have paid off. Yet for years Sullivan didn't want to invest anything in the academy...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
30 Sep 2025, 13:21
Forum: Football
Topic: Tom Wooster signed
Replies: 13
Views: 194

Re: Tom Wooster signed

Yeah, maybe so. Hard to tell. The fact that he's only on a 1 year contract with 1 year option suggests that the club don't have much faith in him though.
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
30 Sep 2025, 12:55
Forum: Football
Topic: Everton vs West Ham | PL | 29.7.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Replies: 397
Views: 2932

Re: Everton vs West Ham | PL | 29.7.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

Fair enough. I just think of the term Moyesball as meaning low block, counter attacking football, which is exactly what Nuno does. Wasn't meaning to suggest anything other than that. I still expect any long periods of us not having the ball to be as dull as they were under Moyes, but hopefully the a...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
30 Sep 2025, 12:18
Forum: Football
Topic: Everton vs West Ham | PL | 29.7.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Replies: 397
Views: 2932

Re: Everton vs West Ham | PL | 29.7.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

Early days, but you can see already that we're firmly back in Moyesball territory: long stretches of us sitting back and doing nothing, followed by quick breaks where we try to actually score. The tedium of the low block will become even more apparent when we're playing against a team who actually ...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
30 Sep 2025, 09:56
Forum: Football
Topic: Tom Wooster signed
Replies: 13
Views: 194

Re: Tom Wooster signed

We sold Ashley Fletcher to Boro for £6.5m (one of only a handful of players we've made a decent profit on during Sullivan's reign), so he's actually a very good example of a saleable asset.
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
30 Sep 2025, 09:38
Forum: Football
Topic: Tom Wooster signed
Replies: 13
Views: 194

Re: Tom Wooster signed

Much as I admire the positivity, being released at 20 is quite a bit different to being released at 14. I don't imagine anyone's expecting him to end up as a premier league player, but we needed a replacement when we loaned out 2 of our other U21 keepers. We also brought in another 20 year old keepe...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
30 Sep 2025, 08:04
Forum: Football
Topic: Summerville
Replies: 11
Views: 149

Re: Summerville

He was easily one of our best players last night. More likely he was hooked because he'd been out of action for 8 months and only restarted training a few weeks ago so probably ain't ready for 90 mins. I expect that he'll do a lot better under Nuno than our previous 2 managers and he seems to link u...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
30 Sep 2025, 06:05
Forum: Football
Topic: Everton vs West Ham | PL | 29.7.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Replies: 397
Views: 2932

Re: Everton vs West Ham | PL | 29.7.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

I thought Paqueta gave the ball away far too often. Hopefully that was a result of him trying to put first time killer balls through all the time rather than just sideways passing, and he's probably a bit rusty at it. Fullkrug was awful as well. If these two had been a bit better we'd have won the g...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
28 Sep 2025, 14:48
Forum: Football
Topic: Nuno In
Replies: 163
Views: 1865

Re: Nuno IN

I can see the point: Soucek can actually win headers and has the bottle to get in the way of shots blasted at goal. Apart from that I can't see him being anything but an absolute liability in that position, given the way he tackles and the fact that he turns like a truck. Any attacker with a bit of ...
by Jean-Luc Paul Goddard
28 Sep 2025, 14:18
Forum: Football
Topic: Everton vs West Ham | PL | 29.7.25 | Predictions and Match Thread
Replies: 397
Views: 2932

Re: Everton vs West Ham | PL | 29.7.25 | Predictions and Match Thread

OP has less of a clue than Potter or Lopetegui. 3-3-2-2 Has to be 4-2-3-1. Nuno prefers it.   You know the OP wrote that when Potter was still in charge? And it was his prediction of what Potter will do (or in this case, would have done). He's probably right, although I very much doubt he'd have pl...