Match Day Thread FA Cup Hull City v Chelsea

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Kalman II said:
Anyway, back to the actual football, I’m quite shocked at just how poor Lundstram has been since returning from injury. To be honest, he wasn’t that great before injury but he seems significantly worse now. Trabzonspor and Rangers fans did say he’s slow, immobile and carrying timber.

The way he gets around the pitch, or the way he doesn’t get around the pitch, is concerning. These days, a defensive mid has to be a decent ball-winner, ball-player and athletic. Lundstram can put in a good tackle now and the and he’s decent at long balls but whenever we don’t have the ball or lose it in transition, it’s like playing with ten men. He’s so far off where he should be when we lose the ball and he cannot get back to where he should be.

Think we should just play Slater and Amir there from now on. I thought Slater did well as the deepest midfielder. Not the tallest or strongest but he’s tenacious, good at breaking up play with interceptions and tackles and actually has the legs to track back if we get hit on the counter.

Lundstram’s on north of £30,000-a-week and we’ll be paying most of that considering we couldn’t pay a loan fee.
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he's loves a lunging tackle when he gets ran past as well, looks good when it comes off, but a couple have been both feet off the ground and would be an easy red if he mistimed or misjudged it.
 
AlRawdah said:
The last few games his long passes have mostly been gash too.

Quite the cameo last night, topped off my stomping off the pitch a few seconds after the final whistle and tearing off his shirt the money he crossed the touch line. I think he’s done.
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You stomped off the pitch? Why were you on it?
 
Kalman II said:
Anyway, back to the actual football, I’m quite shocked at just how poor Lundstram has been since returning from injury. To be honest, he wasn’t that great before injury but he seems significantly worse now. Trabzonspor and Rangers fans did say he’s slow, immobile and carrying timber.

The way he gets around the pitch, or the way he doesn’t get around the pitch, is concerning. These days, a defensive mid has to be a decent ball-winner, ball-player and athletic. Lundstram can put in a good tackle now and the and he’s decent at long balls but whenever we don’t have the ball or lose it in transition, it’s like playing with ten men. He’s so far off where he should be when we lose the ball and he cannot get back to where he should be.

Think we should just play Slater and Amir there from now on. I thought Slater did well as the deepest midfielder. Not the tallest or strongest but he’s tenacious, good at breaking up play with interceptions and tackles and actually has the legs to track back if we get hit on the counter.

Lundstram’s on north of £30,000-a-week and we’ll be paying most of that considering we couldn’t pay a loan fee.
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I did say when Lundstram came,that his first season at Ibrox was very good but it all went downhill after that and Rangers fans celebrated his departure..

He did start 'reasonably' well with us but so would I on his assumed pay packet,he's then suffered an injury and came back looking like a carthorse.

There's always the possibility that he knows he's going back from whence he came in the summer and he's not overly fond of busting a gut anymore due to that.

We'll need him and the other big guns more than ever over the next month or so and if he's not prepared to step up he'll encounter Hull's boo boys and it'll remind him of his tenure in Govan....
 
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Walter Sobchak said:
I get that there is a line at football, but the reaction to a virtually unheard chant is mental.

The club seem to actively be searching for things to hammer themselves for rather than just reacting to an incident if they need to.
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Given that it was on mainstream TV I suspect the club wanted to be seen to be doing the right thing, whether it was heard or not on the telly they can't ignore it.
 
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Walter Sobchak said:
I get that there is a line at football, but the reaction to a virtually unheard chant is mental.

The club seem to actively be searching for things to hammer themselves for rather than just reacting to an incident if they need to.
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It’s really performative self-flagellation.

It’s like giving kids a pre-bollocking before going out. ‘Don’t you dare embarrass us in public by misbehaving’. I think that’s piss-poor when done to kids and it’s even more bizarre to do it to mainly adults attending a football game.
 
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Can’t say I’ve seen out prior to this but apparently….

Football v Homophobia (FvH) is a year-round initiative tackling anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and building inclusive communities at all levels of the game, all around the world.​

Every year, FvH focuses its work in February, which is the campaign’s Month of Action. We invite clubs, teams, fan groups, leagues and organisations to share the ‘Football for Everyone’ message and reaffirm their commitment to create safe and welcoming spaces in which LGBTQ+ people can thrive.
 
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Chazz Rheinhold said:
Can’t say I’ve seen out prior to this but apparently….

Football v Homophobia (FvH) is a year-round initiative tackling anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination and building inclusive communities at all levels of the game, all around the world.​

Every year, FvH focuses its work in February, which is the campaign’s Month of Action. We invite clubs, teams, fan groups, leagues and organisations to share the ‘Football for Everyone’ message and reaffirm their commitment to create safe and welcoming spaces in which LGBTQ+ people can thrive.
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There’s a collision of values at times though. Saw that when Guéhi wrote ‘I love Jesus’ on his rainbow captain’s armband. There’s a difference between tolerance and support.
 
Kalman II said:
He clearly meant ‘topped off by stomping off the pitch’.

Do you have to pull up everyone for even the slightest typo?
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It was a joke. TwoWrights always picks me up on any I do. But I don’t have a hissy fit. Funny OLM has liked your post as he can’t wait to google and do a copy and paste to try and prove people wrong.
 
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Kalman II said:
There’s a collision of values at times though. Saw that when Guéhi wrote ‘I love Jesus’ on his rainbow captain’s armband. There’s a difference between tolerance and support.
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There doesn't have to be if you just support the idea of people living their own lives as they choose, as long as they aren't harming anyone else.
 
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