Match Day Thread Leicester v Hull City

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I reckon we have a top 8 wage bill.
Its a very valid point I think will be supported by the accounts and on that basis we should be up there. However I think this is more a function of poor negotiations than having a collection of valuable players. According to trnsfrmkt values (which I know are a bit finger in the air) we have the 14th most valuable squad in terms of transfer value.
 
and I also asked Deepseek ... can you give me the values for Hull when Rosenior was manager? and it replied
During Liam Rosenior's tenure as manager, from November 2022 to May 2024, the market value of Hull City's squad increased significantly.

The total squad market values were as follows:

  • 2022/23 Season: €65.95 million
  • 2023/24 Season: €102.20 million
This represents a substantial increase of €36.25 million, or approximately 55%, over the 18 months he was in charge.

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know.
 
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Since Charlton won at Middlesborough Mar 11th they haven't won in six games, 3 loses 3 draws i think.
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unfortunately we've been ****ing ****e for months
Thing is NT you can't tell'em that, without being shot down for pointing out the bleeding obvious...I think we need snookers....Coventry will be still pissed on Sunday. Away Win...We'll struggle at Charlton. Sadly, over bar the shouting and the cat calls on Sunday night. Oh, I'm contracted to put in the 'Hope I'm wrong' line.
 
and I also asked Deepseek ... can you give me the values for Hull when Rosenior was manager? and it replied
During Liam Rosenior's tenure as manager, from November 2022 to May 2024, the market value of Hull City's squad increased significantly.

The total squad market values were as follows:

  • 2022/23 Season: €65.95 million
  • 2023/24 Season: €102.20 million
This represents a substantial increase of €36.25 million, or approximately 55%, over the 18 months he was in charge.

Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know.
Our squad was nowhere near those numbers! :emoticon-0140-rofl:
 
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Our squad was nowhere near those numbers! :emoticon-0140-rofl:
Big squad and Philo and Greaves were estimated as £30m of that ... and they were sold for more? And looking at the breakdown it doesn't include Carvalho nor Morton who were valued at £14m and £8m by Tmkt at that time. Carv ended being sold for £27m
 
Big squad and Philo and Greaves were estimated as £30m of that ... and they were sold for more? And looking at the breakdown it doesn't include Carvalho nor Morton who were valued at £14m and £8m by Tmkt at that time. Carv ended being sold for £27m
Carvalho & Morton weren’t our players, if that’s the case it’s the most pointless stat ever!
 
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Big squad and Philo and Greaves were estimated as £30m of that ... and they were sold for more? And looking at the breakdown it doesn't include Carvalho nor Morton who were valued at £14m and £8m by Tmkt at that time. Carv ended being sold for £27m

How much were Greaves and Jaden estimated to be worth when they first started with Rosenior? Not £30m.

Only looking at values at the end of a season doesn’t tell the tale of the manager, you need to look at the assembled squad and their reputation at the start. I’d argue this squad had a better reputation at the start than that squad.
 
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It's looked unlikely we'd win the playoffs for a while, but we really should've been in them. Another annoying thing about not being, assuming we don't, is that it allows us to continue this small time attitude of looking at the playoffs as some kind of pipe dream for little old us. I remember last season people talking about players like Slater as not good enough for a team with serious promotion ambitions and I kept arguing that he'd been a regular in a team that finished 7th the year prior, but people seemed to forget that and accepted the relegation battle as our and his level. That attitude continued into this season with the transfer embargo and still lingers now to an extent with all the "what a wonderful season it's been, no one expected this" stuff. If we'd finished 4th or 5th as it looked like we would two or three months ago I think some people would've started to take us more seriously both inside our fanbase and outside the club, and to realise that the playoffs aren't some exclusive space only for the very elite.
Completely agree. I have to field the same attitude with mates, although I am in London so understandable I suppose. I have to remind them that we've spent 20% of this century in the Premier League.
 
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People often compare him to Ashbee because Ashbee wasn’t rated by our supporters for ages and he took us from the lower leagues to the Prem and proved the doubters wrong. Couldn’t be less alike. Ashbee was a leader and motivator. Coyle isn’t.
Seem to remember stories of Ash being out on the Charlie once Bullard had got his claws into him.
 
WTF was Ajayi doing for their second goal. Sometimes he looks amazing, other times he looks as if he's never played football before. It's baffling
When he came back against Millwall in the first half I thought right this is what we've been missing. He was easing their strikers off the ball and looked dominant. Second half he gave the ball away for their goal and since then he's made a few more mistakes too and never looked as assured again as that first half.
 
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When he came back against Millwall in the first half I thought right this is what we've been missing. He was easing their strikers off the ball and looked dominant. Second half he gave the ball away for their goal and since then he's made a few more mistakes too and never looked as assured again as that first half.
He’s had two full games where he looked brilliant (9 or 10 out of 10 performances) and they were the opening game against Coventry away and against Leicester at home. Since then he’s dropped 4 or 5 out of 10 performances. Maddeningly inconsistent.
 
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Big squad and Philo and Greaves were estimated as £30m of that ... and they were sold for more? And looking at the breakdown it doesn't include Carvalho nor Morton who were valued at £14m and £8m by Tmkt at that time. Carv ended being sold for £27m
Don't know where this comes from. We actually had an unusually small squad that season, particularly in the first half of it, but even after January we had 5 fewer senior players than we do now.
 
It's been said a few times that we make poor decisions, but here's an example, this is the last seconds of the game last night. Leicester have lost the ball with loads of men forward and we are breaking. McNair has the ball on the left and attempts to play Hirakawa through from there, but doesn't pull it off and it ends up with their keeper and the game ends. I can understand the temptation to play the big through ball, but look at the overload if he'd just made the simple pass inside to Joseph I think it is. We'd have been probably four on two as Crooks and McBurnie broke through the middle. The pass to Yu isn't as easy as it looks on the single frame; the full back was already catching him and he gets there easily. But the strange thing to me is no one really reacts. No one seems particularly disappointed or surprised that that break came to nothing but it's a huge opportunity.
 

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It's been said a few times that we make poor decisions, but here's an example, this is the last seconds of the game last night. Leicester have lost the ball with loads of men forward and we are breaking. McNair has the ball on the left and attempts to play Hirakawa through from there, but doesn't pull it off and it ends up with their keeper and the game ends. I can understand the temptation to play the big through ball, but look at the overload if he'd just made the simple pass inside to Joseph I think it is. We'd have been probably four on two as Crooks and McBurnie broke through the middle. The pass to Yu isn't as easy as it looks on the single frame; the full back was already catching him and he gets there easily. But the strange thing to me is no one really reacts. No one seems particularly disappointed or surprised that that break came to nothing but it's a huge opportunity.

I said the same thing watching it last night. Such a poor decision. I know he's a centre back and probably the last person you'd want in that position, but Egan's chance as well. He had time and space to carry on a couple of steps further. If he'd have shot low as well he probably scores. Lost count of how many times we made the wrong choice in the first half as well. One J can think of was when Millar shot from miles out and it was blocked, Bellloumi was in acres on space on the right and it was a simple pass.
 
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It's been said a few times that we make poor decisions, but here's an example, this is the last seconds of the game last night. Leicester have lost the ball with loads of men forward and we are breaking. McNair has the ball on the left and attempts to play Hirakawa through from there, but doesn't pull it off and it ends up with their keeper and the game ends. I can understand the temptation to play the big through ball, but look at the overload if he'd just made the simple pass inside to Joseph I think it is. We'd have been probably four on two as Crooks and McBurnie broke through the middle. The pass to Yu isn't as easy as it looks on the single frame; the full back was already catching him and he gets there easily. But the strange thing to me is no one really reacts. No one seems particularly disappointed or surprised that that break came to nothing but it's a huge opportunity.
There were several similar instances last night.

I know Millar scored and assisted for the two goals but the amount of times that he found himself in really promising positions and just made the wrong decision or execution was driving me absolutely crazy. His shooting, bar for the goal, is so wayward, it’s ridiculous but he keeps on shooting, even when there are others clearly better placed. There were only a couple of times when he didn’t, presumably because there was a defender blocking, one when he did the nutmeg on the defender for the Crooks flick and the other for McBurnie’s goal.
 
He’s had two full games where he looked brilliant (9 or 10 out of 10 performances) and they were the opening game against Coventry away and against Leicester at home. Since then he’s dropped 4 or 5 out of 10 performances. Maddeningly inconsistent.

He was brilliant v Cov at home as well? Marked Wright and then Simms out of the game.

He's been pretty good I think all season, it's just a different type of defending strikers.

If you watch the second goal back from last night, Koumas is with Thomas the whole way then just abandons him to Ajayi's surprise.
 
He was brilliant v Cov at home as well? Marked Wright and then Simms out of the game.

He's been pretty good I think all season, it's just a different type of defending strikers.

If you watch the second goal back from last night, Koumas is with Thomas the whole way then just abandons him to Ajayi's surprise.
I agree that Koumas was more to blame for the second goal than Ajayi as it was Koumas’ man. That being said, my main issue with Ajayi is just how clumsy he looks. Looks like an accident waiting to happen whether he has the ball or he’s defending.