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  1. Mucca Mad Boys

    Recruitment has been shocking

    You’re moving the goal posts. You (or others) held it against EMC because he came from a National League academy. Toney came through a L2 academy so the difference is minimal. His career started off similarly to our Gael Bigi. Does well in one season, gets a big move, fails to break into to...
  2. Mucca Mad Boys

    Next manager thread

    David Moyes managing in the Championship?! That is, to be charitable, wishful thinking.
  3. Mucca Mad Boys

    Simms and Wright

    The core of the issue is that the forwards just do not have the quality of chances to score. We can bleat about all 4 of our strikers, but they haven’t been provided the chances to score. Simms proved last year that when supplied with chances, he’ll score. Haji Wright had one shot in the box on...
  4. Mucca Mad Boys

    Recruitment has been shocking

    I don’t think so, £4.25m for a player with that record in the league below is a reasonable price. It’s not quite the same, but Toney for £10m seemed ridiculous at the time. He was 24 and had 23/24 goals in about 32 appearances.
  5. Mucca Mad Boys

    Recruitment has been shocking

    I’m convinced we’ll turn things around but it’s clear that the team needs further investment in midfield and defence. We need experience/leadership and different profiles of players here.
  6. Mucca Mad Boys

    Recruitment has been shocking

    EMC had 32 goal contributions from the wing last season, of course other teams would’ve been interested.
  7. Mucca Mad Boys

    Robins on CWR

    The problem is, and always been our lack of ability to create chances. We struggle to fashion good quality chances and that comes from the midfield and wide players (WB yesterday). Sheaf and Eccles are two individually good players, but do the same things and it negatively impacts the team...
  8. Mucca Mad Boys

    Sheaf

    Still scored 0 goals…
  9. Mucca Mad Boys

    England - Lee Carsley Era

    The Spain comparison was more that de la Fuente was not considered a top coach amongst his fellow countrymen. Which is relevant and when you consider how Spain looked under Luis Enrique and this Euros… Enrique had many of the same players. Many fancied Germany because they had the best manager...
  10. Mucca Mad Boys

    England - Lee Carsley Era

    There are lots of positives about Tuchel and think he was probably the best candidate available in terms of coaching ability. However, international football is not club football and having a world class manager is not a precondition for success. Yet, England fans are obsessed with the idea of...
  11. Mucca Mad Boys

    Luton

    On the F&B side of things, people should vote with their feet and opt out of paying for substandard products. I’m partial to a HT pint and if I’ve travelled up to the game I’ll end up buying something if I haven’t brought food with me… I regret buying the crap every time!
  12. Mucca Mad Boys

    England - Lee Carsley Era

    Scaloni and de la Fuente achieved what exactly in senior football before winning the World Cup and Euros respectively? On Spain and de la Fuente, he replaced Luis Enrique who is objectively a far more accomplished manager and yet de la Fuente’s team look far better. Further back, you had...
  13. Mucca Mad Boys

    England - Lee Carsley Era

    Fair enough - that’s way past my time and could not remember a Dutch national team manager being foreign-born in the 90s to present day.
  14. Mucca Mad Boys

    England - Lee Carsley Era

    This is chicken and egg thinking here… What major nations have dabbled in hiring foreign managers? I can only think of Belgium, Portugal and ourselves. We put too much importance on the manager and think Carsley would’ve probably done a good job with the team given time. There’s no point in...
  15. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    The biggest increases in incapacity benefits in relation to MH, iirc in the 20-30 (or thereabouts) age bracket. Mental health isn’t really stigmatised the same way it was say, 10 years ago. Just leaving them alone sounds like a nice idea. Yet, how would young people benefit mentally from being...
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    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    Agreed. One thing everyone needs is a reason to get out of bed in the morning (i.e. a purpose) and it is often the case that those who have MH issues are having everything compounded by being reliant on the welfare state. It’s one of those policy ideas that looks bad but if the data shows...
  17. Mucca Mad Boys

    Spent £10m on L1 players

    It’s just such an easy job picking out good, ‘proven quality’ players for us to sign…
  18. Mucca Mad Boys

    Spent £10m on L1 players

    The transfer market has inflated values across the EFL - we wouldn’t have got the money we did for Hamer or Vik had been a few years prior.
  19. Mucca Mad Boys

    Do you want to discuss boring politics?

    There won’t be jobs for workers if those kinds of billionaires pull investment, or worse, disinvest altogether. The politician in question was a government minister, they need to be more diplomatic because it sends the wrong signals to business as a whole.
  20. Mucca Mad Boys

    England - Lee Carsley Era

    Undoubtedly the most successful manager who is available. The FA could’ve hired Tuchel in the summer so it’s not unreasonable to suspect that they approached Klopp and/or Pep and neither of them fancied it. Tuchel isn’t exactly well known for playing attacking football either so he’ll need to...
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