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fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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HadjiChippo said:
I’ve sat through some awful spells we’ve had, and against players nowhere near as good as Saka, Rice, Odegaard etc.,

Not a chance I’d be leaving 15 mins in.
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Eh? The year we went down we lost 1-0 to Arsenal at home, in their side that day was

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Paul Anthony

Paul Anthony

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I think that's probably the easiest first half any of those Arsenal players have ever had. Raya might as well not be on the pitch, he's completely redundant.
 
HadjiChippo

HadjiChippo

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Otis said:
The gulf has widened though hasn't it in the past 20 odd years
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Not just widened it’s insurmountable, even if you have a billionaire owner these days you’ll fall foul of FFP as a smaller club/newly promoted, you’re never getting anywhere near the established top 8.

Even Brightons scouting cheat code has been diminished by everyone getting to that same level/poaching scouts.
Even if there’s a solution, the established clubs don’t want it, closed shop is the goal.
 
Frostie

Frostie

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HadjiChippo said:
To be fair though, those results are expected.

Brighton recruit well and have spent big money off pitch in that dept over a number of years becoming a solid top 8 club.

Arsenal and Villa both have £500-£800 million spends over the last couple years assembling world class top 4 squads. You’re never competing with that with what Shef Utd have spent.
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Results expected yes, scorelines not so much. There's no shame in defeat but there's a way to go about it.
They have already conceded more goals than the infamous Derby team of 2007/8.
 
Sky Blue Wozza

Sky Blue Wozza

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I mean, as entertaining as it is to watch horrible Sheffield fucking United get hammered, it’s probably for the best that we’re not going up this season
 
HadjiChippo

HadjiChippo

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Frostie said:
Results expected yes, scorelines not so much. There's no shame in defeat but there's a way to go about it.
They have already conceded more goals than the infamous Derby team of 2007/8.
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Expect a little more fight, but there’s only so far it can go. West Ham have a better squad than Sheff Utd and Arsenal absolute tortured them
 
HadjiChippo

HadjiChippo

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HadjiChippo said:
Not just widened it’s insurmountable, even if you have a billionaire owner these days you’ll fall foul of FFP as a smaller club/newly promoted, you’re never getting anywhere near the established top 8.

Even Brightons scouting cheat code has been diminished by everyone getting to that same level/poaching scouts.
Even if there’s a solution, the established clubs don’t want it, closed shop is the goal.
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As an amendment to this, not gonna lie I want us to get in before the shop gets closed if that’s the future 😂
 
David O'Day

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They look that broken that without serious change this summer they aren't going to challenge at championship level.

They just look hollow.
 
Nuskyblue

Nuskyblue

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David O'Day said:
They look that broken that without serious change this summer they aren't going to challenge at championship level.

They just look hollow.
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Agreed.

The fight has well and truly gone.

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Frostie

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HadjiChippo said:
Expect a little more fight, but there’s only so far it can go. West Ham have a better squad than Sheff Utd and Arsenal absolute tortured them
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Sure. Arsenal are flying & as a one off yep, absolutely you get these results, but it's happened so many times it's embarrassing. They got done 8-0 by Newcastle & 5-0 by bloody Burnley!

As you rightly said before though, it's not entirely unexpected due to their woeful recruitment & I don't think they have been setup well all season either.
 
HadjiChippo

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Frostie said:
Sure. Arsenal are flying & as a one off yep, absolutely you get these results, but it's happened so many times it's embarrassing. They got done 8-0 by Newcastle & 5-0 by bloody Burnley!

As you rightly said before though, it's not entirely unexpected due to their woeful recruitment & I don't think they have been setup well all season either.
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Like Luton, I thought they’d be the leagues whipping boys but look how close they’ve ran top sides at home this season and they haven’t brought in world beaters, but their players seem to at least care.

That shed of a ground helps too though.
 
Frostie

Frostie

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HadjiChippo said:
Like Luton, I thought they’d be the leagues whipping boys but look how close they’ve ran top sides at home this season and they haven’t brought in world beaters, but their players seem to at least care.

That shed of a ground helps too though.
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Yeah. Sheff Utd & particularly Burnley are incredibly naive to think they can play the way they do against teams with that much more quality than them & it just makes it easy for them. One thing you know with Luton is they will make things uncomfortable for most opponents.
 
fernandopartridge

fernandopartridge

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Frostie said:
Yeah. Sheff Utd & particularly Burnley are incredibly naive to think they can play the way they do against teams with that much more quality than them & it just makes it easy for them. One thing you know with Luton is they will make things uncomfortable for most opponents.
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Luton are so aggressive, they approach the game exactly how they did the first half against us in the play off final, it is suffocating. If they had a little bit more quality when they get chances they'd be safe I think.

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