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[Billyni]

Have to disagree with the majority & agree with Joel - Preston probably edged the first half but we looked a completely different team in the second half & God only knows how we didn't score, also just like to add that Wood isn't an £18m pound player so I think we should cash in in anyone is prepared to pay that ridiculous amount - he couldn't get his head on the ball Yesterday on at least 3 occasions - 2 of which where he was unchallenged.

You do have a point.

[Billyni]

And speaking of points, arent we 4 better off than we were this time last season. Some knickers are in a wee bit of a twist i think.

[WTF11]

Why are you comparing a PL team in Huddersfield against Palace to what we are doing? There are no parallels, infact the team you are comparing us to are the antithesis of everything you slag our club off for in signing foreign nobodies like Schindler, Lowe, Hefele, Kachunga, Mounier, Quaner etc. So I find it odd that the model you seem to aspire to is a model that you would, and do criticise to the hilt at Leeds.

Yes performances like this will happen throughout the season, its why these players are playing second tier football and not PL. Consistency, if we can play badly and pick up a point then all is good, you don't seem to understand this league as a whole.

As with WS you miss my point. Dudds spend relatively small sums (in PL terms), and go out and play an established PL team off the park away from home. We spend more in the close season than is usual, and can't threaten the goal of our opponent until they are a man down, at home and in front of the largest home crowd for a long, long time.

"If we can play badly and pick up a point then all is good", hardly a f00king war cry is it?

[Rev72]

And speaking of points, arent we 4 better off than we were this time last season. Some knickers are in a wee bit of a twist i think.

Think its the manner of the performance billy that's got some knickers in a twist..massive crowd..high expectations..and we are bullied and bossed for 60 minutes in our own back yard.

Feels like a let down but hey..a long long way to go.

*untwists knickers*

[whitestomper45]

As with WS you miss my point. Dudds spend relatively small sums (in PL terms), and go out and play an established PL team off the park away from home. We spend more in the close season than is usual, and can't threaten the goal of our opponent until they are a man down, at home and in front of the largest home crowd for a long, long time.

"If we can play badly and pick up a point then all is good", hardly a f00king war cry is it?

Joel, don't bother engaging with this idiot, anytime he's shown to contradict himself (and he is this time aggain) he uses the old "miss my point" thing.

[Billyni]

Think its the manner of the performance billy that's got some knickers in a twist..massive crowd..high expectations..and we are bullied and bossed for 60 minutes in our own back yard.

Feels like a let down but hey..a long long way to go.

*untwists knickers*

Lol Rev. Only suggesting that we have 8/9 new players, new coach in a new league to him, new tactics and wer still better off than we were last season. Bit early to complain, but when we start doing worse than we were last season, than i'll be yaaping as loud as anyone.

[Fisher]

Joel, don't bother engaging with this idiot, anytime he's shown to contradict himself (and he is this time aggain) he uses the old "miss my point" thing.

Spot on

[joellufcprice]

As with WS you miss my point. Dudds spend relatively small sums (in PL terms), and go out and play an established PL team off the park away from home. We spend more in the close season than is usual, and can't threaten the goal of our opponent until they are a man down, at home and in front of the largest home crowd for a long, long time.

"If we can play badly and pick up a point then all is good", hardly a f00king war cry is it?

I think you're missing the point, their recruitment model is one that you constantly criticise our club for doing yet you are now using them as an example to make a point that is wasted anyway as they are in the PL and we aren't, what they do there has no bearing on us in the Championship.

We scored 7 in the last two games and then had a 0-0 draw, do you expect us to score 3/4 every game? Again, this league and the realities of it are that we will have games like this in such a tight league with lots of good teams. It's a massive over reaction to one game where we haven't scored, but I'd expect nothing less than you to creep out from behind your rock to whine and moan as soon as we don't win.

[joellufcprice]

Think its the manner of the performance billy that's got some knickers in a twist..massive crowd..high expectations..and we are bullied and bossed for 60 minutes in our own back yard.

Feels like a let down but hey..a long long way to go.

*untwists knickers*

If the ref had done his job, their dirty tactics wouldn't have lasted past 15 minutes, any other day they'd have either been a man down or told another tackle like that and they'd be a man down, would soon have stopped them. They then got away with constant time wasting from 60 minutes onwards with no repercussions, it was one of the most abysmal displays of refereeing I've seen and I'm not one to complain about the ref but he let them do what they did, yes our players should have been a bit tougher but they'll learn and I'd be surprised if another team ever gets away with playing like that at ER or even away from home again.

[joellufcprice]

Joel, don't bother engaging with this idiot, anytime he's shown to contradict himself (and he is this time aggain) he uses the old "miss my point" thing.

It is a pretty startling contradiction though from someone who has spent all pre-season moaning about us signing the likes of Alioski, Klich, Saiz, Wiedwald etc but then uses Huddersfield as an example of a model he likes when they do exactly the same! Imagine if we had signed that Mounie fella for 12m, he'd have had a thread up in minutes whining about us chucking money away on a foreign striker!