“The Premier League and English Football League summer transfer window is open from 27 July until 5 October, subject to Fifa approval.
The window, delayed because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, is also set to include a domestic-only period for transfers between Premier League and English Football League clubs from 5-16 October”.
nine months into the year and no annual bowel screening for the over 60s.
Mrs NI got hers today, so not strictly true!
Been out today and sat in a pub beer garden this afto with live music and all. Tables socially distanced but obviously more than one household at each table!
The great Northeastern public sticking two fingers up at Boris and Co.
After all, with thanks to things like eat out to help out and pubs reopening we are seeing cases rise yet again. For some reason a softer touch has caused it to rise, despite you saying the opposite.
This ^^^^
Eat out to help out has been a massive contributory factor in the second wave. As for the pubs. Some have sorted things out perfectly. Others don’t give a toss, neither do much of the public it would seem.
The government has thrown a blanket over the NE. Here in Northumberland we have been included in the local lockdown despite having had only 40 new cases to Newcastle’s 150 (N/land is huge. Ncle is tiny by comparison).
Yet 35 miles down the road from us Carlisle United will allow 1000 fans in tomorrow. I could get a test just a few miles away in Hexham without too much bother, yet elsewhere people are being directed 100 miles away!
The whole system is a complete mess and each “additional measure” makes it messier still.
A second national lockdown? It’s not going to happen is it? So expect more muddling through, with the public and professionals alike becoming more and more frustrated.
Wasn’t the old business mantra “speculate to accumulate”?
And “to be a success in business you have to be a risk-taker”?
Perhaps some businessmen owners took this too literally. Sure football clubs are businesses, but a special type of business that borders on being a social service.
Will be interesting to see what happens to Moss Rose and if Macc reform as a Phoenix club in the near future. Can’t see the residents of Treacletown rushing off to Crewe or Port Vale once fans are allowed to return.
Hornshaw is trying his best but he’s no RB and never will be.
Rewind a couple of seasons and this is what was being said about Levi Sutton.
He returned to midfield, didn’t perform that well and got released.
This whole square pegs in round holes thing is starting to piss me off.
And it’s not just down to unfortunate injuries, it’s about squad balance. Four recognised CBS but only two recognised FBs, one of whom is always injured. Seven forwards but no midfield general. I know players should be adaptable but this is League 2 FFS!
Players in their correct position in a formation they understand please.
This is the football board yet Bucks has started a thread containing zero football content.
We’d all love to hear his views on the summer recruitment, the new management team or the performances over that three competitive games. But instead he comes up with some convoluted nonsense on the new podcast sponsors.
He’s not even joined the prediction league so I doubt he’s a Patreon member.
So how does he think IB can finance itself?
C’mon Bucks, if you’ve got money for granite worktops you can afford a few bob to support Iron Bru surely?
BS when you’re at the game you can track a particular player and watch what he does when he doesn’t have the ball, how he reads the game, how vocal he is and so on.
Eg. MM rated Hornshaw as “nothing special”. If we are expecting a twenty year-old playing out of position to be special then we should be watching Liverpool or City, not Scunny!
Also I find it difficult to work out who is who from the long camera angles. With so many new faces, names and numbers I can’t tell my Vincent from my Spence as yet.
But as you say, just an opinion. Seeing our eleven best players in their correct position in a 4-4-2 lineup would make it easier, although I fear that is still a long way off!
