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Championship 15/16

Not overly impressed with either of those 2 sides - QPR should have seen that out after going 2 up, even if the second was almost as dubious as our Blackburn winner
 
Decent player. Same as Friend.


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So much worse than George Friend. One of the best left backs in the Championship vs one of the worst.

On the subject of ex-Wolves left backs, I once saw Lee Naylor score a goal just like that for Celtic to make it 2-2 in the last minute away at Dundee United.
 
So much worse than George Friend. One of the best left backs in the Championship vs one of the worst.

On the subject of ex-Wolves left backs, I once saw Lee Naylor score a goal just like that for Celtic to make it 2-2 in the last minute away at Dundee United.

Malone for me is decent enough. He's solid without being consistently spectacular.


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I think Henry should get a nothing reception, the good things he has done have been balanced by the bad, but doesn't deserve a booing.
 
I don't particularly care about Karl Henry but I feel like he'd be the kind of player who would actually be bothered by a hostile reception. That makes me hope he gets pelters on Friday, just to help us win the game.
 
I don't particularly care about Karl Henry but I feel like he'd be the kind of player who would actually be bothered by a hostile reception. That makes me hope he gets pelters on Friday, just to help us win the game.

I hope he gets pelters on Wednesday too!
 
I don't particularly care about Karl Henry but I feel like he'd be the kind of player who would actually be bothered by a hostile reception. That makes me hope he gets pelters on Friday, just to help us win the game.

Hopefully you have booked the right night at the Hotel then :icon_smile:
 
I think it will be pathetic if he gets anything more than a polite round of applause either way.

He's done nothing wrong,
Apart from having to captain under gash managers.


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I won't boo or cheer. I imagine that will be the view of most. However there is always going to be a vocal minority which could go either way or both.

Still don't get why Doyle was cheered as some hero against Rotherham, so I have no idea what the fans will do
 
Tonight's Channel 5 review:

The good:

- Less of the unnecessary drivel from last week. No engaging with the audience (which begs the question even more now why they are there, but be grateful for small mercies), less wacky camera angles in the studio, less pointless wittering on

- The goals shown with a proper voice over rather than just aimless rambling from Virgo and the hosts

- The goals shown in a semi-coherent order, no weird switching between leagues

The bad:

- Both lazy and cheap. No main game of its own; instead virtually all of the opening half hour was spent showing highlights of the two televised games from today. Which loads of people will already have watched live. If you have a 90 minute show then don't spend a third of it showing stuff that many people will already have seen. And at least go to the effort of putting your own commentary on, it was literally ripped from Sky with Sky's commentators

- The music is still too fucking loud

- It's still not particularly professional or slick, it feels amateurish

- Two advert breaks before we've even seen half the Championship goals

- They've still managed to make sure the final 10 minutes of the show overlap with MOTD, inexcusable
 
They move it by ten minutes and I bet MOTD moves with the local news put after MOTD.
 
I don't think the BBC are that arsed about nicking viewers for the last 10 minutes of this, it's just crappy scheduling on C5's part. Take out two of the ad breaks and stop promoting Richard Desmond's shitty Health Lottery, hey presto you no longer overlap. Although now that we can guarantee that the overlapping bits are just goals from L2 it's less of an issue.

This is actually watchable now. I mean all the good bits up there should just come as standard so it's nothing outstanding, but it isn't absolute carnage like it was last week. Fair play that they actually listened to the criticism.

Edit: I only mean watchable in the sense that it doesn't make me want to actively avoid it, btw, which is where I would have been had this week's show been like last week's, I seriously wouldn't have bothered again. I don't want it to sound like it's some kind of triumph now or even on a par with what we had three months ago on the BBC. I only applaud them for listening to the criticism as I had no expectation at all that they would, but this appears to have been another Wimbledon highlights turnaround so at least they have fixed the more glaring issues quickly enough. There is a hell of a lot of stuff they could improve without too much effort and quite a lot of stuff that I'll let slide in the short term (factual errors, clumsy links etc) just so we don't have another disaster like last week. When you're still deeply suspicious about the quality and professionalism of the broadcast and that's in comparison to a show which had Steve Claridge as the lead pundit, it's not a good sign. 4/10 as opposed to 0/10, better than ITV's The Championship (2/10), but still not good.
 
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I won't boo or cheer. I imagine that will be the view of most. However there is always going to be a vocal minority which could go either way or both.

Still don't get why Doyle was cheered as some hero against Rotherham, so I have no idea what the fans will do

That indifference - if felt by the majority - to a player who made 250+ appearances is quite scary when you think about the receptions good and bad have had with less turn outs.
 
That indifference - if felt by the majority - to a player who made 250+ appearances is quite scary when you think about the receptions good and bad have had with less turn outs.

But it does mirror the indifference to him when he was here. He was very much a marmite player. On his good days he was very good and on his bad days well ....... The trouble is I felt he had more average or poor games than good or outstanding. Of his 250 plus I can only think of 2 or 3 MOM perfromances, but I can think of 10 or more stinkers, daft tackles, silly bookings, silly sendings off. Polite applause it is
 
Of course Henry will get booed. If Nathan Blake can get booed 3 years after that day in Cardiff in 2003 then anyone can.
 
I'd boo him. I have zero good memories of him (at least that didn't come in hindsight).
 
First one that comes to mind is his stamp/kick out against Villa.
 
Before his decline, Henry was outstanding for Wolves. Used to love the guy. Never going to forget him busting a gut the entire length of the pitch to get that winner against Charlton or his under-appreciated efforts in DM. Can also remember defending him back in the days of 606 after the infamous Newcastle game, where MOTD bizarrely had a bit of a love-in with poor victim Barton. This was quickly followed by Zamora getting an unlucky break, so Henry got unjustly slaughtered and the press pounced on a chance to have a new clogger/thug/villain in the PL. Even if he didn't let on, pretty sure it affected him.

Alas, for other reasons, he has dropped in my estimations considerably since those days. I don't hate the guy, but respect as a person and as a footballer have been dropping year by year to the point where I'm just not interested in his career anymore.

Plus, he plays for QPR.
 
His problems seem to have started with the match against Fulham when an innocuous tackle against Zamora resulting in a broken leg caused Murphy to accuse him of deliberately doing it. The media then picked up on it and kept the story running. This was followed by a diabolical & reckless lunging kung fu style dive at a Wigan (?) guy and got sent off. He was never the same player again - always afraid to go in for any challenge man to man. Then the final sending off against Villa when he 'touched' Albrighton.

Yes i'm sure he'll be booed
 
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