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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 2h

No.2 has a right old clue in it!

EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 5h

Muniz wouldn't have been a great buy at more than 20m, either.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 17h

The midfield is one-paced and workmanlike… with little creativity, pace or ball-carrying. And there’s no threat from the right to balance Okafor. Gnonto might provide it… but has James the guile at this level? Not sure.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 19h

Forest have good players and a manager who does the basics… if we’re not up for it, it could go the way of Brighton.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 20h

I'd take it for a year if I felt it was eking out the points required... but we look a soft touch defensively... teams are finding it a bit too easy to score.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 21h

"Now's not the time...."

Wrong. Now is *exactly* the time.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 21h

I think the Prem has sapped me, Doc... what was the point of all last year's hopes and anxieties when we make such a half-arsed job of survival?

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 21h

Now watch all the obituaries replace "war criminal" and "mass murderer" with "controversial" and "polarizing"....

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22h

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has died, his family said in a statement. He was 84 abcnews.go.com/Politics/for...

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 22h

I'm melting into apathy already... I can see how this plays out and, barring a miracle, it will be another massive opportunity squandered.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Christiansen, I think... Alioski scored with a lovely drive from the edge of the box. One of several false dawns that season!

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

So, on to The City Ground... where our last three visits have returned two losses for Bielsa, one of which felt terminal, and the defeat that finally did for Jesse Marsch.

In other news, my motivational speaking tour has been postponed until further notice.

#lufc

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly? It's not the worst thing I've ever heard... if it'd come on the radio, I'd've assumed it was some chirpy London indie band called The Traps or something.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Once had a Twitter "spat" with her over her insistence that a shooting in a Munich Macdonald's by an 18-year-old Iranian-German was exactly why we needed Brexit... I failed to get her to draw a connection between the two things.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

I hoped it wouldn’t be, but expected it once the window had shut… precious little final-third quality and zero midfield flair or invention. That’d be okay if we were tight defensively, but we’re not.

EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

That's 34-35 points... not sure that'll be enough this season, honestly.

EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Or Gnonto LW and Okafor central... although I suspect good teams would drive a coach and horses through that!

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure him picking Rodon, Ampadu and Bogle over and over is something we can hold against him...! And if everyone's fit and firing, BA won't start.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

We've had 10 games this season and arguably he's never had his preferred 11 to work with, so it's hard to talk about shape too much. We effectively play 3-4-3 in possession, and shifted to 4231 on Sat. My issue is more about approach. We need more blood-and-thunder.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Bad gags are my stock in trade… no apologies needed.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

I think we could cut our cloth a bit better, tactics-wise… but there’s no denying Farke’s been given a load of thin, moth-eaten cast-offs.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

… remember buying Brotherhood in the cardboard box for a couple of quid in HMV.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

He’s got a squad that’s not too much better than last year’s. We can all talk about favourites and subs but who are the players who should be playing more than they are?

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

If there’s one record I associate with Jumbo in the St John’s Centre, it’s this one… pre-1991, I used to get into Leeds on a matchday c11am, go and buy a ton of vinyl and shove it in the station lockers before getting the bus to ER.

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EastStandUpper @eaststandupper.bsky.social · 1d

Farke has shortcomings, obviously... but our issues this season are no more than 20% on him, I'd say.

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