Recent content by Lanolin

Meh, does anyone? I’ve had a bad week in real life and you’re wrongly pulling me up about something I literally do for a living. It’s small fry but it’s annoying. Most times I’d ignore it, this week I’m stressed so I bit, it happens. You can chalk it down as a win on the board I have no doubt...

To be fair opening a thread about signings before we know what division we’re going to be in was always going to struggle to attract much in the way of exciting content. As someone who has a PhD In English and writes for a living it’s always fun to be questioned on your English usage by someone...

I know? It autocorrected to inverted comments when I meant to write inverted commas, that’s why I mentioned it - they are inverted commas so if that’s what you were trying to pick me up on you’re wrong, I thought you might have been pointing out the autocorrect. Anywayyyyyyy, I hope we...

They are inverted commas. They’re not inverted comments like my original post said if that’s what you meant.

Yes, that’s why I put ‘replace’ in inverted comments because I didn’t mean we have to buy someone to replace him directly but I think we’d need another centre half anyway because the others aren’t good enough.

Because we’re 17th in the league and concede goals for fun and he averages 14 games a year and coady is only on loan and Keane is awful and holgate is awful and Godfrey is awful and I don’t know how many more reasons you could possibly need but I’m sure there are others.

I think that's the entire point though really, we need to 'replace' him even if he stays because we can't rely on him to stay fit. If we stay up and can't spend any money then we'll go down next year, whether Mina stays or not. On that basis lumbering ourselves with him on another contract would...

Even then I just don't see the point. We've been awful for years and people seem to get obsessed with hanging on to players and bringing back ex players, I just find it bizarre. There's a whole world of players out there, I just see no reason at all to be holding onto someone like Mina. Even if...

74 Premier League starts in five years and people want to give Mina a new contract. We deserve everything we get.

It's not really an additional goal threat though is it? Because it moves probably our biggest goal threat away from where he's been effective. Not saying it's a terrible idea, but it's easy to see it as a negative move as much as a positive one really.

OK it's not worded the best but the point at the heart of it is fair I think. It's this idea of Keane single handedly costing us games and everything just automatically being better if he wasn't playing that I take issue with - he is rubbish but he's not been that bad that we'd clearly have won...

Nah Keane had a few good games to be fair to him, it's total revisionism to claim he was rubbish right from when he came into the side. I would never have brought him back in to the side and have said as much numerous times, but I just can't get on board with this idea that he was single...

Yeah and that obviously skews it but the point still stands generally. Obviously the games Keane was in for include Arsenal away on a title hunt, and the other 2 members of the top 4 but very few people included that as a caveat in the many, many, posts quoting the exact same stat about goals...

It's surely worth noting that we've averaged 2 goals conceded in the games since he's been dropped too, and so it's possible that the idea of him being entirely responsible for everything that was wrong may just have been a little bit silly and childlike in it's simplicity?

I don't think that's contradictory in itself though is it? Obviously the sensible approach is not to proclaim it as a good or bad thing until we've got a bit more to go on, people saying it's great are just as bad as people saying it's not.