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RichUT

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  1. There is no room for balanced or rational positions if you’re talking UT hoops with Derka. You’re only allowed to think that Shaka sucks or, if not, you must think he’s the 2nd coming of John Wooden. FWIW, I talked to a former Barnes player about Shaka not that long ago. He seemed to think Shaka was in trouble and he blamed Shaka not being strong enough politically as the reason. Essentially he said that Shaka has been getting a lot of pressure to recruit guys with high rankings by the powers that be vs. recruiting guys that fit his Havoc system. He made it sound like Shaka has to deal with a lot of oversight and that Shaka needed to step up and take a stronger position on bringing in the kids that he wants to run his vision. It was an interesting conversation and painted a picture that perhaps our AD office was meddling to the detriment of the team.
  2. The wife and kids are out of town, and our Chuy is nothing short of despondent about it. That, or he’s hella bored.
  3. The number of players that flamed out at Chelsea but are playing well at the WC is.....staggering. I get that international ball is a different beast, but it’s still impossible for me to ignore. This club has squandered so much talent that it’s really disheartening to watch.
  4. Hazard just linked up with Lukaku for a lovely goal for Belgium, and I kind of want to throw up in my mouth that we had that combo and let it go.
  5. Okay. I suppose that’s good at this point, but really hard to say for sure. Not sure if it even matters though. He’ll be gone in 3 years or less anyway.
  6. So Conte would get to leave Chelsea for Real Madrid? Just a slight upgrade for him.
  7. Meh. The board will continue to fuck around and I will continue to not be surprised by it. I’m just happy as fuck that they aren’t running the company I work for.
  8. I won't lose any sleep if Morata heads elsewhere. I wasn't a big fan of that signing to begin with and would prefer we move on.
  9. This club is horribly mid-managed.
  10. Conte is a quality manager and we’d be smart to give him time and the financial backing to build his vision. Odds are good that we will do neither, but I’d love to be proven wrong.
  11. If he wants to go, then he goes. And frankly, with our board it would be hard to blame him.
  12. So you think he forgot how to manage in under a year? Seems unlikely. Some of it has to fall at the feet of the players as well. Of course, most of this is the board’s fault for fucking around during the window last summer.
  13. I'm feeling the yellow for sure. 3rd is interesting, but we usually need those ~5 times per year. I would never buy a 3rd shirt for myself because they always end up looking pretty bad. The black and orange is the only recent exception.
  14. Oh god. That’s heinous. Set it on fire.
  15. I won’t argue that dropping 2 points to Huddersfield with UCL qualification in the balance is acceptable. That said, changing managers every 2 years is a vicious cycle that we need to break if we ever want any level of consistency.
  16. Is that good? It seems good.
  17. Conte has done a solid job keeping the team in it. Would have been easy to pack it in after the home loss to Spurs. We should totally sack him. [emoji849]
  18. Not sure why Rudiger acted so surprised there. He was like 3 feet offside.
  19. Replacing Conte would be idiotic, so I’m just going to assume that’s exactly what we will do.
  20. Giroud has been playing his ass off. He definitely deserves to keep starting over Morata. FA cup final vs Mou. The press will be entertaining if nothing else.
  21. When our good news is that our rich club was able to save $500k on a teenager, well......things are pretty bad. I would love to let myself get excited about Ampadu, but I am just going to assume we never end up playing him and turn him for a profit in ~3 years like we seem to do with nearly every other young promising player in our system. Hopefully he ends up being another Christensen type of exception.
  22. Morata had another howler today in a 1v1 vs the keeper. Luckily it didn’t cost us the three points, but I was never sold on him and he’s done nothing to change that opinion.
  23. I knew better than to click this thread, but I did it any way. So fucking predictable. Every UT basketball thread turns into an unreadable flame fest between Derka and people that give him the attention he so badly wants by debating his asinine takes. It’s such a fucking beating and it sucks that there isn’t a place to discuss the team without the same person turning every thread into a fucking dumpster fire.
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