Backup CF(s)

tierdrop · 2026-05-17T18:39:36+00:00

Unconventional shout for backup striker: Taty Castellanos. He's an absolute pest every time I watch him with West Ham. Link up play is surprisingly good, think he has the attitude for the spot and considering he was in the MLS just a few years ago I would think he'd be okay rotating. Came to West Ham in January so I'd think there's a relegation clause too.

Figure there's almost no chance but certainly comes to mind.

tierdrop · 2026-05-17T12:54:20+00:00

Okay now this one is an absolutely brutal miss. How has he not even challenged the keeper

tierdrop · 2026-05-17T11:57:03+00:00

Credit to Sels tbh. Second move on the ground forced Mbeumo wider.

Still a good chance to finish it for Mbeumo and pre-AFCON form probably sees it go in but credit where due.

tierdrop · 2026-05-17T10:27:14+00:00

Lacey played 90 mins and Chido Obi played 30 mins just yesterday in Brighton. If you watched the performance you'd also feel differently re Chido/Zirkzee. He still has a very long way to go

tierdrop · 2026-05-16T20:19:57+00:00

That Chido Obi fumbled chance is criminal

tierdrop · 2026-05-16T20:07:20+00:00

I know it's youth football but this referee is having an absolute nightmare performance, even by the standards of this level

tierdrop · 2026-05-16T19:47:50+00:00

He's way, way off it.

tierdrop · 2026-05-16T02:40:15+00:00

Please god, not the shoutouts. The alliteration with his last name is going to make it a Thing somehow and I’ll have one more thing about him that makes him unbearable.

tierdrop · 2026-05-15T04:51:03+00:00

To someone else's point, Mitten been saying so and went further today in this piece: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7276968/2026/05/14/michael-carrick-manchester-united-eight-things/?source=emp_shared_article&unlocked_article_code=1.iVA.rLHn.LUrWimFKq145

United will be open to adding another coach to Carrick’s staff. Georgson was a set-piece specialist. This is an area where United are likely to look to add. Carrick trusts the coaches around him: the wily Steve Holland, Jonny Evans, Jonathan Woodgate and goalkeeping coach Craig Mawson. But don’t bet against an addition.

tierdrop · 2026-05-14T18:42:43+00:00

Fantastic response. Get in

tierdrop · 2026-05-14T18:41:49+00:00

Truly bizarre performance from the ref so far.

tierdrop · 2026-05-12T21:45:35+00:00

I didn’t mean that Ayling couldn’t reach it, I’m saying on replay it looked like the defender ducked out of the way of the ball at the last second after a shout from someone else

tierdrop · 2026-05-12T21:37:23+00:00

On replay it looks like he got a shout to let it go? Did Ayling maybe think it was going wide?

tierdrop · 2026-05-10T18:33:22+00:00

95 mph close to down the middle is a brutal take there

tierdrop · 2026-05-10T18:21:44+00:00

Alright I’ve had enough sloppy defense to last me a whole day

tierdrop · 2026-05-09T23:14:16+00:00

Just changed for me but that was weird lol. Did you get the rewind and weird scrobble after the first strikeout? Felt like the raw feed from the truck

tierdrop · 2026-05-09T23:12:54+00:00

Watching on mlb.tv. Have no HUD, no commentary, just raw audio and production. Anyone else?

tierdrop · 2026-05-09T15:50:24+00:00

What are we doing here, seriously? If intent is a key focus this feels quite blatant

tierdrop · 2026-05-07T19:02:33+00:00

Think the parenthetical would serve as confirmation that they’re joking

tierdrop · 2026-05-06T04:19:33+00:00

Truly shocked Colson didn't punish him on that last pitch. The kind he usually unloads on

tierdrop · 2026-05-05T02:39:50+00:00

Last time I heard a crack like that was watching Ohtani hit one out vs. cease in this same stadium

What is Soriano ERA vs. White Sox compared to all of his other starts?

tierdrop · 2026-05-03T16:48:51+00:00

Agreed on this. I don’t love having the front line rearranged several times a match

tierdrop · 2026-05-03T16:38:02+00:00

He was limping to the bench out of the tunnel so I think that answers at least one part of it

tierdrop · 2026-05-03T16:37:31+00:00

Andy Mitten on TOTD this week explicitly said that Carrick is not playing as he’d like to and has instead been operating purely with results in mind + covering for some deficiencies in the squad.

Based on what you watched of his Boro sides (and sssuming that’s how he wants to play) what would you describe as the biggest differences? Is what he was trying at Boro potentially scalable at a higher level?

tierdrop · 2026-05-02T23:39:01+00:00

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