Walsall pre-match

Good, long interview with Matt Dean here ahead of the weekend's game at Walsall:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08r22mr

Amongst other things:

• Hasn't seen Louis Boyd since Tuesday night as he's back at school, considering naming him in the squad on Saturday if he's allowed to travel
  
  
• Hasn't spoken to anyone about Bogle, although he did intimate he had spoken to his representatives about other players they look after
  
  
• Says he's more excited by Owura Edwards than any young player he's ever had
  
  
• Inferred that he's delivered a few home truths to one or two players during a recent team meeting. No names mentioned, but immediately went on to mention Ohman and how impressed he was with him on Tuesday night; doesn't feel as if he can leave him out after that performance
  

Decent interview, although to the best of my knowledge the Oxford vaccine hasn't 'failed' just yet...

Glad he thought ohman played well as did I. Hope there is guys a few soon and gloom lovers shut up up a bit and stop targeting him

Quoted from Poojah

Good, long interview with Matt Dean here ahead of the weekend's game at Walsall:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08r22mr

Amongst other things:

• Hasn't seen Louis Boyd since Tuesday night as he's back at school, considering naming him in the squad on Saturday if he's allowed to travel
  
  
• Hasn't spoken to anyone about Bogle, although he did intimate he had spoken to his representatives about other players they look after
  
  
• Says he's more excited by Owura Edwards than any young player he's ever had
  
  
• Inferred that he's delivered a few home truths to one or two players during a recent team meeting. No names mentioned, but immediately went on to mention Ohman and how impressed he was with him on Tuesday night; doesn't feel as if he can leave him out after that performance
  

Decent interview, although to the best of my knowledge the Oxford vaccine hasn't 'failed' just yet...

Well not if you don’t count nearly killing some more fooker !!

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Well not if you don’t count nearly killing some more fooker !!

Well, that's not what's been said, is it? Without wanting to turn another thread into a debate on corona, what's happened is someone who has been given the vaccine has fallen ill shortly after. It's possible that this illness was caused by a reaction to the vaccine, but far more likely is that is an unrelated coincidence. With any vaccine, trialling it on tens of thousands of people means that the chance of someone being ill on the off chance having received it is quite high.

For the same reason, similar concerns have even been aimed at approved vaccines, only for those concerns to turn out to be completely unfounded:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/oct/01/cervical-cancer-vaccination-tumour-natalie-morton

As it happens, I believe the rumblings are that the trial is to resume very shortly and it remains a potentially viable vaccine. Fingers crossed.

Jeez I was only making an jokey comment, not looking for enlightenment from the guardian mate

Thought i was going to be reading which pub we were meeting for the pre match beers on Saturday  

Quoted from louth_in_the_south

Jeez I was only making an jokey comment, not looking for enlightenment from the guardian mate

Fair enough. Apologies for the misunderstanding.

Just a lot of misinformation flying around at the minute, mostly from the media, and it’s winding me up.

Quoted from monkeyboy

Glad he thought ohman played well as did I. Hope there is guys a few soon and gloom lovers shut up up a bit and stop targeting him

Other than a couple of posts on the match thread the other night I really haven’t seen anything that gets close to constituting ‘targeting him’. Having a different opinion to you about his performance/position in the squad yes, ‘targeting him’ no. You need to get a grip and stop being so drama queenie.

Quoted from cardiffmariner

Other than a couple of posts on the match thread the other night I really haven’t seen anything that gets close to constituting ‘targeting him’. Having a different opinion to you about his performance/position in the squad yes, ‘targeting him’ no. You need to get a grip and stop being so drama queenie.

Generally I'd be sympathetic with you, but it is the case that there was a  specific thread on Ohman, following his mistakes, but there was v little mentioned, certainly not a dedicated thread  to the mistake made by waterfall

Quoted from forza ivano

Generally I'd be sympathetic with you, but it is the case that there was a  specific thread on Ohman, following his mistakes, but there was v little mentioned, certainly not a dedicated thread  to the mistake made by waterfall

The thread was an old one forza, started a while ago to ask about whether he was training etc post Covid. After his first game back the other night I posted a comment on there about his performance as I thought the thread showed a general interest in him in particular. I offered both praise and criticism but some on here have been ridiculous since suggesting he’s being made a scapegoat.

I just don’t see it and I’m bored of the immature extreme reactions by some on here. I like him as a player, as I think most do, this doesn’t mean I can’t comment on some of his flaws as a footballer - isn’t that the point of a forum?