Match Day Thread: Fulham 7th Oct 2025 (EFL Trophy)

If we get another CF in January, I would loan him out to let him get some decent minutes and maybe build some confidence. Like a few on here, I think there is a player in there but right now we need people who are battle ready.

Absolutely not. Jamie Mullins clearly has talent but for me is one of the future, not right now.

I Fink people are forgetting TOG bought in undervalued players who could, with the right coaching, be developed into salable assets …

We didn’t set out to bring in players who had reached their full potentia yet.

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I think you’re being incredibly harsh on him. He had just scored the third goal in what was called the Ton pot trophy against an under 21 team full of kids. I’m not surprised there wasn’t much of a celebration.

On the other side of the same coin was McNeillys celebration where, after scoring a wonderful goal he ran over to Celebrate with the fans and doing a knee slide infront of a closed and empty two tiered stand.

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Duff’s interviews are like a breath of fresh air, in comparison to his predecessor. His reference to Connor Taylor’s howler “passing the ball to the opposition in your own penalty area, is never a good tactic” is O’Neillesque !!

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After Kone came back from injury he completely lost his touch,his pace,he looked lathargic,and when he did get chances he could not hit a barn door. He looked like he was worth ÂŁ27.50 rather than ÂŁ2.75M.

I am not suggesting Fink is in Kone’s league but I am suggesting that he could be being affected from his injury still,as well as lacking in confidence.We know how good Kone is and he has now returned to the standard he is capable of. Whether it was his injury,the Dodds effect (or a bit of both) if you judged him on the last 15 games of the season you would have wondered what the hype was about.Fink is also a youngster at 22.

He also hit the crossbar in one sub appearance and had a perfectly good goal ruled out at Wimbledon.Give him some time.

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He’s rubbish like all the other signings made by the twat of all twats Rice. It’s seems like they set out to be niche and get these unheard players that would be incredible and tear up the lower english leagues. The 3 foreign lads and Taylor are f#cking terrible.

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I think Kone was more affected by the manager than the injury.

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And our 4 most expensive signings too. What a f#cking mess. I was tempted to go last night on the off chance that weasel would be there, I’dlove to get at him. Gutted I didnt go now

Back is off the poor signing list? A bit fortunate bearing in mind he seems to play one game, miss 15 and was pretty poor in the wing back role the other week.

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It was quite the strange goal. Nice little slot in, but the defender made such a ridiculous hash of it, versus being blitzed or out powered by Fink.

Slightly nervous Fink can’t dominate kids, but again, maybe he’s one of those players that takes a long time to get fully fit.

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The problem I see is that we haven’t got time for Fink to get up to speed, we need battle ready troops right now.

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And get phycologically fit maybe.

Sounds like it’s a good thing you didn’t.

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Back hasn’t made the list due to his effort levels. The others are poor players, lack any form of physical presence and never get stuck in. Back at least gets stuck in

Yeah I have to remind myself that its just a game and WWFC are just a club, this isn’tlife or death. I shouldn’t let it annoy me

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My one major disagreement with you would be Lowry. He is the one player we have brought in over the past 10 months who I think can bring a level of quality that can create chances at the upper end of League 1. I try and imagine him coming on during the latter stages of games when MB was still with us and teams were defending deep and I believe he has the attributes to have break through those types of defences.

One of his ‘problems’ - a tendency to give the ball away at times - wouldn’t have mattered as much when we had a team with a solid defence and midfield.

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It was purely down to Back’s lack effort that we conceded the second goal on the weekend. He had a significant lead over Reyes Cleary to collect the loose ball, but his half-hearted amble over saw him loose the positional advantage, and then be out muscled in the 50-50 challenge that followed.

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He didn’t exactly get stuck in when he had a ten yard start on Barnsleys striker who wanted it more beat him to the ball and set up the second goal.

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