Must have been wearing ear plugs: Who was banging the drum all day long??Know a guy who went to the game and he thought the Palace support was quiet
Lol
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Must have been wearing ear plugs: Who was banging the drum all day long??Know a guy who went to the game and he thought the Palace support was quiet
Lol
Good game, great atmosphere!
Nothing cheesy about our fans and the support we have and give our beloved CPFC. I'm sure you won't go to too many other away games and get that atmosphere... It's like that at every game...believe me!
Looking forward to, hopefully, signing 3 or 4 more players before the window closes (we need them). Maybe we'll give you a harder game when we visit WHL.
Congrats on your first win/first game of the season.
COYP!
it used to beI didn't go to the game but it looked like the palace crowd done themselves proud.
Wish WHL was as noisy as that....
I hope you're joking about bale as a CAM... he's wasted in the middle...
he's about fifty to a hundred times better when he's running at a defence, and the only real positions you can do that from are FB,CB,DM and a deep CM, RM/W and LM/W. So yes, wasted in the middle, he can cut inside yes, but that's not playing in the middle, that's running into the middle onto his stronger/weaker foot.I so wish Siggy scoring on that com
Bale wasted in the middle ?
You should be drug tested immediately
They weren't as good as I thought they were going to be. But then again I can say the same for us. Atmosphere wise.
There must have been a bunch somewhere up the top starting older songs. A good 'Glory Glory Hallelujah' and 'Can't Smile Without You' went round which was quality.
I was sat in with the Palace fans, but in the same stand as our lot. The Palace fans were loud, like they always seem to be these days, but I thought our lot were quiet as well. The "your support is shit", "can you hear the Tottenham sing", and "shall we sing a song for you" chants went on and on, hah.
he's about fifty to a hundred times better when he's running at a defence, and the only real positions you can do that from are FB,CB,DM and a deep CM, RM/W and LM/W. So yes, wasted in the middle, he can cut inside yes, but that's not playing in the middle, that's running into the middle onto his stronger/weaker foot.
Again, watch a REAL CAM like Øzil, Gøtze, Holtby, Mata, Oscar, Rooney, Kagawa, Myktarian(sp), VDV, etc etc etc. So much of what they do is with their back to the goal they are attacking, and Bale, as of right now is pretty much useless and a detriment to the team when trying to fill that role. Bale's position should be RW with Chadli on the left. That way you have players that are capable of going past on the outside and put in a class delivery, but also superb at cutting inside onto their strongest foot and either slide a pass through to the striker/on rushing CM's or going for the shot.
I repeat, Bale is NOT a CAM as he doesn't currently have the abilities, technically or mentally to play with his back to goal for up to 80% of the time. A CAM links play most of the time, he doesn't run at a defence which is Bale's by FAR STRONGEST attribute...
I'm not against him roaming, but only as part of an interchangable unit where he has a starting position as a wideman. I have nothing against him popping up in the middle from time to time to scare the shit out of defenders, but generally he should stay as a wideman as his abilities are not that of a real CAM.Well he sorted out operated everywhere last year. Yeah, he would start in the middle but he would end up drifting everywhere. That is where is truly most effective me .
There was a quality atmosphere at the back. I like starting chants like these ones, but they don't normally catch on like they did yesterday.
If I follow the argument that @ Kalyl is advancing it is that Bale may well be individually effective in the central free roaming role for himself as a player, and the amount of goals he will score, but is that the most effective use of him from a team perspective?Well he sorted out operated everywhere last year. Yeah, he would start in the middle but he would end up drifting everywhere. That is where is truly most effective me .
If I follow the argument that @ Kalyl is advancing it is that Bale may well be individually effective in the central free roaming role for himself as a player, and the amount of goals he will score, but is that the most effective use of him from a team perspective?
Effectiveness is relative. If the player is a "one man team" that we become over reliant on and become built around then it's debatable that the team as a whole is functioning as effectively as a unit as it might if he has a specific function. Sure, the price of that may be that Bale myself scores less and has less of a profile, but it really boils down to what's most effective for brand Bale or THFC as a collective. The latter is surely the priority?
I'm not against him roaming, but only as part of an interchangable unit where he has a starting position as a wideman. I have nothing against him popping up in the middle from time to time to scare the shit out of defenders, but generally he should stay as a wideman as his abilities are not that of a real CAM.
That's not really the point I'm making. I'm not talking about the technical ability of Bale and where he himself is capable of playing. I am raising the question of what the best position for him is from a team perspective. If the consequence of his central role is that other players are playing out of position or are not giving the service they may get if he were on the wing them it's not so much about Bale's individual technical ability, but rather the impact his position of play has on the rest of the team. Facilitating his central role brings with it the potential to backfire if he gets injured and the club doesn't have the players in the squad who are capable of adapting to his central placement and the gap it causes if he's not playing.I think he is under-rating Bale's technical game a ton. Its come a long , long way which has allowed him to take that next step to becoming a world class player. For me, Bale is at a level now where he can be effective anywhere on teh pitch.