Villa draw, United/Newcastle lose. Weekend could not have gone better. Woolwich loss/draw please
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Villa draw, United/Newcastle lose. Weekend could not have gone better. Woolwich loss/draw please
Needs some limbs, but excellent.Succinct, and accurate, comment!
some do give us credit to be fair, but others are way off the mark to, I agree.Reading some of the media pundits is amusing.
When Newcastle were winning with a depleted squad, it was courage resilient, and brave.
Spurs hang on against the form side at the minute, with double digit injuries to the squad... Lucky.
Double negative, like it.We ain't doing sh!t in the FA Cup..
It was a surreal conversation altogether. We spoke of pensions, failed marriages (two apiece), and how the youth of today don't appreciate how tough growing up in the East End was, back in the 60s!! You know, the sort of things old codgers talk about when they get togetherTo be fair, that is a lot to sing!
Hang on, you shared an outside loo with PAUL MILLER? You've NEVER mentioned that before!!
It was a surreal conversation altogether. We spoke of pensions, failed marriages (two apiece), and how the youth of today don't appreciate how tough growing up in the East End was, back in the 60s!! You know, the sort of things old codgers talk about when they get together
Davies was awful let’s be honest. How many times fud he give the ball away.
BJ did well with the cross but missed a sitter bcos he wasn’t committed enough going for the ball. Then multiple times he chickens out of the challenge. What have we paid £50M for. MGW is a much better player and we got this weaklin?
And nonexistent Johnson who neither presses or tackles and is scared of a pussy cat. His lack of effort was astonishing.
We had 8 days gap! They played midweek and went to pens. Some like skipp, royal, PEH, dier should be full of running. Hardly played but should no desire to get stuck in or show some energy.
If you are not a gooner troll I will eat my hat.We don’t stop any crosses today which is criminal. We all know what Everton’s tactics are like mainly putting balls into the box. Although they did play some decent stuff. This was mainly due to no one actually pressing today. Front 3 did nothing and midfield even less. Skipp did a bit 2nd half. However we just let them play the ball wide time and again with defender in sight bco our FBs were inverted. Surely anyone could see the space we gave them yet did nothing. The same happened v wolves and Villa. We must change our tactics a little bit to deny the space out wide. When we have the ball the back 2 and vic pass to each other more than any other team I reckon. The FBs are hidden in field behind thier midfield so never available for a pass. May be have one inverted but having two just means we are so narrow. Also means if pass out wide especially to Johnson his facing OUR goal with a defender up his arse and his so weak can never do anything g.
It was bleeding obvious what they had to do. They could see we had shite at the back and skipp. Dyche would have done his homework on them. In fact watched the first half again and we wasn’t that good even in the first 25 mins. Got the goals but were sloppy which they latched onto and pressed or did quick diagonal balks as they could see we had no FBs and the wide players were not coming back.Honestly thought Evertons press was up there with the best I’ve seen
Hold on tell me what I said in those posts was not an accurate reflection of the game? Did you not see Davies give the ball away countless times in our own half. Did you not see how many times they had overloads in wide areas? Did you not see BJ bottle a few challenges. Sometimes I wonder about what people watch.If you are not a gooner troll I will eat my hat.
Tell me something positive about Spurs? I bet you can’t.
Kulu stupid as f booking!Romero, Sarr & Kulu are on 4 yellows. Need them to avoid a booking in our next game to get a first half season amnesty from suspension.
you do know that we were the winners, right?Fuck me that was some real bollocks today.
Make shift back 4, but the midfield looks so weak when we play with a CM2 against a team that don't just park a bus, especially without Bissouma.
That front four were so fucking easy to walk past. I think it even surprised Everton how fucking easy it was to play through us. And we were just standing off them in deeper areas and allowing them to sling in cross after cross.
And the lack of quality and intelligence in attacking situations from all four attackers was fucking terrible. Kulusevski bumbled his way through the whole game, he was no help at all when we were trying to play out, and Son reminded us of that bad Son that we hadn't seen for a few months, some of the simple fucking passes he fucked up were shocking. The miss from Johnson.
Watch Dier on the goal that was disallowed and explain to me his fucking thought process. He literally watches the play unfold and makes no attempt to close out the danger he can see unfolding until it's way too late.
I get that this is early in the process, we are missing our better players, and lost another at HT, and hopefully we will get better as a collective and have better individuals in the system, but fuck a doodle do this was a perfect storm of shitness, and generally, we have been fucking ropey all season defensively. Our expected goals against is in the bottom 8.
Today was a good glimpse as to how important Bissouma is, and Maddison can't get back quick enough either, the difference in overall contribution both with and without the ball, between Kulusevski centrally over Maddison is fucking massive.
I think it's going to be a long month or so.
Finished the game with 7 out of 10 outfield starters missing. It was a tremendous result agains lt a decent sideyou do know that we were the winners, right?
with effectively a B team, against the divisions in form team
Maureen see this? Tottenham supporter.you do know that we were the winners, right?
with effectively a B team, against the divisions in form team
See? even when you try and be positive you can’t “Finally…”Hold on tell me what I said in those posts was not an accurate reflection of the game? Did you not see Davies give the ball away countless times in our own half. Did you not see how many times they had overloads in wide areas? Did you not see BJ bottle a few challenges. Sometimes I wonder about what people watch.
Tell you positives, we won the game and got the 3 points which is fantastic. Sarr and Vic prbly our best players. Finally , if we didn’t know already, but half that team needs to go and few like BJ need to do more.