Yeah but the decision to bring Dawson on instead of Naughton is somewhat understandable for that reason.
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We're 6th
I agree though. Would have preferred to see Defoe to come on for Dempsey too.
Not well. Dempsey isn't doing much with or without the ball.
Though I'll not say Defoe would have been any better in this game because, aside from speculating on what might have happened....we'll never really know.
We're 6th
I agree though. Would have preferred to see Defoe to come on for Dempsey too.
We're 7th according to the official site. :avbshock:
We're 6th
I agree though. Would have preferred to see Defoe to come on for Dempsey too.
I'd have been happy to see Sir Stephen Hawking come on for Dempsey.......
Offering us a dynamic strength in the middle in our "strongest" formation, while supply a lightning quick counter attacking option when we break.
I think its known as the "stopping us getting raped" role, and clearly serves us alot better than the dated and naive 442, with a working partnership of proven PL strikers, who just played our best 90 minutes of football all season three days ago.
Didnt you see the game? It was clear and obvious how well it all worked out.
That's as maybe, but it doesn't stop a Fulham team drawing at a (vastly?) superior ArseAnal team, or Wigan winning at ours last week... thing is, upsets happen all the time, but unfortunately we don't have the underdog's mentality in games like this, 'cos we're 'above' all that... we tried to negatively hold out for a draw, and naively failed at it!
I'm not booing, I'm not ripping my season ticket up, but it has to be said, we really haven't learnt our lesson in holding on AT ALL COSTS when we're leading, and NOT conceding late goals.
Oh, an'anudder ting... BOTH times Kyle Walker has opened his mouth pre-match in the past 2 league games, we've been fucked over royally... does he have serious learning difficulties?
Please Kyle, focus on your game, and shut the fuck up when it comes to telling anyone within earshot "how easy Wigan will be," and how we'll finish 4th "with the players we've got" ...'cos at this rate, YOU sound like a mug, and you're making us look fucking stoopid while you're at it!
Still, at least THIS sesaon's late defeat at City was nowhere NEAR as frustrating as LAST season's... when I almost broke every bone in my foot by committing GBH on the nearest inanimate object within kicking distance!
Just to clarify, I want AVB to get the full 3yrs. But Im not going to pretend that what he's doing at times is nothing short of pathetic (not saying you are)
we're currently 7th as West Ham are winning at Newcastle 
But Im speculating on what he and Ade offered last season and the other night, and what Dempsey has offered this season.
Not proof, but I see zero that would make me pick Dempsey, and again, he has proved himself to be the wrong choice. I cant see Defoe could have made the performance worse.
Or start your top scorer who banged in hatrick 3 days ago...
I'm getting the feeling that Sammy has been waiting ages for this chance to lay into AVB.
After all, Harry never made dodgy substitutions....
After all, Harry never made dodgy substitutions....
Personally I would have picked Lloris and played Adebayor behind Defoe in the same formation. Other than that I really don't see what AVB was to supposed to do differently. Kaboul, BAE and Dembele give us more energy and drive going forward. Missing those players mean playing a situation of "best fit."
Like it or not we are in a transitional period and what we are seeing right now is nowhere near the finished article that AVB will want to put out
Like it or not we are in a transitional period and what we are seeing right now is nowhere near the finished article that AVB will want to put out
Well that would be a nice thought if Dempsey had given us any midfield presence in any game he's played this season. Instead, he's consistently given the ball away, doing the exact opposite of shoring up our midfield.
Hell, I'm not even saying that Defoe has to start, but if AVB was playing Dempsey to reinforce the middle, he's picked entirely the wrong player. Dempsey provided nothing in the middle, nothing up front, and nothing in the link up.
To be fair, they are two fairly massive changes
Which is a fair point if that was the only thing being criticised
