Cotton Socks
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I think he was referring to you typing that you'd want an injury to Beleba & JPVH.
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[Albion] how good are we, actually?
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Weststander
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Oh, typo.
Obviously meant praying that neither are out at all this season. Both incredible just now.
Beat me to it. Nothing wrong with Webster as a squad player.
But as the OP suggests, we are flattering to deceive insofar as we have ridden our luck a bit. The sending off at Arsenal changed the game, we might have lost against Man Utd with worse luck, and we didn't look like breaking down lowly Ipswich for large parts of the game.
On the flip side, we've got some handy players on their way back and yet we've still not lost with the players who we are debating their worth in the squad.
aftershavedave
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the most disappointing thing so far, despite some good results, is that we spent £200m and so far none of them have wowed, or played. hopefully that will change
It looks like FH ball is sprint . . . Before we can all run together . . . It'll get there . . .
Our PL transition, post CH, reminds me of the dishwasher . . . . In every house there is someone who stacks it like a Swedish Architect, and someone who loads like a racoon on Chrystal meth.
There were a few little passages of play on Sat and this eve which made RDZ ball look positively pedestrian, Segued with calamitous school boy errors.
cut the latter out and fine tune the former and we'll be absolutely fine.
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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We are ok going forward and not very good at defending. Tonight we were carved open many times and my concern is the manager didn't seem to really notice this. Personally felt we needed to switch to 4 3 3 to re-establish control in midfield but i don't think the manager thinks that way.
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studio150
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Unbeaten and we still haven't started with what would be our starting eleven if everyone is fit. It is starting to come together, but believe that the time to make a better judgement would be after the next international break.
But the sign of a good team as they say is not losing when not playing well.
Lucky to progress tonight, as if Wolves had got to 2-2 they would have been the most likely winners, but onwrds.
But the sign of a good team as they say is not losing when not playing well.
Lucky to progress tonight, as if Wolves had got to 2-2 they would have been the most likely winners, but onwrds.
Shaktarman
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- Sep 19, 2022
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Too much negativity in this thread and very short memories. We’ve been overall superb for 3 seasons now in the premier league given we aren’t a big 6 club. This is the 4th season of that and still going along well. Some comments sound a bit spoilt & entitled for me.
Terry Butcher Tribute Act
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- Aug 18, 2013
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I don't like the De Zerbi comparison but i understand the thread sentiment. I'll judge us a lot more when we've seen the side with Weiffer in it and had a run of games. I agree about being a little unsure on our style.
Main thing is there's enough in there to be encouraged about even if it hasn't quite clicked yet. It certainly took a few games of the RDZ era until we really knew what we were about and hopefully it's the same here.
Main thing is there's enough in there to be encouraged about even if it hasn't quite clicked yet. It certainly took a few games of the RDZ era until we really knew what we were about and hopefully it's the same here.
Weststander
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In the Hurzeler tactics videos posted here this summer by @Zeberdi and latterly @Hugo Rune , from memory, when his team loses the ball and are countered into wide open space, it relies on several players with searing pace running back in tandem. The key is pace.
Definitely a work in progress for us. I expect it’ll be partlydealt with in the next transfer windows.
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We're going to win the league
American Seagle
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I think we have looked way more defensively sound than under RDZ but not as solid as under Potter.
But it's only a few games in with a pretty new squad. So I wouldn't make any judgement yet.
Uncle Spielberg
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Fabian is ok but if Roberto had a £ 183 000 000 backing who knows what he would have achieved. It is all about how young Fabian is, his test will come but he is far from the messiah atm
Gazwag
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I agree and we played that way for double that time tonight
pocketseagull
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Regarding style, for the majority of RDZ's time we not only played some incredible football, critics also couldn't stop heaping praise, other clubs were copying our tactics, we were being seen as pioneers, it was mental. Now I think we're just seen a good team but we've lost that bit of glamour. Maybe it'll return and can't argue with the results so far.
SkirlieWirlie
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- Jan 6, 2024
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All of this. Very much a team that hadn't played together and few competitive minutes between them. Not withstanding some individual errors, it looked exactly what it was and we could/should have won comfortably with the quality we had on the pitch. Just needs time...
Without Van Hecke, Veltman and Verbruggen (who I like to call the 3 Dutch Vs), I think we’re pretty average in defence. Luckily, they are currently permanent fixtures in the Premier League. Our problems may start if they pick up injuries.
Roberto would have bought 3 x 60m players in January, all in their late 20s and probably with question over their private lives, and still left within a year anyway leaving us with the mess……
Weird isn't it. Unbeaten, yet feels as though we are an 'ordinary good team' instead of 'something special' like at this time last season.
Bring back Bryan wade!!
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Thought Webster was poor today.