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I am so hungover and as a result have learned a hard lesson. Wait till full time before starting a thread!
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[Albion] We look such a poorly coached team
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BN41Albion
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It's OK- City don't have Rodri. Easy!With a few more coming up, and with threadbare central defensive options
Poskettspurpose
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haha, good man.
Weststander
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Beating mega spending/cocky Manure and Spurs, again, as good as it gets.
If coaching/acquisitions sort out the counter attack vulnerability, we’re in the European places mix after 38 games.
Nobby Cybergoat
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Haha, OP
Fretting like an old woman like all the other sad acts on the matchday thread.
Maybe next time, show a little belief in our players and our club. They won't win every game, but they've done easily enough to earn our trust that they have that sort of performance in them
Fretting like an old woman like all the other sad acts on the matchday thread.
Maybe next time, show a little belief in our players and our club. They won't win every game, but they've done easily enough to earn our trust that they have that sort of performance in them
Iggle Piggle
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Credit where it is undoubtedly due. Brian Clough had a metric for measuring how good football managers were by their ability to change things that were going tits up at half time. Fab certainly passed that test today with flying colours.
I'm still worried about how 2 or 3 straightforward passes can result in a decent chance for the opposition but that can wait for another day. How can you not have enjoyed that 2nd half today? The spirit in that camp seems to be something else
I'm still worried about how 2 or 3 straightforward passes can result in a decent chance for the opposition but that can wait for another day. How can you not have enjoyed that 2nd half today? The spirit in that camp seems to be something else
studio150
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Was the HT break quick enough for you.
Scrolling through this thread, back from the match with a glass of wine is simply sublime.
And unlike the unwise posts on here, my comments at half time aren't on the record and therefore never happened.
And unlike the unwise posts on here, my comments at half time aren't on the record and therefore never happened.
seagull_special
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Threads like this really are great fun. Spurs were excellent in the first half and deserved to be ahead, we conceded a really poor goal and missed a couple of great chances. This team currently has an Achilles Heel with the ball over the high line with speed merchants running on to it. Second half we were much more aggressive and dismantled a fragile Spurs team.
We have lots of new players and a young manager there will be bad days as well as good. We have real characters and leaders in this team and I think our progress will be steady and occasionally bumpy. We love this game because it is never over till the final whistle (other it’s Palace U21s). Brilliant second half.
We have lots of new players and a young manager there will be bad days as well as good. We have real characters and leaders in this team and I think our progress will be steady and occasionally bumpy. We love this game because it is never over till the final whistle (other it’s Palace U21s). Brilliant second half.
SkirlieWirlie
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Spot on.
Poskettspurpose
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this thread is sinking, I just wanted to say i'll miss it. It was truly entertaining. Thanks.
what does your friend say now
Thunder Bolt
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This old woman wasn’t fretting at half time.
Washie
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He said we were given the game. I think thats entirely unfair as Fab changed things and we were great.
You were totally. And I’m convinced that you are just as happy as me about it!
In fairness, I doubt you'd have posted that if we'd been 10th at Christmas, but right now it felt seminal because there is a big difference between P6 2-2-2 and 3-2-1.
Personally I felt at half time that this represented a massive adjustment in expectations and that FH would need a year bedding into his new role. By the end of it, well we're going on another European tour aren't we?
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Thread has absolutely nothing to do with belief in the players or the club. It a about coaching and despite todays win (absolutely delighted to be proved wrong today)
I think the thing that most alarmed me, other than the hangover, was how many times they seemed to get in behind. Coming after Chelsea it just seemed we had leaned nothing defensively and we looked shell shocked. Half time we were two down and they had one ruled out for offside . I honestly thought we could go on to concede 4/5 again. Lesson learned!
I thought that at the end. Then I looked at the next few fixtures!!
Bold Seagull
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I didn’t think this evening could get any better
Smug condescending bores like you must put off quite a lot of people from using this site.
As if a measured thread of concern wasn't reasonable when we had conceded 6 goals in a game and a half from playing a high line - a glaring tactical risk, if not outright mistake.
By all means chuckle about it at full time, but he was hardly "fretting like an old woman". It's not like anyone but the village idiots were calling for his head or even questioning his appointment.
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