oldboyroy
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I was hoping our wake up call came last weeks capitulation at Leicester when team thought game was won.
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[Albion] We f***ed it up again, ole ole!
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I’d love to know if there’s a statistical correlation between us singing it and us conceding, because it feels like it happens every time
TottonSeagull
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The Boy Wonder would turn Levi into a cart horse!!!Levi Colwill was the one that got away on that score
Potter had to completely turn around the team played, from being ultra-defensive, try and snatch a goal and hang on for dear life to a fluid, attack-minded passing team. That was called a project, remember - which we all (or nearly all) realised would take time. That's why, apart from the manner of his departure to Chelsea, it was so annoying that he left just as those years of hard work were coming to fruition.
UnhingedSeagull94
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- Jan 6, 2024
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Good!
Holding on to Fikayo Tomori would have been useful too.Levi Colwill was the one that got away on that score
UnhingedSeagull94
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McConville is worth a run out at Norwich.
UnhingedSeagull94
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I take it you aren’t familiar with the names Turns and McConville??
UnhingedSeagull94
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- Jan 6, 2024
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At least people are making an effort to sing something and get behind the team.
Both are strong candidates for a loan in January. Turns is 22 and has had a couple of loan spells in League 2; with his contract ending in the summer the loan is likely to b of the 'shop-window' variety. McConville is younger - I suppose he could do a Hinshelwood and move straight from PL2 to the PL, but that's a huge ask, especially for a 19 year old CB.
Still, Hurzeler has shown he's not averse to playing youngsters like Hinsh, Baleba and Ayari, so who knows?
I presume you are referring to the match that Eze missed through injury, and Olise, a genuine world class player, was carrying an injury and only came on as a substitute after 47 minutes.
Spot on.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
And went off 10 mins later…..plus Guhei went off injured early first half
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
With today’s setup - the high fullbacks, little cover or holding in the midfield, huge
spaces either side of VH and Dunk; wouldn’t have mattered if you’d have had a fully fit peak Canavaro back there, we were tactically stretched and dispensed with any real cover.
Dunk is only 33 not 37!, needs a few games after an injury to get fully match fit. Igor made a huge unforced error for Leicester’s equaliser.
spaces either side of VH and Dunk; wouldn’t have mattered if you’d have had a fully fit peak Canavaro back there, we were tactically stretched and dispensed with any real cover.
Dunk is only 33 not 37!, needs a few games after an injury to get fully match fit. Igor made a huge unforced error for Leicester’s equaliser.
- Aug 24, 2020
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That's the best comment I've seen from you. Confidence - and lack of confidence - is very underrated.
Would you have played a different set up due to that list of constraints?
- Nov 15, 2006
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Once again and unusually we’ll have to agree to differ. Potter and RDZ, before he went rogue, would have got the best out of the current players and both would have done much much better than Fabian with the current squad imo. We could even be challenging for top four, rather than sliding down the table having underperformed in every single game since Brentford. Fabian is in crisis imo now and I am not convinced he’ll be turning it around. There are no positives in how he sets up his teams recently, we look vulnerable and shaky every time the opposition breaks. Shit in defence, shit attacking and out fought in midfield.As discussed he doesn’t
First part is true, second isn't. This team is not as good as the one two-three years ago. They may well be in a year, but right now we have a bunch of (very talented) rookies/semi-rookies learning to play in the league.
Its also a squad with ~28 players and most of them on a similar level as each other. Both Potter and De Zerbi inherited squads with a clearer hierarchy whereas neither Hurz nor us know what the 15-16 man "core" is.
Imo, we signed too many attacking players in the summer. They're competing with each other as much as with the opponents.