Think our ‘best team’ would also be a lot better if we had Welbeck, Veltman, Ferdi, Hinshelwood and O’Riley to potentially include in the starting lineup. Suspect all or most of them would be in a ‘first choice’ XI. The inability to select a more or less settled starting eleven is really frustrating.
This is a naive post at best. We did have defensive players in form. That got broken up by injury, but the back 4 we started the season with, which FH was forced to play because they were the only fit players, was in form.
It is, but how long do we go on blaming injuries for our poor results?
Fair play to you.Having slept on it I feel bad/embarrassed about quite a few of my post match posts and comments yesterday. My disappointment at being schooled by Palace coupled with drinking more than I should as the nightmare unfolded, a match I wanted to lose less than any other than the return fixture, led to an over reaction. I hate how football can do that to me, it really shouldn’t matter that much. Well done to those that kept their cool and just walked away accepting that shit happens
I think it’s a case of the younger players seeing us as a stepping stone for bigger and better things, upping their game against the big boys to put themselves in the shop window. Victims of our own successful model. Too early to judge Fab though.
Of course it has. But it’s not the reason we lost yesterday. We had our first choice gk, our first choice defence apart from Lamptey, our first choice wingers, arguably our first choice midfield based on this season, although Ayari is up for debate, our record signing and our best player in JP. Yes, we missed Welbeck and Veltman, and you could argue Ayari wouldn’t start if everyone is fit, but it wasn’t far from a first choice side. Not far enough to put in that performance.
Was going to post something similar.
For us that’s about 5 players for the entire season so far. Staggering.
I was thinking the context of season to date, not just yesterday. you dismiss my comments with ‘apart from Lamptey - but we had no effective RB as a result, which screws up the defence (for example). Welbeck also makes a huge difference when he plays. FH hasn’t at any point yet had the opportunity to play a settled team with the ‘best’ - or even the majority of them - players available, and he’s had to make constant adjustments. It’s no wonder we’re misfiring.
There is nothing unusual about returning your club captain and (when in form) one of your best performers back to the starting line when fit and suggesting the formations are just about accommodating Dunk is more than naive. Igor (who let’s not forget everyone was saying was a flop at start of the season) is now being hailed as the steady replacement despite playing a hospital pass to our goalkeeper in the opening minutes against Fulham and costing us 3 points at Leicester. We have a bang out of form Pervis (whose poor showings extend into last season) and injured first choice replacement and a lightweight and attacking minded right back in Lamptey and an injured veltman. Let’s add onto that Van Hecke drop off in the last two games and the complete lack of any in form or quality six in the side to protect the defenders and we have an exposed, out of form and lacking in options defence.
Absolute bullshit – you believe wrong.
