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He came on and played his role to perfection last night, the team was set up in such a way that he didn't need to be an attacking force. That wasn't what the team needed, it needed him to use the ball well, keep the shape and be an option to collect the ball off the centre backs and feed the...

Knockaert played in his favoured position pretty much every time he was on the pitch, Ali J never did. All Knockaert managed was 2 goals and a couple of assists, all season. Played in his strongest position. He should have been moved to the left to incorporate our record signing and given him a...

It does make quite the difference. I wonder how differently his Albion career would be going if one of his long range efforts had gone in. He had one dip just over and another cannon back off the bar.. if either of those find the net then his perception is totally different. Spanish Dave comes...

Adam El-Abd is ALWAYS the example I think of when I think about players who were a joke became one hell of a player. He was a punchline before Gus came in, but not two minutes after being through the door, he publically says that El-Abd is the best at defending at the club. No longer is he...

Bloody hell, he is playing from the left! But he entered the box. :bowdown:

Unsurprising. I doubt he's playing on the left wing for Iran. Equally, I doubt Syria have the quality of player regularly seen in the Premier League. But it shows the man can find the net!

I'll be watching so I'd like a team to holler at, please!

Players need to play in order to develop, leaving us to play meant they could further their careers. Who is to say that binning off Upson, El-Abd or Greer, which nobody wanted to do at the time, would have enabled Cook and/or Elphick to develop as quickly in our team and result in them being as...

:bowdown: Congratulations! A wonderful excuse for binning off running for a while.

And he only got his chance because of long term injuries to Nathaniel Clyne and Joe Gomez, I'm sure he'd have got in eventually but his progression has been helped massively by getting in the team. Harry Kane only got in the Tottenham team because Vincent Jansson is so dreadful, he grabbed his...

in Sammi's defence, the players he was provided were utter garbage. None of the players he had have had any sort of career in the Championship after leaving us. He developed Lewis Dunk, fair play to him for that. But I do wonder if he was just unlucky with the truckload of rubbish he had at his...

I completely agree - and I think with the benefit of pre-season with the squad (minus Izquierdo and Bissouma, which is a real shame because they're both starters), we'll see the best of our team early doors. My only concern is that I've fallen for the new manager chatter before, Oscar Garcia...

I think you'll very quickly see the difference in multiple players if they're played closer to their strengths than they have been previously. I think we'll also very quickly see certain other players drop out of the first team picture entirely because they've been kept around out of loyalty...

The under 23 squad is a farm, some players will be able to make the step up (Aaron Connolly looks like being the first of them) and others never will because they'll need to be playing regularly to get a rhythm, develop and improve and then earn the Premier League chance later in their career...

A player being used to his strengths. :bowdown: Also, that second game had Jurgen Locadia on the bench!

Davy Propper > Fabian Delph. It's an enormous no from me, looks perfectly adequate in a world class team but is he himself someone who would add something to our team? Not convinced.

Unfortunately, I'm not in town the next two weekends but last saturday of the month I'm happy to pace you for sub-21. You can do it now, you might even get there in the next couple of weeks. Try and get out tomorrow and run a few KMs at 4 minutes per with a minute or 90 seconds rest in between...

Yes, you're right - I cycle that way some days and I'm pretty sure that you can only drive down Dyke Road so far as the turn off before Pizza Hut/opposite the entrance to the Imperial Arcade. You can take a right to access the office buildings there but I don't think that you can drive down past...

Keeps going as is she and she'll be a British Hungarian-Aussie!

Asolutely, Chuck the Terrible had a turned on mobile phone in his pocket throughout the court hearing. Proving that the condition was fully in his own mind, had he known there was a mobile phone in his pocket, he'd have crumbled like a child. But he didn't know, and carried on without any...