el punal
Well-known member
Sorry, have I missed the end of the world? Bloody well sounds like it by the number of "we're all doomed posts" on here. Aside from that I'm very much looking forward to the start of the Championship season.
Only 2nd best pies in the Football League now NP. Keep up.
Strange day what with some of the posts on the axe man thread, i can only assume the heat has got to a lot of people today.
When i lived in the SE i went to all the friendlies for a couple of years and the gave up as they were the most boring games you could wish to watch.
Is IT getting CLOSE to the TIME for a HUGHTON out POLE ?
14th - 11th this year, or I'll eat my big Ritchie Blackmore hat.
They've taken down the fayre, alas the Lord Mayors show is over.
Pity, we nearly did it, but it wasn't to be.
sorry but i dissagree with you about lua lua i watched on seagulls player and thought lua lua was poorThe good news about tonight is that I am home now.
The good bits on the pitch were few. First half Rosenior and KLL were good. second half Knocky was differ at class and Bruno was good. Once did reasonably well and Kayal was a presence. Outside of that - we need Stockdale back - we need to strengthen the squad, we can't lose a single one of our first team in this window.
Turn it off, I can't watch that. We were just not at the races tonight. Did we have a chance ?. Best forgotten that game & quickly.
Just back from Aldershot.
I hear what everyone is saying about friendlies and they are largely correct, however, the purpose of friendlies is also to improve fitness and match sharpness. I am unclear how many games Fulham have played but they looked two weeks ahead of us, and played like it really meant something to them (probably as we slaughtered them last year).
A number of their players played 46 - 60 mins, whereas the vast majority of ours remained at 45.
The first half as per my earlier post was very poor. The goal (friendly or not) was poor, and Hughton won't be happy as it was a sloppy one.
The second half we looked quite buzzy initially, Knockaert wanted and got the ball, then a decision went against him and he lost interest for 20 mins. The second was mainly because he didn't track back...... The third a bad goalkeeping error, but it happens.
Overall, Ince, KLL tried hard, Kayal, Bruno, Holla, Murray, Dunk okay. Hemed, Murphy, Baldock and Bong very poor.
Of the U21s, Bjordal looks very good, and even after the promising start wasn't fazed against Fulham. Hornby-Forbes looked okay, White was okay, Hunt not too bad, but a tougher night, Hall a bit in and out. Nothing went right for Tilley and of course Sanchez dropped a clanger on the third.
There's nothing to worry about. No injuries tonight, though Murray landed heavily but seemed to jog the knock off.
To all the doom and gloom merchants, England won all of their friendlies prior to Euro's.......... just saying.
It was absolutely dreadful. Like a bunch of strangers. Tactics seemed dreadful.
Same number of games judging by there website