- Nov 11, 2009
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More what to come? comedy defending, lacklustre displays, firing blanks!
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[Albion] Club Recruitment
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More what to come? comedy defending, lacklustre displays, firing blanks!
Prettyboyshaw
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We certainly do. You would almost think we are good at it ! Can’t remember many killer balls from midfield that our strikers raced onto a slotted it pass the keeper. Even when we adventure wide we have have some ankle bitting midgets waiting for a cross that’s usually way off target.
Seems like we have to sense of identity attacking and have also lost our defensive shape. Pretty passing doesn’t win games clean sheets and goals do Graham.
mashman156
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Pretty much perfectly summed up!
I'd add however that we need someone in the centre of the park to grab the game by the short and curlys and get stuck in, bomb forward to support the striker. For me the midfield is as important as the CF. Both needed as a matter of urgency.
Don Tmatter
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We were considering our own centre back playing in the Championship is now valued higher than what we paid for Webster who wasn’t needed as only really require 1 centre back to bring ball out from defence and Dunk is that man.
Burn & Balogun could have covered central defence adequately like they’ve done since last season
- Nov 11, 2009
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Big call fella! honestly dont know that much about him except he's ex FA..... anything you know specifically?
nwgull
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Exactly. Clubs aren't going to sell a proven premier league striker unless it's to a Big 6 Club paying far more in fees and wages than we can realistically afford.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
Ever since he rocked up we’ve played shite , his arrival started the rot under Hughton
Time to bring these lads back to keep us up:
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Albion Dan
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It wouldn't actually suprise me if Tony cuts his losses now and doesn't make any signings as the odds of staying up even with new players are starting to to look pretty long.
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
No point throwing money away unless of course you’re giving away extended contracts
- Nov 11, 2009
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You could be right, we'll see in 10 days.... Without a goalscorer who can hit the ground running, we're as good as gone. There's not 3 worse teams than us, and all the others around us are moving in the market to reinforce.
mashman156
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This. What is the point in investing and demonstrating that level of support for a manager in terms of his contract and not then support him with the tools to do the job he needs to. Significant squad improvement needed
¡Cereal Killer!
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I have a feeling it's down to budget, we have spent a lot on players for the future, how many have come close to making the first team?
I can see us Selling Dunk in the summer, Ben White being his replacement, then use the money to reinforce the rest of the squad.
I can see us Selling Dunk in the summer, Ben White being his replacement, then use the money to reinforce the rest of the squad.
spanish flair
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Spot on. We have more heads of recruitment than strikers. What the f••• have they been doing since the close of the summer window?
Albion Dan
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The laughable thing is how we all lambast Palace for throwing huge money at players who are too old and yet there they are again comfortably staying up whilst our smart approach of investing in the future on unheard of useless overseas noddy league players is about to cost us £140m in lost prem league income. To think they have Cahill and we have spunked £20m on Webster which we will never recoup.
Weststander
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For almost 3 years:
1. Where’s the RB with pace who can actually defend every match? Montoya’s loved by a few NSC’ers, but even Potter’s stopped playing him.
2, Strikers - nuff said.
3, Pace and power in CM for counter attacking, genuine pace out wide for counter attacking - virtually none.
4. Gathering new CB’s, none convincing at actually defending for 90 minutes.
5. Gathering small, lightweight and/or very slow technicians. Much of a muchness, other than Mooy none consistently playing with quality, many games pass the others by when they face combative midfield 5’s.
For almost 3 years:
1. Where’s the RB with pace who can actually defend every match? Montoya’s loved by a few NSC’ers, but even Potter’s stopped playing him.
2, Strikers - nuff said.
3, Pace and power in CM for counter attacking, genuine pace out wide for counter attacking - virtually none.
4. Gathering new CB’s, none convincing at actually defending for 90 minutes.
5. Gathering small, lightweight and/or very slow technicians. Much of a muchness, other than Mooy none consistently playing with quality, many games pass the others by when they face combative midfield 5’s.
Kaiser_Soze
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- Apr 14, 2008
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The fact we've cut White's loan deal short and compensated Leeds for that suggests that Dunk might be sold in January to free up funds to strengthen the squad. The question is whether we have the players lined up to sign in January. We're rapidly running out of time.
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