**** Hull City v Brighton & Hove Albion Official Match Thread ****

[algie]

Here we go - no Vicente

 

[glasfryn]

he's reading NSC is the commentator
Vicente not starting have I missed something is he injured or coming on as super sub.............after 5 mins

 

[kevtherev]

No Vicente,,Dicker and Noone start ,,,Lualua on bench,talk about da jarvu,,pmsl..What a joke,especially Noone.

 

[El Turi]

Hull start with two strikers and two very attacking wingers. Let's hope we don't sit back and invite pressure like we did in so many away matches last season.

 

[brightn'ove]

3-0 hull

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

he's reading NSC is the commentator
Vicente not starting have I missed something is he injured or coming on as super sub.............after 5 mins

No Vicente in the squad

 

[Rookie]

No Vicente,,Dicker and Noone start ,,,Lualua on bench,talk about da jarvu,,pmsl..What a joke,especially Noone.

Maybe Lualua has not got 60 minutes in him because of recent injuries? So therefore better to play Noone for 60 odd and thing bring him on against a tired defence?

 

[gripper stebson]

No Vicente in the squad

...and so it begins again.

 

[glasfryn]

No Vicente in the squad

its a bugger but we are not a one man team...............are we?

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

After seeing the squad its going ot be close, 1-1 or 2-1 either way

 

[jimhigham]

This will probably be an unpopular observation but here goes...

Vicente reached full fitness and started making regular starts at the tail end of last season. By most accounts he was awesome and yet we didn't win a single game of the last eight (I don't immediately know how many of those he started). Is it therefore possible that all of his awesomeness is coming at the expense of something elsewhere on the pitch? Are we looking towards him too much and becoming one dimensional?

Viewed against this background, the fact that he is not starting is not necessarily the end of the world.

Just saying is all.

Cue binfest...

 

[algie]

I'm glad Dunk has been dropped after recent performances.

 

[Flavor Flav]

Well that's all my optimism gone. A draw would still be a good start though.

 

[Silent Bob]

Have to assume LuaLua is still not 100% to not be starting over Noone. I do find it slightly odd that last season Gus was copmplaining about the switch to five subs coming after he'd put together a squad for seven subs, but now he seems to be making a squad for five subs when we can now have seven.

 

[Rugrat]

Not at all optimistic .. that team selection begs all sorts of questions, none of which will ever get answered. Winning at Hull wouldn't have been a shock but it will be now

 

[HantsSeagull]

So the bizarre team selections continue.....apart from the obvious omission, did we really need painter on the bench with Calde and dunk there and el abd on the pitch.

 

[El Turi]

There seems to be no creativity in that line-up. Hope I'm wrong though!

 

[Don Tmatter]

3-0 hull

That's the spirit

 

[Silent Bob]

So the bizarre team selections continue.....apart from the obvious omission, did we really need painter on the bench with Calde and dunk there and el abd on the pitch.

What is the obvious omission??

I don't think we've left Vicente at home through choice if that's what you mean.

 

[KZNSeagull]

It does seem like Deja vu - people writing the team off before a ball has been kicked. Give them a chance.