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If our next two home opponents were not who they are, I'd be tempted to put a couple of 'half-time score 0-0' bets!
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[Albion] The masterstroke of dropping Potterball
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If our next two home opponents were not who they are, I'd be tempted to put a couple of 'half-time score 0-0' bets!
Johnny RoastBeef
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- Jan 11, 2016
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These tables prove we are a decent mid table team, and with a bit more clinical finishing our real league position would reflect this.
When you consider our 2 striking options (sorry Glenn) are both playing their first Premier League season, this is not too shabby.
Albion Dan
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I detest the term "Potterball". Tinpot beyond belief.
It's not even close to the tinpottery of selling the best players off to 'big' clubs.
Perkino
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- Dec 11, 2009
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The most successful sides in premier league history have always been those who can counter attack quickly, just look at how quickly Man City & Liverpool move the ball. Possession is useful but at this level games are won and lost on individual mistakes and capitalising on them. I have no issue at all if we soak up pressure and then look to make the most when in possession, that means the team moving forward quickly not just the ball being hit long to nobody.
I'm also not anti a cross or two being delivered into the box at stages during a game, I'd much rather some variation than an Arsenal style of trying to walk the ball into the goal and ultimately never shooting
I'm also not anti a cross or two being delivered into the box at stages during a game, I'd much rather some variation than an Arsenal style of trying to walk the ball into the goal and ultimately never shooting
Greg Bobkin
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- May 22, 2012
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The thrust of this conversation is one reason I'm a big believer in the 'one game at a time' philosophy. The team could have an absolute shocker (Manchester United) and then bounce back with a completely different performance (Norwich) and come away with all three points. Those two games after another different kind of game against Leicester.
It's probably come as a bit of a shock to the system to some of the players because they're effectively being asked to play a different way every week. Yes, they are professional footballers, but they are only human and when you're asked to change from the norm, it's got to be a bit daunting. Quite excited about the prospect of next season; in fact the difference in the performances of some of the players (Bissouma, most notably for me) makes it feel a bit like a new season as it is!
It's probably come as a bit of a shock to the system to some of the players because they're effectively being asked to play a different way every week. Yes, they are professional footballers, but they are only human and when you're asked to change from the norm, it's got to be a bit daunting. Quite excited about the prospect of next season; in fact the difference in the performances of some of the players (Bissouma, most notably for me) makes it feel a bit like a new season as it is!
Loads of managers have used all 5 subs
In our games both Solskjaer and Arteta have, for starters.
(unless maybe you meant he is the only manager to use ALL 5 subs, in ALL 5 games??)
It’s a stat I heard elsewhere which may have been the case up until last round of games. I’m not a very good statto [emoji56]
I noted [MENTION=38333]Swansman[/MENTION] coined the term "Potterology" the other day. Could we offer you in that instead?
This is an awesome piece of work.
1) wow, shows how impressive Wolves are as a team
2) Bournemouth and West Ham really are shocking
3) shows we’re doing well.. a bit of key strengthening and we should be top half. Which makes sense considering how many points we’ve left on the table, especially first half of the season.
I'm not convinced that these tables (without some further explanation) offer much insight at all.
For example, it suggests that Wolves have only dropped two points from winning positions all season. Well, they were ahead in the game at the Amex (0-1), but also behind (2-1) before ultimately drawing 2-2. So for that game are they considered to have dropped points from a winning position? or to have won a point from a losing position?
Was this in relation to the content of his cigarettes? Or our manager?
Iggle Piggle
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- Sep 3, 2010
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That's the problem for me in a nutshell. It's rare I watch a game involving a PL team against us and see a striker in thier team that wouldn't improve us (last weekend was an obvious example of an exception to the rule as well as Villa's Village forward line). Even teams below us have the likes of Deeney, Wilson and we'd have been chuffed to bits with signing Jarod Bowen in the last window.
On the flip side, we are into the likes of VVD who are better than Dunk.
Well pukki has scored more than all our strikers this season and scored more than maupay in the championship last season. So you can add them to the list too !
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London Irish
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Journalists and commentators always emphasise change and difference because it's an easy thing to say. It's always seemed an simplistic narrative to me - if you are in charge of a bottom 6 team in the Prem the pressures will be same whatever the manager and your options will be circumscribed by generally playing better teams most weeks. We've survived for a third season because the board invested approx 70 million, guys like Maupay were critical - and they will have to keep spending similar figures unless we want to be a Bournemouth.
I hope we do finally have a non-bottom 6 season where relegation doesn't haunt us all season, no reason why we can't emulate the likes of Burnley, Palace or Newcastle really - when that happens, we will know we've taken a definitive step forward on the playing side of the club.
The Dream
What to make of Teemu Pukki eh. Scored for fun last season, then looked to be carrying it on this season. But Norwich have scored one goal in their last nine games and although he has outscored our strikers, he has also only scored 2 goals since 4th December - one of which was a penalty. Not saying he's a bad striker but he is so woefully off the boil that he didn't even start against us. He'll probably score loads again next season.
It feels we’ve been short of a quality striker from the moment we were promoted.
At the start of the season when we had Maupay and Andone on the bench, then I felt we had adequate options up front.
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It’s not just Journalists & Commentators. This is Klopp at today’s press conference:
“They changed their approach since lockdown, so we don’t know exactly what we will face.”
Advantage Potter.
..................doubt Potter knows yet either, less so his players. He hasn't got his lucky bag of balls out for the team selection Tombola yet
