I believe Bernardo can also play CB - but no, I don't really want to try going their either.
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[Albion] When did you sense the wheels could be coming off?
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I believe Bernardo can also play CB - but no, I don't really want to try going their either.
SI 4 BHA
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Villa away for me. Not wheels coming off exactly, but just seeing Potter's blind faith/arrogance that having lost an important midfielder, he thought he would go against all sensible wisdom and keep playing 2 forwards instead of immediately sacrificing a forward for a midfielder, especially as we were already one up. Maybe you can get away with that in Sweden but not in the EPL, even Pep at City took of Aguero off when their keeper was sent off recently, (although to be fair, City still lost).
saafend_seagull
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Sheffield United manager completely owning potter which is the carbon copy for everyone else against us.
If maupay didn’t miss in the last min against Chelsea we would probably have picked up a win v villa or Bournemouth too though.
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If maupay didn’t miss in the last min against Chelsea we would probably have picked up a win v villa or Bournemouth too though.
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I think about that miss quite a lot. If it had gone in I think we'd have been on a high going into the
next game and not looked back.
giveusfalmerplease
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last night when potter made three subs together and one of them wasnt glen murray...
Back in September. Man City was the start of it. They should have scored 6 or 7. From here on the way we setup concerned me. I wrote this off because we were playing the Champions away. Then West Ham at home. Same shit. Terrible defending. This hasn't changed one bit. I knew in Sept we made a massive mistake appointing Potter. Called it a long time ago. I saw right through his flaws where many didn't.
People can be in denial all they want but he is taking us down. Wait and see. You will be watching Championship football next season.
Not me i'm calling it a day.
Tokyohands
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6 weeks ago pretty much, I said to my colleague we will go down this season. We lack that killer bite.
Icy Gull
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This has been a defining round of games for me. Us losing to Bournemouth, Newcastle grabbing a draw from a defeat, Villa scoring a last minute winner and then Burnley beating United at Old Trafford.
We have gone from being in an uncomfortable position to being the team who can’t win whilst all around us can. Lose the next two or even just draw one of them and I think we’ll find ourselves in the bottom three. No new quality striker in the window and I think we’re down.
Things can change so quickly though, as we’ve seen over the last few games. Five point gap to the teams above us is a tall order to catch given our recent form.
Bizarrely I am still enjoying the ride though.
So in answer to the OP, last night when Burnley won.
We have gone from being in an uncomfortable position to being the team who can’t win whilst all around us can. Lose the next two or even just draw one of them and I think we’ll find ourselves in the bottom three. No new quality striker in the window and I think we’re down.
Things can change so quickly though, as we’ve seen over the last few games. Five point gap to the teams above us is a tall order to catch given our recent form.
Bizarrely I am still enjoying the ride though.
So in answer to the OP, last night when Burnley won.
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LONGTIME DIEHARD
I started to lose faith in GP's team selection when he put Stephens back in the team after being injured. We've had 3 seasons of the Stephens and Propper m/f and it still doesn't work.
HalfaSeatOn
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Burns injury has had a big negative impact as reduced GP’s tactical options
John Byrnes Mullet
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Leicester City. When you don't have a shot on goal for a whole match the alarm bells always start ringing for me.
SIMMO SAYS
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Perfidious Albion
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I would not say that the wheels have off, they’re just wobbling a bit 
Hampster Gull
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Don’t agree, it’s massively impacted our ability to play the formation that Potter wants to play and keeps playing, regardless of form of the players involved.
Justice
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When I heard all this top ten nonsense, the club got completely carried away after a few decent performances awarded Potter with a huge contract as they thought they had found the messiah.
Icy Gull
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He’s not far off being a very naughty boy now
The club had a 5 year plan for top 10 finish. The club also had a 5 year plan when we got promoted from League One to be in the Premiership.
Are you saying Tony Bloom is too ambitious ?
Gritt23
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Everton away. It was a horrible performance, with some bizarre positional switches at half time.
However, the brief sighting of Murray at the end, and the change in performance that coincided with it, at least gave me hope that he was going to be brought in more. 81st mnute appearance vs Villa, and nothing vs Bournemouth was not what I had in mind.
However, the brief sighting of Murray at the end, and the change in performance that coincided with it, at least gave me hope that he was going to be brought in more. 81st mnute appearance vs Villa, and nothing vs Bournemouth was not what I had in mind.
southstandandy
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Probably the Sheffield United game at home. Yes it was only a 1-0 defeat but we were as poor in that game as I've seen us this season.