malmic
Player Valuation: £950k
Face the facts and stop putting the blame elsewhere like Lampard does
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Zatara
Player Valuation: £90m
Is it not a fact?
The above and all the other daft decisions are the main cause
VAR, poor, nay incompetent, Referees on the day and Lampards seeming continued odd selections and late changes* are just symptoms and side issues - very important on the day obvs, but it all stems from the top.
*Gomes may have been the best of a bad bunch, the bench seems a mixture of the physically half fit who can't play and the mentally unfit who won't play...Alli,** VdB.
**Alli may be both (some at Spurs might...allegedly...make a 'likes a tipple or 3 motion with hand' - but who knows)***
***He may yet score the crucial goal Vs Palace or Arsenal...somebody needs to ffs - why not him
Edit: Re. DCL; I think he got cramp and should play Vs Palace...will he be put in the shop window or rested Vs Arsenal???
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bored and kinda crestfallen just combing the frank thread notices a suggestion that we should sign james tompkins , I retch a little and decide to logout
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
Newcastle didn't get one either and then turned it round.
gorgeousgeorgeEFC
Player Valuation: £25m
What more could Frank have done?
We had just 10 men for 70-odd minutes against a decent side who put four past Chelsea last month.
The players fought like tigers but ultimately no team could have held on today.
The big worry is that we have just one central defender in the squad who’s not injured or suspended.
Things seemed to be going so well. The crowd was spurring us on and we were dominating and then the red card happened (after Richarlison was fouled in their box for the first time) and the crowd suddenly went quiet, understandably so.
We had just 10 men for 70-odd minutes against a decent side who put four past Chelsea last month.
The players fought like tigers but ultimately no team could have held on today.
The big worry is that we have just one central defender in the squad who’s not injured or suspended.
Things seemed to be going so well. The crowd was spurring us on and we were dominating and then the red card happened (after Richarlison was fouled in their box for the first time) and the crowd suddenly went quiet, understandably so.
That appointment could truly haunt this club for a long, long time. We should never let Moshiri get away with what he’s done here.
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
Worse was leaving Gomes on the pitch when we went down to 10. For heaven's sake, when Italy went down to 10 versus Norway at the 1994 World Cup - and were on the verge of elimination having already lost 1-0 to Ireland - the great Arrigo Sacchi immediately substituted Roberto Baggio who was the best player in the world at the time. Why? He needed more legs and energy. Italy won 1-0. Lampard leaving Gomes on was disastrous management. If he could be excused waiting until half-time, there was no excuse whatsoever for allowing him to return to the pitch at the start of the second half.
At home to mighty Brentford and playing the kind of football Allardyce would be ashamed of.
If only Gomes were fit to be mentioned in the same breath as Baggio in any other context!
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
Ha ha, indeed. Or Frank and Arrigo, for that matter.
Marius57
Player Valuation: £50m
Who else would you have played considering allan has a knock
dannyboy
Player Valuation: £60m
I think the idea that playing with ten men against Brentford guarantees defeat shows how poor we are. I didn't want everyone to go chasing the ball but we shouldn't have been as deep as we were. With a bit more pressure I think Brentford would've struggled to get into the positions they did to score and create chances. Iwobi into midfield should've been done at half time in hindsight.
Lowste
Player Valuation: £30m
I think the decision to start Gomes was fine
If honest I think he should of been taken off at half time and replaced by Allan
Simply as we knew what was coming our way 2nd half
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