Are we going to end up with a pop gun attack?

[chicoazul]

Nobody has replied to my multi quote of shame. You know who you are.

The silence and lack of humility of those against @davek tells us all we need to know.

@davek has slayed them all, even in his absence.

 

[Elong]

The silence and lack of humility of those against @davek tells us all we need to know.

@davek has slayed them all, even in his absence.

GEORDIE RATS

 

[Abraders]

Pop

 

[Tennessee Blue Mike]

This thread reminds me of the old Milky Bar kid advert back in the sixties.

 

[Bullet]

I mentioned in the summer transfer thread my concern that with the very likely departure of Lukaku we are faced with an almighty struggle next season to get a striker in to fill the massive chasm he'll leave. So far we have not been linked with the type of marquee signing that we could reasonably believe could come in and take up at least most of the slack in terms of getting on the scoresheet as often as RL has in his time here. Sandro may or may not come in. However, I dont see him as a type that will lead the line in the fashion that we as a club have been used to with our tradition. The existing players we have upfront are unimpressive. For one they cant be adapted to the role of an out and out forward and for another they look pretty limited in what they do in their 'proper job', be that Bolasie and Lookman attacking from out wide or Calvert-Lewin loitering without intent in behind the striker/final third.

Here's my suspicion: I think Koeman will forsake going for a like for like replacement for Lukaku this summer. He looks to me to be thinking of going with a type of attacking unit adopted over the park and adopted elsewhere: a high pressing front three with an advanced MF (probably Klaassens) to augment the attack by making forward runs into the box.

I think this will be madness for us. First, we wont have the class to pull that one off: Lallana/Firmino/Mane + Coutinho are very good quality. That's how they blitzed the PL in the first half of last season and picked up the points that eventually seen them over the CL spot line. Our front 3+1 would be nowhere near that level of quality. Second, we have a lot more games this season and what happened to Liverpool (and what happens to other teams who adopt a manic high press) over the course of the season would come home to roost here too: we'd have a core first team on its knees and/or dropping down with injuries by late winter.

Anyway, that's my thoughts/fears on what I believe this summer's attacking incomings are being prioritised for. Hopefully Koeman goes out and blows that out of the water with a Giroud signing, but I really think we are headed into 2017/18 with a re-shaped and dangerous departure from what we traditionally have gone for before.

Thoughts?

And now I understand what you tried to say to me. How you suffered for your sanity.
How you tried to set them free. They would not listen. They did not know how.
Perhaps they'll listen now.

 

[USABlue]

vindicated

 

[degsy]

@chicoazul (its what you do and as I've said before you do it in your own inimitable style) & @Elong, why not just stick a slice of beetroot on your head and call yourself The kiwichico-lite. Anyway, take off your davek tinted specs and see that in amongst his scatter gun approach of, contrary for the sake of it, Wham and Wummery he was bound to the bullseye now and again.

I neither know nor care if he jumped or was pushed, He's had numerous warnings and bans...he's not the Messiah he's just a very etc etc.


degsy:
Chico, Elong!

Chico & Elong:
degsy?

degsy:
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius/davek has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Chico & Elong try to sooth degsy: "Fear him not, degsy, he's not dangerous,
He is a noble Poster, and well given."

Sorry lids your Cassius has feet of Clay.

unless it's all clickbait? which is after all, the name of the game

just sayin like.

 

[ilikecheese]

Pop guns actually shoot.

 

[Seathestars]

@davek hit the nail on the head with this headline for a topic, Nostradamus eat your heart out.

 

[Elong]

@chicoazul (its what you do and as I've said before you do it in your own inimitable style) & @Elong, why not just stick a slice of beetroot on your head and call yourself The kiwichico-lite. Anyway, take off your davek tinted specs and see that in amongst his scatter gun approach of, contrary for the sake of it, Wham and Wummery he was bound to the bullseye now and again.

I neither know nor care if he jumped or was pushed, He's had numerous warnings and bans...he's not the Messiah he's just a very etc etc.


degsy:
Chico, Elong!

Chico & Elong:
degsy?

degsy:
Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius/davek has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Chico & Elong try to sooth degsy: "Fear him not, degsy, he's not dangerous,
He is a noble Poster, and well given."

Sorry lids your Cassius has feet of Clay.

unless it's all clickbait? which is after all, the name of the game

just sayin like.

Degsy.

 

[flibbyflob]

Spud gun more like.

 

[degsy]

Degsy.

that's degsy - lower case 'd'
Only proper nouns have a capital letter
common nouns are lower case...and they don't come more common than me

 

[ToffeeTim]

Water pistol

 

[Brendan Janus]

Pop goes my love.

 

[eddy]

I am looking forward to the new stadium though ........................