royalblue66
Player Valuation: £70m
Hoof hoof, tho mate, first time I have heard that, library and scoucers ? many times.
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Deckard2049
Player Valuation: £15m
I was being slightly needle-y there fella. In fairness to engage in insanity for a brief moment, Leicester put together a very solid run to the end of the season prior to when they won the league and then built on that with Ranieri. Building momentum is often forgotten about when discussing important things in football, but they certainly had that.
We’re unbeaten under Sam so that’s a start, but whether anything fruitful comes of it is another matter. Like I keep saying we need to do a lot more in these games on the counter. Using Leicester as the example, they at least punished teams on the counter. We don’t look capable of doing that. Furthermore it isn’t a matter of just beating teams lower than you either if you want to win things and climb the table. Leicester beat all the big teams that year, they didn’t camp in their box and aimlessly hoof it away.
Let’s say we go to Anfield in the Cup, go 1-0 down but only this time Lovren doesn’t have a brain fart- do you think we’ll get back in the game from open play the way things currently are?
tonyhorne
Immoderate
I doubt many people think he can do no wrong. A lot of us are quite pleased, though, that results have improved since he arrived and we hope that continues.
What else is there to wish for?
Stanley Parker
Player Valuation: £15m
It's not very long since the fans were singing; The School of Science is on the way back!
What are they singing now?
Lad from Vienna
Player Valuation: £750k
I like ugly football. I'm in heaven.
Stanley Parker
Player Valuation: £15m
Football that is a pleasure to watch, perhaps.
Chris O'Connor
Player Valuation: £35m
Considering Allardyce has barely got his nose inside the door, points wise he could barely have made a more impressive start.
Fans always want better now and some haven't been slow in criticising a game plan for not showing enough intent or ambition. However imo its extremely harsh to call out the manager for not taking the game to the champions yesterday and far from entirely fair. Perhaps its a case of wanting to run before you can walk.
Martina at left back, a young lad at right back, a very defensive midfield and an isolated U21 striker aren't going to hurt the champions even if we had a more positive gameplan. Chelsea had also won eight of their previous ten matches, drawing one, form that normally would be heralded as that of potential champions.
You have to play the opposition to some extent and recognize the difference in quality and class if it is so self evident. Give room to Willian and Hazard and you'd see the kind of scoreline that we suffered at home against Arsenal.
Allardyce needs time and better players in order for us to turn up with a different gameplan and expect to have a chance of competing with the likes of Chelsea and Liverpool away, but until that time comes, he has to approach games realistically with the limited resources he has at his disposal.
We've come a long way from the horror shows and heavy demoralising defeats against Leicester, Lyon, Atalanta and Southampton, but the problems with the squad and personnel haven't just vanished, we don't have the players to compete with Chelsea or Liverpool atm, and until we do must be happy with taking points off them
tonyhorne
Immoderate
Depends what you enjoy watching really.
I understand your desire for us to be running rings round everyone but I would rather that wasn't 2 or 3 divisions below where we are now...
Titus Bramble
Best centre half to grace the Premier League
Interesting that some people in here are more interested in our in match stats rather than the results. 'NSNO though mate, what about the school of science?'
We’ve improved no end in the last month or so, no doubt about it and it’s all down to organisation. We work hard and defend as a unit and while we do this we’ll always be in the game. I can’t see us losing many games by more than 1 goal under Alerdercè because we’ve stopped conceding shots on target. You could probably count on 2 hands how many saves Pickford as had to make since West Ham. And while you’re in the game, you just need 1 chance to get a result - a penalty at anfield to win a point or a Michael Keane header from a corner which could have snatched all 3.
This will only get us so far and the crowd will quickly turn if we go through a bad run, but we need this strong base before we become more expansive, either with this manager or another
We’ve improved no end in the last month or so, no doubt about it and it’s all down to organisation. We work hard and defend as a unit and while we do this we’ll always be in the game. I can’t see us losing many games by more than 1 goal under Alerdercè because we’ve stopped conceding shots on target. You could probably count on 2 hands how many saves Pickford as had to make since West Ham. And while you’re in the game, you just need 1 chance to get a result - a penalty at anfield to win a point or a Michael Keane header from a corner which could have snatched all 3.
This will only get us so far and the crowd will quickly turn if we go through a bad run, but we need this strong base before we become more expansive, either with this manager or another
The School of Science is on it`s back ?
MikeH72
Player Valuation: £100m
Beyond delusional
The school of gravy is picking up points.
They're not wrong about that like. My missus used my lads season ticket yesterday (I really wanted to go on my own, honest) because my lad is away skiing, she's actually a Man U fan, she was surprised how quiet the crowd was yesterday considering who we were playing, you could literally hear a pin drop at times.
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