Sam Allardyce

[MikeH72]

Weren't we rubbish then? Weirdly I can't recall

Still better than this season's team

 

[chewee]

6 weeks ago we faced the very real prospect of a relegation dogfight.

Big Sam has come in and steadied the ship. Before we criticise too harshly can we remember how many goals we were concealing and how unbalanced our side looked just a short time ago. Give him a transfer window or two before making judgements.

 

[witchdoc187]

I assumed that Rooney was doing Community Payback, but it appears that a virus had struck the first team squad.

We've got five games in fourteen days - so Allardyce will have to rotate his squad. The question is; when will he play his strongest teams - against Chelsea and Manchester United or against West Brom and Bournemouth? Allardyce carefully calculates which matches are most likely to yield points, so I think that I can guess the answer to this.

And how will he regard the cup tie at Anfield - as our only chance of winning a trophy or as a distraction from Premier League safety? Will the Christmas and New Year programme impose a greater load on our squad or on Liverpool's? As Liverpool played Arsenal on Friday night, they will have an extra day's rest. My guess is that Liverpool's team will be fresher than ours, and that Klopp will be playing to win.

He knows that cup game is very important. We're not getting relegated so we need to go all out and I think we might just spring a surprise

 

[Seanjd]

Let's hope Pleasantly Plump Sam brings us some presents this new year!

 

[matty1878]

Since the other thread is binned. I didn’t not dislike koeman and thought he would turn it around. I will never like Sam ever and eagerly await his summer binning

 

[Frang]

Since the other thread is binned. I didn’t not dislike koeman and thought he would turn it around. I will never like Sam ever and eagerly await his summer binning

merry chrimbo to you too lid

chin up matty lad. allardyce is the mesiah

 

[ProZ]

How can you not dislike Koeman? his football was dire, he wasted our war-chest, he was arrogant and boring, and had a red Christmas tree.

But he was a legend of the sport so he gets a pass.

 

[Saint Domingo]

How can you not dislike Koeman? his football was dire, he wasted our war-chest, he was arrogant and boring, and had a red Christmas tree.

His football was worse than Allardyce’s even with Barkley and Lukaku to utilise. Doesn’t fit the myth though of continental technician v British dinosaur.

 

[Baines' left foot]

I’m convinced some people would rather us finish in 12th ‘playing the right way’ than finish 7th with this current brand of ‘awful’ football, as if they’re the ambassadors of beautiful football and they’re morally superior because they don’t like us picking up points in the fashion we’re currently doing. “Honest to god lad I’m embarrassed the way we’re playing lad we should have taken the game to an in form Liverpool away from home lad and against Chelsea when we had a full team of injuries lad Sam’s got to go lad”.

Get over yourselves. It’s pathetic. How anyone can moan given the injury list, how terrible we were before Sam came in and the fact he’s been here for a matter of weeks is just unreal. Some people have extremely short memories because we were almost certainly going down if we’d kept playing the way we were under Koeman and Unsworth.

We have the worst cry arse fans in the league by a distance. Complete and utter cry babies.

 

[heatmeiser]

Since the other thread is binned. I didn’t not dislike koeman and thought he would turn it around. I will never like Sam ever and eagerly await his summer binning

Been trying to decipher this for a bit and worked out it means you disliked Koeman. Here's my working out.

Disliked

Not disliked (liked)

Didn't not dislike (disliked)

 

[Baines' left foot]

I dunno if it was a bad performance. But I remember being in a bar at 6am in Colombia watching Naismith slot a hat trick against Chelsea. Why couldn't we do that?

Jesus Christ.

 

[Mikeonlythebestwilldo]

I’m convinced some people would rather us finish in 12th ‘playing the right way’ than finish 7th with this current brand of ‘awful’ football, as if they’re the ambassadors of beautiful football and they’re morally superior because they don’t like us picking up points in the fashion we’re currently doing. “Honest to god lad I’m embarrassed the way we’re playing lad we should have taken the game to an in form Liverpool away from home lad and against Chelsea when we had a full team of injuries lad Sam’s got to go lad”.

Get over yourselves. It’s pathetic. How anyone can moan given the injury list, how terrible we were before Sam came in and the fact he’s been here for a matter of weeks is just unreal. Some people have extremely short memories because we were almost certainly going down if we’d kept playing the way we were under Koeman and Unsworth.

We have the worst cry arse fans in the league by a distance. Complete and utter cry babies.

Another trawler run is needed mate

 

[EFCPaul]

We brought him in get us well away from any relegation battles and buy the club's hierarchy some much needed time to get things sorted OFF the pitch. So far he's managed that brilliantly and actually got everyone smiling again, the players and us fans (most of us anyway). And on top of that he's managed to enrage the RS more than any manager we've had for 20 years.

I'm loving life under him so far.

 

[Stanley Parker]

He knows that cup game is very important. We're not getting relegated so we need to go all out and I think we might just spring a surprise

Yes, the cup game is very important to us. But how do we know that it is important to Sam? Sam is not swayed by sentiment. He may be more interested in a good performance against Manchester United.

He's already said he's going to rest Jagielka tomorrow, and he will have to rotate more of the squad over the Christmas and New Year programme. Have we got the resources to put out a strong team against both Manchester United and Liverpool?

 

[MikeH72]

Since the other thread is binned. I didn’t not dislike koeman and thought he would turn it around. I will never like Sam ever and eagerly await his summer binning

Unlucky Matthew x