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You've covered everything I have been thinking of but haven't been arsed to post. So thanks!
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You've covered everything I have been thinking of but haven't been arsed to post. So thanks!
toffee-fellaini
Player Valuation: £35m
Can't wait til they show Kenwright on the big screen again at Goodison so I can clap him and give him a standing ovation...
kenada_blue
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11 draws against the "weaker" sides. Only Stoke equal that.
Theres a point where you either win or lose more of them when you compare to the teams around us.
To me thats either down to quality or not taking our chance. IE bottling it.
Injuries only take up a certain percentage of those draws. And for a thin squad im sure Barkley, Hitz, Heitinga, Gueye, Vellios couldve all got more game time
That was our worst performance in a looonnggg time.....and we didn't lose. We won't play that badly again for a while, we are fifth, four points ahead of Arsenal and only 3 behind spurs. Two home games coming up after Bolton in the cup. Still loads to play for and we'll bring a couple of players in before the window is out. Mirallas is back, Big Vic has become ace and I fancy Pienaar and Baines will get it going again.
meagher94
Player Valuation: £35m
Good positive post mate. Can't help but be a bit disheartened by the result but nice to see some optimism!
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BlueToffee95
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West Brom will be tough. But we've got to concentrate on beating Bolton first!
What really struck me tonight is how teams who have any sort of creative player at no.10 or any pace can literally run straight through our midfield and (on some occasions) defence. It's happened loads this season but it needs to stop.
Unfortunately, it's what we lack. Fellaini is a class player behind the striker but if teams double up on him and our left hand-side (like tonight) then we are done going forward and run out of ideas and start to hoof, especially when Osman can't get on the ball without losing it straight away and Nev is been Nev!
Imagine if, (in fantasy world), we managed to sign an Isco or Belhanda or (just because I love him and his name causes mass-hysteria) Mertens how good we would be going forward. I know it's unlikely that we'd get somebody of that standard, but a player of that ilk/type is what we need. A sharp, quick player who can pick out a final pass (something that (and I know he's returning from injury) Kev isn't particularly brilliant at - for all his other attributes).
Gibson - Fellaini
Mirallas - ???????????? - Pienaar
What really struck me tonight is how teams who have any sort of creative player at no.10 or any pace can literally run straight through our midfield and (on some occasions) defence. It's happened loads this season but it needs to stop.
Unfortunately, it's what we lack. Fellaini is a class player behind the striker but if teams double up on him and our left hand-side (like tonight) then we are done going forward and run out of ideas and start to hoof, especially when Osman can't get on the ball without losing it straight away and Nev is been Nev!
Imagine if, (in fantasy world), we managed to sign an Isco or Belhanda or (just because I love him and his name causes mass-hysteria) Mertens how good we would be going forward. I know it's unlikely that we'd get somebody of that standard, but a player of that ilk/type is what we need. A sharp, quick player who can pick out a final pass (something that (and I know he's returning from injury) Kev isn't particularly brilliant at - for all his other attributes).
Gibson - Fellaini
Mirallas - ???????????? - Pienaar
Sideliner
Player Valuation: £5m
the youngsters outpaced the old boys tonight - we should learn from that and start playing a few youngsters like Velios , Oviedo , Barkley etc -
Shaw their 17 year old nippy left back is such an exiting player to watch - compared to the total lack of pace from our uncle Neville which drives me to tears -
this new Southampton coach looks like a hands on person being in constant contact with his players on the pitch - wheras Moyes just makes his eyes bigger the higher the pressure goes - tactically we were outplayed again tonight by a weaker team on paper -
i thought we were lucky not to concede a penalty when Distin pushed in the box - 50\50's were going more our way i thought - but even that did not help -
untill we sort our strike force and def mid positions out we will stay in this rut of constantly drawing games we should win
Shaw their 17 year old nippy left back is such an exiting player to watch - compared to the total lack of pace from our uncle Neville which drives me to tears -
this new Southampton coach looks like a hands on person being in constant contact with his players on the pitch - wheras Moyes just makes his eyes bigger the higher the pressure goes - tactically we were outplayed again tonight by a weaker team on paper -
i thought we were lucky not to concede a penalty when Distin pushed in the box - 50\50's were going more our way i thought - but even that did not help -
untill we sort our strike force and def mid positions out we will stay in this rut of constantly drawing games we should win
Deco
Player Valuation: £40m
Yeah we've been missing this kind of player for a while now but Mertens isn't the man we need as he's very much like Mirallas. In a dream world it's Isco.
Bluenose1995
Player Valuation: £25m
we need to hound that snake kenwright to cough up some cash for moyes.
EireBlue
Player Valuation: £500k
Tonight aside you can take the positive or negative outlook on where we stand at the moment. Despite dropping silly points and playing poorly recently we still find ourselves 3 points behind 4th place with 2 winnable home games coming up. Mirallas returning is a boost and will add more creativity hopefully resulting in Jela slotting a few. I think we will have a better indication of things on February 1st. The Negative is we haven't found our early season form and look to have no plan B once Pienaar and Baines are stopped. Not to mention Jela missing sitters and now Coleman appearing injured too. Whenever we get in touching distance of the teams above us we never seem to be able to capitalise unfortunately. Of course we need players in and we'll probably get at least 1 loan in. Im sure we'll turn Bolton over and we will be happy enough going into 2 home games.
Jeff Jones
Player Valuation: £35m
You could be right, but I bet you'd get good odds - no pun intended. It's not easy to get 4 out of 4 right.
Oh, piss poor tonight.
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BlueToffee95
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Yeh I know they're similar, but we'd need that versatility he provides and you only need to look at his stats this season (I know it's the Dutch league but there's some decent teams) - 8 goals and 16 assists (plus he's been out for a month injured) to see his quality.
But yeh, Isco would be immense. I'd settle for Landon back like.
Bluenose1995
Player Valuation: £25m
I remember when Jelly wasnt scoring whilst kev was fit and rumours were going round that jelly didnt like mirallas we same the same week after week Jelly just aint scoring mate hopefully anichebe starts against west brom.
Coleman will be a big miss once he comes back just watch kev get injured problem is our injuries take too long to recover whereas over teams players seem to come back within a week or 2.
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