beaujosour

Roberto said, “James (McArthur) was rested at Villa Park and David (Jones) was given a break today suffering with a virus and had to take antibiotics this week so he wasn’t 100%.”

You lot are mental. According to the bbc (Gareth crookes) end of year statistics, “beausojour” put in the most crosses FROM ANY PREMIER LEAGUE PLAYER OVER THE SAME PERIOD. He put in 217 crosses. Closest was 210. See link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20872902

Personally I think he is a decent player, and if he was better he would be somewhere else.

I always find it strange that 2 people can watch the same game & yet if you talk to em it appears they’ve been to 2 completely different games.

Personally I thought the only 3 players to come out of yesterday’s game with any credit were Beausejour, Di Santo & Boyce. Sorry, 4 as I can add Maloney to that list
I thought the others either had bad games (e.g. Al Habsi) or were anonymous (e.g. McCarthy & McArthur).
Whilst not everything they tried came off I thought the 4 I mentioned as having good games tried to make things happen

You are not wrong there TL. Agree with Boyce, Di Santo? worked hard but produced little, Maloney, i’ll take your phrase anonymous.. His passing is a bit like the chuckle brothers sometimes, to you to me to you to me… Not quite at where he was at the back end of last season.
Beausejour – Tried hard but he just isn’t at the races. We channelled a lot of play down that left side on Tuesday and very little came off. Boyce was in acres of space at times and can’t understand why we didn’t pass it out wide to him.

Glad to see though we dinked a couple balls from midfield over the top of the defence for Kone to run onto and it worked. He’s a strong bloke and samlling? Was lucky to stay on the pitch for hauling him down

You are not wrong there TL. Agree with Boyce, Di Santo? worked hard but produced little, Maloney, i’ll take your phrase anonymous.. His passing is a bit like the chuckle brothers sometimes, to you to me to you to me… Not quite at where he was at the back end of last season.
Beausejour – Tried hard but he just isn’t at the races. We channelled a lot of play down that left side on Tuesday and very little came off. Boyce was in acres of space at times and can’t understand why we didn’t pass it out wide to him.

Glad to see though we dinked a couple balls from midfield over the top of the defence for Kone to run onto and it worked. He’s a strong bloke and samlling? Was lucky to stay on the pitch for hauling him down[/quote]

Like I say, all about opinions. I’d agree Maloney hasn’t quite hit the heights of last season but he isn’t the only one

And on Smalling’s challenge – I’ve deleted the game off my sky plus without watching it so I haven’t seen it since I was at the game (& pretty much bang on line in the east stand with where the foul took place). My initial reaction was that it was a caution.
The only way it could have been a sending off was if the challenge was dangerous (which it wasn’t) or if it denied an obvious goal scoring opportunity against a player moving towards goal – Like I say I haven’t seen it since, but whilst it was a foul I thought the ball was already running through to the keeper & so it wasn’t a goal scoring opportunity. At best it seemed 50/50 as to whether Kone would have got to the ball before the keeper which again prevents a red being shown[/quote]

Likewise, i have not seen it back and being in the south stand didn’t have the best of views. To me it looked like he was through on goal and if your the last man then it can be classed as a red card offence in some instances?