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It might have something to do with the fact that Di Santo and Alcaraz are injured…..
Well exactly! (shakes head in disbelief at missing the bleedin’ obvious)
I’m a little bit concerned, I have to admit.
Our worst ever start to a Premiership season? Apparently so. There are different ways to look at it. But have we been unlucky? Not really. Have we come up against a great side yet? You could argue Chelsea are a great side, and will be up there as title contenders, but then again, apart from the first 7 minutes against them, it was probably our best performance so far. Stoke we should’ve beat, and it’s games against the likes of Fulham, no disrespect to them, as they aren’t a bad side, but we should be beating those clubs, if we genuinely want to make some progress.
What worries me is that teams are beating us without breaking out of third gear. Whilst we have had patches of good possession football, it means nothing if we get nothing from the game.Everton on Saturday, is probably our toughest game yet. They are the form team, going great guns. I agree with others in that Alcaraz has been a big miss, and so has Di Santo whilst he had that knock from Old Trafford. Regarding Boselli, I was quite surprised Martinez never threw him into the fray against Sunderland, he must wonder just what he has to do to get a chance. That said, I am not sure Everton are the team to bring him in against, not against the man-mountains of Heitinga and Dystain. Di Santo, if fit, would be the preferred choice.
I’d take a point now, definitely.
No football team can rely on a regular starting 11 due to injuries and suspensions but I have to admit,I haven’t as yet seen any evidence of that fight and sheer determination that hauled us out of danger last season ! Same thing happened the year before ? Enigmatic springs to mind !
No football team can rely on a regular starting 11 due to injuries and suspensions but I have to admit,I haven’t as yet seen any evidence of that fight and sheer determination that hauled us out of danger last season ! Same thing happened the year before ? Enigmatic springs to mind !Yes, I think we’ve looked kind of, dare I say, ‘flat’, at times.
the likes of Fulham, no disrespect to them, as they aren’t a bad side, but we should be beating those clubsi respectfully disagree.
look at what Fulham are spending on quality buys. they’re aiming alot higher than us this season. We should not be beating those sides as you put it. I would like to think we should be competing with those sides. But going into games thinking we should beat them is a recipe for disaster. I believe this is were some fans have got a little ahead of the game, hence a few defeats/or poor performances and its all gone tits up – reminder that were in October for christ sake. aimed at other posters – not AppleyBridgeLatic
We are not a fulham, we have gate size in common but nothing else.
Is it time to be worried with our performances
pardon our perfrormnance s ahve been good apart from fulham and 30 mins v utd
Its amazing how fickle of our fans turn after a couple of defeats.
Di Santo is now the bees knees, Boselli is only good for reserve football and Kone is too lazy.
Give me strength.
yes amazing and amazing that i agree with you our fans can be sh ite sometimes and i bet half of these men cant be bothered going to away games
yes amazing and amazing that i agree with you our fans can be sh ite sometimes and i bet half of these men cant be bothered going to away gamesDoes it not bore you that nobody is biting on your away day bragging? Haven’t you got fed up with it yet? Because everyone else has.
lol all except you nad afew more o master answer and in answer to your question no it does not bore me thanks for the reply
after 6 games we shouldn’t worry, its when Christmas comes and we are around the bottom places, that’s the time to panic.
Why do we not revert to the same 11 (bar Moses) that got us our best run of form? I would bench Ramis and Kone (too lazy to play up front on his own) and go back to the players and formation that finished the season in style. The Japanese lad may be best to replace Moses but other than that position the rest pick themselves. Boselli may look decent against reserve teams in the League cup but has looked woeful in the premier league at times and you can’t look past Di Santo as the number one forward surely.
It might have something to do with the fact that Di Santo and Alcaraz are injured and we haven’t had the full eleven (bar Moses) all fit as once since the start of the season.[/quote]
Currently injured, yes.
If starting from the premise ‘be difficult to beat’, also correct say that first up against Chelsea our back 3 COULD and SHOULD have been Figueroa, Caldwell and Alcaraz(sub – Ramis), Jones substitution for Beausejour.
We haven’t always helped ourselves (Sunderland, another example – same front 3 as Fulham – no Miyaichi, or Bosselli (opportunity to perform))
‘Revert to same 11’, refers, I think to the Everton game, Saturday (i.e. looking forward …after all, what is done, is done)
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