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…..happy now? :woohoo:
Oh dear !!!! Is that the best you can do !![/quote]
Unfortunately yes. That’s the worst performance of the season by a country mile. The players had not a clue were they should be and our poor No. 22 was running round in circles and kept looking over at the bench as 2 or 3 Swansea players ran at him from all angles. :woohoo:
Having 5 or 6 players away on international duty all week surely he didn’t get them all back on Friday and said right boys we will play 4-4-2 on Saturday, lets have a bit of a practice. :(
Bobby and team got it totally wrong today and deserved to get hammered. Why oh why did he decide to play the hoof game to the front two who couldn’t win a header or hold it up.
The only consolation, if you can call it that, is the “play 2 up front brigade” might just realise that we haven’t got the quality players to play that formation and will lose midfield and therefore lose the game. :angry:
Now I’ve had my moan, I’ll leave it up to the DS to milk it for the next 6 days. :ohmy:[/quote]A popular misconception is that the ” Darkside ” milk it ! Do you really think that we enjoy that !! For RM to play McCarthy and Gomez from the off when he had better alternatives just goes to show his obstinacy ! Oh and it might have been 4-4-2 on paper but it was far from that what I saw !![/quote]
So Sammon and Di Santo didn’t start up front?
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What a journey!Do you really think any other formation would have made a difference ? Toothless, useless and shite ! I cant believe you would actually defend that crap !!Who said anything about defending that crap?. I actually disagree with you, it was worse than crap. :angry:
In my view, the thing that made it crap was the formation. We got over run in midfield and lost the battle.
Look back at the thread posted over the last 4-5 days debating this very issue. Why did he decide to play a formation that we haven’t started with all season?. Perhaps Jayt or somebody can throw that at him on Monday. :ohmy:
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What a journey!…..happy now? :woohoo:
Oh dear !!!! Is that the best you can do !![/quote]
Unfortunately yes. That’s the worst performance of the season by a country mile. The players had not a clue were they should be and our poor No. 22 was running round in circles and kept looking over at the bench as 2 or 3 Swansea players ran at him from all angles. :woohoo:
Having 5 or 6 players away on international duty all week surely he didn’t get them all back on Friday and said right boys we will play 4-4-2 on Saturday, lets have a bit of a practice. :(
Bobby and team got it totally wrong today and deserved to get hammered. Why oh why did he decide to play the hoof game to the front two who couldn’t win a header or hold it up.
The only consolation, if you can call it that, is the “play 2 up front brigade” might just realise that we haven’t got the quality players to play that formation and will lose midfield and therefore lose the game. :angry:
Now I’ve had my moan, I’ll leave it up to the DS to milk it for the next 6 days. :ohmy:From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Lee Mac had some great years with us but after watching him playing for Rangers a few times, he’s mastered the knack of looking very industrious and busy, but actually doing nowt. OK he scored the other day but the team Rangers played were dead and buried by the time Lee Mac struck.
Any-road, if he resigned for us he’d probably die of hypothermia waiting on the touchline for Ali to punt it up to him. :woohoo:
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What a journey!you braindead moron and that is an insult of the highest order
Really? I’ve had much, much worse insults from much more intelligent people than you, to be fair.
Thanks though, you’ve put a smile on my face before I embark on the afternoon’s endeavours.
You seriously expect me to go back and read stuff you have written that, as you so astutely guessed, I hadn’t even read properly in the first place??
Yeah, right[/quote]
you really are a pompous arrogant prick aren’t you
“Lo que un hombre educado, informado e ingenioso” yeah in your own fucking mind.[/quote]
I have a whole department looking over my shoulder at my screen and laughing at you right now.
One wants to know if you’re in my son’s class at school[/quote]
Tomato soup anyone? :huh:
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What a journey!He’ll do what he does best, put a picture of Bobby up on his pc monitor and shout insults at it just when the fans forum begins. :woohoo:
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What a journey!seeing as I was mentioned in the original thread I will attempt to clarify the ambiguity ! I buy a season ticket every year come what may and I am aware that our season tickets are the 2nd cheapest in the Prem and I am aware that we wont ever be European football contenders. What I will say is that for us to have only won one game at home 6 months ago, I feel that my usual just under £300 spent has not given me the sporadic pleasure that I had anticipated !!I and many others have a different slant on this. Too true I would love us to have won more home games than we have but, my sporadic pleasure comes from watching my team compete with the best and in many occasions out play them, despite not getting the points.
Bolton and Stoke fans for starters, over the years must have walked off the Reebok and Brit made up that their teams have muscled their way to a win or draw, but witnessed them hoofing, kicking their way through the match against teams that man for man have hammered um.I’m really pleased that DW also shares the view that trying to play football the right way is the best option and has stood behind Bobby when it would have been so easy to show him the back door, whilst opening the front door to the likes of Sam Allardyce.
If Bobby manages to keep us up then for the reasons just mentioned above well bloody done that man! goodpostFrom Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Was interesting to hear what my work colleague had to say about formations, he is a Bolton season ticket holder.
“It’s about time Coyle realised playing 442 is not working. Why does he not go back to having the lone striker and winning the midfield battle with 5 across the park”
It appears that before Davies’s legs gave in towards the end of last season, they used him in the lone striker role. Now he has lost his legs they have thrown Ngog up with him and are now getting over run in midfield, which is exactly what we saw at the Reebok a few weeks ago.
I agree with Bobby’s principle in that, if you lose the midfield battle when playing against quality players, they will hurt you real bad.
OK our scoring opportunities may be limited, but so will the oppositions.
If we create 6 opportunities with the pedigree of players we have, we will be lucky to score once. Give any of the top teams in the EPL 6 scoring opportunities in a game and they will score 1 or 2.
That’s basically the difference between us and them, but unfortunately for us, you have to shed out over £30-£40m to get those quality strikers, or fall lucky with a unproven striker who hits the ground running.
The problem with wigan Athletic is a] we can’t afford that kind of money and probably never will and b] apart from Zaki for a couple of months or Hugo on his day, we have found it difficult finding that unproven striker.From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!It sounds like Victor did the hard work and set the eagles forward up to score but failed to finish. not the other way round. :woohoo:
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What a journey!The season hasn’t gonbe to plan by a long way so far, but looking at the remaining fixtures, how many points can you see us getting?
Everton (H)-3
Bolton (A)-1
Villa (H)-1
Swansea (H)-3
Norwich (A)-0
West Brom (H)-3
Liverpool (A)-0
Stoke (H)-3
Chelsea (A)-0
Man utd (H)-0
Arsenal (A)-0
Fulham (A)-1
Newcastle (H)-3
Blackburn (A)-0
Wolves (H)-3[/quote]
Still bang on target and I reckon 36 points will be enough to stay up this season. B) :woohoo:
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What a journey!but to answer you about di santo he is no longer a kid he nearly 23 and he is not improving, he is exactly the same as we saw on september 11th 2010.
I dare you to put a poll on here to get peoples views on whether Di Santo has improved since he joined us. :woohoo:
I’m not saying that he’s won me or many other fans over, as being the player to get us out of the bottom 3, but when he first joined us he couldn’t;
– trap a bag of cement,
– beat Jimmy Krankie to a header,
– hold up his own britches,
– kick the ball any farther than I could hitting it with bull rush,
– link up my grand son’s scalextric.There were no positives when he first joined us apart from he was 6′ 4″, had worked with some top coaches at Chelsea, was deemed good enough to have joined Chelsea in the first place.
I now see a player who runs his socks off every time he plays, runs the channels quite well, wins his fair share of headers, holds the ball up well, links up nicely with other players and is not frightened of having a pop at goal.
Finished article…NO……improving…..YES!From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!There’s no need to get on your high horse over Martinez’s striker failures.
Have a look at how many Torres has scored for Chelsea, Ngog at Bolton, Crouch at Stoke, Jerome at Stoke, Boothroyd at QPR, Carroll at Liverpool, Bendtner at Sunderland..the list goes on and on.
Those 3 players you mentioned were worth a gamble and who knows, Di Santo is only a young kid and is improving game by game. The potential is there to bring this lad on and maybe, just maybe the £13m investment you have highlighted in those 3 signings, may eventually bring in a decent profit. ;)
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What a journey!With an ego the size of Canada, the guy has wound me up no end since entering management. The spat with Martin Jol after their 1-0 defeat to Fulham has made me actually angry. The knob head.Agree, used to like him as a player but he’s turned into one ignorant git.
Would love him to take QPR down and after that winning start, there is now more than a good chance of it. :woohoo:From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Six months tomorrow since we won a game at home !! Now that sort of home form is indeed fascinating !!
The last two home wins at the DW have been by Wigan Warriors & Wigan Warriors. In different seasons.[/quote]
How many chubsters watched those two wins?, we had over 20,000 at the DW for that boring 0-0 draw.
Move along little egg boy. :lol: :whistle:[/quote]Attendances and possession do not get you any points. I would have thought even a rotund, baldy the wrong side of 40 would have grasped that by now[/quote]
I fully understand that crowds don’t get you points but unfortunately the slightly fatter, balder, owder, thicker chubsters harped on about little Latics crowds for longer than I could take and now love the fact that we are getting bigger crowds. :lol:
Once again you can’t keep your spotty, greasy face of this football website. If you want I’ll order you a JCB or summut to remove that massive chip that now lies squarely and firmly on the eggmens shoulders.
Can you not talk your older sister into letting you play with her wii game for 5 minutes. B)From Matlock to ManU
What a journey!Six months tomorrow since we won a game at home !! Now that sort of home form is indeed fascinating !!
The last two home wins at the DW have been by Wigan Warriors & Wigan Warriors. In different seasons.[/quote]
How many chubsters watched those two wins?, we had over 20,000 at the DW for that boring 0-0 draw.
Move along little egg boy. :lol:
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What a journey!
