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Just watched Reading highlights again. Scharner’s first half challenge on the Russian guy was awesome. The determination he showed to get back and get in such a clean challenge was impressive. If the whole team can show that kind fight and effort for the rest of the season we have a very good chance of staying up. I’m guessing the back 3 that started last Saturday will be our first choice for the run in? I’m sure Alcaraz will get a full run in the FA Cup but I’m guessing he will be used as back up in the run in?
I think Gary Neville made a very good point last night (in fairness he’s not a bad analyst) about beausajour for the second goal. He took a chance in closing down Morrsion who then lost the ball in midfield that lead to our second. If Morrison had managed to flick the ball to Kelly as a result of Beausajour committing himself Kelly could have had a free run down the right. If Reading had scored some fingers would have pointed at Beaujasour. Instead we are talking about his ‘pass of the season’. As Neville said these are the small margins in football.
It was a decent pass no more no less but to be calling it the pass of the season !! I see passes like that week in week out on MOTD and the likes ![/quote]
Decent?? You’re hard pleased. I thought it was a fantastic pass myself.[/quote]
If golden boy Wilshire had made that pass the plaudits would still be telling us how wonderful he is.[/quote]You’re not wrong mate!
The fact Jeany B has been mentioned as join 10th in the table of assists this season caught my eye on another thread.
I have to admit I was a bit shocked as I have been critical of him this season maybe not as relentlessley as others on here but I dont think he has had a good season by my expectations of him.
It got me thinking what are my expectations of him? quite frankly I dont expect to see him racing back down the line to make a last ditch tackle on a winger at a critical moment in the way Leighton Baines used to do for us.
I dont expect (but would probably like him to a bit more) run at fullbacks taking it past them and putting him in a great position to cross the ball.
What I do expect from him is that he provides assists to the team.
Well the statistics dont lie folks and while he is joint 11th not joint 10th according to the espn assists table the fact he has provided as many assists this as seasons media darling Santi Cazorla of Arsenal speaks wonders in itself.
What speaks more for this from our personal expeience is he is 2 assists ahead of Leighton Baines and Antonio Valencia.
If someone told me that this morning I would of told them they were talking out of their arse.
So in summary I think my expectations of this season were based on how well he did when he joined us last season.
I think in that time he was aided by the fact teams seemed bemused by the LWB position and the position he would take up on the pitch.
More full backs have been instructed to come out and meet the wing backs this season but I think its fair to say his assists are invaluable to us and our relegation battle for the rest of 2013.
He is f**king garbage.
He has lost possesion more times than I care to think. Probably lost us games/points too. The reason he has as many assists as Cazorla (And others) will be due to the fact he puts nearly ALL of our crosses/balls in as he does have a decent cross, it isn’t always consistent but it can be good and we slightly rely on him to put the balls in, whereas Arsenal don’t need Cazorla to put all of their balls in.[/quote]Even though I like you and you seem a really nice guy I think our footballing opinions are a world apart.
I realised this when you said Man Utd have one of the worst squads they have ever had in years this season which to be honest I think is mental talk :)
But f**king garbage is surely a bit harsh? anyone who is top assists or top goalscorer is surely not garbage as they are obviously doing something right.
The point of the thread anyway is that while I have been previously critical of him which is all good and well when you step back and take a good look at it hes actually been a big part of keeping us above the top 3 up to now.
“The reason he has as many assists as Cazorla (And others) will be due to the fact he puts nearly ALL of our crosses/balls in as he does have a decent cross, it isn’t always consistent but it can be good and we slightly rely on him to put the balls in, whereas Arsenal don’t need Cazorla to put all of their balls in.”
That doesn’t really stack up against the likes of Valencia and Baines who might I add both won player of the season for their respective clubs last season and who’s job it is to put the balls into the box.
But you have made a good point in the fact that we actually do rely on him to put all the balls in the box.
The service from RWB has been non exsistent for 90% of this season (something I hope is about to change due to the return of our 1st choice in Boycey)
Sorry full table can be found here:
http://espnfc.com/stats/assists?league=eng.1&cc=5739#
If you cant be arsed looking here are some other big names Jean has more assists than : Oscar, Suarez, Taarabt, Torres, Pienaar & Carrick.
His tactical nous is minimal and he can be stubborn and Wenger-like when it comes to diversifyingNow there is something I completely disagree with :cheer:
His tactical nous is the highest I have ever seen in charge of Wigan Athletic do you remember Paul “one way to play” Jewell?
Just because he doesnt bow to the morons on here to abondon a footballing philsophy that has so far kept us in the PL for 3 seasons does not make him stubborn and unable to diversify.
I dont think there has been a team in the history of the PL who will have changed formation on a more regular basis than we have this season.
Just watched Reading highlights again. Scharner’s first half challenge on the Russian guy was awesome. The determination he showed to get back and get in such a clean challenge was impressive. If the whole team can show that kind fight and effort for the rest of the season we have a very good chance of staying up. I’m guessing the back 3 that started last Saturday will be our first choice for the run in? I’m sure Alcaraz will get a full run in the FA Cup but I’m guessing he will be used as back up in the run in?
I think Gary Neville made a very good point last night (in fairness he’s not a bad analyst) about beausajour for the second goal. He took a chance in closing down Morrsion who then lost the ball in midfield that lead to our second. If Morrison had managed to flick the ball to Kelly as a result of Beausajour committing himself Kelly could have had a free run down the right. If Reading had scored some fingers would have pointed at Beaujasour. Instead we are talking about his ‘pass of the season’. As Neville said these are the small margins in football.
It was a decent pass no more no less but to be calling it the pass of the season !! I see passes like that week in week out on MOTD and the likes ![/quote]
I’ve not heard what Nev the red had said but Tipperary says his pass of the season.
A few more from now til end of season would not go amiss.
good luck to the ladafter being on close to minimum wage for years i cant fault the lad leaving for a decent wage increase
and also furthering is premiership career a while longer
I keep getting an itch to dive on this thread and put forward (once again) why I believe Bruce was a rubbish manager for us.
But I really CBA so I would like to register it was my intent to do so.
Why worryingly ? he is a player who can create something out of nothing its what he is all about making runs at players.
Against lower league opposition playing from the start.. maybe. In the Premier League in a 10 minute cameo appearence (Or at all to be honest).. No B)[/quote]
See I dont get the mentality of that, that lad has his best ever performance for us and everyone jumps on here going right he has found his level he will never make it in the PL ?!??!
Let us not forget he is the biggest / only prospect to come out of our youth system since Leighton Baines.
He also offers us something different from the rest of the forwards as I think Dicko is probably 1 or 2 seasons away from Callum’s current level.
Cant be arsed clicking the links but I assume this is refering to his post game comments?
What he actually said was he ” Callum gets so hyped up before a game we told him he wasnt playing so he could be sad last night and get a good nights sleep ”
I dont think he is trying to make himself look clever just giving us fans an insight into the club which is always welcome.
Whatever he did it worked Mcmanaman looked really good against Huddersfield ( okay so they were no world beaters)
“Worryingly, Bob thinks that young Callum is going to be an important part of our relegation battle and that he is a player that can create something out of nothing”
Why worryingly ? he is a player who can create something out of nothing its what he is all about making runs at players.
Every player in the squad can play an important part in our relegation battle would you not be more worried if Roberto was saying he cant?!?!?!?
Once again I deem Roberto’s comments to be bob on.
Well done Sir Roberto goodpost goodpost goodpost goodpost goodpost
I think the fact that losing Figeuroa at the end of the season wouldnt be any great shakes is testament to the fact this is the strongest PL squad we have had.
WELL DONE ROBERTO goodpost goodpost goodpost goodpost
He will probably go on to be a decent LB for West Ham but there will be no sour grapes on my part if he does as he has been a good servant to WAFC in his time here.
Wants us to be the 12 man for the remainder of the season….
Maybe we should try to be, instead of majority of people sitting there just waiting for a bad pass or something to shout out some stupid one liner they think is funny/clever that they’ve probably been thinking up all week. ;)[/quote]
My thoughts exactly.
As Forest put in their sixth against Huddersfield I hope that puts Sundays win in some perspective. A Forest team we battered earlier in the season on their own ground.You want to have a bit of perspective yourself fella.
A win is a win.
