Or we just needed to not write him off for not scoring in his first few months even though no one else was scoring then either.
I posted this back in January and sure enough it transpired pretty much as I feared regarding Joseph: Hopefully he can continue winning people over and we make it work now.
Going by some of your past posts, you seem to have a different lexicon compared to most. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Just use words unknown to the common masses. Or don’t check what the keyboard has ****ed up with. The choice is yours…
Agree. Joseph looked like he had something about him. Don’t know what any forward player was expected to do in that absolute tragedy of a team we had last season. All they were doing was chasing aimless punts all game long. There was no service, no support, no moving the ball through midfield, they’d make runs and nobody would pass to them. Hopefully this season we will see a bit more of what he’s about. You don’t score 8 goals in league one by being ****.
i been in that pub. nice interior. ive always wondered why buildings in glasgow are so tall. the ceilings are way too high. (nowt to do with m fear of heights.)
Well, I for one would be happy to see City playing like last night even if the results don’t always go our way. A lot more entertaining than some of the stuff we have seen indecent seasons. Quite impressed how the manager has imbued a different style and approach in a short time. I think this season will be a lot better than many, myself included were expecting. Joseph and Giles seemed like completely different players. Semi looked the part and the lad from Man City and McArthy showed promise when they came on.
Sometimes it takes a certain kind of manager to galvanise a team ethos, from the soundbites and from what I've seen so far this is exactly what he has done. Whisper it quietly, but I'm beginning to think we've got a very decent manager in here who the players are definitely responding to, and as I said earlier, the physicality we're seeing was none existent last year.
Why did West Ham buy Bowen and immediately play him on the right? Why did England play him on the right? It was only stupid City who played him on the left and Bowen played well in spite of it.
Teeth have further to travel before pinging off the ceiling. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine l.
Some of you hate the modern tactical jargon but having a solid ‘rest defence’ with three players at the back, even in back four formations, is really useful. There’s different ways of doing it. You can play 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 that looks like a 3-2-5 or 3-1-6 in possession. Some teams have one fullback bomb forward or invert into midfield and the other stays behind as a third centre-back. Other teams have the number six drop between the centre-backs and have both fullbacks get forward, like we did last night. This is also similar to how Coventry played last season under Lampard. They played 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 on paper but van Ewijk and Dasilva played high and wide and Grimes dropped between the two centre-backs. They’ve signed two more attacking fullbacks this summer so I imagine the plan is the same this season. Jakirović is quite flexible with his tactics. Having both Giles and Drameh play means the number six drops deep. If Coyle plays, it might be he stays back as a third centre-back and the number six doesn’t drop as deep.
