No, I mean being daft enough to sell a nice looking vase at a fayre, to get a quick return, when patience would have allowed you to find out it was a Ming. Or something like that. Time and again it becomes apparent that, to some, money is everything. As for getting in the squad, start an appropriate thread on Bruce (tomorrow) and we'll throw that and his other ****e around for a while.
Money may not be everything but it's certainly very important now. Even managers who don't think that way have to consider it to keep chairmen off their back for a bit longer. I can't understand a lot of what goes on in football nowadays. Managers buy strikers but don't play to their strengths. Some managers (Steve Bruce?) don't seem to appreciate the importance of set pieces. "Walls" are formed against free kicks without linking arms and players dive out of the way when the ball comes near them or they let attackers stand in the wall and don't push them out of the way just before the kick is taken.
In the case of Ince, Bruce was not happy, fat from it. Your points on tactics are all too right, IMO. The whole forming of a wall is almost worthy of comedy status; they seem to think everyone is a free-kick ace. We need more guts back in football as it is disappearing.
In the Development Squad match today Palace scored directly from a free kick. The scorer bent the ball around the wall but the man on the end of the wall seemed to think he wasn't allowed to stick his leg out!
I can`t help thinking that although gray looks a good purchase, a lot of these goals were set up beautifully for him by judge and dallas, running onto the ball to finish well, i sincerely hope that SB has made a note of this and plays to his strengths, if we do then this lad is a steal at £9m
Peter, when he came on last Saturday his body language was totally different from last year. As others have remarked he looked the best player on the pitch for a time. He genuinely looked up and put passes through. Ok he has more time perhaps, or he sees something to work with Akpom, but not once (from memory) did he needlessly run into trouble head down and lost the ball. Just my opinion!
Aluko is certainly better in the Championship. He could turn it on in the Premier League except when it come to scoring.
You're an accountant aint ya Peter ? An actuary or a lion tamer would have more appreciation of the sardonic/sarcastic/ironic wit.
There you go again. Believing everything that John Cleese says. I trained with a guy who swapped firefighting for accountancy because he said it was more exciting.
