Aluko didn't achieve a fat lot, but there was absolutely nothing wrong with the shift he put it, you obviously didn't see the game.
People moaning about injuries, we get them no better or worse than anyone else. Every single club struggling this season will be blaming injuries. The reason some teams cope better is because less significant players get injured or / and they are better equipped with back-up to lessen the impact.
We may have had 26 shots but only a couple of real chances. Hence only four on target. You're kidding yourself if you think this team creates enough chances. He's been like this ever since he signed. Thing is he's never even properly injured. He's always back within a week or so and it's always reported as several weeks but then he sneaks back into the squad about 2 games later.
He's had so many chances to re-establish himself since his injury woes, and he's failed to take a single one! I too would not dispute that its not for lack of trying, but the Aluko of his first season here having signed from Rangers has since been long lost. Based on the last two seasons the player Palace were supposedly prepared to pay £8m for could go now for £800k if that. At face value he seems to be trying too hard, maybe that's part of the problem; very selfish at the mo
Huddlestone can go with him. Get something for him before he aint worth ****. He's not far from that now I might add
We did create good chances with Meyler and Livermore in the middle and everyone was raving about us being the best team in the league. Bruce couldn't do anything about Meyler's injury, but as feared he instantly sacrificed the system to accommodate Huddlestone and the results/ performances went to pot. Huddlestone is a good player but he can't do what we need him to do. He is a luxury we can't afford and I hope he goes in January so Bruce is forced to allow the other players to play their most effective game.
After an awful first half at leeds thought we created plenty of chances second half plenty of crosses were going in but no one could finish. Up to the Derby game thought we were playing decent and looking good.I think everyone was getting a bit carried away that we were unbeatable and going to win the league with the run we were on now some are saying were not creating , everyone gets injuries and we should be able to cope when its not looking like we can does it. For me its disappointing but lets see were we are when we play Burnley and if things haven't improved by then, then you start to wonder. Has it stands at the moment we are still in a decent position, yes should be better having taken only 1pt from 9 but I would like to think we will get back on a winning run again very soon
I'm not going to get on Tom's back when others were sh.it too but it was a suicide tactic to put him in against a midfield of late teens/early 20s in the first place.
No Thudd already has that Sussed this season, he's simply turned in even ****tier performances than normal in the expectancy of being dropped across the whole Christmas period, and it looks like he may just have achieved his objective.
Bruce appears to specialise in either suicide tactics or accidental tactics, there's no middle ground.
I'd say exactly the same about Diame - who seems to be getting away with being far more ineffective than Huddlestone & gives the ball away far more often. West Ham were glad to get rid of him for that very reason.
This is also spot on. The biggest pity for me is that we have, and have had, individual players who have taken really unfair levels of ****e just because Steve Bruce and Mike Phelan are tactically clueless.
I don't know any West Ham fans who were happy to get rid of him, just some who were irritated by his top 4 comments, most seem to think he'd be brilliant alongside Kouyate in midfield.
This ^^^^^ is just so typical of the modern day football fan. In days gone by one two or even three defeats on the trot would not be taken so badly. In fact when you look around most teams then other than Leicester / Brighton fans which set are happy atm ? We are not even half way through the season yet. It will be time to take serious stock of the league tables on January 4th 2016. That is when things really get ramped up. I was talking to a Man City fan after the game last Tuesday and he said that they took advantage of our errors and the scoreline was not deserved by either team. I agreed even though the right team won that game. As for TWS game it is best now forgotten and we all move on.
I'd say; Tottenham, Palace, West Ham, Liverpool, Everton, Stoke, Watford, Norwich, Bournemouth, Boro, Derby, Cardiff, Wednesday, Birmingham, Burton, Coventry, Walsall, Oxford, Plymouth and there are probably a fair few more that are all pretty happy with their situations at present.
Not everyone at those clubs. The national phone ins always has them on moaning about something. Arsenal and Man Utd fans though do take the biscuit more than most when it comes to having a moan.
Yes but you asked which set are happy, the vast majority of all those clubs fans are happy with their current situation.
