It’s interesting and heartening to see that Rami Al Hajj was one of the four selected for the PAFC MotM poll and that he’s ended up with 31% of the vote, just behind the winner Rands who got 35%. He started a game at Home Park just after he signed. He’s a very elegant player: he seems to glide rather than run and good on the ball too. It’s been more or less confirmed I think though that he’s had problems coming up to the physicality required in this league. We haven’t seen a lot of him. If he’s now able to play 90 minutes in a game as tough as this then he could become that Azaz replacement we need.
Rami Al Hajj will be a good player for Argyle if he can become a regular choice in a settled team.....hoping that Phelan can influence Rooney's inability to know who his best eleven is.
I watched the short highlights on Sky. Chris Wilder bemoaned the fixture schedule, having played on Sunday, away on Wednesday and then yesterday, and his injury list. All fair comments, especially on the fixtures, but he should try it on our budget, injury list and being 80 miles from the nearest club! He also said we were the better side in the first half and although they got a better grip in the second, Argyle were dangerous throughout. And we were, if the highlights are representative. In the first half, you’d have thought the league positions were the other way around. Gyabi had a golden opportunity from close to the penalty spot but skewed it past the post. He’ll have nightmares about that. The first goal was just one of those things: a corner cleared successfully outside the penalty box but falls to one of theirs who leathers it into the ground from 25 yards but it bounces up, flies through a ruck of bodies and in at the near post. Obafemi did get out to him but did the forwards’ thing and turns his back on the attempted block. That’s no good, keep your eyes on the ball and if you have to block it with your private parts, so be it. The penalty was - a penalty, by today’s wish-washy standards. Galloway goes in for a block from the front but the United guy flicks the ball away and Galloway ploughs into him instead. Not a malicious challenge and you could argue the ball was flicked away deliberately with no hope of recovery in order to draw the foul. Would it have been a penalty if Galloway had contacted the ball 5 nanoseconds before he took the guy’s legs out? Almost certainly not and there's something wrong with that. Much better by all accounts and we’d have very likely got something from a side who weren’t in the Premiership last season and top-of-the-table now.
I watchedc this game and thought we wee the better side and had chances, yep a prem team last year but we gave it a go and Cooper had to make two top class saves, he hasnt conceded at home yet so i was hoping. Much improved on recent games hopefully a few Injuries coming back and we can move on again .. i likeRami Al Haj i saw him in his first game i think against Blackburn could be sunderland well a game we won and he looked decent Hopefully we now get some points this weekend. keep finn Azar out the way
