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lewisc29 said:
Hernandez did look awful yesterday. Couldn't hold the ball up and every time it came to his feet, it bounced off him. Just a bad day at the office.
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What I would say is that while Abel rarely held the ball, he did work the defenders hard enough that we often picked up their clearing headers and tackles, Tommy H especially. It's a valid way of getting the ball forwards.

Did anyone else think Kante looked pretty ****? One season wonder maybe.
 
The top six clubs have players who can pass the ball accurately and control the ball well.
Most of the players in the other teams are nowhere near as accomplished.
The difference is huge.
 
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We would pass the ball well in midfield sideways and backwards and it would eventually get to Jak who would hoof it up the field and we'd lose it. When we have the ball in midfield why not pass forward? We would have a better opportunity of creating something from there.
 
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AlRawdah said:
What I would say is that while Abel rarely held the ball, he did work the defenders hard enough that we often picked up their clearing headers and tackles, Tommy H especially. It's a valid way of getting the ball forwards.

Did anyone else think Kante looked pretty ****? One season wonder maybe.
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He did close down well and worked hard but we need a little more unfortunately.

Regarding Kante, I thought our midfield played really well yesterday and that caused him and Matic to struggle. He's been great this year, though. Really turned the Chelsea team around and made them steadier.
 
City Man said:
Word.
Disappointing to see some posters losing the big picture.
The jury is out on Silva. We've no one who can score except Hernandez when the opposition is lower table.
Until we sign someone, the outcome will be identical......great performance, great spirit, 100% effort, but no goals.
We saw it at WHU and against Man City under Phelan, and Old Trafford and Stamford Bridge under Silva.
0-1, 0-3, 0-2, 0-2. All great performances and no goals scored, betrayed by lack of cutting edge. Under Phelan and now under Silva. The song remains the same.
I wonder why Silva says we have a smaller budget than other clubs, given that we have spent less in summer than other clubs?
Maybe now he is starting to see the **** hand the manager gets dealt here.
My worst case scenario: we get relegated, Silva goes, most of his new players leave, our best ones get sold in this window or at season end. This will leave us with half a squad, no backroom staff, no continuity, and nothing like the group of players we had last time we came down. Worst of all we still have owners incapable of mapping out any kind of strategy for the club and who refuse to engage with the media and fans.
Fingers crossed Silva gets the players he needs. (I don't believe we will get cut adrift if we lose the forthcoming games...we were always going to lose those. The players know who we have to beat at the KCOM in March and April in order to have a chance of staying up.)
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****ing great post. Long term plan my arse.
 
petersaxton said:
We would pass the ball well in midfield sideways and backwards and it would eventually get to Jak who would hoof it up the field and we'd lose it. When we have the ball in midfield why not pass forward? We would have a better opportunity of creating something from there.
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Because we are not good enough going forward and therein lies the problem.
 
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Stockholm Tiger said:
Funnily enough Harry Redknapp was saying exactly this on the radio just now. According to him the new manager hasn't made any difference at all. We are still playing well and losing. He then gave us pelters saying the squad simply wasn't good enough to survive. He had us and Sunderland as bang on for relegation with the squad we've got.

As an alternative point of view Ian Abrahams said he spoke to Tom after the game who'd said the whole squad was buzzing and had really bought into the MS philosophy and were full of confidence.

Either way I think it'll be a chuffing miracle if we beat the drop. Just looking at the Swansea result you see we are not the only ones who are going to get a bounce and pick up our performances. Some of those around us will too.
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Harry Redknapp's opinion is one that should be ignored. He's a useless manager who just overspends everywhere he goes and has only said what he has because he wasn't probably in with a shot of the job and returning to management.
 
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Evington said:
****ing great post. Long term plan my arse.
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Ehaw seems to want a pop up club.

6 months from now, the management team will be gone, his loan signings and the players he brought in.
What kind of confidence does that show in anyone?
Seems Phelan's one season contract set the tone......no intention of building up the club, just employ people for as short a time as you have to.
 
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Dr.Stanley O'Google said:
Am I remembering right - the squad was barely there, MP played with what he had (a back 3?) and then players came in/back from injury and he had a choice. We had no RB so he put Elmo in there and left Big H out.

My memory may be incorrect...
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Your post reads about right - my memory won't be any better than yours though :bandit:
 
Anyone care to look and see how many more goals Burnley have scored than us?? Ten points clear of us.
Or how about Soton? 11 points clear of us.

The answers are 4 and 2!!!! Surprised???

Marco is tightening us up at the back. Of course its going to be nip and tuck.
Give Abel the service and he'll score. The rest have to weigh in too.
 
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The difference between Phelan & Silva was in Phelan's own approach and this was vs West Brom FFS.. I don't remember exactly but it was similar to:

"We tried to contain them for 60 minutes and then if we're still in the game try and nick a goal bla bla bla"

West Brom are one of the teams who generally concede the most possession in the league due to Pulis and Phelan was basically saying, "no you have the ball"

Yes the results are similar vs the big clubs but it's less 'backs to the wall'
 
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Evington said:
Because we are not good enough going forward and therein lies the problem.
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It's been a problem for quite some time (it was under Bruce), turning it around won't be easy in the short space of time. Obviously new players would help and less injuries would help. The Allams have had no long term thinking at all this season, it's all been about selling the club and they even failed at that.
 
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