So after the Man Utd game the positives are:
+ After that thrashing and terrible performance, our league position is no worse off
+ CH is very unlikely to pick Garrido, Johnson (?), Whittaker and Bunn for the next league game, who did not play well
+ Van Wolfswinkel should be back for the Man City game which at least gives us another option
+ Due to a shortage of midfielders, through injury and potentially having 4 fit strikers there is a small chance we might see the 4-4-2 some fans have been crying out for (I think it is a terrible idea personally)
+ We have Fox, Ayala and Surman on loan, who we could recall should we really need to
+ Jonny Howson, Rusty, Martin Olsson and John Ruddy who I think have been good for us are likely to play against City, hopefully Tettey will too
+ We have a January transfer window where we can afford (and may need) to reinforce.
+ If the injury problems are bad we could get an emergency loan (maybe Zaha, could that happen?
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And the many negatives:
- We have been eliminated from the League Cup
-All the progress and improvement made over the course of the season seems to have dissapered during that game
- We made a mediocre Manchester United side look world-class and fuelled the Januzaj hype and generally humiliated ourselves
- Bassong and R. Bennett have both been shaky when they have played. We have Turner who has been ok but whatever centre-half pairing we put out, I am not confident
- Fer was fairly sloppy, giving away a penalty and his passing and defending was not good, just like the rest of the team
- Snodgrass (I think our most important attacking player) is very likely to miss some games
- Redmond could possibly miss the next game, so the worst case scenario is that we have 3 (!) wingers out for Man City leaving just the injury-prone Pilkington
- Tettey could also be sidelined through injury, which would force us to play Johnson
Last night's terrible performance showed that we did at least perform well against Cardiff and Chelsea even if the results didn't go our way. Really want to see improvement against Man City and a win against West Ham. Get well soon Snoddy! OTBC
+ After that thrashing and terrible performance, our league position is no worse off
+ CH is very unlikely to pick Garrido, Johnson (?), Whittaker and Bunn for the next league game, who did not play well
+ Van Wolfswinkel should be back for the Man City game which at least gives us another option
+ Due to a shortage of midfielders, through injury and potentially having 4 fit strikers there is a small chance we might see the 4-4-2 some fans have been crying out for (I think it is a terrible idea personally)
+ We have Fox, Ayala and Surman on loan, who we could recall should we really need to
+ Jonny Howson, Rusty, Martin Olsson and John Ruddy who I think have been good for us are likely to play against City, hopefully Tettey will too
+ We have a January transfer window where we can afford (and may need) to reinforce.
+ If the injury problems are bad we could get an emergency loan (maybe Zaha, could that happen?
)And the many negatives:
- We have been eliminated from the League Cup
-All the progress and improvement made over the course of the season seems to have dissapered during that game
- We made a mediocre Manchester United side look world-class and fuelled the Januzaj hype and generally humiliated ourselves
- Bassong and R. Bennett have both been shaky when they have played. We have Turner who has been ok but whatever centre-half pairing we put out, I am not confident
- Fer was fairly sloppy, giving away a penalty and his passing and defending was not good, just like the rest of the team
- Snodgrass (I think our most important attacking player) is very likely to miss some games
- Redmond could possibly miss the next game, so the worst case scenario is that we have 3 (!) wingers out for Man City leaving just the injury-prone Pilkington
- Tettey could also be sidelined through injury, which would force us to play Johnson
Last night's terrible performance showed that we did at least perform well against Cardiff and Chelsea even if the results didn't go our way. Really want to see improvement against Man City and a win against West Ham. Get well soon Snoddy! OTBC
