Match Day Thread STOKE CITY v WATFORD

SKY ANNALIST SAID: EVENTUALLY THE WHEELS WILL COME OFF THE SHIP.....

 

Louza made a huge difference in midfield when he came on. His contribution to the game was very impressive - apart from the relatively simple opportunity to score which he missed.

 

What a shambles, this is what happens when you employ some foreign coach who insists on playing the right players in the right formation and then wins 4-0 away from home, will the Pozzos ever learn

Edit

Posted this before reading any comments but we should have got Bilic at the end of last season so he had a close season to work with the players and we might have won this 6-0

 

I know I am, late but it was 4 - 2 - 3 - 1 as I said before the game and I am so glad I was right

 

We tried - but he turned us down. Apparently didn't fancy trying to stave off relegation.

 

Alex Neil certainly made a bad choice I feel to leave Sunderland.

 

Shouldn't read too much into 1 game - just enjoy the sensation. It wasn't obvious we were that much better - especially 2nd half of first half. Several misplaced passes and general untidiness. Louza coming on changed the game, not that Asprilla was at all poor, just that Louza is a superior version. So pleased we have tied him down to2028 - whatever it actually means. We were better 2nd half before he came on, but after he appeared we controlled it. 2nd goal killed the game. Difficult to imagine this team (largely) played at Blackburn.
Nice. at last. to see our players playing to their ability. Genuinely the first time this season. If it carries on , we're in for a run.
Credit to Slaven for setting up the team so well so quickly.
That said, Stoke weren't very good. They appear to have the problems we appeared to have at Ewood Park. Differene is in the quality we have when we are 'on it'.
COYH

 

I said at the end of last season not during it

Claudia and Woy just came to us for one last payday and overall it showed, what we actually need is a grizzled old campaigner like Bilic with a Rob Edwards as his number two so they can feed of each other and when Bilic goes we have the ready made replacement, no upheaval, that is my main complaint with Gino but he has always said from day one that he does not want a team built around a manager who if successful will be poached by a bigger club and the resultant mess left behind will take two or three years to repair, I fully understand that but we do need a compromise between the two extremes

Here endeth todays lesson

 

Fair point re RE as No2, but would he accept that? It’s a great idea, though.

 

It worked well when Aidy Boothroyd startred. He had the ex Spurs manager as mentor ( Yorkshireman - name ... ) . It fell apart when Aidy said he could do it by himself.

 

Keith Burkinshaw

 

thx !

 

2 players in the team of the week.

Both rather ironically given the issues Edwards had over it at wingback

 

I knew there was a West Ham legend somewhere, when Brenda got his first managerial post with us he had Frank Lampards dad as his mentor

 

Write up in the Daily Fail today by Matt (smug face) Barlow, mostly good but for this quote

Slaven Bilić ex West Ham and West Brom manager seems to be working his way backwards through the alphabet of clubs with an over inflated sense of where they belong in the grand scheme of things

Pissed me off but I wonder how West Ham and West Brom would feel about that comment

 

Wasn’t a popular move at the time as he criticised our tactics under GT.

 

Troy in there too I see...