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T.REX

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  1. I could be wrong but thought it was Tadic who let Young cross? Think we're playing generally ok, Long isolated but United just look strong all over the pitch sadly. Definitely miss Pelle's qualities in these kind of games.
  2. Saw on a burnley forum that they might be interested in Shane as a replacement for Gray. Surprised they didn't go for jay earlier in the summer.
  3. Best - hard to beat the Brighton goal at the withdean, he was incredible that season. Worst - the Reading game where we lost first place, couldn't cope at all with le fondre
  4. Agree with this, i think Leicester are a fair bit braver/more incisive than us in possession. Albrighton and Fuchs hit earlier crosses, Drinkwater looks for early through balls, Mahrez constantly takes on players etc. The game plan in the first half yesterday is a pretty good way to nullify them, let them have the ball so they can't counter, try to expose their centre backs pace (as with the Mane chance) and double up on Mahrez. But it was hugely reliant on the first goal and once we switched off - great ball in but should have been closed down - we had to chase the game and that played into Leicester's hands.
  5. Ridiculous it's not on TV. It was bad enough they didn't show the first leg.
  6. Physical...ly attractive Yeah sorry meant more in the tireless running sense. Two forwards seems to be having a bit of a comeback.
  7. Watford reminded me a bit of us under Strachan: impeccable organisation, hard-working and two tricky and physical forwards. They made the game wonderfully simple. Thought Lallana was dreadful, so ineffective and would be no use - even to us - in his current form.
  8. Brilliant formation Garth's got them in there. Tactical genius.
  9. It was pretty dire stuff but we did have games like that last season and at least the defensive stability was back. I think the balance still isn't right, in the first two games we were pretty naive to play four attacking players with only Davis and Wanyama shielding the defence but with Romeu and Wanyama in there together (and an extra defender) we could have afforded to play Juanmi or Tadic in this game ahead of Davis to provide at least some creativity. Having said that, if Mane had stayed on the pitch we may have found a way to sneak a 1-0. Thought Cedric had a much better game and the 3-5-2 could potentially be pretty effective with Van Dijk, Clasie and Bertrand in the side.
  10. Very impressed with Targett in that match, seems to have grown massively in confidence.
  11. There might be a good speech in there somewhere with some ruthless editing.
  12. Wasn't it Kevin Davies to Blackburn with Beattie coming here... and i could be wrong but i thought we might have then sent them Egil when Davies came back.
  13. Wants to play for the Guernsey 'domestic' team while still playing for Jersey in the Muratti. Interesting to see if that might happen with more regularity with Guernsey FC play in the English leagues. Came across another ex-Saint today in a great article on statistics and scouting in Denmark... Tim Sparv: https://decorrespondent.nl/2607/How-data-not-humans-run-this-Danish-football-club/230219386155-d2948861
  14. Scrappy but deserved the win. Seem to have a real problem with tempo rather than systems or tactics, i like the fact we dominate possession but there were so many times we ended up playing three or four passes to build a move when we could have made just the one - "Sometimes the solution that seems the simplest is in fact the most difficult one." When the subs came on we finally begun to pass incisively and move the ball at speed. Had to make do with a stream tonight but sounded like a better atmosphere; obviously expectations have raised massively from the early weeks in the season but there are still a lot of players, particularly in the attacking third, experiencing their first premier league season and they need our support. The premier league can still be a difficult league to adjust to no matter how good you are and we might not see their best until the second season.
  15. The last game he started? Man united.
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