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  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbfQ0sxJAMo Pause at 1.44. You can clearly see Davis on the end of the wall and Mata is nowhere near him by the time the ball is struck. Davis doesn't have the balls or winning mentality to overcome the instinct to duck, and waves his head vaguely at the ball once its past. For me, this totally confirmed my suspicions about the Davis-worship on here; that he is given undue praise because he's a 'hard-working British player'. If Mane, Boufal or Ramirez ducked in the wall during a cup final they'd be slaughtered on here. As it was Davis, its just erased from the history books. I mean compare this little incident to Guly failing to come off the post and clear a header in our game against Pompey back in 11/12 and the stick he got for every single game after that.
  2. He ducked in the wall facing a free-kick in a Cup final.
  3. It is hilarious that other Premier League managers can't see what the wise old-timers in our fanbase can see; that Davis is a fantastic player and has been integral to our success. Wenger, Pochettino, Mourinho, Guardiola, Klopp, Conte... none of them have come in with a bid for Steven Davis! Its outrageous isn't? They must be clueless about football.
  4. Please provide me with an example of Steven Davis playing a defence-splitting assist that took out 3/4 players. It isn't a vendetta. I simply don't rate Steven Davis because he's a bang average footballer. That's all.
  5. Anyone see Brady's pass for Burnley's equaliser today? He's hardly a world-class attacking midfield player but I've just seen him do something Davis has never done *once* whilst at Saints.
  6. I think Lemina in the advanced MF role would be an improvement, with JWP holding with Romeu
  7. But under Poch and Koeman we had some seriously good forwards who we could more-or-less expect to shoulder the entirety of any attacking responsibility alone. Besides, if he was that good, why has no other club bid for him? He certainly wouldn't cost that much. I'm afraid Davis, though he tries his best, has never been a particularly talented player and certainly not a creative one. I'd go with JWP, Romeu and give Lemina a more advanced position as we did at the start of the second half today (which seemed to work relatively well). Or give Hojbjerg one more go.
  8. For some reason I'm really confident we'll win this one. They'll be the naive, newly promoted team, overconfident and ready to swarm all over us with attacking football, and we'll nick in and do them on the break. Just you wait and see.
  9. Literally no-one knows that just yet.
  10. Ironically I thought the performance against Swansea was fine. We dominated the game and should have had two penalties.
  11. He's English. If he were a foreigner he'd be slaughtered. Oh and by the way - I love how people are defending Forster by saying that he made the save 'at full stretch'... ...y'know, there might be a bit of an issue if your 6'6'' goalkeeper is at full stretch to save a shot from outside the area that's a good yard and a half inside the post - his footwork and (lack of) ability to launch himself into a dive has always been a problem.
  12. One of the most interesting things is how the narrative has changed in the last two years since the migrant crisis in 2015. In 2015 we were told that there was no need to be concerned about terrorist attacks from migrants and that it was racist to be concerned that they would happen. In 2017 we're now told that OK, they are happening, but that we should just jolly well put up with it (or "press on"/"never give into hate"/"never give into fear") etc.etc.
  13. I guarantee, absolutely guarantee we'll be hearing all about Ceuta and Melilla and how that was the real issue.
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