OttawaSaint

Alien #1: At your command oh great one. Alien Leader: Take this craft to light speed MLG: Acsshhhewalllaay light speed defined as... Alien #2: I’ll open the trap door

No sign of SKD or Chapel End either, must be having a rather intense threesome. I’ll check the rainbow shirt thread...

Boggles the mind why we’re not all over this.

That was an old Fergie trick too. To ass kiss us after beating us. Keeps us nice and subservient for the next time.

Everyone but the most important person, him. He's probably pacing around his garden with a perplexed look on his face. "Why are we so unlucky every game...did I break a mirror?".

Even a shout of “keeper’s ball!” would put doubt in the attacker’s mind as to whether it was worth getting clattered for. Alex is so utterly soft and weak minded. Can’t be easy being a CB in front of him.

We need MLG to drop by and give us the stats. He’s been strangely absent since before the game yesterday...hmm

This Newcastle vs WHU game has been a cracker. Great entertainment!

No Kane for Spuds 👀

4-2, quick break and thunderous strike by Antonio. Great sprint by Antonio, you just know if it was us, Walcott, Redmond or Djenepo would have just passed it to a defender or ignored Antonio.

Utterly pointless thread. You even said it.

No doubt nothing will have changed. Weird selections, 4-2-2-2, huff and puff, lose 6-0 and Ralph throws his hands up and makes excuses.

Penalty West Ham. Newcastle imploding...

Antonio with the kind of cross need from Djenepo. 2-2.

Neither, they are both far below what is required of an EPL keeper.

I think Soze might actually be Ralph himself. He gets mortal after a defeat and then spills his guts on here.

What, switching up tactically to match another team and get 3pts as a result? Is this allowed? Someone should mention it to Ralph...

I’d rather see us get in a quality keeper. Having someone capable back there would galvanise the back line. I think it’s total folly that we persist with the two we have. Could prove really costly if we drop.

Yes. MLG is adamant that the results we got were due to this but I don’t buy it at all. Full strength today and that second half looked every bit as bad as our worst run last season. We have good players but they are not so good that we can get away with Ralph’s stubborn inflexible approach that borders on pure arrogance.

If the keeper isn’t making howlers or letting in soft goals every game the defence gain confidence and don’t panic all the time knowing one mistake could cost them. This confidence flows through the team letting the DMs and other more forward players relax a bit and play their own game. A few good stops per game is worth lots of points that we are just not getting with our current keepers.

That’s what I saw too. We came back out half asleep, conceded a very preventable goal and most of the players and Ralph said, “oh well, not our day, not much we can do about it..”. Only one result after that. In ice hockey, when one team has all the momentum like that and look certain to score again the coach will call a timeout to try and break the momentum. In football we could have say on 55- 60 minutes, brought on Stu and wasted a bit of time subbing Theo and getting him on to break their momentum and let our players reset and readjust.

That’s what irks me the most. I think the team is easily good enough to be in that 10th-14th pocket but Ralph sabotages nearly every game with either bizarre selections (McCarthy, Theo etc) or stands like a deer in the headlights when we are getting overrun. When will he get it into his thick skull that even the most well drilled team still needs a tweak here or there during the game.

Ah I see. Ralph was going to pick the better of the 2 shit goalies but loser fans prevented him. Then he wanted to haul Theo off at HT but those pesky losers wouldn’t let him. McCarthy was going to collect that ball left by Salisu but heard the loser talk of the fans and didn’t. Then at 1-1 with us losing the midfield Ralph again was victim to you guessed it, those fucking loser fans. Fuck the fans eh, Ralph and the team can’t seem to shake them off. Poor lambs...

We look like Sheff Utd. The whole demeanour of a beaten dog. Either Ralph needs to change his ways (stubbornness and weird subs) or leave and we get in someone who looks at our deficiencies and works on them. You never hear him say, “we concede too many, we’ve got to get the defensive tactics and organization right and then go from there”.

Schoolboy stuff that. Never duck under the ball in the area if you are not 100% sure the keeper is coming. Even if he’d have headed it straight up in the air he’d have at least had a chance to regroup. I wonder whether the rotation of keepers is confusing them. Like “oh shit, forgot, this one doesn’t come for crosses...shit”.