beatlesaint

Brighton fans used to moan about his style. There was a press conference where he had a go at them for criticising him.

Dont moan about the quality of football if its him then.

No, RM was asked this specifically on Solent and he said Taylor did well at Everton and deserved his chance etc.

Yeah but in most interviews he's pretty quick to say things like that "oh had we applied what we spent all week doing in training they dont score" etc. He doesnt actually go so far as throwing the players under the bus but he makes sure he removes himself from blame "well if they'd done what we told them" For the second week running we had a bulk substitution. It failed miserably against United last week but not deterred he goes again and what happens ? It fails miserably. None of those subs improved on what was happening before they got on. I know Lallana cant do 90 mins but he sits in, directs the players, and just passes the ball off quickly and sensibly so are you really telling me he couldnt have done that for an extra 10-15 mins ? Archer didnt play mid-week, he's young yet off he comes on the hour too, bloody hell he wasnt playing badly and at least he got in there to have chances.

Whilst I agree to an extent with what you say there is a trime to take your first one, normally when your team is 3 up and it doesnt matter, as wuith the Charly Alcaraz one last season.

I think this is a big problem we have, its all too pedestrian, almost like an over 60's walking football tournament ! In the Prem the passing has to be quick, crisp and with movement, all of which we do sporadically but it needs to become more of the norm. They need to watch Lallana, as soon as he gets it he's looking to get that pass in almost immediately, he doesnt wander forward a few yards then turn round, go back and then complete the pass he could have made 10 seconds earlier.

It was just an almighty cock up wasn't it ? Obviously BBD was the go to with 7/7 (now 8/8) but for reasons best known only to himself RM decided to nominate a lad who had never taken one in a competitive match cos he looked good taking them in training.....i mean....come on ffs

I was very pleased for him putting that penalty away last night. After so long out it would have been a boost to hit the back of the net, even from the spot.

In all the minutes he's played so far I dont think I've seen Lallana lose the ball or mis-place a pass to the opposition once. I like the fact he's pointing to where players should be and encouraging everyone. I was very meh when he came back mainly due to the way he left but fair play to him, hes been incredible and a future coach/manager in the making I would think.

I don’t know why RM was giving it large in front the away fans, they were there for the taking and we just wandered around doing fuck all the last half hour

LOL one man's meat I guess. The ones I know said at the time "i can see why you loaned him out"

Believe me, knowing several Bournemouth fans I can assure you the words "he did very well" were rarely used.

especially on the rare occasions they get it right before VAR interjects as was the case here.

Yeah I dont really understand who thought moving the away support to the other end of the ground from our only real vocal support was a good idea. This isnt The Kop and we aint Liverpool ffs

I agree, it doesn’t look like a “wall” tbh it looks a bit crap and yeah having it as far away as you can from the away supporters is just a waste of time.

I sincerely hope you typed that with either a sense of irony, under the influence of alcohol or just for shits and giggles........if not i suggest you have a look at the goals we conceded previously.

Well it is, he keeps picking him, this isn’t a one off from Stephens, it’s a repeated offence many many times.

You’re probably right

He’s a great guy, I believe RM has referred to him as a beautiful human being……which is kind of creepy !! But a Premier League first choice central defender he most definitely is NOT !!

We wasted the whole second half doing nothing to be fair

Don’t be a twat, nobody is saying it’s Stephens fault he’s picked. It’s totally on the manager, we all know that, we aren’t fkin stupid pal

He’s the biggest disappointment so far for me. When we signed him I genuinely thought we had signed a player who knows where the back of the net is but apart from upsetting the Geordies he’s done fuck all.

So if we win next week without him does RM put him straight back in when available or not?

I think he’ll drop THB and go with the highly successful Bednerek/Capt Jack combo !

Yeah, he won’t drop Capt. Jack.