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If we’d won our last two games….just saying! That’s what makes it so frustrating….we are a striker and a RWB away from being top of the effing league!
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we are way more than that
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There's a lot of teams with games in hand on us, we're not as close as that suggests. Fact is, we're not good enough.
Just watching the Watford game and Kienan Davis having a stormer and looking like he's going to have same impact as he did at Forest.
His fitness record isn't great and he isn't a pure finisher like Archer but he'd make a difference in this team as a foil for Riis.
Surprised he wasn't offered as sweetner once it was decided Archer would stay for what seems like a pointless six months currently bench warming.
Thought this was going to be a thread on Burnley btw. I thought in early weeks they had makings of a very good team at this level but couldn't finish but now results are tallying with their performances.
I know they have parachutes and everything but Kompany has done well refreshing their 11 and their fans will certainly be enjoying this season far more than the recent prem ones.
His fitness record isn't great and he isn't a pure finisher like Archer but he'd make a difference in this team as a foil for Riis.
Surprised he wasn't offered as sweetner once it was decided Archer would stay for what seems like a pointless six months currently bench warming.
Thought this was going to be a thread on Burnley btw. I thought in early weeks they had makings of a very good team at this level but couldn't finish but now results are tallying with their performances.
I know they have parachutes and everything but Kompany has done well refreshing their 11 and their fans will certainly be enjoying this season far more than the recent prem ones.
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Exactly what I said and got shot down in flames
Really admire your optimism, but you're clutching at straws.
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We are a free scoring team so anythings possible.
I hate all this "IF this and IF that" the fact is we didn't score those goals and let's flip it on it's head. IF woodman hadn't been in such good form between the sticks we could very easily have shipped another 6 or so goals.
The facts are this we have a massively sub par forward line which gets little to no support from the ahem "attacking" midfield and Lowe's ridiculous promises of defending with 6 attacking with 8 (can't remember the exact numbers) are just complete and utter bollocks.
We have 0 creativity, we have 0 flair and the worst thing is we have absolutely 0 passion or fight on the pitch. Yesterday that looked and felt like a Westley performance. Once we went 1 down I had 0 confidence that we would pull it back
The facts are this we have a massively sub par forward line which gets little to no support from the ahem "attacking" midfield and Lowe's ridiculous promises of defending with 6 attacking with 8 (can't remember the exact numbers) are just complete and utter bollocks.
We have 0 creativity, we have 0 flair and the worst thing is we have absolutely 0 passion or fight on the pitch. Yesterday that looked and felt like a Westley performance. Once we went 1 down I had 0 confidence that we would pull it back
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I’m not so sure. I remember people saying that Newcastle needed a completely new team, but Alan Shearer on match of the day said that with a few key signing the squad would be transformed. I think we are in the same situation. Teams are targeting out right side as our weak spot defensively at the moment. Going forward teams know that very little will go down our right side, so they are focusing on stopping attacks down our left flank. Having a proper RWB would make use more sold at the back and allow us to stretch defences and create more chances. As far as the strikers are concerned with the exception of yesterday and Cardiff away we have created enough chances to win the other games we’ve had, so having a striker who coverts a higher percentage of the chances he gets would have resulted in us winning a significant number of those games.
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Your right about teams targeting us down the right but that's about it.
Of course we need a RWB 100% but is that going to suddenly improve everyone else's passing, movement, tempo etc? 🤔
The football is so dire to watch, his talk of entertaining attack minded football has been proven to be a complete fallacy. Yeah, just like us, he's been shafted but he's talked so much shite lately an there doesn't seem to b a plan B in our general approach of trying to win games of football, or in the case of most away performances, trying to draw them!!
