POTS

2 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

POTS

Head down, head down, head down, f**ks it up, head finally goes up.

As much use as a chocolate fire guard

48 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

As much use as a chocolate fire guard

He'd probably like the cock flavoured lollipops though ... my usual "as much use as a ... " quip LOL

The chocolate fire guard sounds less useful.

No, he wasn't good and had a pretty embarrassing miss from inside the box.
Reminder that we played a strong team away from home, he played the entire game, and we ended up tying it at the end.
The game was only still within grasp because we were down by a goal... I know it's not "sexy" to talk about defensive duties esp for a winger, but they do matter esp in games like these.

Edited January 4Jan 4 by acaeus

6 hours ago, acaeus said:

No, he wasn't good and had a pretty embarrassing miss from inside the box.
Reminder that we played a strong team away from home, he played the entire game, and we ended up tying it at the end.
The game was only still within grasp because we were down by a goal... I know it's not "sexy" to talk about defensive duties esp for a winger, but they do matter esp in games like these.

His defensive contribution is the most lied about thing in football

2 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Is that your burner account?

11 minutes ago, GarnachoCheese said:

Ok, he had a poor game yesterday, but you spend so much time on this thread slating him and then in another thread, when called out on supporting Garnacho for an 'assist' against Bourmeouth you mentioned you are supporting our players. Why do you defend Garnacho. but give so much abuse to Neto. You really are coming across as a troll. Just posting vids of his mistakes. Where is your support now? At least don't be selective with it and then be praising Garnacho for a basic pass for Enzo against Bournemouth.

1 hour ago, The Boehly Babes said:

Is that your burner account?

No, this is my burner account. My real account is @Gol15 . I am the duality of man.

1 hour ago, STATS said:

Ok, he had a poor game yesterday, but you spend so much time on this thread slating him and then in another thread, when called out on supporting Garnacho for an 'assist' against Bourmeouth you mentioned you are supporting our players. Why do you defend Garnacho. but give so much abuse to Neto. You really are coming across as a troll. Just posting vids of his mistakes. Where is your support now? At least don't be selective with it and then be praising Garnacho for a basic pass for Enzo against Bournemouth.

I defend Garnacho because he’s given me no reason not to (yet). 21 years of age and time to mature. When he’s messed up, I’ve said he’s messed up. Neto on the other hand has this performance weekly then scores a tap in and people pretend he’s the player of the season. Watch him mess up every attack then throw his hands up at his team mates the one time he doesn’t receive the ball, it’s the Mendes player ego.

1 minute ago, GarnachoCheese said:

I defend Garnacho because he’s given me no reason not to (yet). 21 years of age and time to mature. When he’s messed up, I’ve said he’s messed up. Neto on the other hand has this performance weekly then scores a tap in and people pretend he’s the player of the season. Watch him mess up every attack then throw his hands up at his team mates the one time he doesn’t receive the ball, it’s the Mendes player ego.

I'm the other way around. I don't trust any of our current wingers to do enough in games. None of them (bar maybe Estevao) have shown game changing abilities. They all struggle to beat their man 1on1, crosses/cut backs are often wild/aimless. I honestly hope they can prove me wrong but none of Neto, Garnacho or Gittens look the real deal. Where I will agree with you is that 2 of them are very young and very raw so there is potential there. Neto on the other hand should be in his prime, it is unlikely he will get much better if at all. He deserves to be slightly more criticised than others as he is supposed to one of our more experienced players.

4 minutes ago, Jordan711 said:

I'm the other way around. I don't trust any of our current wingers to do enough in games. None of them (bar maybe Estevao) have shown game changing abilities. They all struggle to beat their man 1on1, crosses/cut backs are often wild/aimless. I honestly hope they can prove me wrong but none of Neto, Garnacho or Gittens look the real deal. Where I will agree with you is that 2 of them are very young and very raw so there is potential there. Neto on the other hand should be in his prime, it is unlikely he will get much better if at all. He deserves to be slightly more criticised than others as he is supposed to one of our more experienced players.

Agree with you on the wingers. 3-4-2-1 (Palmer/Estevao as the 2) with wing backs instead of wingers probably fits the best attributes of our players better than 4-2-3-1, but I doubt we'll see it. I even bore myself crapping on about it, but the owners preference for Fernandez in the team really creates problems and lack of team balance for us. And Fernandez has no role in a 3-4-2-1 if you are picking the best 2 for the midfield pair and the best 2 behind the striker.

3 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Agree with you on the wingers. 3-4-2-1 (Palmer/Estevao as the 2) with wing backs instead of wingers probably fits the best attributes of our players better than 4-2-3-1, but I doubt we'll see it. I even bore myself crapping on about it, but the owners preference for Fernandez in the team really creates problems and lack of team balance for us. And Fernandez has no role in a 3-4-2-1 if you are picking the best 2 for the midfield pair and the best 2 behind the striker.

Completely agree here. The 3 cbs in my opinion should be Acheampong Fofana Chalobah. With Santos and Caicedo in the centre. Using Reece James as a wing back again (if possible) would be amazing. Palmer and Estevao behind the striker could cause so much chaos for the opposition defence.

1 hour ago, Jordan711 said:

I'm the other way around. I don't trust any of our current wingers to do enough in games. None of them (bar maybe Estevao) have shown game changing abilities. They all struggle to beat their man 1on1, crosses/cut backs are often wild/aimless. I honestly hope they can prove me wrong but none of Neto, Garnacho or Gittens look the real deal. Where I will agree with you is that 2 of them are very young and very raw so there is potential there. Neto on the other hand should be in his prime, it is unlikely he will get much better if at all. He deserves to be slightly more criticised than others as he is supposed to one of our more experienced players.

This is exactly my viewpoint, worded it better than I could.

Every now and again (once in a blue moon), Neto does something really good and/or puts in something close to a MOTM performance and you think, yeah, handy to have in the squad.

But now we have Estevao, he shouldn't be starting regularly ahead of him. He's had more than enough chances to nail down a place but has failed and Estevao needs a lot more game-time than he has had up to now.

10 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

His defensive contribution is the most lied about thing in football

Literally dialled it in for the whole game.

All of this improvement by us in the second half, matching them up is waffle as well. It would have been accurate if not for Neto ballsing up every opportunity. I am still convinced that if we had scored the equaliser in the 74th minute instead of the 94th, Man City would have just stepped up a gear and scored again.

3 hours ago, Jordan711 said:

Completely agree here. The 3 cbs in my opinion should be Acheampong Fofana Chalobah. With Santos and Caicedo in the centre. Using Reece James as a wing back again (if possible) would be amazing. Palmer and Estevao behind the striker could cause so much chaos for the opposition defence.

Strasbourg play a variation of that. Don't think we'll ever see James at WB though unless it's for a short period in-game tweak. Would love to see Santos and Caicedo build a relationship. They have the potential to really dominate.

Just now, venom2011 said:

Strasbourg play a variation of that. Don't think we'll ever see James at WB though unless it's for a short period in-game tweak. Would love to see Santos and Caicedo build a relationship. They have the potential to really dominate.

In your opinion, if we do play this formation what do you think it means for James? A permanent switch to midfield or a RCB role?

11 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

His defensive contribution is the most lied about thing in football

He basically just sprints fast.

3 minutes ago, Jordan711 said:

In your opinion, if we do play this formation what do you think it means for James? A permanent switch to midfield or a RCB role?

RCB yeah while Cucurella/Gusto bombs forward. But I'd actually prefer him centrally in a 2 or 3. Enough of this crap with Badiashile and Tosin, and not having a CB that can break lines. James solves both issues. Palmer plays right with Gusto overlapping which is how you get the best out of both as well.

13 hours ago, venom2011 said:

RCB yeah while Cucurella/Gusto bombs forward. But I'd actually prefer him centrally in a 2 or 3. Enough of this crap with Badiashile and Tosin, and not having a CB that can break lines. James solves both issues. Palmer plays right with Gusto overlapping which is how you get the best out of both as well.

Please tell us your name is Liam Rosenior!

21 hours ago, GarnachoCheese said:

This is exactly my viewpoint, worded it better than I could.

Lift your game.

39 minutes ago, dermott said:

Lift your game.

I was always more into maths than English.