I put him down because he's abject and makes us a worse team by playing. If he didn't play, I wouldn't put him down. He's not an average premier league player. I doubt there are more than a handful of worse strikers in this league, excluding our own sorry bunch of options.
QSF doesn’t think Gray make us a worse team or he wouldn’t even put him in the squad. He’s previously kept out his unfavoured players. Success and Dalby were options and Deeney stayed on the bench. Or he would have changed formation/style and brought someone else on. Or replaced Pereyra with Femenia, an ex winger and a QSF favourite to boot. QSF must see something in him that you don’t. Why does QSF play him?
ok we all know Gray hasn’t got great technical ability I think that point has been hammered to death on here . But we need to score goals to stay up ! So from a pragmatic perspective we need to play Gray at least off the bench and can’t be precious about it . Would you rather we leave him out and get relegated ?
If you say so...Yes, indeed I did assume that when you said “winnable”, that meant that you thought we had a good chance of winning.
'Abject' is a strange way to describe a player with 14 PL goals in 35 PL starts for the club. Did u see his goal yesterday? That was some ninja-assed sh1t maaaaan!! The highest scoring PL sub in 2019. We all have our obsessions, if yours is for an incredibly masculine street fighter covered in sweat and tattoos thats your choice. Criticising Dre for his weaknesses and ignoring his positives makes me wonder: if Abby Clancey was giving u a blowie would u start complaining about her choice of lipstick?
"If you say so"? My exact words were "about as winnable a string of games as you could hope to receive in the Premier League". That doesn't remotely imply every single game offers an excellent chance of winning, simply that it's a favourable run on balance.
That's not the question you should be asking. The real question should be "are we going to get relegated because we have players of the low, low calibre of Gray in our side?"
Quite. The reality is that Gray gets game time because he's the best option when your choices are Success or playing with no forward. That doesn't mean he's a good option. He's a Championship level forward. He tries hard but it's pretty obvious he's out of his depth.
Don't jump in on my argument. You go and carry on your semantics debate about whether a winnable run of games means we will win them all.
3 points on the road is always good, no matter how mediocre the performance The next two games are massive. Even winning them won't move us on much, it will simply close the gap a little Great to have Capoue back, made a huge difference.
He's not a great option, but at present and particularly with TD and DW injured, he's our best option. He scored for us yesterday.
Leicester will smash us if we play like we did against Norwich. Burnley are a tough nut too. I'm just going to enjoy the gap before the next game...
Not wanting to resurrect the “winnable run of games” debate, actually I think we have an even longer run of potentially winnable games on the horizon. I only spotted this whilst playing around with fantasy football. The 8 games we play from Boxing Day has only one really tough tie (per FF rating), and that is Spurs at home, which we could get something from. Whereas the 4 games before then are actually very tricky. If we can get 6 points from the next 6 games then that will keep us in touch before that run. It will also give plenty of opportunities for forum melt down. If by the end we have dragged ourselves out of, or say within a point of the relegation zone, we’d be well placed to put a run together. I think an 8 points haul from the next 6 games would be an exceptional return, based on what we have at our disposal.
that’s not the question I’m asking and if I was the answer would be ‘ no , it’s more complicated than that ... and we comfortably stayed up with arguably an even worse squad last season’
Shut up, Arakel is so obviously wrong, but it exactly how many of you behave in the Politics section.
