We'll need to somehow keep Payet quiet. Do that & we're in with a shout. Give him freedom to create chances & we're stuffed.
I was without WIFI for most of the day, which was an awful experience. But I was delighted when I saw outcome. Goals for Deeney and Lord Almen will do loads for their confidence.
Everyone including many on this forum (don't blame them) were saying Stoke victory and we surprised them (and they surprised us by being s***). Anything can happen so I'm optimistic for WHU
I had a feeling we'd win so I had us to win on an accumulator (15/2 odds)...lost out on Villa - Swansea...had it as a draw and Reading to beat Fulham.
Fantastic boozy day almost capped off with a punch up with a stokie in my mates local .... and of course, we won! You 'Orrrrrnnnnnnnnnnnssssssss! PS well done our fans, easily outsung their rabble
For the record, I am not the poster 'Relegation Certs', despite the obvious relationship between our usernames.
I'm suprised this has gone unoticed. Near the end of Slav's reign, but certainly more so under QSF's Abdi has started to tackle a lot more and round his game. Every home game this Season I've seen Abdi win a tackle or two; not as often as say Behrami, Capoue or Watson but he certainly puts in a defensive shift.
Ref the Abdi goal, I was sat behind the goal (obviously) just a few rows back from pitch level. When he received the ball, everything seemed to slow down, he had the composure & time and it was obvious he was going to score. Watching it tonight on MOTD the speed of play was phenomenal - I can only conclude therefore that Lord Almen is actually time-shifter, he had the ability to pause a time-space continuum...
Completely agree. I think his ability to adapt is why he was in the team under Flores in the first place, and to me it looks as though the wide midfielders have been told to prioritise defending over gambling on a potential counter attack , something Abdi picked up straight away. His offensive quality shines through of course, but he's a relatively slow winger in ahead of the likes of Ibarbo. He's got incredible football intelligence and I highly doubt he ever moans. Such a clever player and bloke, doesn't he speak 5 languages? Well God speaks every language of course, but he doesn't want to make his disguise obvious.
I am truly sorry to hear of your awful experience. It's terrible to be without WIFI and you seem very brave.
A thoughtful post, Moose. It puts it all into perspective and my thoughts are with Douglas at this difficult time. Hopefully service will be on the road to recovery by the time we stuff West Ham.
Minutes applause for Douglas Rinaldi at home to west ham. Would be nice if the 1881 can do something, though it's short notice. #4doug4survival. Let's put an end to Wi-Fi black spots, for good!
the missus has just coffee'd another keyboard so she's nicked mine, i'm now reduced to an on screen one ... that's worse than a wifi drop out surely?
Applause at the 6 minute mark for the megabyte download required to watch the game without buffering.
Being without WIFI for over an hour means he now qualifies for a "Disabled" car sticker. It's the least he deserves.
It probably suits Redknapps blinkered view that the only way we could have beaten Stoke's onslaught is through an unbelievable defensive display, therefore Gomes must have been MOTM
Garth Crooks is notorious for just basically filling his team of the weeks with "who scored this week", often ending in ridiculous teams that would get pasted, like this one from earlier this month:
It's probably impossible for the pundits to watch all 10 games every week with several rounds of golf to get in most days. I suspect they watch the big sides & pick out a few players from other games based on headlines from match reports.
Well yes but if it's a team of the week they could at least look at things like tackles made, distance covered, interceptions, crosses blocked, crosses made and such to help pick the best full back of the week, rather than shoe horning Arnautovic and sanchez in at wingback on the basis that it would look even more ridiculous if they were in a back four! Just pick the best 1/2/3 strikers and be done with it and put them in a proper formation. Garth really lives up to his name, stealing a wage from the taxpayer like that.
I can watch 6 matches in a weekend (2 of them being my own sides), as well as go out on the lash on Saturday night. Even if you don't watch them all, you can have a look through some stats and come up with a better team than half the nonsense he spouts. Genuinely annoys me that he more than likely gets paid for writing **** like that.
