We tried that at Spurs and it was a disaster.
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[Albion] Time to drop Murray?
- Thread starter father_and_son
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We tried that at Spurs and it was a disaster.
BensGrandad
New member
Many teams are now playing with 3 CBs and 2 wing backs so having the 3 decent CB players why couldnt we?
Managers seem to revert to that when their team's conceding loads of goals and losing as a result, for example Chelsea at the start of last season.
We don't concede too many.
Scoring goals is our achilles heel.
GT49er
Well-known member
Playing for a draw is all very well, except if you don't quite make it, it's a disaster. Play to win - ALMOST succeed and you can still get a point.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Time to bin the player who's goals haven probably given us another season in the PL. Take a look at yourselves some of you. Murray didn't get any service Saturday what do you expect him to do?
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Scoring goals is everyone's achilles heel outside the top 6.
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Did you see the Chelsea game
AmexRuislip
Trainee Spy 🕵️♂️
Murray's recent goal rush, was on the back of the recent signings of Locadia and Ulloa.
I know that strikers do have goal droughts, but IMO, it's time to give Ulloa and Locadia starting position, to see what they can do and take the pressure off Murray.
I know that strikers do have goal droughts, but IMO, it's time to give Ulloa and Locadia starting position, to see what they can do and take the pressure off Murray.
Nondescript Nick
New member
- May 19, 2017
- 26
Exactly right.
Benching Murray is the correct response only if you're seeking a short term solution to appeasing the petulant, knee jerk demands of the bloodthirsty blame seekers.
Presumably these are the same people who, having wanted CH gone earlier in the season, then hailing him Caesar following the Arsenal game, now want him dragged through the streets in adult incontinence pants and stoned along along with Murray.
Give me eleven Glenn Murray's coached by a CH any day, over whatever else the whiners are proposing.
junior
Well-known member
Hi Glenn.
Take the chances that come his way maybe?
GT49er
Well-known member
Actually, if you want to think about it sensibly instead of sneering at NSC, with five games to go to keep our place in this division a short term solution is exactly what we need. Whether that means dropping Murray or not is a different question - but we do need a short term solution, and fast.
Name them.
Can't? Stupid comment then...................
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
FFS 
Behind Enemy Lines
Well-known member
No it is not time to drop Murray. We need him more than ever.
palace fan.
tigertim68
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- Sep 3, 2012
- 2,321
He should of had 20 goals this season , last month not been in form a rest would do him good
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Bad miss, but you know, it’s the end of the game and he’s there in the right position at the right time. Very frustrating not to have equalised, but I’d be more concerned if he wasn’t even getting into positions to miss.
Biggest concern yesterday was lack of quality into the box / final third, and lack of urgency closing down space in our final third. It was as bad as i think I’ve seen us all season that first half.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
His goal to chances ratio would be better than anyone. Yeah he’s missed yesterday, and v Leicester, but it’s not like he’s missing 3 or 4 chances in a match. Even the very top strikers are 1 goal from 3 or 4 chances. Murray needs a 100% conversion rate following comments on here.
Nondescript Nick
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- May 19, 2017
- 26
What's more stupid is taking my first comment out of context and chopping off the second half of it.
Had you not done so, you would have realised that it referred to a short term solution to the appeasement of whiners who bleat on a game by game basis, not to a short term solution to the team's 'woes'. If a solution to that is to be found, IMO it's not by withdrawing from the team someone who has brought so much to the table throughout the season. Even if we are take this game for which so many wish to make him the scapegoat, I would suggest pointing the vengeful finger of blame at a defence whose careless conceding of three goals put Murray's miss in the spotlight. Or the tame surrender of our midfield which put the defence under pressure. A strike force that score two goals away from home in a derby match? No, they did their job. But even if Murray must be sent to the gallows, he is to be cast aside for whom, exactly? As I said - a short term solution to silence the whiners, but nothing that would improve the team.
As for your ridiculous request for 'names', the latter part of my post (prefixed with the word 'presumably') is clearly a general dig at those whose cry baby whingeing veers from player to player, or to manager, or to chairman, or to Chief Executive after every defeat or bad run. This is a football messageboard, not a university dissertation requiring footnotes, indexes and bibliographies.
You need to get a grip, and not the type that you obviously had during your sub standard post.