Sussex Nomad
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They both had free headers.
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[Albion] Is this it for Chris? Time for Hughton to go?
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They both had free headers.
London Irish
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Why can’t we discuss changing some things Hughton wants to do without the idiocy of the sacking thread. Kayal needs to be back into our midfield as he’s the one player we have who can get our team holding the ball more
Follow That Seagull
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Fair enough. Least you're honest.
This, in a nutshell.
It needs sorting out and a new striker is not going to make us defend corners any better. But both need addressing, for sure. If they're not, we are going to be in a relegation battle for the rest of the season. All those people who have decided we are already nailed on to go down - we're not. There are six clubs equally as shit: Stoke, Swansea, West Brom, Southampton, Newcastle and Huddersfield, as well as ourselves.
No way are we nailed on to go down even if nothing changes, but we have issues to address. Get that done, we'll be well clear of trouble.
Bold Seagull
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What can Chris do exactly? He's trying men off the posts so we have more markers, he tried men on the posts today, we go man for man and big players like Propper and Bong are barely making a challenge, let alone doing enough to win the ball in the air. Nothing CH can do about that, what does he do, swap Kayal for Propper who is even shorter!? His hands are well tied at corners, the last 3 weren't free headers, we had men there in the right positions, they've just not done enough.
He'll be furious with the marking and robustness of our challenges today. I don't know what is going on, but perhaps Dunk or Duffy or both are simply not sorting out who is doing what. Bong beaten for their second was embarrassing, I honestly don't know what you think a manager does about that!?
Coldeanseagull
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This season will reveal enough negativity without adding to it. Enjoy the premier league
Bold Seagull
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From an excellent flick as I said, inexplicable he is unmarked, but you simply cannot let someone win a header at the near post at this level, as that flick is always going to be incredibly dangerous.
Bold Seagull
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Johnny RoastBeef
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There must be something fundamentally wrong for our figures to be so out of line with the average. The coach's job is to identify the cause and coach it out of the team.
Bold Seagull
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I've seen changes for the defending at corners, how tight we are, who is on posts, it is clearly something being worked on, but as I said, you have to rely on the players. You can only coach a player to the limit of what his quality is.
I need to remind people we've only conceded 29, only the top 7 have conceded less. That doesn't speak to blaming a manager who doesn't know how to coach defending. That speaks of players not doing their jobs at set pieces.
Technohead
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I can see why you have posted fewer posts than me. Absolute drivel. You can take that as a no and a no to your questions.
drew
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What about sacrificing a winger and playing an extra midfielder. We have both Stephens and Propper deep so nothing between them and Gross who seems to drop deeper and deeper leaving Murray isolated so it's irrelevant how many times he then gets his head to the ball.
Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
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He can only work with what he's got, and what he's got is inadequate for this league. Questions must be asked of recruitment if we don't bring in better players this window. Hughton is doing what he can with the players he has. It's a surprise we aren't in the bottom 3 to be honest.
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Yes. I think this is the reason why we are hearing of pacey strikers but with average scoring ratios. I don't believe that Hughton is unaware of the requirements and the limitations of resources to meet them.
worthingseagull123
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- May 5, 2012
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Even if we went down, we should keep Hughton.
A lot of people forget where we come from.
A lot of people forget where we come from.
BrianWade4
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Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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I don’t have the answers, only suggestions. If we had genuine pace in the middle to go with the wingers we could break at pace and get the length of the pitch in three or four passes rather than 10 giving the opposition time to get back. Conceding a goal would not then be so terminal as it is now and it would take pressure off the defence knowing that if they fecked up once we are beaten. Team spirit appears to be a bit shot at the moment. However I am convinced that whatever CH does we are fecked without this elusive striker and although tinkering may make a small difference it won’t help us score the goals we so desperately need. CH does not have the players to play very differently to how we do at the moment and our paucity in front of goal is costing us big time.
- Aug 7, 2003
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I would expect Chris to give the team the “hairdryer treatment” following today’s performance and I wouldn’t be surprised if he makes some significant changes and, as a result, we’ll go on to turn Chelsea over next Saturday.
Icy Gull
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Play the “reserves” from the Palace game?