Burn was also at fault as he tried to step up for offside instead of just going towards Hernandez and tackling him. Quite a big cock up that others haven't noticed !
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[Football] Are the shackles off or is this a false dawn
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Machiavelli
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He did play there for c20 minutes away at Newcastle. From memory, made an early (by no means catastrophic) error and was extremely good thereafter. He was dreadful against Watford but, Bissouma excepted, all of them were.
This. I'm not greedy.
It's like watching a different team now, and it's actually enjoyable. Yes, we'll get thumped a few times, yes we'll have a poor run of form - but if we stay up and play this kind of football, my Season Ticket money is bloody well spent.
Wasn’t it lovely last Saturday truly looking forward to an Amex PL match, for the football!
Plenty of fans last season (going by the NS concourse at the time), anaesthetised themselves from our team’s awful prospects each Saturday by getting smashed, ‘the craic’ with mates the main reason for going. Now they can get pissed AND see an attacking Albion team.
FatSuperman
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- Feb 25, 2016
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Any of you follow Caley Graphics?
https://twitter.com/Caley_graphics/status/1162759706353516544?s=20
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We're DOOMED I tell thee. Hypothesis.
rocker959
Well-known member
Totally agree
Definitely........was a position where Burn should/could have taken a yellow for the team perhaps. Not going to blame Montoya solely - and as other have said Trossard completely fluffed a great chance, Burn should have got his early header on target and Maupay missed two pretty good chances. If, buts and maybes..........but at least we’re creating plenty, which is markedly different from last season. Potter has done an incredible job in just two games (with essentially the same players). The last couple of games have felt more like watching us when we were ripping up the championship than the awful, negative fare of last season. The team will only get better too as Trossard and Maupay in particular get used to the PL and Mooy settles in to the squad. Happy days.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
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.TB is acutely aware that we got a bit lucky last season. We were terrible after Christmas, leading up to the Bournemouth/Cardiff fiasco's .We had collapsed, morale was at rock bottom. Cardiff had winnable looking games and a bit of momentum. CH was a dead man walking and don't let anyone pretend that he wasn't. TB had to gamble. Get rid, now the wheels had come off and rely on the caretaker bounce of maybe one win or stick with what you know and hope that he could strangle the odd point. He played safe ( albeit, that was a massive gamble ) and stuck with who he knew.
Senior management had decided a while back they needed a change of direction, a change of philosophy. I believe GP was on their radar for a while. One of the most highly vaunted young coaches in the game was getting his feet under the table at Swansea. How long could they afford to wait? They moved.
The mindset is different. The philosophy is different. The style is different. In short, a complete change. We are in the process of a complete makeover. Its early days but signs are encouraging. I believe we will be lucky to keep GP for 3-4 years. He will be viewed as a new kid on the block. I believe he is future International management potential. This is a new
dawn.
Senior management had decided a while back they needed a change of direction, a change of philosophy. I believe GP was on their radar for a while. One of the most highly vaunted young coaches in the game was getting his feet under the table at Swansea. How long could they afford to wait? They moved.
The mindset is different. The philosophy is different. The style is different. In short, a complete change. We are in the process of a complete makeover. Its early days but signs are encouraging. I believe we will be lucky to keep GP for 3-4 years. He will be viewed as a new kid on the block. I believe he is future International management potential. This is a new
dawn.
I think you’re a very good poster. I don’t always agree with you but I think you’re great.
I do now. Incidentally, anyone read Football Hackers? A good read on the rise of data in football.
the right footed denilson
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Christ, we mauled them statistically. Didn't feel quite as emphatic as that.
People are really getting excited about our reincarnation.
the right footed denilson
New member
Absolutely. We never looked like getting spanked under CH did we? But i can see a couple of the big boys spanking us this season. If we keep playing like this I'll happily take that. And a 5-4 or two!
Icy Gull
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High scoring games are an excitement we haven’t had for a while too.
I am going expecting no more than survival this season. Setting sights low whilst being entertained is good enough for me
Gonna be interesting to see how we react as fans and players to getting stuffed now and again
Rich Suvner
Skint years RIP
As a parent of young children I recognise this response as the one usually given when an actual retort doesn’t exist. 100% the team were constrained last year. We were turgid in virtually all away games, and many at home. Defence over positivity, despite the fact we always looked better when putting teams on their back foot and no the other way around. Far too much respect given to far too many teams.
macbeth
Dismembered
I've always said I could stomach Chris Hughton's football when it was getting results. I fully believe the players hold similar views to. The problems was, last season, it stopped getting results. We know TB wants to establish us as a top 10 club, so that requires us to push on from this mindset of being perennial relegation fodder, a mindset that I doubt seasoned internationals like Pröpper will enjoy playing in. Last season's league achievement was the lowest possible achievement without costing us our PL position. If ever there was a time to chance the footballing identity of the club, it was after last season
Gazwag
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Rich Suvner
Skint years RIP
Southampton away sticks in my mind as symptomatic of what was wrong last season. Total respect given to a very average saints team and we effectively gifted them a two goal lead by being ponderous and cautious. Once we needed to chase a result the team put saints on back foot and caused them problems. Cue two goals for us. We could’ve and should’ve gone into that match thinking of a victory from the outset. We did that so many times last season.