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[Albion] Arsenal, Wolves, Palace - the most enjoyable run of games?



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Bodian

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These last three games, in different ways, have been three of the most absorbing and pleasurable games in a row that I can recall. Especially for sheer enjoyment.

Arsenal - the sheer delight of beating them away, but also the way we did it after they came back to equalise was fabulous.
Wolves - cracking match, end-to-end stuff even if the intensity wore off in the second half. I could have carried on watching football like that for many more hours. Wouldn't even have minded if we had lost.
Palace - for the first time I can remember, I actually enjoyed a Palace game. Usually I spend most of them in fear of losing - but (apart for the fact we didn't win) that was simply lovely to watch.

We are lucky to be seeing this aren't we.
 




Questions

Questions

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Oct 18, 2006
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Worthing
Bodian said:
These last three games, in different ways, have been three of the most absorbing and pleasurable games in a row that I can recall. Especially for sheer enjoyment.

Arsenal - the sheer delight of beating them away, but also the way we did it after they came back to equalise was fabulous.
Wolves - cracking match, end-to-end stuff even if the intensity wore off in the second half. I could have carried on watching football like that for many more hours. Wouldn't even have minded if we had lost.
Palace - for the first time I can remember, I actually enjoyed a Palace game. Usually I spend most of them in fear of losing - but (apart for the fact we didn't win) that was simply lovely to watch.

We are lucky to be seeing this aren't we.
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Apart from the ‘not minding’ if we had lost to Wolves that’s a good post. Compare that to last season.’
 


Wrong-Direction

Wrong-Direction

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Agreed

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Stat Brother

Stat Brother

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Propper - 6


'We should strive for better'.
'Don't be such a happy clapper'.
'We deserve better'.



'Gosh daddy do you remember the start of this legendary team'?
'Not really son, I was too busy slagging off players to actually enjoy what I was watching'.
 


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blue-shifted

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Feb 20, 2004
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Yes OP, I agree with you

Even before that, the Leicester game and the Liverpool game, we had spells where we were terrific.

In the last month, we've got toe to toe with some wonderful opponents (and Palace as well) and played some glorious football.

I also agree that if Wolves had beaten us, yes i'd have been miffed, but you have to recognise as we did against Leicester, that sometimes you come across an opposition who are absolutely brilliant and deserve the success that's coming their way.
 




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blue-shifted

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Feb 20, 2004
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Stat Brother said:
Propper - 6


'We should strive for better'.
'Don't be such a happy clapper'.
'We deserve better'.



'Gosh daddy do you remember the start of this legendary team'?
'Not really son, I was too busy slagging off players to actually enjoy what I was watching'.
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There's been plenty of games where Propper has scored below a 6, and deserved it. There's not always a big conspiracy against your favourite player. Fans are saying it as they see it.

Thankfully, he is in fabulous form at the moment and playing by far his best football for us.

Carragher showed an interesting still of the Palace wingers tucking in to in effect man mark our central midfielders in the last 20 mins. I think we can expect to see a lot more of this and it's going to be up to them and the manager to find countermeasures
 


dazzer6666

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There was a Wolves fans on the radio last night bemoaning Jose and his negative tactics.......said he'd been at our game and walked away clapping his hands and stressed how good the game was by comparison....

Last night was another uptick in my view. Completely dominated for 70 mins, away, against a form team. Unbeaten in 3, with 5 points including 2 tough away games. Most of the harder away games already played and what we're watching is utterly unrecognisable from last season. Very happy days.

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Papa Lazarou

Papa Lazarou

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Jul 7, 2003
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Worthing
blue-shifted said:
There's been plenty of games where Propper has scored below a 6, and deserved it. There's not always a big conspiracy against your favourite player. Fans are saying it as they see it.

Thankfully, he is in fabulous form at the moment and playing by far his best football for us.

Carragher showed an interesting still of the Palace wingers tucking in to in effect man mark our central midfielders in the last 20 mins. I think we can expect to see a lot more of this and it's going to be up to them and the manager to find countermeasures
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Play the ball to the wide players? Trossard seemed to be given freedom of the wing last night.
 






Papa Lazarou

Papa Lazarou

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Jul 7, 2003
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blue-shifted said:
and Montoya the other
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Indeed. It's only when you see the post match analysis and they highlighted that Palace HAD TO play narrow to stop Propper, Bissouma & Mooy from playing straight through them, that it becomes clear why Trossard & Montoya had so much space.
 








AmexRuislip

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Feb 2, 2014
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Bodian said:
These last three games, in different ways, have been three of the most absorbing and pleasurable games in a row that I can recall. Especially for sheer enjoyment.

Arsenal - the sheer delight of beating them away, but also the way we did it after they came back to equalise was fabulous.
Wolves - cracking match, end-to-end stuff even if the intensity wore off in the second half. I could have carried on watching football like that for many more hours. Wouldn't even have minded if we had lost.
Palace - for the first time I can remember, I actually enjoyed a Palace game. Usually I spend most of them in fear of losing - but (apart for the fact we didn't win) that was simply lovely to watch.

We are lucky to be seeing this aren't we.
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I totally agree.
After the dire end to last season's campaign, it's been a real joy to watch an Albion team enjoying playing their footy, even if it is on a dodgy stream :whistle:
 


Easy 10

Easy 10

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Jul 5, 2003
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The games have all been very enjoyable, but our propensity for conceding equalisers is not. We drop a lot of points from winning positions.
 




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