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'Dale would have took him out'
'Dale would have taken him out'
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[Albion] "Oi Stephens get it forward"
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'Dale would have taken him out'
Icy Gull
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'Dale would have taken him out'
If he’d lost the ball like Mooy did you can pretty well guarantee he would have risked a booking to make up for it.
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Stephens getting booked is always the 7/1 banker in my bet builder!
Couldn’t agree more.
Risks exacerbated by often playing a de facto back 2 of Dunk and one other, both pushed up. One blunder, and e.g. Grealish (first half) or McBurnie are clean through on goal.
It’s said that we’re playing a Liverpool/ManC style, but they ALWAYS have sufficient bodies back. Fabinho and Wijnaldum/Henderson patrolling in front of the CB’s, Fernandinho at Citeh.
Super Steve Earle
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You lost me at the first 'would of'
Dunk does me well on that front.
Yes, because you've taken the extreme position that people think he ONLY plays it sideways and backwards. Whereas, the online criticism I have read (and don't always agree with) suggests that he does not pass forwards enough.
There's a world of difference.
Johnny RoastBeef
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But only 1 assist, 0 goals and 13% shooting accuracy are a more telling reflection of his share of our lack of goals.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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I think there definitely is something of the man city in our style the difference is money(and therefore quality of player) and Guardiola. The man is able to create something phenomenal with the right ingredients but he very much needs the right ingredients. He took over a very decent Man City side and even then in his first season City looked very dodgy at times. He then went out and spent 120 million odd on three full backs plus another 80 million on Ederson and Bernardo Silva.
Potter doesn't have that luxury so we have to get cheaper players in. Hence Webster who would probably look pretty decent in a more restrained team ends up looking like our version of John Stones. Potter's style demands a lot from our players and it shouldn't be a surprise that at times they're going to struggle and be exposed.
Which means, getting back on topic, for all that he's not Fernandinho, Stephens is the best we've got in the position and has been for the past five years. He's been integral to the team's (near unprecedented) successes over that time. You'd think people would be able to work that out for themselves and give him the respect he deserves rather than continually denigrate him for the player he palpably isn't and isn't asked to be.
Guardiola in effect said the same as you when they slaughtered us last autumn. We played a similar way to them, they just had far better players.
Some Brighton fans don’t do respect. Look at the anti Muzza posts over the last 4 or 5 years.
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LamieRobertson
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If he’d lost the ball like Mooy did there would have been a separate 50 page thread about it
Icy Gull
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Most suggesting “get rid” now
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For the second time!!
Define ‘forward’.
Forward can also be sideways at a very slight angle.
He’s a good pro, but ultimately if we want to progress as a footballing team we have to upgrade old Dale. I do admit he’s had a few good games this season, but that’s the exception. Take your Albion glasses off.
I’d really like to know which of the DS fans go to the Amex. Where I sit, ‘ffs Dale’ is often heard. Most moves seem to break down via his misplaced passes.
Forward can also be sideways at a very slight angle.
He’s a good pro, but ultimately if we want to progress as a footballing team we have to upgrade old Dale. I do admit he’s had a few good games this season, but that’s the exception. Take your Albion glasses off.
I’d really like to know which of the DS fans go to the Amex. Where I sit, ‘ffs Dale’ is often heard. Most moves seem to break down via his misplaced passes.
All of this.
Successive managers select him, Burnley were desperate to sign him, guess he does a fair amount right.....
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Every PL match without fail, unless on holiday.
I’ve often sat near people saying stuff like that, but equally also about Propper, Muzza, Bong, Montoya, Hemed, March, lately Gross, David Lopez, Barnes, Webster.
This season, very prevalent when Montoya, Webster or Propper screw up.
It means absolutely nothing.
Some miseries go to games with a preset agenda that Muzza, Stephens, March, Duffy, Webster or Propper are shite. Almost delighted when evidence fits around their conclusion. You can always tell as they turn to their mate “There yago, he’s f*cking done that again”.
Empty vessels.
One yellow in his last 8 games. Not much of a banker, tbh.
Machiavelli
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Utter tosh. I think Stephens has got a few problems, but only him and Propper can play the DCM role and Stephens does it with more grit (while Propper is comfortably the better player). And Stephens is really good at setting the tempo, and taking the game by the scruff of the neck. There have been numerous games (most recently, West Ham away) when Stephens has shifted the direction of the game by hunting for the ball. Sometimes this has led to red cards (or challenges that ought to have warranted a red, eg Fulham away last season) but, more often than not, it works.
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Hence the poor use of an exclamation mark.
Stat's Betting Bankers really ought to be used as a guide more often on here.
Perfectly illustrated on Tuesday night by me starting a thread calling Maguire shitehouse.
Scholars of my posts should have instantly seen the natural progression of the evening and lumped every last penny on HM scoring with a Utd clean sheet!
This is life.
Dunno the 'rules' on double jinx.
But if Stephens is ever going to one touch ping a no look laser guided 40 yard assist, it'll be today.