DavidRyder
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- Jul 23, 2013
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The bus will need to be precisely parked, I would be elated with a point.
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[Albion] Comments on daunting evening
- Thread starter dingodan
- Start date
Nah, 1-0 down can be seen as still "in the game". We gave City a couple of scares towards the end, nothing major but if we were 1-0 down against Spurs with 20 mins to go, you could consider that being "in the game", IMO.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
- 10,686
No one is saying this.
You'd rather we went toe to toe against the teams in our next 4 games?
that would somehow make our promotion to the premier league more valid for you?
People expecting us to be playing exciting, attacking, successful football inside 2 seasons, really surprises me.
Billy the Fish
Technocrat
You're comparing apples and pears, Roy has set them up as a counter attacking team and has the right players to do it. That's why their home record is so bad.
We simply don't have the pace to do it, that's why we're so bad away from home IMHO.
Why? Wolves have managed to do it successfully in their first season.
Gazwag
5 millionth post poster
Our players will have the incentive of getting into the history book. Not necessarily to be the first team to get anything from at the Spurs ground conversion but being the first player to score there and you never know
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
- 10,686
You really don't know why we are different to Wolves?
Or is this a different angle? The problem isn't CH it's Tony Bloom!
Bloom out! His lack of spending is holding us back!
The only way for us to get to the next level, is to be brought out by fickle foreign investors looking for a vanity project, until they get bored.
I don't think anyone really expects us to go gungho but I also think most did not expect us to be THIS negative.
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Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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Are you saying "this negative" in relation to the Wolves game? Or in general?
Because I would take issue with the idea we have been too defensive this year.
At the beginning of the year we switched to a more attacking style of play.
Hughton knew that we could not survive indefinitely with trying to nick games here and there and changed things.
We saw some improvement in performances, running United close, going 2 goals up away from home twice.
But the results didn't come. We had little luck along the way to be fair, but equally the new approach didn't really gel.
Hughton persevered with the approach into the games where it should have started yielding better results.
But it didn't work. It didn't work because by being more attacking we opened ourselves up too much.
To say that we were too defensive against Burnley/Cardiff/Bournemouth is massively missing the point.
We weren't defensive in those games. Far from it.
We were undone by counter attacking goals in all of those games.
Now we need to be defensive - because the stats and current form indicate we should get a maximum of 1 pt from our next 4 games.
History indicates if we try for more by attacking we will get 0 points. We need at least 2 IMO
Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
I like a challenge
sydney
tinky ****in winky
well you might stir up dunk , stephens , solly and murray with that little passage .....the rest of them....
father_and_son
Well-known member
Pretty sure our Reject XI is better than the first team!
