I agree, except from open play it has been occurring all season, the deficit and results made up by set pieces success. The last eight hours at home this has dried up as well.
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[Football] Why’s it not quite working at the moment?
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I agree, except from open play it has been occurring all season, the deficit and results made up by set pieces success. The last eight hours at home this has dried up as well.
OzMike
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Finding it increasingly harder to disagree with this.
I find it odd that certain highly priced players are not getting much time, how much say does he have in recruitment?
GT49er
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Let's just stop there and look at the amount of total bollocks just in that first paragraph. We started so sluggishly - yep, so sluggishly that Heaton had to make to world class saves (not just me thinking they were fantastic saves; every pundit who has played the game at the highest level was raving about them too) to keep them in the game before they scored.
And that was against a side struggling so badly that they have gone seven without defeat and are currently 5th. in the form table, where they're struggling to stay above Liverpool.
Hey-ho, those nasty inconvenient facts, eh?.
GT49er
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Well, I haven't checked the live music thread yet, but .......................................
APACHE
LONGTIME DIEHARD
I'm as fed-up as everyone else so won't comment on yesterday, just read any of my last 5 posts.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Stephens is worse than both of them.
Wrong-Direction
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Sussex Nomad
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Are you deliberately bypassing our own hoofball game which was quite prevalent yesterday?
Seasider78
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We have some good individual players but we have not integrated them well which results in a lack of understanding and cohesion on the pitch.
In the promotion season we had AK and Bruno with a great partnership and understanding, Gross and a Murray last season, even Bong and Izzy seemed to be clicking.
Now we have Locadia who looks like an individual, Andone who we have not worked out how to get the best of. Bissouma who is explosive but we don’t know where to best deploy him. Ali J no idea where he is best as not seen enough
Hughton needs to settle on a way of playing and build effective partnerships and understanding throughout the team so we get back some rhythm in our play. All far too disjointed at the moment
In the promotion season we had AK and Bruno with a great partnership and understanding, Gross and a Murray last season, even Bong and Izzy seemed to be clicking.
Now we have Locadia who looks like an individual, Andone who we have not worked out how to get the best of. Bissouma who is explosive but we don’t know where to best deploy him. Ali J no idea where he is best as not seen enough
Hughton needs to settle on a way of playing and build effective partnerships and understanding throughout the team so we get back some rhythm in our play. All far too disjointed at the moment
I do agree, but in the two games against WBA who from the second string really made a strong case for inclusion yesterday?
One of the other wingers rather than Locadia. Bissouma deserves a run in the team because he has pace and looks to go forward, we could not do any worse than Gross has recently. Alternatively CH could have tried something a little different but no, he picked the same team and formation that has failed for weeks. Dyche must have had the easiest preparations this week, he knew exactly what our team was and exactly what our set up would be and let's be honest, he got it spot on and did a number on us.
jezzer
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What I've read on here today beggars belief, Houghton out, we're playing shit, a load of the players are shit, the tactics are shit, we should be signing a couple of world class players, we should be above fighting for relegation etc etc
Thank God for Tony Bloom and thank God he's running the club instead of the ##ckwits on here!
Thank God for Tony Bloom and thank God he's running the club instead of the ##ckwits on here!
Aren't you too young to drive?
Interesting game plan to allow the opposition to dominate you, create significantly more chances, to rely on your keeper making outstanding saves to keep you in it and, finally, to bank on outrageous officiating to not give the opposition stonewall penalties.
Are you saying you want Hughton to send us out in the same way?
doogie004
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I wish I was , now get back to your homework
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doogie004
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I do not deny we had some awful luck yesterday, my point was that Dyche had a very easy set of preparations as he knew exactly what our team would be, he knew we had a lack of pace so allowed his team to sit and rely on counters.
DarrenFreemansPerm
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I’d kind of disagree. Not all of our summer signings have been a roaring success yet, but despite him becoming one of Albion’s more polarising players, I’d say Montoya is an upgrade to Bruno, maybe not peak Bruno, but 38yo Bruno. Bernardo is an upgrade over Bong, no coincidence we’ve dropped off a cliff since he’s been injured. Bissouma clearly a better player, at least technically, than Stephens. Andone, good player, but like Bissouma, Hughton won’t play him. The talent is there, but the formation and squad selection are off at the moment.