People miss his Mohawk Haircut. And failure to replace that must have had some impact in failure to hit the back of the net recently.
I can see no other explanation for it.
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[Albion] Form that often gets a manager the sack
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People miss his Mohawk Haircut. And failure to replace that must have had some impact in failure to hit the back of the net recently.
I can see no other explanation for it.
They had absolutely nothing about them, a deserved relegation.
Smith’s tactics were laughable - I said this mid first half … timewasting. WTF
Later bringing on the cliche of a pace merchant to rob a win. During his spell on the pitch, 9/10 times Norwich passed to us.
They weren't laughable, they were standard Albion lowly opposition tactics.
Defend deep.
Let them have the ball.
Make sure you capitalise on the mistake.
The only thing laughable would have been his belief that Norwich could score from their one attack.
Did they?
They kept us at arm's length comfortable in the knowledge if they did nothing stupid a point was there for the taking.
As it turned out they could take the point and do something stupid.
Steady on Beachy, he was only stating facts. Sounds like a good Albion fan to me, as do you.
Bold Seagull
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Holgate just scores from edge of box with pretty much 20 players in there. Amazing what can happen if you can get a shot on target. That was harder than about 10 of our chances yesterday.
You're most definitely watching the wrong sport.
Bold Seagull
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Doesn't really alter the fact that a simple tactic to not lose v Brighton is:-
Let them have the ball.
Defend.
Don't worry about the shots.
We should have been able to clearly hear the Norwich players shouting:-
'All day long"
After each attack.
You certainly would have done if I was playing for them!
Granted if I was playing even the Albion would have won.
I'm sure they're ecstatic
Bold Seagull
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They were so happy they decided not to mark anyone, concede a goal and get a man sent off!
He got lucky - there was a big deflection. We didn’t get that luck yesterday.
Bold Seagull
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He did Jim - because his original shot was on target. You don’t get lucky deflections when your shot is threatening spectators in row T.
London Irish
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So of all the rich men owning PL clubs, just those 4 were affected by Covid and not the rest? That just doesn't really add up unless you have some kind of analysis explaining that? What affects clubs' spending are multiple factors individual to those clubs, what their ambitions are, where they are in a phase of development of a plan, whether they've just been promoted and need a quick catch-up, whether they've appointed a new manager with certain demands etc etc. Our lack of spending has correlated with Covid, just as the rooster crowing every morning correlates with the rise of the sun
darkwolf666
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I’m not really sure you can blame the manager when you have 30+ shots and miss a penalty, yet still fail to score...
If we weren’t creating then you could say there was possibly something wrong with the tactics, as it is it looks like the problem lays more with the players inability to hit a cows arse with a banjo!
Icy Gull
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I don’t think of you as anti Potter and I get why you are disillusioned, it has been a complete car crash since the heady days of the first half against United, but without serious investment in a striker which won’t happen, or a punt turning into Salah or Vardy, I know our place. I enjoy how we try and play and although it often fails to deliver I still enjoy watching but accept that anything outside the bottom three is all I can expect.
I dare to dream when we go on a good run but am philosophical when it turns into a shit one
It just isn't that clear cut.
The chances created were predominantly half chances and speculative digs from 20 yards.
Hoping Veltman or Lamptey can fire one in from distance does rather point to a failing in tactics (and banjoitis).
As much as GPott doesn't carry all the blame, he doesn't get off scot free either.
Bold Seagull
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He doesn’t because with our scoring he needs to engineer tactics that deliver no defenders present, the keeper on the floor and a tap-in from 4 yards. It is his failure for not setting that up.
London Irish
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They had absolutely nothing about them, a deserved relegation.
Smith’s tactics were laughable - I said this mid first half … timewasting
Later bringing on the cliche of a pace merchant to rob a win. During his spell on the pitch, 9/10 times Norwich passed to us.
But the extra comical thing is it almost worked? Their striker near the end messed up a straightfoward volley that one yard either side of Sanchez would have been Goodnight Irene
darkwolf666
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You may not be a South London interloper, but you are a not very nice person, for sure!