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Please give your head a right good wobble
I wouldn't expect anything less from somebody called 'loppers86' but nobody is getting carried away, some of us are just willing to give him a chance rather than writing him off after a month and no preseason. Your mate Loppers is responsible for that no preseason part by the way.
Your last sentence does not correspond to what Matt Hobbs had to say.
Teflon Jeff. Quite incredible, really.
So basically he needs to get this squad playing well every single game. ****s sake.
Ideally yes but given both he and the players are human that is unlikely to happen.
Tell King Loppy that.
Just wobbled it for 30 minutes straight.
Correction. We got outplayed for about 15-20 minutes in the first half at Luton. After he corrected for Luton's change in game plan, we started to control the game. Then, the red card occurred. We still grabbed a point on the road playing with 10 men for a majority of the game.
So Luton we’re the better team for the majority of the time it was 11v11 and we’re far superior to us playing the strict game plan they play every week that some how we didn’t prepare for and struggled to cope
Yes….. as that is his job……
Hold on….. also noticed…. Out played Man City
He had James Ward Prowse
They were the better team for about half the time it 11v11; Bellegarde was sent off at around 38'. They switched to a 3-5-2, which they haven't played all year. Once we switched things up via GON instruction, we started to control the game. "Smashed it off the post" was a long-range shot by Morris...
It's true that we have played better in the last two games. As I said, we played good and bad so far and I really don't know if GON is our long-term manager (i.e., he'll make the grade). There are some positive signs however--you would be dumb not to notice it.
I said that we outplayed them in the first half and it was 1-1 until the 85'. Those are facts. Yes, we lost, but I think most would say that we played pretty well.
I really do think that the biggest difference between the two teams is that they have Ollie Watkins and we don't. Well, and Emery definitely has better coaching credentials and experience. But really, that draw on the weekend was a very fair result. We could have won it with Neto missing a sitter and they could have with several shots in close at the end of the game. Anyway, it's just my opinion - they will probably finish from 5th-10th and we will be in the next tier. Stand by my statement that we will not be close to relegation.
Yes, given the game plan and final score. Did Haaland do anything? How about Foden? Grealish? Doku? They scored on a worldly free kick and looked very average. But, I guess GON got lucky.
You said out played……
They have a much much better keeper than us, i would take cash over semedo any day of the week.
and if he can’t do it he’ll be a gone GON because he was recruited as Hobb’s scapegoat. Hobbs is Jeff’s scapegoat, and Jeff (the real culprit) is as safe as houses.
Clearly, I wasn't there. I've watched the replay two more times - I stand by what I saw on video. After our changes right around 15-20', we took the sting out of the game and started having more possession and attacking moves--in fact, we were on the front foot when Bellegarde had his leg wrestling match. Watch Gully's (@gullykular) post on this--he saw the same thing. Then, we went down to 10 men and had our backs against the wall the rest of the match.
We blew a two goal lead at a championship team with our second string who had never played together collectively, before.
I don't know what your definition of "outplayed." Anybody watching that game would say that Wolves deserved the win. They have 100's of million of pounds of better players and Wolves beat them soundly in my mind. Yeah...we let them have the ball, but they really didn't do much with it, did they? Nuno used to talk about controlling the game without the ball - we effectively did that. So yeah, outplayed them.
Now that he’s seemingly stopped talking *******s and blaming everyone else, then no, he doesn’t seem much like Jones.
i admire your positivity! Never said we didn’t deserve to win, we did as we scored twice and they scored one.
This is rich coming from someone who has been slagging off GON since the beginning of this thread. When you are in league with ole loppers86, then you might want to look around a little bit and see if you're out over your skis.
Mate, I trust the opinion of the person at the game and I love gully’s videos normally, but he really was reaching with some of the arguements about “intelligent play” as he described it we didn’t create any shots on goal at any stage of the half.
I don’t rate GO, but I have also praised him for the last two weeks….. so I am balanced, I give praise and positivity when it is there to be seen. Like the last two weeks.
A voice of reason….well said.
Are you calling me a liar? Yes, I've seen the replay, not once, but twice, via Peacock subscription in the U.S.
I said that we started controlling the ball via possession and did get the ball into the box. Luton was not getting joy down the right flank after the changes. You can literally sense that the sting was taken out from Luton.
Right, that's how you have to play with 10 men on the road. Keep it tight in your half and break quickly when the opportunity arises. They really didn't create much all day, given they were at home against 10 men.
It isn't a death sentence, but can we agree that the odds of winning on the road with 10 men are pretty stacked against you? This article (Home teams win 208% more often with red card (Study of 19,985 games)) states that in the top 5 European leagues from 2009-10 to 2019-20 seasons, only 26% of teams that were red carded, won the game - for away teams, that percentage is 14%. And probably lower still when the red card is in the first half. So really, your argument is silly to say that we should beat Luton when we're down to 10 men.
We were surprised by their tactical changes at the beginning of the game - it happens. Ask Liverpool when we played them or even ManCity. GON made changes pretty quickly on the fly and it reversed the momentum. Plus, the players couldn't pass or control the ball at all in those opening minutes. What else do you want him to do?
Sorry mate, should have twigged you are in the US so have better access to TV games…… my bad on that one, wouldn’t call anyone a liar on that stuff as full games are out there online if you search hard enough….. but let’s not break the rules by discussing that hahaha
Didn’t most of the team that screwed the pooch against Ipswich play in the previous round together? So that isn’t exactly true is it?
i agree with this. Proof of the pudding is those teams around us, and he does deserve credit for Man City. Villa, difficult to say in a derby like that but we did get away with at the end.
Add in the fact that worldy free kick was a result of a free kick that wasn’t a foul as well
