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Date Posted: Tuesday, April 14, 11:01:58am
Author: eganonoa
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 195.222.49.31
Subject: Points and Counterpoints

The negatives are clear.

The performances are uninspiring. We're a totally uninspiring 12th place in the league. We seem to have gone too far down the line of the smaller, less physical players. We miss the bite and intensity of players like Andreas. Andersen's weaknesses continue to drive how we set up across the team. Tete continues to be a player we can only rely upon to be fit 60% of the time and yet is central to how we set up with Andersen in the team (vs Castagne who doesn't fit that model). Robinson doesn't look like the Robinson we got used to; Bassey a wild card. Leno aging not so gracefully. Iwobi perhaps not the ideal fit in the middle, yet the manager never seems to prioritize central midfield in the transfer market. Berge doesn't shoot. Lukic is maybe little more than an upgrade on Reed, not the long-term answer. King profiles more as a central midfielder given his lack of end-product, but is so very slight for a midfielder in this hurly-burly era. Muniz is not doing what we hoped he would, while Raul is ending his contract and is likely to leave, as is Wilson. Bobb, Kevin, ESR have all yet to fully convince. Chuck looks like the new Manor Solomon and anyway isn't ours. So where are the goals coming from next season? And who will be leading us? Marco still hasn't worked out how to get us over the line from March, never seems to take responsibility, moans incessantly in the press despite having so much say in the transfer market and so much spent, and seems to be scraping around for an answer. He's probably leaving, or at most very reluctantly staying.

And yet...

Relegation hasn't ever realistically been a concern all season. European places look likely to go down to 8th. And we're just three points behind Brentford, who we're playing this weekend, and Everton in 7th and 8th place respectively. We're currently tied for 4th place in the form table over the last six matches. We have very few injured players. And given the various fixtures this weekend, it could all look very different come next Monday.

So despite all the very many negatives, something appears to have been working.

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The stats are all good enough but I don't think there's been a single match this season where we've impressed throughout. It's all too sluggish and formulaic and too often defensively fragile. Watching Man U v Leeds last night had it been us there's no way we wouldn't have conceded a late equaliser. Probably from a corner. (NT) -- The Man With No Name, Tuesday, April 14, 11:12:06am (host81-141-119-135.range81-141.btcentralplus.com/81.141.119.135)
- You could probably say that same about all teams in the league. The football right now is awful. Dull. Everything decided on fine margins, often set pieces or some VAR shenanigans. The whole product is rubbish. Its not just us. (NT) -- eganonoa, Tuesday, April 14, 11:14:44am (NoHost/217.75.196.3)
  - So many games nothing happens then there is a frantic last 10 minutes (NT) -- Al, Tuesday, April 14, 11:50:17am (cust-51.179.192.124.cgn.as5482.net/51.179.192.124)
    - Exactly. Spectacle, without the quality. (NT) -- eganonoa, Tuesday, April 14, 12:13:00pm (NoHost/195.222.49.31)
Its fine margins, Wilson matches his previous league stats and we are down with Spurs / one other player excels on their stats and we are probably 5th/6th! Love Marco but i feel we have been drab to watch for a while, id say not many memorable home games last season and carried on to this year (NT) -- Waterboy, Tuesday, April 14, 03:49:04pm (NoHost/83.105.88.197)
- Thing is, it's all fine margins. For all sides. Could say the same with all teams. If x didn't do y it'd be a problem. And also the contrary: if z hadn't happened (injury, VAR, etc) we'd be in pole position for Europe, etc. Fact is we have a deep squad and every year 2-3 players have stepped up with goals, keeping us in Euro contention and away from relegation. No reason whatsoever to not believe that will happen again next season. Whether we have enough to do more than that is another question. (NT) -- eganonoa, Tuesday, April 14, 04:06:21pm (NoHost/195.222.49.31)
The Sky hype is nauseating - it's a very poor league. And the cartel is making it worse. Scrap ffp, psr, however they want to dress it up - at least that would make it a bit interesting. And if clubs go bust - that's fun too. As long as it's not Fulham! Football died the day it got commercialised. (NT) -- Rupert, Wednesday, April 15, 09:07:29am (NoHost/90.214.26.165)
- Are you serious.?How is it fun if clubs go bust?Would not even wish on Chelsea. (NT) -- HemelRog, Wednesday, April 15, 03:53:10pm (NoHost/31.94.14.214)
Re: Points and Counterpoints : Good post despite all we're doing OK! (NT) -- Alboy, Wednesday, April 15, 07:35:06pm (host109-150-14-246.range109-150.btcentralplus.com/109.150.14.246)
Excellent post (NT) -- WayneKerrins, Wednesday, April 15, 08:59:19pm (pool-74-103-156-241.phlapa.fios.verizon.net/74.103.156.241)

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