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    God knows why he's started Giroud today.
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    We need 6 wins and a couple of draws to be safe.
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    That catmag's lazy.
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    Steve Clarke is one of the best assistant managers in the game. I'd personally go for a Frenchie or a Dutch and really jazz up our total football.
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    Wanking was my mainstay for this. Nice kip after.
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    Think people will see a diffrence with QPR now with Harry in that the CD's will pick up players (space in front - between man and ball) where under Hughes they were marking space. Think Onuha was very highly rated in his early days and lost out to the mass influx at ManCity. By crossing I mean the old fashioned version, floating the ball in from wide positons into general areas (80's football). If you break down where crosses from the top sides actually come from they are really passes. Arsenal and ManU do more cutting back from the edge of the box than the old fashioned cross. Gervinho couldn't really do it properly and Oxo is still learning. SAF gave up with Nani who's too greedy to do it. It does work sometimes but then it's all happenned very fast and the def is less organised. Mourinho talks a lot about tempo loss when the ball goes out wide. He wants it foward quickly to (Drogba) and now Benzema/Ronaldo. Swansea right now are more dangerous than Liv or Arsenal or even Chelsea and that is ALL DOWN to tempo. Laudrup wants it crisp and quick with players ready on their marks as soon as posession changes. If Swansea had a little money they'd be in the top 4 no shadow of a doubt. Laudrup is that good.
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    What happens on the side of the pitch has been irrelevant for at least a decade now. If you have two good CD's no amount of crossing is ever a worry. Look at WH yesterday plonking 46 crosses into the box - end result...Not much. I like active fullbacks and with our current two we have a couple of really good ones, Santon especially (he could play as a wide mf he's that talented). In the modern game the full back is there for final interchanges in the attack phase to draw def to the side but recycle the ball into the middle for the onrushing 2nd striker, attacking mifielders. Podolski althogh looking rather baffling where he plays is essentially a mf/forward (does a bit of crossing but also cuts inside when interchanging with Gibbs)...Guti used to do it very well with Enrique. I like little groups of players sticking close together in zones across the park and moving up in a fast chain. What happens at the sides is only for me to re-gig for territory...Crossing for me is a 50/50 ball with the downside of a counter attack as well. Some of it is good but it shouldn't be the cornerstone of any side nowadays. Even ManU do a lot less of it hence the retooling of Rooney.
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    See what you're saying. Ideally one of Marv or Hatem should be a withdrawn striker who drops off/or gets behind when the time is right and links the mf and the attack a Dembele, Ruiz or Michu type. See Saurez will do more of that now he has a more up top partner. Fulham and Spurs really suffer when Bale/Dembele or Ruiz don't play...Even Berb couldn't quite do it (bit lazy). It's the way football has gone over the last 5 years and also why we get outnumbered in mf most games. nb Swansea often rarely attack unless the key boys are standing in the right place. They tap the ball around and then 'charge' as soon as the puzzle is complete (even faster now that Laudrup has drilled it into them)...He's got it down to 3/4 players attacking at pace when Rodgers went more sideways till almost the whole team was on its spots. Like with Cabaye in the first half is a wonderful reader of the game and was basically controlling our tempo, as soon as he tired he statered losing contact with Marv. Pardew over compensated with the subs...Should have brought Obertan on and kept their back line and holding mf more paranoid.
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    Think it's done bro. He looks better than any Arsenal or Liv CD.
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    Is this the result of your experiments with quantum computing?
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    Aye all the problems started last summer. If we'd have got at least a CB and RB in then we'd be sitting more comfortable in the table.
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    I still think we'll get 3 players this window. But I don't think Pardew will maximise our resources or really knows how to...He's lost some of his spark.
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    Not sure you can get away in the brute force of PL midfields by playing all 4 without one healthy big black man (a Diame type) or a snarling menace like Tiote. La Liga yes with it's slower tempo and breaks for olives and chorizzo. With Ba gone this is the ideal time (and I agree with you) to play a 433 or 4411 with one mf getting ahead of the ball in posession. Under the circumstances however we need to find a more cogent and ball keeping midfield something like: ......................Cisse ...........Marveux...........Hatem ......................Cabaye............ ...............Tiote............Anita...... We're missing a beast in midfield a M'Villa or a Sissoko in place of Anita who I see as cover for Cabaye (he's a good passer with high pitch intelligence). Never a DM. Bigi isn't ready.
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    In the PL these days you need a mix of the 3 key ingredients or need to excel in at least one of them...Right now we have none of them in the squad. It didn't matter last year cause our strikers were scoring for fun and even half chances were dispatched. There is no real pace in the squad (3/4 players have to have it not just one). Swansea thrive on this as do Arsenal. There is no real power in the squad (so when Tiote is away we don't have much battling in mf). Our mf are all lightweight midgets - Bigi, Anita, Cabaye, Perch...So we get outpowered by mediocre sides - West Ham, Reading, Qpr, Wba etc... You can get away with not having much of those two if you are a crack passing/creative side with movement....err... Our one truly creative players is away watching PSG games.
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    I deal in the highly unlikely.
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    Thought 3-5 chances Cisse applied a good finish and normally 1 or 2 would have gone in on another day. The snap volley with his right foot was a little too at gk's fav height or that would have been in.
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    Cruyff rates him. That's enough for me. I was on about Marwijk in 2009 when nobody had heard of him. Tell you what though there's dozens of managers gagging to have a crack at the PL.
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    Having a go at the support is normally Act3 in dismissal dramas.
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    What are you giggling at?...He's forgotten more about football than Pardew ever knew.
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    Obertan for Shola would have been my shout. Obertan and Marv have recently worked well together.
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    "The crowd got negative and that spread to the players". What a carry on!! That is a silly thing to say. Think people at the game have every right to complain about the substitutions as negative as they were. It's pretty clear we dropped off in the second half (like we always do when we're ahead) and gave them more time to create mischief. He maintains that this wasn't the instructions and frankly I don't believe him cause I've seen it time and time again. Sittiing back and playing nothing football trying to protect piddling leads against crap sides. Nothing will save him now after the tonking a re-emerging Villa side will deal out and the two following games don't like like they offer much either. Rijkaard - available and a monster experience of football at all levels Adkins - available and seems to have got good performances out of a mediocre Soton team I'd take either right now.
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    New thread Jinx.
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