Other Games 22/23

[OTF 8372]

The flaccidity of this final day is terrible, the premier league will need to get some new writers in over the summer.

[Gemmill 49632]

2 minutes ago, OTF said:

The flaccidity of this final day is terrible, the premier league will need to get some new writers in over the summer.

 

Aye. The price of sending a happy smiley family club to do a man's job. Even Spurs would have beat Everton today, that's how bad Bournemouth were.

[wykikitoon 22669]

Leicester playing safe v us really helped them didn't it

[Gemmill 49632]

Just now, wykikitoon said:

Leicester playing safe v us really helped them didn't it

 

Aye the number of pundits I've heard this week talk about how that could be a really important point, like going into the final day 2 points short of safety was some kind of masterplan.

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 4244]

I assume all the relegated teams will now start legal action against the premier league for not prosecuting Everton now.

[Rayvin 5909]

23 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Aye the number of pundits I've heard this week talk about how that could be a really important point, like going into the final day 2 points short of safety was some kind of masterplan.

 

They did almost win it at the end though. If Pope doesn't make that save, the whole gameplan would be lauded as a masterstroke. If they'd opened up and played us properly, they would have lost by 2 or 3 goals IMO.

[Alex 36617]

11 hours ago, Rayvin said:

 

They did almost win it at the end though. If Pope doesn't make that save, the whole gameplan would be lauded as a masterstroke. If they'd opened up and played us properly, they would have lost by 2 or 3 goals IMO.

It would’ve but that would’ve been 20/20 hindsight (which I suppose this is too  ). There’s a middle ground where you stay in the game then go for it earlier. They’d have been incredibly lucky if the gameplay had worked with them scoring at the death with their sole attempt on goal I think it was. Especially in a game where we’d missed loads of chances and hit the woodwork on numerous occasions. They were in a position where it was very difficult for them to stay up but I think you’ve got to try and make things happen in that situation. I.e. not just relying on Everton dropping points at home against a Bournemouth side with no skin in the game. As others have said though it’s all very well replacing and blaming Rogers but it’s fucking pointless if you’re replacing him with Dean Smith. A little bit like Leeds. By all means change the manager but don’t do it that late and don’t bring in a fucking dinosaur / fraud like Allardyce  

Edited May 29, 2023 by Alex

[The Fish 11313]

I don't think trying not to lose away at a CL chasing team was the reason they've gone down. Gifting 4pts to each of the other two teams legitimately in the Relegation fight could be one reason, letting Southampton do the double over you is another. 

 

Maddison missing a penalty against Everton at 2-1 going into the half time break, was worse than only getting a point away to Newcastle.

[Howay 12496]

On 28/05/2023 at 14:45, Rayvin said:

 

They did almost win it at the end though. If Pope doesn't make that save, the whole gameplan would be lauded as a masterstroke. If they'd opened up and played us properly, they would have lost by 2 or 3 goals IMO.

Agreed, I’ve seen it from a few pundits now as well as the YouTube crew about how leicester should have given it a go against us but if they did we’d have fucking smacked them as you say. Our attackers work well when there is space, they struggle when the pitch is condensed and teams sit back, so if Leicester tried to come at us we’d have had a ton of space. I think the pundits are also forgetting that Leicester are shite and we dominated the ball - if that was Liverpool rather than us they’d not have been saying this. 

[The Fish 11313]

5 minutes ago, Howay said:

Agreed, I’ve seen it from a few pundits now as well as the YouTube crew about how leicester should have given it a go against us but if they did we’d have fucking smacked them as you say. Our attackers work well when there is space, they struggle when the pitch is condensed and teams sit back, so if Leicester tried to come at us we’d have had a ton of space. I think the pundits are also forgetting that Leicester are shite and we dominated the ball - if that was Liverpool rather than us they’d not have been saying this. 

Even in the second half, when they introduced Maddison and their other more talented attacking players, we had more dangerous phases of play.

[The Fish 11313]

To be honest, it was Everton's 5-1 demolition of Brighton that kept them up. So, really, Brighton should be docked points for being enemies of football.

[RobinRobin 12427]

15 hours ago, The Fish said:

So, really, Brighton should be docked points for being enemies of football.

Or get a prize for annoying Gemmill again 

[Alex 36617]

Watching the Europa League final. Is it just me or is the pitch really narrow? 

[Gemmill 49632]

Dunno but Eddie's mags would be 4 nil up by now against either of these.

[Gemmill 49632]

I did not know that Smalling played for Roma.

 

It's a depressing feature of today's game that you can no longer believe the frantic arm wave when a player goes down. That used to be a cast iron guarantee of a really bad injury, now it's usually just some cunt wanting a lie down.

[Alex 36617]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

I did not know that Smalling played for Roma.

 

It's a depressing feature of today's game that you can no longer believe the frantic arm wave when a player goes down. That used to be a cast iron guarantee of a really bad injury, now it's usually just some cunt wanting a lie down.

Smalling has been there a few seasons now I think 

[Gemmill 49632]

 

 

[Alex 36617]

It was nice to see him get precisely what his tactics and pitch side antics deserved last night mind. Playing for penalties for more than half the match (including extra time). And him and his bench contesting practically every (even minor) decision like one of their players had been chopped in half by waist-high tackle. 

[Kid Dynamite 7591]

11 hours ago, Gemmill said:

I did not know that Smalling played for Roma.

 

It's a depressing feature of today's game that you can no longer believe the frantic arm wave when a player goes down. That used to be a cast iron guarantee of a really bad injury, now it's usually just some cunt wanting a lie down.

141 games for them over 4 seasons. Easy missed 

[Alex 36617]

1 hour ago, Kid Dynamite said:

141 games for them over 4 seasons. Easy missed 

On the evidence of last night he’s still a good defender and better than a certain England international still at Man Utd 

Edited June 1, 2023 by Alex

[Gemmill 49632]

 

I don't know what he's moaning about. It went to penalties and they got beat. The penalty incident he's talking about did look like a pen in real time, but it wasn't and it got overturned.

 

The disgrace was the match. It was fucking awful.

[Kid Dynamite 7591]

1 hour ago, Alex said:

On the evidence of last night he’s still a good defender and better than a certain England international still at Man Utd 

Mad that players like Maguire, Dunk and Mings get in ahead of Smalling and Tomori. Top 6 Serie A players with plenty of CL/EL experience. 

[RobinRobin 12427]

17 hours ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Mad that players like Maguire, Dunk and Mings get in ahead of Smalling and Tomori. Top 6 Serie A players with plenty of CL/EL experience. 

And that's one of the reasons that good English players don't test themselves overseas when they should. 

 

That and the fact that a second language is difficult when you can't even speak your first language, of course.

 

 

[Alex 36617]

20 hours ago, Gemmill said:

 

I don't know what he's moaning about. It went to penalties and they got beat. The penalty incident he's talking about did look like a pen in real time, but it wasn't and it got overturned.

 

The disgrace was the match. It was fucking awful.

He comes across as a pissed up parody of his former self these days. I know those comments about Spurs / Levy were funny (because it’s Spurs), but he only said it because he was a failure there. It’s always someone else’s fault 

[RobinRobin 12427]

4 hours ago, Alex said:

He comes across as a pissed up parody of his former self these days. I know those comments about Spurs / Levy were funny (because it’s Spurs), but he only said it because he was a failure there. It’s always someone else’s fault 

Basically