fraser
5:46 Wed Mar 13
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Not sure if I'll be watching either.. Hopefully be able to.
Watched the game the other night in a bar in Chaweng amongst yids, city, villa and plastic scouse.. None of them could believe how shit and passive we were after questioning why I wanted Moyes out. It amazes me how other fans can question our fan base when they don't ever watch our games.
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Manuel
7:46 Wed Mar 13
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fraser - How is it down there these days? at 00.45 there will surely be loads open? I will struggle to stay awake sitting at home, but will be watching.
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fraser
8:16 Wed Mar 13
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Manuel I've been all over Pattaya - Bangkok - Big Buddha - Haad Yao - Haad Rin - Chaweng (watched in Islander) now Bangkok hospital Samui. But have a lovely big room with a nice big smart TV and have just managed to load my IPTV app, so I can suffer mentally as well as physically... :-)
Chaweng is OK a bit hectic after Phangan which is so chilled obviously, been watching sunsets like an old hippy..
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Manuel
8:22 Wed Mar 13
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Lol, how the fuck did you end up in there, sounds like you have good insurance anyway.
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fraser
11:18 Wed Mar 13
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Got an abscess didn't even know.. Was feeling rough.. Then the pain came about ten days later.. Thought I was just overdoing it 30000 steps a day in Bangkok.. I love to walk everywhere.. Then couldn't walk a step. They operated on me straight away.. Brilliant in here to be fair. So well looked after, everything is top notch. With the bonus of possible business class home... So every cloud...
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Manuel
11:41 Wed Mar 13
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Ffs, sounds like you're enjoying it though. I know in private Thai hospitals there are nurses in and out the room all day.
Back on topic, fairly confident for tomorrow as long as we go ahead.
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nychammer
12:56 Wed Mar 13
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Moyes has to have us coming out all guns blazing from the start tomorrow. No cagey stuff. He who gets the first goal goes onto win as others have said and I do think it will be us.
3-1 on the night and we move on.
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GBHammer63
1:20 Wed Mar 13
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NYC
We may get through to the next round but will we actually move on?
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Willtell
1:35 Wed Mar 13
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I reckon The Fonz has it right for midfield and forwards.
The problem for me is that their manager is shrewd so expect him to do a Moyes and sit deep hoping to score on a fast break. For that reason Zouma should be on the bench.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:17 Wed Mar 13
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We will get an unfeasibly large percentage of possession early doors.
Therefore the team needs to be set up from the start to exploit that. The question is "Does Moyes have enough match-ready players in the squad to do that?"
The answer is: "I feel not."
With his insistence on a favourite fourteen, most of the rest of the squad on the bench will be rusty and sluggish (who were, by matter of irrelevant diversion, two funny, but very non-PC comedians back in the day).
A lucky progression, probably via penalties, beckons.
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ludo21
3:34 Wed Mar 13
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I thought Freiburg did quite well in marking Kudus and Paqueta out of the first leg. Granted neither played well but that was obviously partly down to them both being sat on by defenders.
Thursday won't be any different. We need Kudus in particular to run into spaces... Bowen can do the same as can Antonio which is why he should play IMO. If we just play it to feet then Freiburg will lap that up all night long.
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Wils
4:49 Wed Mar 13
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Mex Martillo wrote...
"If we play like 2nd half on Sunday, we win quite confortably and I will be a very happy hammer
If we play like the 1st half on Sunday there will be a lot of happy wankers on here"
At least we are all after the same thing, a happy ending.
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Sir Alf
5:11 Wed Mar 13
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The more obvious selection options are imho:
Who to play alongside the Greek. I’d have said Ogbonna but after playing well a few weeks back he like many gets frozen out so it will be Zouma and knowing Moyes he’ll team him up with Aguerd because proving Moyes transfer picks are better than Steidtens is more important than everything else?
Play Cresswell and we are fvcked since the Freiberg wide right player is their quickest and trickiest by far. Id actually consider putting Johnson there but he’s now frozen out again after a bad game caused by Moyes playing him wide left so Moyes leaves him out to show everyone it was the player’s fault?
I might even play Aguerd left back. He’s quick and decent recovering tackles its in the air and physically he struggles and their wide right Japanese fella is small. But Moyes will play Cresswell and he coukd well cause us to exit like he did against Eintract Frankfurt a couple of seasons back
Otherwise you gotta drop one of Soucek or JWP
And surely start Antonio with Bowen wide right and Kudus wide left which allows Paqueta to play central.
——— Fab
Coufal Mavros Zouma ( reluctantly) Aguerd
———- Alvarez ———- Paqueta
———— Soucek —————-
Bowen ——- Antonio ——- Kudus
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british is best
5:20 Wed Mar 13
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I just hope he doesn't start cresswell. The blonde Japanese player will murder him for pace . He gave Emerson severe problems. Johnson or aguerd at LB if Emerson is unavailable. I'm confident as we've got the better players. Moyes is a bigger threat than they are .
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ludo21
6:16 Wed Mar 13
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Aguerd at LB is a good shout... I'd go with that.
Kudus never seems to play on the LW, not sure why? If that is an issue I'd play Antonio on LW, Bowen RW and Kudus in the middle but give them licence to interchange with Paqueta in the 10 role behind slotting passes in for the three of them...
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Sir Alf
6:39 Wed Mar 13
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The interchanging idea is a decent shout IMO too but classed as 'fluid' or 'dynamic' hence Moyes is very unlikely to do it. The opposite of Moyes really who is best described by words like entrenched, inflexible, stubborn, fixed, unbending, obstinate and obdurate. Or simply a man who thinks he knows it all and will not listen to anyone. Hence why Pearce, Irvine, Warbarton etc.. called it a day at West Ham.
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ludo21
7:18 Wed Mar 13
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Sir Alf - You're 100% right about moyes's closed mind yet it's plainly obvious that it would improve us yet apparently we have to be content with our lot because we can't do any better than Moyes... laughable.
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the exile
7:55 Wed Mar 13
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Sir Alf - agree with all of that. However, Moyes is more likely to suddenly become a Trappist monk than to play Aguerd at LB. I reckon Johnson will get the nod there. Even Moyes must be able to see that Cresswell would be a disaster.
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solidbond
9:21 Wed Mar 13
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Was 2-0 down at home to Burnley the tipping point for Moyes? Will he play an all out attacking front 4 and bring in Antonio or will he persist with Ward-Prowse? I think he’ll go for the latter.
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Vexed
9:24 Wed Mar 13
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Areola
Coufal
Mavro
Oh who fucking cares at this point anyway?
It'll be boring, disappointing and shit and optionally we get to do it again if we scrap a result.
I'm out of shits to give now.
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RM10
9:29 Wed Mar 13
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Thank god you don’t go then.
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