dicksie3 12:52 Sun Sep 18
Shades of 2002/03 season
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Yeah, I know that it's still very early days but I'm just getting a bit of déjà vu at the moment with the 02/03 season... I'm sure that I'm not the only one.
We finished 7th in 01/02 and the tight-arse board failed to improve significantly enough on the squad the following summer.
We had an abundance of quality attacking players in 02/03 but, for all of their efforts and the goals that they scored, they were let-down by an arsewiping cunt defence - Dailly, Repka and Gary fucking Breen all being absolutely fucking hopeless... Sound familiar, so far?!
If you take away the awful cunt defending Vs Watford and WBA; we would've won both games with the goals we scored (and we could've bagged a couple of more ourselves).
Fortunately, it's still very early days...
But what should we do to turn things around quickly?!
Who in defence should be dropped?!
Should anyone else be dropped?!
What formation should we be playing?!
Oh, pagan gods! Save us from thy ye olde relegation zone!
*Pisses knickers*
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Replies - In Chronological Order ( Show Newest Messages First)
Steven P
12:54 Sun Sep 18
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Oh fuck off!
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Vinny
12:56 Sun Sep 18
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Unlike those days the team has goals and once the defensive problems are ironed out (which they will be) I am sure we will kick on.
I don't think we need to panic but yesterday was a confusing and erratic defensive display which has me stumped.
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penners28
1:04 Sun Sep 18
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FUCK OFF BACK TO 02/03 THEN?
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dicksie3
1:11 Sun Sep 18
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Painful place to transport back to, Penners love!
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ChesterRd
1:18 Sun Sep 18
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Overall I agree with the OP though Bilic is no Roeder IMO.
I'm not sure we did had an abundance of attacking players. I'm sure Ian Pearce was up front at times and Kanoute was an earlier version of Sakho with not being right in the head.
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stewie griffin
1:23 Sun Sep 18
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the defending is certainly reminiscent...
as is the fact that every time some cunt shoots against us they score.
As is the fact that we probably weren't really good enough to have finished 7th the previous season so people thought we were better than we were
luckily, I don't see bilic doing a roeder or payet doing a di canio. We've still got enough about us.
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stewie griffin
1:25 Sun Sep 18
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the other parallel of course is that the support and the club were at loggerheads
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dicksie3
2:46 Sun Sep 18
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Of course Bilic is no Roeder.
He has a brain and a personality, for a start.
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Sniper
10:36 Sun Sep 18
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We did not have an abundance of attacking talent in 02/03. We played Ian Pearce u front out of desperation as we went into the season with 3 forwards. Though I'll never get why Sinclair wasn't given a run up front.
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dicksie3
10:39 Sun Sep 18
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Paolo Di Canio (although he was injured a lot (or exiled by Roeder)), Freddie Kanouté, Jermain Defoe, Joey Cole, Trevor Sinclair... Plenty of flair and goals there.
In any case, we should never have gone down with the squad that we had.
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Son of Anarchy
2:16 Mon Sep 19
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I said during the summer when everyone was wanking themselves stupid 'remember glenn roeders second season'
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Tomshardware
2:27 Mon Sep 19
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50 shades of Christian Dailly's hair.
50 shades of Roeders faux leather jacket.
50 shades of Gary breen.
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jimbo2.
2:37 Mon Sep 19
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There are a lot if differences too! We have a far better Manager. We have several far more experienced players, so are not relying on lots of promising youngsters. We have a far more in depth squad. Hopefully we don't lose an entire front line to injury for a long time, as we did then! Our star player, Payet, isn't as crazy as PDC was & is unlikely to go AWOL! Other than this, it is the same!
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Darby_
7:36 Mon Sep 19
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Too much squad depth to compare it to 2002/03.
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Alex Bunbury
7:43 Mon Sep 19
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The single biggest factor in that relegation was lack of cover upfront. Kanoute got injured early on and we had nobody to lead the line.
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BubblesCyprus
9:10 Mon Sep 19
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Kanoute had a ''Ramadan Back'' injury that year where is Sakho ?
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Pub Bigot
9:35 Mon Sep 19
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I've been saying this myself. Not so much a like for like comparison of players, more so the belief that we're too good to go down and our precarious position early on leaves us having to claw back points meaning that equalling or bettering last season is highly unlikely.
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The Ghost of Braderz
10:07 Mon Sep 19
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Didn't Ian Pearce play up front once in 2003? I may be inaccurate because I would've been young but, if so, I'd say we're miles away from that state.
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CR
10:28 Mon Sep 19
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More like the post FA cup final season, where there was lots going on off the pitch, and it took us a long time to get going.
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Russ of the BML
10:44 Mon Sep 19
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"We finished 7th in 01/02 and the tight-arse board failed to improve significantly enough on the squad the following summer."
So it's nothing like the fucking 02/03 season then is it?
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