Bowen included in Tuchel's first England squad
Ladysmith wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:45El Scorchio" wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:36Imagine having a life so empty and pathetic with nothing else going on that you keep that act up for six months, and hundreds of posts.Ok So let's have a look at your input,I was thinking that about Todibo- there's no way after weeks of training he can only go for precisely 60 mins per game and no longer, especially with the drop off between him and Mav. There's clearly something at play here. Classic Sullivan with his silly clauses in deals and trying to penny pinch around them which directly impact how we can play the game on the pitch. I'm starting to think Ferguson has something similar in his contract as well to be quite honest. It made no sense waiting so long to bring him on yesterday. Why isn't he starting games? He can't be that unfit. Then again he's been really poor so far, so it could just be that.
Tedious!
Sullivan has to avoid his worst intentions and not get his finger on the trigger. There's a clear foundation here to build on and the evidence is there that GP will get a team playing good attacking football if he's got the resource to. I hope this is regarded as a long term project rather than a quick fix as it all to often seems to be.
Absolute drivel!
The biggest concern is there's no urgency in our play. That's not so terrible when it's 0-0 and we're controlling the ball, but it's a real problem if we are second best like for large parts of last night, or losing.
We just don't play anything like fast enough or aggressively enough to put teams under pressure or in bother. There's far too much lateral play in front of the opposition and no ideas on how to break an opposition down or play through them aside from trying to get a favourable match up on the wings. It's far too easy for an opposition to stop us playing. And our subs made no difference either. Granted some of that is the players and we need to shift some out and some in in the summer, but there's a real change needed in order to fix that'. Their pressing was good but it shouldn't have been impossible to play through. We just looked to go backwards far too often. I can't work out if JWP is an asset in terms of getting some control of the ball and distributing it, or a problem in terms of slowing the game too much and making negative passes which kill momentum.
Potter has made us better and more fundamentally sound which is a big step in a lot of ways but we are absolutely flaccid going forward. Areola is far too slow distributing the ball. We miss so many opportunities to transition quickly, as we did last night, and when the ball is advanced the opportunity is all gone. There is far too much playing it safe. When we were losing last night we played with all the intensity of a preseason friendly and if they were not displaying the score and you walked into the stadium, you'd assuming we were 2-0 up and trying to kill the game. We didn't press and start going for it with urgency until the last five minutes. Very weird. I was half expecting Niall Quinn to come running out of the dressing room shouting 'We need to score a goal guys!'
Lots more work needed. Some down to new players, but the coaching staff have to instil a way of getting us to move the ball from back to front a lot quicker than we currently do.
The ramblings of a mad man!
Murphy is a whinging monotone cսnt most of the time but he was right. We really didn't commit enough forward until it was virtually the 90th minute and too late. No urgency or directness in the last quarter of the game despite being a goal down was a big disappointment. The position we're in where we are safe, a 0-1 or 0-2 makes no odds whatsoever. Just gamble and go for it and if you get done on the break then so be it.
A monotone cսnt... certainly takes one to know one!
El Scorchio" wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:36Imagine having a life so empty and pathetic with nothing else going on that you keep that act up for six months, and hundreds of posts.
El Scorchio" wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:36Imagine having a life so empty and pathetic with nothing else going on that you keep that act up for six months, and hundreds of posts.
Ladysmith wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:14goose wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:10Ladysmith wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:07 Looking close to home, I would say that Bowen does not deserve a call up, but possibly the football world conspiring against us to put him in the shop window for his inevitable move in the summer.
That said, loads don't deserve the call up and a very strange squad indeed.
The inevitable move that isn’t happening?Hopefully not, but it wouldn't me the end of the world - totally overrated!
goose wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:10Ladysmith wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:07 Looking close to home, I would say that Bowen does not deserve a call up, but possibly the football world conspiring against us to put him in the shop window for his inevitable move in the summer.
That said, loads don't deserve the call up and a very strange squad indeed.
The inevitable move that isn’t happening?
Ladysmith wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 11:07 Looking close to home, I would say that Bowen does not deserve a call up, but possibly the football world conspiring against us to put him in the shop window for his inevitable move in the summer.
That said, loads don't deserve the call up and a very strange squad indeed.
Mr Anon" wrote: ↑14 Mar 2025, 10:13In my opinion definitely not, and the stats back it up.
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I guess its not just about who's better though but how they fit which I don't always appreciate, one of the many reasons I'm not the one picking the squad!
