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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Daryl Dike
« on: February 26, 2023, 04:31:03 PM »
He is slowly getting better and better and he needs to work on all aspects of his game, which as a 22 year old is understandable.

But, there is one crucial thing about his goals, and that is they are usually the winning goals, not the 3rd or 4th in a battering when the otherside have given up/knackered.

Imo I think he has the potential to hit 20 goals in a season, whereas I cannot BTA, ever doing that (I hope I am wrong though).

I could see him getting 10 from the remaining matches, giving him 15 from just half a season.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Carlos Corberan
« on: February 25, 2023, 07:09:25 PM »
It is going to take a similar run to when he joined us, for us to make the top 6 now I think.

A long way to go but those Blackburn and Blose  results particularly hurt us.

Those games were a double blow certainly, though if we had just kept out the late Blackburn equaliser we would only be 4 points off 4th with a game in hand regardless of the Blues loss.

We're still well placed I think and I'm feeling positive for a top 6 finish.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Adam Reach signs
« on: July 31, 2021, 12:55:13 PM »
This would be a decent signing. Will he be a regular starter? Possibly not, but he will make the squad that bit stronger.

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When we were not content to sit back we were the better team. Italy are a good team but no better than us. For me there is no one stand out team anymore, theres a group of 4 who are above the rest and we are in it.

Do they 'sit back' though? In my view when they come up against teams with better technical quality those sides gradually gain a foothold in the game and begin to dominate the play due to their higher ability. France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal and Spain are all stronger than England. England are in the same bracket as Germany, Croatia, Denmark, and Switzerland. Granted, the 5 sub rule benefits a side like England who naturally have a stronger squad than Denmark/Switzerland and Croatia. Add that to having home advantage, plus being in the much easier side of the draw and England had a good run to the final.

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That was pretty much what happened v Croatia 3 years ago except we held on a little longer. Southgate tried to defend a lead from the opening 10 minutes. If we had carried on getting at Italy we may well have gotten a second goal.

Despite trying to pulis the result from our start he didn't make his changes until too late. And when he came to them they were wrong rice had been our best player. Henderson was shocking and really is a limited footballer he should have gone Bellingham if he wanted to change in cm. Saka had a stinker and it wasn't compounded by missing the penalty (that he shouldn't be taking) Sancho has just signed for Man Utd for £70m + and has only played 90 minutes all tournament.

We were poor v Czech Republic and Scotland. And suddenly found momentum when mount couldn't play and he changed his system. I think a better manager in charge and we win tonight our attacking talent is totally under utilised.

Although it takes a very brace decision by fa to sack a man with a World Cup semi final and a European final to his name after how Barron we had been previously.

It was what happened against Colombia in '18 also. A goal early in the second half, followed by Colombia dominating possession and England desperately trying to kill the game with every time-wasting tactic in the book before being deservedly punished for it. On that occasion they managed to win the shoot-out, but they were lucky on the night.

The way the Croatia semi-final was going to go was inevitable as soon as England scored.

As soon as England scored last night the way it was going to go was, yet again, inevitable.

This isn't entirely down to tactics though, or at least not in the way most seem to think, but the style and standard of the opposition in those games.

Southgate's game-plan has been to play with a high-intensity attack and pressing game from kick-off, hope to rattle the opposition and ultimately get an early goal, which then gives the team something to hang onto. The team for the most part isn't capable of playing like they play in the first 25-30 minutes of games for the whole 90 minutes, if they tried they'd be dead on their feet by the hour mark. As it is, after those early parts of the game teams like Croatia, Colombia and Italy eventually settle into the match, their better technical quality sees them having more and more of the ball and they begin to have the better of the game. More often than not this leads to an equaliser, which more often than not leads to England coming up short.

In fairness to Southgate, I suspect he knows that if England tried to play these teams at their own game they would be more likely to get beat, but he's developed a game plan which has proved to make this England side more competitive against the better sides.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Diving
« on: July 10, 2021, 04:03:03 PM »
I have said for years that players spend time in training to get fouls. I cannot name a particular England player for many reasons, but he has it off to a fine art. One of the well known former refs said of this player, "He goes down too easily" I also think that when a player pushes a ball past an opponent and  runs into him he usually draws a foul. He does this deliberately. There is no law in football that suggests the player has to get out of his way.

Why not? Kane is notorious for his diving, he's one of the worst in the world for it. Ali was/is the same, as is Son. Pochettino even admitted he thinks diving and conning the ref is 'beautiful'. Italy and England are possibly the two worst teams in international football for gamesmanship now, so it should be a 'beautiful' final.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Diving
« on: July 10, 2021, 03:54:50 PM »
Do you think that Linekar will ask the King of divers Jurgen Klinsmann what he thinks about diving?
From memory he brought this dark art to England remember?
Although I do like his comments generally

Lineker blatantly dived to win the penalty equaliser against Cameroon in '90, so it wasn't just Klinsmann by any means, though he was probably the worst culprit.

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Not a pen that, but who cares  ;D  8)

Meh.

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England well on top this first 10 minutes of ET, if they keep this up it will only be a matter of time before they score.

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Wouldn’t want to share a trench with you Windmill Baggy! 😋

I just don't see sports as something to take seriously, I enjoy but often find myself laughing at it at the same time! I save my war face for if I ever have to defend a trench!  :D

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Don't think our midfield gets near either team.

Saying that, I'm not convinced we'll be contesting the final anyway  :-X

Agree with this. Bar having to play Germany, England have had a relatively easy draw. They've also had a large advantage in being able to play all of their games bar the quarter final at Wembley. While I thought they edged it overall against Germany and deserved the win, the result could have easily gone the other way despite Germany not playing particularly well. How Muller missed the opportunity to equalise late on god only knows.

England should be too strong for Denmark, but I'm convinced they will give England a tough match and if the Dane's were to win, well, far stranger things have happened in international football.

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Betting against your own team or even your own country for financial gain is shady business.

So me sitting at home in my front room watching the game, and if I think England could lose and there was a good value bet on that result, to put that on would be 'shady'? I enjoy the football but it's still nothing but 22 grown men kicking a ball around, it's no more 'real' or 'serious' than a reality TV contest.

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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL CHAMPIONSHIP THREAD
« on: February 08, 2020, 12:21:00 PM »
Glad Blues did us a big favour tonight, but alarming to remember that the side in 6th place tonight, having just lost, are still only 6 ppints behind us. We had a chance to open up a 15 point gap on third and yet now we are a few losses away from dropping outside the play off places.

Sunday's game is must win.

No game is a must win unless there's no way back from not winning.

After we beat Blues we were 12 points clear of third and 14 points clear of 7th. 8 games on we are now 4 points clear of third and 9 points clear of 7th. Because of our superior goal difference we would have to lose our next 4 and Preston win their next 4 and even then we might still not slip out of the play-offs depending on how other teams below us perform over that period.

Even only 5 points from the next 5 matches followed by beating Wigan at home at the end of the month would still keep us within a couple of points off automatic at worst.




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General Football & Sports / Re: OFFICIAL PREMIER LEAGUE THREAD
« on: February 02, 2020, 05:17:47 PM »
How is Sterling still on the pitch, VAR is a joke

Agree, should have been a red card.

He may have took a dive going for the rebound of the missed penalty too, probably should have been a second yellow as well.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Final League Position?
« on: January 31, 2020, 11:29:45 AM »
I think Leeds overcoming a 2-0 deficit on Tuesday, and having a five point gap will see them swing back in to good form. The fact they’ve been dominating teams and been a little unlucky in their results is also important. How you are losing does matter.

We on the other hand have got what we have deserved and I don’t think beating Luton at home will be the end of our trouble. Not with the form team (Millwall) away straight after.

You could be right, but just to add a bit of balance....

Prior to playing Millwall Leeds lost 2-0 at home to a Sheffield Wednesday side who are in very poor form. They then were 2-0 down to Millwall at half-time.

Leeds might dominate teams, but they often struggle to create clear cut chances. Even when we are not playing well we have been creating chances. I also think Leeds were fortunate to come away with a draw against us, as they created very little and scored a flukey goal.

Leeds had also won only one in 7 prior to Millwall, a barely dissimilar run to our previous 7 matches.

We deserved at least a draw against Leeds and Brentford, largely dominated away to Charlton and even though we didn't play well against Stoke, an observer with no idea about the position of the respective teams wouldn't have said we deserved nothing from that game.

Also, Millwall may be the form team, but Stoke are also the 2nd or 3rd form team and Cardiff have been the form team at home all season, having only lost once in 14. Most of our games during this run haven't been as easy as the league table suggests they might have been.




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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: System / Tactics / Personnel
« on: January 30, 2020, 05:07:26 PM »
Just seen a tweet from a championship football account, suggesting that after Leeds (11) and Brentford (12) pur total of 13 goals conceded from open play is third lowest in the league.

If true, it highlights just how bad we are at defending set pieces.

Here are the stats:

https://www.whoscored.com/Regions/252/Tournaments/7/Seasons/7840/Stages/17629/TeamStatistics/England-Championship-2019-2020

We've conceded 13 from set-pieces. That's 2 more than Leeds and 5 more than Forest. We've conceded 3-4 more from set-pieces than the 'average'.

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General Football & Sports / Re: Well done Pat Frost
« on: January 29, 2020, 11:05:30 PM »
Then there is this story below the article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-51283186

 :-X

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Dara O'Shea
« on: January 26, 2020, 02:08:44 PM »
Think we've been much smarter with O'Shea than we were with Ferguson in that we've wet his appetite/got him believing he can compete for 1st team football with sub/backup appearances, but also waited until he'd committed his future before putting him in the limelight. If intentional then it's a smart move by the management and how we should approach playing young players going forward.

Spot on, I suspect this was intentional and well handled by the club. Hopefully lessons have finally been learned after the Ferguson situation.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Semi Ajayi
« on: January 26, 2020, 12:32:34 PM »
Thought he had a decent game yesterday, a couple of stray passes and his second booking aside. I like his confidence to take the ball forward, it's a great asset for a centre back. Yesterday he lost possession and it led to his booking, but I wouldn't in any way be discouraging him from developing that part of his game.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Kyle Edwards
« on: January 26, 2020, 12:27:05 PM »
He was excellent yesterday, one of the biggest positives from yesterday for me, and there were quite a few of those! He should be starting against Cardiff now really.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: System / Tactics / Personnel
« on: January 25, 2020, 09:04:22 PM »
They did to my eyes. Barry looked shot within about 15 minutes.

Sure. Barry was excellent and we dominated most of the play bar the last 10 minutes, but that was understandable.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: System / Tactics / Personnel
« on: January 25, 2020, 08:42:01 PM »
They struggled. I don't think they did particularly well. They did try their best though.

They didn't struggle at all, even when we went down to 10 men.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: System / Tactics / Personnel
« on: January 25, 2020, 07:52:08 PM »
Agreed, can't have Brunt, Barry and Livemore starting for me. They will have rings ran around them.

Well, two of them started today away to a Prem team and it worked out OK. I don't think Livermore being in the side as well would throw the balance of the team out that much to make it have rings ran around them in the Championship.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: Louie Barry
« on: January 23, 2020, 05:13:59 PM »
With him and his family being Villa fans it makes you wonder why he came to the Albion doesn't it (not)?

Top level coaching whilst not having to move away from the area and then the first chance you get to bog off to your favourite team you take it even when that means the club that nurtured you for years gets sod all for their efforts. Thanks pal.

I can only presume the Villa rejected him as a kid if they are all Villa fans, as otherwise you'd think he would have joined them instead of us at a younger age.

Obviously I don't know the ins and outs of this but quite frankly it absolutely stinks how this particular episode has played out.

Yep, though I think my own thoughts on the matter aren't suitable for this board!

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: System / Tactics / Personnel
« on: January 23, 2020, 04:59:52 PM »
I would go for adding a bit more experience for the next couple of games as I think we need it to help improve our mentality:                 

                           Johnstone

Furlong       Bartley          Hegazi          Ferguson

                  Livermore           Barry

        Phillips           Sawyers              Brunt

                               Austin

SUBS: Ajayi, Krovinovic, HRK, Edwards, Zohore, Harper, Bond

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