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I mentioned this before. Bartley and Ajayi have 50p heads, the ball goes anywhere when they head it. The way we play it needs to be headed into areas where we can compete and win second balls.
Anyone know when admission to the ground stops after kick off? .as a couple of us are travelling from Cornwall, we may miss kick off if the traffic holds us up.
You are right. I forgot how exciting Pulis, Pardew and Allardyce football was where we had far more possession than our opponents and spent most of the game camped in their half.
You are allocated a place, so are much easier to trace. For standing, there is no way of tracing who was where.
sounds like it’s back on the table as of today
Sky sports
Premier League and Championship clubs allowed to trial safe standing in stadiums this season
Clubs will be able to trial safe standing as part of a pilot programme from January 1
I agree that teams may have found a way of stifling us , but, no team has managed to find a way of beating us yet.
We missed a penalty against Millwall, hammered Derby second half and Preston's goal was a flukey deflection. Yes we were poor, in comparison to earlier games and yes, these teams clearly had a plan to spoil, but none of them ever really threatened to get 3 points. Remember, this approach will not suit every team the way it did Millwall and Preston (Derby didn't do it particularly well, they just got very lucky), so it's not as simple as saying we've been "found out", so our opponents still have to have the quality and ability to go down the spoiler route.
If we can cut out the silly mistakes at the back, which getting Clarke back and Bryan bedded in should surely help, and improve our transition through midfield, I have no doubt we will see these draws turned into wins.
and prepared an absolute minefield at Aigburth. Well on the way to the game ending early on day 3. Hants 24 for 4 lead by 27 runs in 2nd innings. Meanwhile Warks need to bowl Somerset out twice to stay in the running. Lammonby just dismissed for a half century.
Never heard of him but my crystal ball says he won't be very good.
"John Percy
@JPercyTelegraph
#ReadingFC set for heavy deduction of up to 9 points after breaching financial rules. Like Derby, Reading are in talks with the EFL over an "agreed decision" as per regulation 85."
Tut tut.
Valball worked much better in our opening three games with Robinson, Grady and Grant, so your post doesn't make any sense.
Let's revisit Allardyce's first 9 games in charge shall we, when there was a notable lack of knives being sharpened on here. Indeed, as I recall, many were falling over each other to make excuses for him:
Villa: Lost 3-0
Liverpool: Drew 1-1
Leeds: Lost 5-0
Arsenal: Lost 4-0
Wolves: Won 3-2
West Ham: Lost 2-1
Man City: Lost 5-0
Fulham: Drew 2-2
Sheff U: Lost 2-1
W1 D2 L6 F8 A26 Pts 5
The above "achieved" with a grim style of play too.
Let's look at Valerien's record so far:
W4 D4 L0 F14 A7 Pts 16
Yet people are getting ready to sharpen their knives for him dependent on Friday's display? Incredible!
The least said about the final score the better though
Livermore was MoM yesterday no ifs or buts . Might not have been too difficult but people have been moaning about him for sometime yet third game in a week and he was comfortably better than his teammates yesterday
VI has repeatedly hooked our best strikers at half time, and replaced them with inferior players, that's a hardly a validation.
Why are you bringing up style of football? It's not been mentioned by me. I'm purely talking about results being his potential downfall.
Of course he can afford compensation if push comes to shove, he may not have the cash to hand NOW but he has shown he will fund it from selling some of the squad if he needs too.
I've not mentioned the goodwill of the supporters as being important in the owners reaching their decision. I said that in my post.
Lai is broke. He will sell anyone he can from our squad to fund any call he wants to make. We see that with the Pereira deal daftness.
Robinson holds the ball up just fine and unlike Hugill can score a goal. I thought Hugill did okay on the half way line last night but that's not enough and never will be enough.