Good evening.
The arrival of Emmanuel at the Lane I’d have to describe as seminal. In a stroke his signature made bigots blush and fans across the globe experience something they hadn’t truly felt for some time. Legitimate hope.
Ade’s only here for a year and this is coup in itself. I’ve alleged that Arry is above all a good crisis manager and equally our new number 10 has form for arriving at new clubs and delivering some of his best work …early doors.
Man At Cable Street Riots is undoubtedly another light in the fog of ‘getting it right’. I was struggling to identify him in the first few minutes of my dodgy stream against Mick’s marauders – but as I made reference in the player ratings – he runs like a footballer on a Pathe News reel. Poker faced, all low center of gravity, big shorts and clumpy boots. No care for this out of place hair until the tackle is over, the run is done, the ball is out of play.
Brad has conceded more goals than anyone would care to mention. But against the backdrop of me actually being a Gomes admirer, I think the Septics’ horrible tally so far requires perspective.
City and United are scoring goals for fun. That’s not an excuse, it’s a statement of fact. And it’s all about perception …Granite jawed he stands. He blasts his charges in English and the watching crowds know him from his Premiership form. And when the ball goes in, his demeanor lacks that South American comic vibe. His failed dives have all been all out attempts rather than stock barrel rolls ala England’s Number One.
And what of the young chap with facial features that occasionally resemble a rodent with a poultry crest allergy? I believe he’ll come good for us again. Anyone with enough low animal cunning/savvy to attempt to engineer a transfer only a few months into a lengthy contract has enough about them to realise that all eyes are on his stock. As Fernando Torres will discover in due course a footballer needs to maintain his form if he is to stay attractive.
So personnel-wise we are primed to gradually improve once more in January . The hate figures have gone. But more importantly their wage bills have left with them. To state the bleedin’ obvious, the run into Christmas needs to be a period of consolidation with players learning to understand each other.
Still no return date for Billy Gallas, but this is such a vital piece of this season’s puzzle. Ledders will not feature in more games than he did last season and Kaboul appears to have an ongoing battle between his classy and his daft genes. Awsome Dawson equally seems to suffer when not supervised by an adult.
The path ahead is potentially exciting. Liverpool are not consistently living up to the hype. King Kenny has seemingly gone from a popular pontiff to a bloke in a chain store suit bemoaning refereeing decisions. Dalglish has paid through the eyeballs for for some relatively so so players. Which is cheap shot as that is known as market forces.
Arsenal have signed a genuine weapon in Gervinho, but as an entire outfit they are quite a bit broken. The doctrines of their illustrious leader has filtered down as being that of the troops too. But the problem is that they have simply run out of people to blame. Come Christmas I predict spontaneous combustion if they have failed to attach themselves convincingly to the coat tails of the front runners. Aunty Wenger’s jam tomorrow spiel has well and truly worn it’s welcome.
But of course, we’re only a week and a bit into September…
BIOYC!
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Whingeing has been rife amongst the fans but us supporters who knew we had played the two best teams in the league by a mile with no defensive central mid fielders and who knew it was the team we had at the end of the window that counts not what we had during it haven’t changed our view that we are in a battle with an out of sorts Arsenal, a poor Chelsea and an overpaid for average players Liverpool.
Nothing has changed with any results so far.
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hail Rastafari I and I
Big Up to the ‘Plod’!
The plod and rasta on the same page,only spurs can do that.we must be marching up to Zion , yid army!
Shame about Gomes, but our septic does seem steady between the sticks.
Was well pleased with the boy Parker. The Mrs is a big fan and she rarely gets it wrong. She raved about BAE when everybody was a hater.
A midfield containing Parker and Sandro will get me reaching for the tissues.
Ade boys goal was cool. Would Crouch have made the run or supplied the finish. Not a fecking chance.
Best bit of business this summer was showing the LSOP the door. The football wasnt great saturday. But at least we tried to play it on the floor.
Finally, long live the King. 20+ games from him and top four is a shoe in.
COYS
Well said – keep the faith = COYMS!!!
Exactly!! Parker and Sandro in the middle would not be shipping 3 even at Old Trafford.
I hope we don’t get rid of Gomes too quickly. How many years can Fridel have? Loan Gomes out a bit if required, but don’t sell him yet.
The transfer window turned out just fine. We got a GK who has no track record of howlers; a striker that in one game did everything Crouch couldn’t do in two seasons; a midfielder who has the aggression of Palacios and fortunately, passing skills superior to Palacios and Jenas (I appreciate that is not a big statement) and a 40 million pound recruit ( I call him that because everybody including Modric thought he was going to leave so it’s like another signing) who makes some sublime passes despite the fact he is on less than a hundred thousand a week (I wonder what the poverty stricken Croatians think about him refusing to play because he was so poorly paid?). AND we got rid of Jenas. It doesn’t get much better than that!
‘The transfer window turned out just fine’.
We go from doom and gloom to euphoria on here. Consider this. We all loved Gomes; now we are unconcerned that Arry doesn’t rate him and has replaced him with an old bloke that Villa (!!!) didn’t want.
Defence: no sign of Gallas, Ledley’s played his game for September, Les may have done his Achilles good and proper, and Caulker out on loan.
Adebayor: marvellous, but we’re one hamstring away from being worse off for ‘strikers’ than last year.
Admittedly, if our First Eleven were fit we’d be a shoe-in for fourth place, but when did we ever have that?
No, in conclusion, it’s full steam ahead for misery and disappointment.
All we need now is a top notch medical team that actually fixes players. A training system that does not knacker the players pre game, and a set of strategies so that other teams dont know exactly what we are doing in advance(Please note .. none of this costs more than we are already paying, they just need a manager with foresight).
J**** is on loan, he could be back, just saying. :ermm: