Good evening.
The results of a rapid fire opinion poll survey thing I ran earlier today are in and here are the results. About 1000 people joined in which for a chilly Monday after a home defeat isn’t a poor show, so thank you for that.
Enjoy the rest of your night and please do observe the Firework Code – you are no use to me as a reader with charred rocket sticks protruding from where your eyeballs used to be.
Which of these lists are closest to the priority you place on potential achievements for the season?
| Top 4 finish or better | 61% | ||||||
| Top 5 finish | 27% | ||||||
| Top 10 finish and win a pot | 13% |
Looking at the Premier League table we sit 5th after 10 games. How do you feel we are we getting on?
| Could do better | 60% | ||||||
| Quite nicely | 35% | ||||||
| Bit of a joke | 4% | ||||||
| Famously | 1% |
The transfer window wasn’t great for us. Who do you blame?
| Levy & Co. | 40% | ||||||
| Both of the above | 36% | ||||||
| Market forces | 24% | ||||||
| Andre Villas-Boas | 1% |
Lots of injuries, but do you expect the boss to do better with the players he does have?
| No, he’s probably doiing the best he can | 44% | ||||||
| Yes, still lots of great talent there | 39% | ||||||
| I’m actually amazed we’re doing as well as we are given resources | 17% |
William Gallas. Straight question. Do you rate him?
| He’s average enough, no better | 57% | ||||||
| He’s doing a great job | 32% | ||||||
| Without him we’d be screwed | 7% | ||||||
| No, ex gooner rubbish | 4% |
Booing at games (that old one again)
| It’s not something I believe helps the situation | 89% | ||||||
| It’s what they deserve! | 11% |
On Saturday prior to stropping down the tunnel Defoe only touched the ball 11 times and only made 5 accurate passes. Did he deserve to get subbed?
| Yes he is a selfish git | 68% | ||||||
| No, he was gonna come good | 32% |
Back to missing players and AVB, how do you see the 6 games?
| A further dip in form, 1st teamers return, then improvement | 93% | ||||||
| It won’t make a blind bit of difference AVB can’t manage | 7% |
The Europa. Given the injuries what would you like to happen in terms of team selections?
| Focus entirely on the Premier League & the Europa | 50% | ||||||
| Focus entirely on the Premier League & the FA Cup | 28% | ||||||
| Focus entirely on the Premier League | 22% |
How do you watch games?
| On TV, online that sort of thing | 43% | ||||||
| Some live games | 37% | ||||||
| Season ticket holder/borrower | 20% |
I’d like to offer a different view…. I was at the game. The people around me that booed weren’t booing the fact that Defoe was being sub’ed they were booing his performance. At the end of the game they weren’t booing the manager they were booing a piss poor perfor… (I went to type performance but it would be insulting to the word to try to pass the way our team played off as a performance) showing by our team of fully paid “professional” (ha what a laugh) people (can’t even call them players because they didn’t play).
Obviously I can’t speak for all the fans (not fair to call the supporters really) but if most people think Defoe deserved to get sent off then I think it is fair to assume they were booing the player and NOT the manager.
Im almost certain they were booing the decision and not the player. If so Harry was right. Idiots!
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Whie I agree with most of what you said HH, I would have taken off Dempsey instead of Defoe. Defoe is our leading scorer and looks much livelier / fitter than Depsey. The settling in process for Dempsey has been a bit so slow….I have to keep reminding myself that he scored 20 + last season.
Spot on Trini.
What was the attraction in keeping Dempsey on? JD can be a selfish and infuriating little bugger but he has played with Ade a few times and has scored more than Dempsey this season.
I am unsure what Dempsey is meant to be doing. He might have scored 20+ goals last term but he’s not an out and out striker. He does not appear very creative and he certainly ain’t Scott Parker in the tackle. I can only judge him on what he’s done for us but if someone else has seen something I haven’t please enlighten me.
He does an excellent impression of Charlie Chaplin.
I’ve heard his wallpapering is first rate.
Said a while back, but will reserve some judgement on Dumpsey for when he’s playing behind Adebayor. Just as he isn’t likely to be much use to Defoe, Defoe most certainly isn’t going to help him out much.
Actually, he did play behind Ade the other day. It wasn’t very good. But still, that’s his position and we’ve rarely seen him there for one reason or another.
It was just one of those days, we dominated without making and taking chances and we had more than them, although they had a little more possession.
13 shots to 7
10 on target to their 4
9 Corners to their 3
For me there is a problem with midfield, without an offensive creative midfielder we struggle.
Huddlestone is the current solution,it doesent work for me because he lies to deep, he has a great pass but doesent back our attacks enough.
Dempsey has already won me over with the goal against Manu but he looks out of position for me.
When fit this is my best midfield and team.
Walker-Kaboul-Vertongen-Ekotto
Bale-Dembele, Sandro, Sigurdson-Lennon
————-Ade——————–
Sorry you can add Loris in there to…Defoe, huddlestone, Parker, Dempsey don’t have it for me.
Spot on about Huddlestone. We need the type of player capable of doing what Cabaye did at Anfield yesterday. None of our current CM’s take up that kind of position.
Trini :daumen:
Enjoy the rest of your night and please do observe the Firework Code – you are no use to me as a reader with charred rocket sticks protruding from where your eyeballs used to be.
No worries id get my missus to read out the post’s.
They have their uses.
Mine sucks….. :gaehn:
Harry, how was Demspey better? His job playing behind the lone striker is to supply the lone striker with the ball. Defoe was subbed for not doing anything as Dempsey was (again) shit
When Ade and JD play together JD tends to hang around the penalty area while Manu goes walkabouts and it seems to work most of the time.
At home in the short term, this is probably the answer. Huddlestone and Sandro in the middle. Siggurdson for Huddlestone 2nd half. High tempo and go for it.
Away at City and the Emirates we’ll get crucified – as we did last season….Emirates…Wembley…erghhh….
I think if we’re all honest we are all terrified of the prospect of going to Eastlands and then the Emirates. I’ve seen this run of fixtures looming like a big, bulging cloud for a while.
The one positive is that neither side are looking convincing at the moment either. But still… :sick:
LLL :daumen:
As a previous poster said we are in fifth how the hell are we there. But we are
The big test for us is if we can hang on in there over the next couple of difficult away games i think we will be ok.
Surely bae and parker will be back by then possible dembele.
My only gripe is i like to see two up front at home.
Sing up tottenham