Good afternoon?
Well I’ve had worse I suppose. The game itself wasn’t our finest hour nor was it quite self harming territory. The bottom line is that this competition was the last of our priorities. Nice to win a pot but for those believing we ought to have gone all out …I’ve two names for you. McLeish & Dalglish.
The appearance of Bale was a welcome surprise and had he not featured it’s a cheerless exercise to dwell on how we would have performed. He was the spark, the drive, the creative.
The young guys given a chance did their best. Falque is an interesting chap. There’s a raw energy there. A fast paced mind at work. But he needs managing training and guiding. I look at him, Livermore, Townsend and Walker all whom are ‘products’ of our academy or whatever it’s trading as this week and worry.
Are we producing footballers or people who simply look like footballers, impressionists?
Maybe I imagined it, but Livermore looked to have more about him when he debuted. Now we have this Jenasesque fella that looks like he’d be more at home in one of those partially naked calenders that firemen do for charity. Walker looks like a rep for a company that services gym equipment. Falque like an assistant manager at Toni & Guy.
My point is why are their footballing IQ’s so low? Falque took two maybe three corners and the ball didn’t beat the first man once. In fact the damn thing was smacked in a light speed at knee height. Jake concedes the most cheap and hopelessly unnecessary fouls. Walker’s dive for the penalty was the work of an impressionist.
This was pretty much a Norwich B team vs a Spurs B team for want of a better description. I’m just saying I would have hoped for more given the opposition.
We went a goal up and then proceeded to act as as if the thing was won. Slowed the game, passed as if we were playing the time out. A child could have predicted this wasn’t a very good plan. Any child able to use a clock or a watch.
Our traveling firm were great value. ‘Norwich City, your sister’s your mum’ followed by a Grant Holt’s arrival prompting a chorus of ‘Grant Holt, he eats when he wants.’
Norwich scored twice and we missed a penalty. This beast on Twitter was quick to voice her support direct to Clint on Twitter. Despite being at the game in person!
I take the view that if people are on Twitter they have to take their chances, maybe not everyone thinks you’re as wonderful as your mother repeatedly told you you were. But why would you Tweet Dempsey that? Jeez, he knows that he missed. My best guess is he didn’t do it on purpose.
Is there a moral to last night’s story? Probably not. But we do need a striker and we need Moussa Dembélé. Like a rose needs rainwater, like a leopard needs its partner in the jungle, like… I don’t know what like.
Loris Kabul Parker Adebayor is a v strong spine and stronger than what we are having to play now due to injury Given time AVB will turn it around
Ade in squad for Wigan but Dembele still not fit, according to Spurs site.
Apparently Parker a month away. BAE started training so I’d say two weeks there.
Be nice to have a full squad to choose from.
Not likely to be until 2013 before Kaboul is fit.
Apparently Parker a month away
Not making any point Habib,just letting you all know I’ve learn’t how to go bold too.
Not making any point Habib,just letting you all know I’ve learn’t how to go bold too.
Nice one, but have you mastered this yet?
That didn’t work. Made me look stupid.
Just a regular post, then? :-p
Ohhhh soTHAT’s how you do it! So very nineties! This blog is so retro.
So predictable, herr Jerkin
Personally I like the… hello, hello, can anybody hear me?Oh bugger.Tee Hee:whistle:Has Walker just admitted to going down? Actually said ‘If I’m gonna get touched I’m going down’? Lol. This boy’s gonna be trouble.
I thought he said I’m from the North and we don’t go down.
How do they keep their women happy then?
We all have big……………… :heart: ‘s
Jurgen – I think you’re mixing him up with Freddie Star.
Just to ramble on blindly from another thread, I think AVB’s performance so far can be rated as ‘par’ considering the tools (And I select that word deliberately) available to him.
In the case for the defence (Please no long bold quotes) about Ade, I don’t doubt that in the middle of the mix somewhere, our Togoloese secret weapon was fit and ready but had a slight bout of toysoutofpramitis when it was suggested that he give the bench some warming. AVB certainly doesn’t seem like a man to take to this kindly and has responded accordingly (And rightly in my book).
Lest we forget, Defoe at the time – About 6 weeks ago, was being described in the press that don’t like us as ‘On fire’. Now, while some of us might like the concept of that and might not even bring a bucket, you have to concede that the bugger kept thumbing it between the sticks. Yes, off his shins, arse and just about everywhere else and yes, he need a gazillion chances for each one, but his name kept appearing on the stats with a little football next to it.
We do, after all live in a world so simple that the goalscorer is inevitably given man of the match, despite the fact that he might only have kicked the ball twice.
NOW. As for the weekend, I think it’s time for pixie boots to have a bit of a rest and our injury plagued Togoloese champion to get the splinters out and stop acting like a girl.
Criswell predicts a win and for the Eyeballer to post on Monday that the Eyeballer is satisfied.
You my son are spot on. Ade has to play ASAP.
We are efficient in all areas except the most crucial one:
SCORING BLOOMIN GOALS
That’s it
End of
Whilst you are completely right, it somewhat highlights the fact this has been an issue since Berbs and Keane (cough) partnership a few years ago now. Highly frustrating…..
There is being ‘par’ with bad ‘tools’, but there is no excuse for key managerial decisions that lack forsight and to be honest, logic, for example;
1) (Whilst apparently ‘shielding’ Lloris – one of the top 5 or 6 keepers in the world – from the UK press) AVB plays him with a makeshift team / defence in a dodgy away cup game – GREAT FOR CONFIDENCE THAT !
2) (Every manager should know his players, afterall Ade was signed ‘permanently’ under his tenure) Defoe is being… well Defoe (good is spurts, but not good enough, never really was). Ade (being Ade) sulking for being signed by us as our ‘major’ striking hope and then benched – SHOCK HORROR !
3) Walker (yes young-ish I get that), but a weak link is a weak link and should be dropped, for the other guy, you know the one, he’s better at defending (and younger)..
Yes AVB has had a weakened squad, but still some of his decisions are confusing to say the least… But Im a patient man, after all I’ve been waiting 30 something years for success what’s another decade or two between friends?
I think #AVB has proven his credentials. It’s time for Levy to back him with getting the players he asks for. Within reason.
Agreed Habib.
Although Im not totally bowled over by some of AVB’s decsions, some have been forced upon him.
You can also see, with the right playing staff, this system could work wonders (as it did at Porto). Levy MUST back him in January. I believe had the Moutinho and Willian deals not gone sour, we would be speaking in a totally different manor towards AVB! The word Genius would be flying around quite abit I suppose…
You can also see, with the right playing staff, this system could work wonders (as it did at Porto).
So we just need Levy to dig deep for Moutinho, Falcao and Hulk then? :shocked:
The Eyeballer will only be ‘satisfied’ if we beat Wigwam by three or more goals. He can’t see that happening though….he reckons we will win, but as usual make it waaaaaaaay more difficult than it should be.
The Eyeballer feels its time for Siggy and Dempsey to be dropped – a solid kick in the arse is needed for that pair….
The Eyeballer’s team to face Wigan as follows:
Doris
Vert Gallas Caulker Walker
Bale Sandy Milk Float Lennon
Falque
Defoe
Didnt Demspsey score two winners recently one of those against the pub team called Man U? I like Dempsey. He can get in there and get dirty a quality we lack and often need.
Old potz did you read this? Anybody who has actually played the game (or any sport) will tell you, ‘dont change your tactics if they are working’. Its a basic.