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Post by jrstokie on Nov 1, 2014 21:32:02 GMT
100% agree with this. I think Crouchie is a great bloke & a cracking player.....but we're so slow & one dimensional when he's on the pitch. It's not his fault particularly, it's just that the players default setting when he plays is to pump it long. Today was like a breath of fresh air with pace & movement. Brilliant
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Post by swampySCFC on Nov 1, 2014 22:10:00 GMT
Crouch would be a good option away when we might need the ball holding up, even then i would prefer we try to hit them on the break, i wish Sparky had kept Bojan on and taken a tired (justifiably) Moses off for Assaidi When Odemwingie gets back we have a scary amount of pace upfront and a scary amount of pace on the bench Late March mate. season almost done
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Post by RAF on Nov 2, 2014 11:10:51 GMT
He told me. He said some big mentally challenged twat in a leather jacket keeps trying to finger his arse but it still smells of Pulis! H Oi, less of the big, you cnut. You are a bit fat to be fair! H
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Post by tazi on Nov 2, 2014 11:14:35 GMT
Oi, less of the big, you cnut. You are a bit fat to be fair! H Oh righto.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 11:47:46 GMT
Crouch playing does seem to dictate the game tactics ..... Whilst Crouch has done nothing wrong, he is what he is. Yesterday proved to me what I thought previously....his presence makes us play a certain way, and we suffer for it. Yesterday's front 4 worked a treat, that said I'd prefer an on-song Arnie to Jon Walters (who by the way was sublime)
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Post by pyrus on Nov 2, 2014 12:43:18 GMT
Crouch is an important member of the squad. I still have nightmares about our opening match against Villa. Bojan up front with Arnie on one wing and Diouf on the other. It doesn't matter how fast your forward options are if the rest if the team acts like they're on Prozac. I have never seen Stoke so ponderously slow all over the field.
So LMH changed it and put Crouch back in and we scraped a few points together with Crouch being instrumental in that, in fact he has played really well.
Now it looks like our passing is crisper, our movement is there and it is all suiting a fast forward line. As the season gets better, Hughes would have us believe that it will continue to get better and we should therefore see less of Crouch. But there will be times and certain games when the Plan B has to be different to the Plan A and Crouch is that Plan B. I think without him, we would be on half the number of points.
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Post by borat on Nov 2, 2014 17:12:06 GMT
Do you know what I have to agree with this thread, without Crouch our football is so much better and we are much quicker going forward. I used to think this when Super Jon was in the line up but he's like a new player these days, hope he keeps it up!
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Post by ChrisKamarasPerm on Nov 2, 2014 17:13:37 GMT
The way that the Spurs defence are showing today they can't handle the big man upfront holding a ball up its clear Crouch must play next week.
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Post by 2004 on Nov 2, 2014 17:18:35 GMT
The way that the Spurs defence are showing today they can't handle the big man upfront holding a ball up its clear Crouch must play next week. Are Mark and his team watching the Spurs game closely?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2014 18:22:48 GMT
The way that the Spurs defence are showing today they can't handle the big man upfront holding a ball up its clear Crouch must play next week. I think Diouf would still cause them problems. Then we could go with 100% pace.
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Post by adamsson on Nov 2, 2014 18:32:17 GMT
The way that the Spurs defence are showing today they can't handle the big man upfront holding a ball up its clear Crouch must play next week. Would start with Crouch on the bench but be ready to bring him on at half time if needed would also bench Moses to remind him that he should do a bit of FUCKING DEFENDING occasionally
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Post by lordb on Nov 2, 2014 20:40:16 GMT
There is no best eleven What works one game might not be right for another.
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