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Apr 5, 2018 17:39:43 GMT
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Post by numpty40 on Apr 5, 2018 17:39:43 GMT
Butland Edwards Shawcross Bruno Pieters Allen Ndiaye Bauer Shaqiri Stafylidis Diouf Two banks of four defending, pace on the counter. All of that XI will also give a shit. I like that set up but I'd prefer Stafy to Pieters at left back and Choupo left midfield. I know he's not Mr Popular on here but Choupo does have that goal or bit of ability in him to gives us some kind of limited goal threat.
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Post by boskampsflaps on Apr 5, 2018 17:39:57 GMT
For this weekend I would go Butland Johnson Shawcross Indi Pieters Bauer Allen Ndiaye Staffy Shaqiri Ireland I would agree with this. You'd go without a striker
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Apr 5, 2018 17:46:18 GMT
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Post by smallthorner on Apr 5, 2018 17:46:18 GMT
3-4-2-1
Cameron Shawcross BMI
Bauer Allen Badou Stafy
Shaq Ireland
Diouf
We need some creativity. Gamble? Maybe ....
It is certainly a gamble not to play a goalie! No flies on you is there? 😁
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Apr 5, 2018 18:15:20 GMT
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Post by potterblade on Apr 5, 2018 18:15:20 GMT
This team looks decent to me.
GK Butland LB Pieters CB Shawcross CB BMI RB Johnson MF Badou MF Allen LW Ramadan RW Bauer AM Shaq ST Diouf/Crouch 1st/2nd half
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Post by GoBoks on Apr 5, 2018 18:33:33 GMT
I think there was very much a Plan A in the first couple of seasons and Ireland played his part in that. Again, he can consider himself unlucky not to have featured more. He’s flaky and unreliable but for free has done a decent job and is a clever player (on the pitch at least) and we could’ve used some of that nous. Yeah well he's nailed on to start and score a hat trick now I've said all that anyway. Can't be any worse so why not. I don't care if they play Gordon Banks at center forward - if he scores a hat-trick against Spurs he should be the first name on the team sheet.
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Post by Northy on Apr 5, 2018 19:54:30 GMT
Butland Edwards Shawcross Bruno Pieters Allen Ndiaye Bauer Shaqiri Stafylidis Diouf Two banks of four defending, pace on the counter. All of that XI will also give a shit. thats what i would go with.
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Post by thegift on Apr 5, 2018 20:03:02 GMT
You'd go without a striker We haven't fucking got one
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Post by jezzascfc on Apr 5, 2018 20:10:05 GMT
Butland Edwards Shawcross Bruno Pieters Allen Ndiaye Bauer Shaqiri Stafylidis Diouf Two banks of four defending, pace on the counter. All of that XI will also give a shit. Most logical team, based on current circumstances, that I have seen for Saturday. Lambert will, of course, somehow justify the continued selection of Glenn Johnson at right back. I do still worry where the goals will come from - for the games against West Ham, Burnley, Palace and Swansea, we may well need a more attacking selection, without two sets of full backs and gambling on one or more of Choupo (when fit), Ramadan, Jese or Ireland to add some creativity, as Shaq cannot be expected to do it all on his own.
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Post by boskampsflaps on Apr 5, 2018 20:12:23 GMT
You'd go without a striker We haven't fucking got one We have but they're all pretty shit, but I'd rather have one than none.
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Apr 5, 2018 20:51:17 GMT
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Post by terrorofturfmoor on Apr 5, 2018 20:51:17 GMT
Excuse my ignorance, but what's up with Zouma and Sick note??? I haven't been keeping up with team affairs just lately!!!
More out of "can't-give-an-arseness" than anything!!!
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Apr 5, 2018 23:30:01 GMT
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Post by Godo on Apr 5, 2018 23:30:01 GMT
We haven't a "Best Team" because we haven't 11 players of Premiership standard in the club. How the fuck did we end up with has beens like Crouch, Adam, Fletcher and Johnson, utter qunts like Berahino, Wimmer and Imbula and extended contracts for permanently injured wastes of talent like Affelay and Ireland? All that fucking money wasted on transfers and contracts!!!
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Post by trickydicky73 on Apr 6, 2018 5:02:25 GMT
We haven't a "Best Team" because we haven't 11 players of Premiership standard in the club. How the fuck did we end up with has beens like Crouch, Adam, Fletcher and Johnson, utter qunts like Berahino, Wimmer and Imbula and extended contracts for permanently injured wastes of talent like Affelay and Ireland? All that fucking money wasted on transfers and contracts!!! In fairness, Bayern bemoaned those contract extensions at the time. Hughes really knows how to build a squad, doesn't he? 😜 Mind you, he wasn't alone in the calamity, either.
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Post by Veritas on Apr 6, 2018 10:13:12 GMT
Zouma Butland shawcross Bauer Badou Bruno pieters shaqiri Allen sobhi Crouchy Diouf stafylidis Choupo ireland injured. Adam red card Johnson wimmer Berahino Fletcher no thank you. Staffy and Ireland injured? Have I missed something although as Ireland made the bench last week he is due a relapse
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Apr 6, 2018 11:10:53 GMT
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Post by WorkingclassHero on Apr 6, 2018 11:10:53 GMT
Would this work?
Butland
Johnson Shawcross Indi Pieters
Bauer Allen Ireland Ndiaye Staffi
Shaq
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Apr 6, 2018 11:13:25 GMT
Can't see it. He'd drop deep into the space where you've got Ireland.
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Post by vahl on Apr 6, 2018 11:17:17 GMT
Zouma Butland shawcross Bauer Badou Bruno pieters shaqiri Allen sobhi Crouchy Diouf stafylidis Choupo ireland injured. Adam red card Johnson wimmer Berahino Fletcher no thank you. Staffy and Ireland injured? Have I missed something although as Ireland made the bench last week he is due a relapse I doubt we will see Staffy in a Stoke shirt again. Broken his ribs playing for Greece.
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Post by Veritas on Apr 6, 2018 11:18:19 GMT
Staffy and Ireland injured? Have I missed something although as Ireland made the bench last week he is due a relapse I doubt we will see Staffy in a Stoke shirt again. Broken his ribs playing for Greece. FFS!!!
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Apr 6, 2018 11:19:20 GMT
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Post by WorkingclassHero on Apr 6, 2018 11:19:20 GMT
Would this work? Butland Johnson Shawcross Indi Pieters Bauer Allen Ireland Ndiaye Staffi Shaq My thought was you could play this hopefully keep reasonable possession and generally be solid and then on the hour go balls out attack and hopefully score a goal Butland Bauer Shawcross Indi Pieters Allen Ndiaye Shaq Diouf Crouch Berahinho
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Apr 6, 2018 11:20:54 GMT
Would this work? Butland Johnson Shawcross Indi Pieters Bauer Allen Ireland Ndiaye Staffi Shaq My thought was you could play this hopefully keep reasonable possession and generally be solid and then on the hour go balls out attack and hopefully score a goal Butland Bauer Shawcross Indi Pieters Allen Ndiaye Shaq Diouf Crouch Berahinho The problem with keeping it solid for an hour and then attacking is if you concede before then your plan's screwed.
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Apr 6, 2018 11:35:03 GMT
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Post by WorkingclassHero on Apr 6, 2018 11:35:03 GMT
The squad is just so bad though, no strikers, no one who can cross, very little pace, the only players in front of our defence that you'd want to play are Shaq And one of Allen/Ndiaye. It's pretty bloody embarrassing I'm actually trying to remember how bad Fletcher was and if maybe he is the answer to creating something from central midfield
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Post by jezzascfc on Apr 6, 2018 12:48:35 GMT
Best? Best? We have 4, maybe 5, Premier League quality players, one 18m player who cannot play in any kind of organised formation and wears gloves in May, one 18m player who is too fat for a professional athlete and cares more for his last team than his current one, one 12m player who turns up late, wastes his money on "extra-curricular activities" and blarts on social media at every opportunity, two players more interested in their "Bromance" than their football, one "ambitious" signing who thinks he's Tupac, our star player who thinks playing for us is beneath him, one kiddie whose celebrity status back home makes him think he's made it already when he has done nothing of the sort, a superstar, international keeper who throws the ball into his own net, one past-his-sell-by-date midfielder who misses penalties and kicks out at opponents, one new signing who is already engineering a move away and one, supposedly reliable, stalwart whose focus is on his reality TV career hours before one of our most important games of the season.
Best? Best? The only one without reproach and worthy of a Premier League start left is Joe Allen!
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Apr 6, 2018 13:17:56 GMT
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Post by smallthorner on Apr 6, 2018 13:17:56 GMT
Best? Best? We have 4, maybe 5, Premier League quality players, one 18m player who cannot play in any kind of organised formation and wears gloves in May, one 18m player who is too fat for a professional athlete and cares more for his last team than his current one, one 12m player who turns up late, wastes his money on "extra-curricular activities" and blarts on social media at every opportunity, two players more interested in their "Bromance" than their football, one "ambitious" signing who thinks he's Tupac, our star player who thinks playing for us is beneath him, one kiddie whose celebrity status back home makes him think he's made it already when he has done nothing of the sort, a superstar, international keeper who throws the ball into his own net, one past-his-sell-by-date midfielder who misses penalties and kicks out at opponents, one new signing who is already engineering a move away and one, supposedly reliable, stalwart whose focus is on his reality TV career hours before one of our most important games of the season. Best? Best? The only one without reproach and worthy of a Premier League start left is Joe Allen! Now that's what you call a rant ! Haha 😁 All so very true though. What a great big steaming pile of dog poo we have become.
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Post by jezzascfc on Apr 6, 2018 15:38:20 GMT
Best? Best? We have 4, maybe 5, Premier League quality players, one 18m player who cannot play in any kind of organised formation and wears gloves in May, one 18m player who is too fat for a professional athlete and cares more for his last team than his current one, one 12m player who turns up late, wastes his money on "extra-curricular activities" and blarts on social media at every opportunity, two players more interested in their "Bromance" than their football, one "ambitious" signing who thinks he's Tupac, our star player who thinks playing for us is beneath him, one kiddie whose celebrity status back home makes him think he's made it already when he has done nothing of the sort, a superstar, international keeper who throws the ball into his own net, one past-his-sell-by-date midfielder who misses penalties and kicks out at opponents, one new signing who is already engineering a move away and one, supposedly reliable, stalwart whose focus is on his reality TV career hours before one of our most important games of the season. Best? Best? The only one without reproach and worthy of a Premier League start left is Joe Allen! Now that's what you call a rant ! Haha 😁 All so very true though. What a great big steaming pile of dog poo we have become. ....and, amongst all that lot, I even forget to mention Afellay getting kicked out.....
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Apr 6, 2018 15:45:22 GMT
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Post by WorkingclassHero on Apr 6, 2018 15:45:22 GMT
Now that's what you call a rant ! Haha 😁 All so very true though. What a great big steaming pile of dog poo we have become. ....and, amongst all that lot, I even forget to mention Afellay getting kicked out..... Yeah you missed out the entire bomb squad situation and out players out on loan are so bad most of them can't even makes the squads in second rate teams. Just imagine what happens if Butkand gets injured, a goal for every shot on target. The grim reaper scenario
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