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Post by cousindupree on Dec 13, 2018 17:14:13 GMT
1-0 3-0
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 13, 2018 14:15:50 GMT
If Bojan leaves and it gets more certain week by week it will be the end of our foray into the market for Spanish players at least until Rowett leaves.Rowett is on record as saying he prefers british/Irish players. I really enjoyed seeing Bojan and Muiniesa in the red and white....a bit of Spanish panache will always excite me more than the McClean type of plodder Rowett feels more comfortable managing It will be the end of period. Muniesa came here because of Mark Hughes' Spanish contact. Bojan came because of Muniesa, and everybody else including from other nations came because of Bojan. When quality players from other countries, those who do some sort of "research" - as opposed to the likes of Badou who came because of the lure of the Premiership - before they decide whether or not to join, look at the way Bojan's been treated, they will think twice about going here. That suits our management fine. It may even suit the board fine. They also prefer British only. It will also suit a section of the fanbase fine. But it will deprive most of us the chance to see extraordinary players at the Bet365 and it will deprive all of us of players that can take us back to the next level and make us a top 9 team again. Unless we can find ourselves a Fuller again, though he too was a foreigner. Nicely put my sentiments exactly. If Rowett by some miracle ever gets us promoted we will be a carbon copy of Burnley with Sean Dyche, that is very British centric in our squad. Of course there will be some who would welcome this and that's their choice. I much preferred Hughes's early approach to recruitment that saw us bring in the likes of Bojan Arnie and Shaq. Hughes I think deserves some credit for persuading these players to join a fairly low profile Prem club. As you say the end of an era....I can't say I am very much excited by the current era or the near future
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 12, 2018 20:54:08 GMT
If Bojan leaves and it gets more certain week by week it will be the end of our foray into the market for Spanish players at least until Rowett leaves.Rowett is on record as saying he prefers british/Irish players. I really enjoyed seeing Bojan and Muiniesa in the red and white....a bit of Spanish panache will always excite me more than the McClean type of plodder Rowett feels more comfortable managing
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 11, 2018 9:06:21 GMT
To get promoted you have to win in excess of 25 games in the champs...Gazzer's Derby managed 20 and drew 15 which is way too many, hence finishing 6th and bombing in the playoffs. He managed 75 pts last season. we will have to produce something special in the second half of the season. If say a draw at Villa and a win home at the half way stage that would give us 34 pts. I reckon you will need 78 for the play off, 44 pts..... thats a very tall order for a draw specialist.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 11, 2018 8:12:43 GMT
It's a huge game for us. Worryingly a non losing streak has to end sometime but maybe everyone will be up for this game and Rowett, the master draw specialist, can get them to hang in under some expected serious pressure. A draw would keep the ball rolling though and with some of the teams above us playing each other it's likely a draw wont see us lose anymore ground. Of course Rowett could really go for it and a win and a good performance could be pivotal for the season. However as others have said he will go with JM trundling up the left side rather than risk something more dynamic.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 11, 2018 7:59:42 GMT
No. I stopped going under Pulis because I hated the football so much. If anyone doesn't like what Rowett is doing I suggest you do the same. Seriously why pay good money to do something you ddn't enjoy - that's just daft. Wow what a bizarre comment! Are you really a genuine football fan or just a bit dumb? Or more likely a classic fair weather fan.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 10, 2018 13:43:56 GMT
It is very strange. I actually thought he was one of our better players last season hence the 5 year contract and many on here including myself were genuine pleased he had stayed with us. That he is such a persona non grata with Rowett after such a short time is baffling. My take is that Bauer is arguably the most intelligent of our squad (he is a polyglot, a qualified pilot and also plays the piano to a high standard) sussed Rowett out very early on as being tactically poor and probably told him so. Love it - choose your fullback on the basis of his ability to play Chopin. When did the ability to play Allegro Non Troppo in a minor fourth last prevent a goal created by a winger exploiting the space behind a fullback who'd gone awol? Unsurprisingly you missed my point completely
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 10, 2018 13:40:57 GMT
I gave the game a swerve (good call I think) so impossible to have a conclusion. But looking at the stast.... 6 shots and just one corner! That is the worst attacking stats by any team in the chamionship on saturday. 2 of those shots were goals so the keeper I presume didn't have to make a single save. Yes I hear but 2 goals and we won and thats all that counts. It is of course but you can understand the crowds frustration at that attacking display against the worst side in the league. Most fans want attacking entertaining football and that is what will get you promoted not conservative negative play. For example Leeds v QPR 20 shots 7 corners and they actually beat them. Norwich v Bolton 21 shots and 7 corners. Derby away at Wigan 16 shots 5 corner and they actually beat them. Sheff U away at Reading 13 shots 9 corners and they could actually manage to beat Reading. The point I am making is that apart from the Derby game the performances have been nowhere near the standard of the current top 6 teams and that's unacceptable. People can point to the win but many know that the sort of performance delivered on saturday will not trouble any of the promotion chasing sides and 20 games into the season Rowett is serving up such shite it's no wonder the paying public is pissed off.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 10, 2018 13:21:51 GMT
It is very strange. I actually thought he was one of our better players last season hence the 5 year contract and many on here including myself were genuine pleased he had stayed with us. That he is such a persona non grata with Rowett after such a short time is baffling. My take is that Bauer is arguably the most intelligent of our squad (he is a polyglot, a qualified pilot and also plays the piano to a high standard) sussed Rowett out very early on as being tactically poor and probably told him so.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 8, 2018 10:12:22 GMT
0-0 1-1
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 7, 2018 7:55:58 GMT
Lambert is just as culpable for our relegation as Hughes and the jokers that have massively screwed up the fortunes of the club over the past 2/3 years. His record was a disaster with only the even shittier Kamara below him. He won 2 games! The Huddersfield game where he had very little influence over the side and a dead rubber against Swansea. He had enough games and had a stronger squad than Hughes to work with but couldn't get even close. That the board could only find Lambert in the whole of world football to take over beggars belief. The was a decision made with 10's of millions at stake....and they appointed someone probably because as many have said on here 'He seemed like a nice guy' And to repeat a previous poster Lambert will get a better reception than the guy who gave us 9th place finishes and delivered the best football since the 1970's....indeed truly truly bizarre!
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 3, 2018 20:22:33 GMT
May as well be. Very important to remind them of this during the game. For the record I prefer the Welsh to Salapions. I'm a salopian lord you twat 😂😢 Me too and it's Salopian you Welsh loving arsehole😁
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 3, 2018 19:49:27 GMT
Day out in lovely Shrewsbury....fabulous!
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 3, 2018 13:09:46 GMT
More watering down of European competition. At this point they may as well just come out with the obvious thing we all know, the 10 or so club hegemony that has been established in European football is never going to be toppled...so have this competition instead serfs. WOW use of the word hegemony! I doff my cap sir! Although we are again light years away from any European adventure another brief dalliance (which it was for TP) in exotic cities would be great fun.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 3, 2018 13:03:36 GMT
I am hoping for an easy draw, any win will lift the spirits. A win will also prolong some interest in the season which is quite likely to be done and dusted by the end of January.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 3, 2018 12:59:54 GMT
The difference between him and Clucas in that left wide position was pretty eye opening. I don't think I have ever seen McClean make a pass through the channel like Clucas did for Afobe. McClean is a head down run hard and hit a hopeful cross and loved by GR for his energy. However neither Berahino or Afobe will benefit from aerial crosses, they are play on the shoulder waiting for a through ball type forwards. That's why Afobe did so well at Wolves who recognised this strength. I am hoping that Clucas is the manager's choice for the left sided front three before McClean, and he is consigned to the bench, where in fairness his energy is an asset late on in a game. However I have a sinking feeling that Rowett will replace Etebo with Clucas and continue with McClean merely because they are both HIS chosen players.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 3, 2018 12:47:41 GMT
It was a poor appointment by a Southampton board who have made some pretty decent managerial appointments in the last few years...Puel Koeman Pochettino for example.Why they went for a manager clearly in decline just shows that other boards get it wrong sometimes. However you can be sure they won't make a Paul Lambert appointment (I still shake my head in disbelief that he was all we could some up with). As for the bile on here towards Hughes, it's a sad by-product of the online social media age that gives such comments a platform. For me I choose to remember Hughes as a manager who delivered the best football I've seen from SCFC since the waddo years and put such gems as Arnie Shaq and Bojan in the red and white stripes. Clearly he needed replacing way before he was but that's not Hughes's fault. And in the line of blame for our demise he should take equal blame alongside a dithering board, a woeful recruitment team and Lambert who couldn't achieve 3/4 wins to keep us up. As for Hughes, I think he is a football man through and through and would want to stay in the game.
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 2, 2018 12:35:56 GMT
4 Rowett's tactics screwed up what was seemingly a routine victory against a poor side. We dominated and they hardly looked threatening then Rowett is back to his batshit subs again and we chuck away 2pts which we desperately needed. How posters can give 6 or 7 for such an inept attempt at game management is beyond me
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 1, 2018 17:00:03 GMT
Absolutely atrocious game management by Rowett. You go 5 at the back to see out a game against a decent team who have you under the cosh. Reading were abysmal and hardly threatened. All he has to do is put on some fresh legs upfront and play in their half. 2 more points lost.....ffs
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Post by cousindupree on Dec 1, 2018 15:07:14 GMT
0-1 1-3
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 29, 2018 10:08:06 GMT
If we play him up top on his own, we're not going to score the goals needed to have any chance of a play-off spot. It'll only work if he has a partner and that will need a massive rethink on Rowett's part. Bera, for all his effort last night, is not a lone striker. He doesn't have the pace or strength to play the part. He's a conundrum but he's not the answer to the problems we have. Spot on he does the minimum expected now thankfully by holding the ball up well and actually making a contribution. However he will struggle to get to double figures and to be our main striker thats not good enough. Hopefully we will bring in someone in January who can hold the ball up and has more of a goal threat.
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 29, 2018 9:13:07 GMT
Ha ha yes Gods he was just biting his shirt LMFAO! Should be a great defence if questioned by the FA. More worrying for Johnson is that Joe at home is surrounded by chickens. He could well be carrying the Avian Flu virus
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 29, 2018 8:57:48 GMT
9 No problems with the starting line up. He rightly benched McClean after his defensive shit show and I hope he continues with Clucas in that role. But loses a point for the continued bizarre inclusion of Fletcher in the squad....you have enough defensive midfielders garry lets have some imaginative attacking options in there. We weren't chasing the game last night so he got away with it. Rowett has to follow this up with a positive attacking display in the next 2 games....too many draws have left us with a mountain to climb, he simply has to string wins together or the season is over.
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 28, 2018 19:34:01 GMT
Well it's ultra defensive that's for sure he might get the draw he has set up for. On the plus side at least JM has been rightly dropped and Etebo is back. But as others have said what the fuck is Fletcher doing there when the side is packed with midfielders. more bizarre thinking from Rowett
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 27, 2018 13:34:20 GMT
0-0 1-1
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 27, 2018 12:35:58 GMT
It's pretty obvious even to the eternal misguided optimists on here that the best we can hope for with an amazing run of improbable wins is the playoffs. SJ's record of course is promotion through the playoffs dumping out a turgid Rowett led Derby on the way. It's another reason why even at this stage SJ would be a better gamble than sticking with GR.
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 26, 2018 18:09:25 GMT
I look forward to us matching Fulham's last 28! Games 28 Won 20 Drawn 5 Lost 3 F 55 A 22 Points 65 Wow thats some run getting as many wins as Rowetts Derby achieved in the whole season and of course he turned over a turgid Derby in the playoffs. And yet there is a couple of posters who actually think we could equal a run like that! The manager and the team have mid table written all over them
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 25, 2018 20:03:04 GMT
Its a must not lose game for Rowett, that's his mentality and he will be pleased as usual with a draw. I can only see a must win game if we are close to relegation near the end of the season. But I think the manager probably has enough about him for us to hit 50pts and safety.....just.
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 25, 2018 12:25:55 GMT
He isn’t going anywhere. We’ve spent £40m on Gary Rowett players. This is a Gary Rowett team. We’re stuck with it and him for the foreseeable. I see your point to an extent Rob but at the start of the season Scholes said that our intention was to go back up at the first time of trying and Coates has said that if we don't at least get into the play offs, then he will regard it as a total failure. Therefore I think it would be safe to assume that if this happened, then Rowett's employers would regard him as a failure and he would be fired and a new guy would have to come in and during the summer window, try and do something with the squad he has inherited. It's looking increasingly likely that Rowett isn't going to get anywhere near achieving the task he has been given, so why wait until the summer to make a decision that has the smell of inevitability about it already? The difference between making the decision now or leaving it until the summer, is that come the summer, we will be in a dreadful financial position, whereas now, we still do (if we get the right man in) have the opportunity to go back up at the first time of asking. If it doesn't happen, well at least we tried when we had the chance but having done so, we won't be in much of a worse position come the summer than if we hadn't. I'd suggest that the board are now in a very similar situation to the one they were in last November with Hughes. He should have been sacked then and a new man should have had December to assess the squad before the window opened in January but they bottled it and paid the consequences The big difference between now and then, is that at that time, there wasn't an obvious candidate to come in, now there very much is. Good post Paul, we are nearing the half way point and unless we go on a 3/4 game winning run we will be a long way off the pace even for the playoffs. Jokanovic is available and has the record of success that Rowett doesn't have. The concern would be whether Jokanovic could get Rowett's team performing as he is known for much more expansive entertaining style. His Fulham team last season was a joy to watch and turned over a negative Rowett in the playoffs. But Hughes turned a turgid Pulis team into something much more entertaining and successful quite quickly and at no great cost. Surely if Jokanovic can get Fulham promoted he could do the same with us. As each game passes it becomes more evident that Rowett doesn't have the management skills to get out of this division. He is clearly an average Championship manager whose career seems destined to stall at this level.
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Post by cousindupree on Nov 24, 2018 12:54:12 GMT
0-0 2-1
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