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Comment | King Charles’ flying form foils West Ham – Report
by royinaus at 01:23:13
It really is amazing we're back here again with all these injuries first game after a 3 week break.
Hurts more this year than last as without the injuries, it feels like we could really do something this year. |
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Comment | King Charles’ flying form foils West Ham – Report
by extratimeR at 22:28:38
Yes, great report Clive, I must admit gob smacked at how good and organised we were, I watched all the Northern Ireland games and thought "Jesus, if any agent/Manager/ is watching Pierce we have had it come Christmas window time, sadly his reputation is spreading fast, after the Georgia away game I was beginning to think he could play up front as well as Midfield!
(by the way his brother is bloody excellent as well).
Great point, god knows how many players we have left for Wednesday!
Cheers Clive! |
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Comment | King Charles’ flying form foils West Ham – Report
by Antti_Heinola at 12:01:42
Great report, Clive. I'd written this one off, so that performance and result was extremely impressive.
While it was never a penalty, saying Soucek got the ball 'cleanly' is generous: it was, at best, a hazardous and fairly dumb tackle to make, and he shouldn't have been making it from that angle, and a stud on a boot followed by taking a player out, for me, has always been a bit of an odd one. Similarly, Bowen went through Vale to get that ball, it's 100% a foul, it's not even a debate. Agree with absolutely everything you said about the ref and VAR though. VAR decisions take too long, they're not really any better than the ones on the pitch, and who do we exactly think is going to be sitting in Stockley Park for our away game v Preston on a Tuesday night? It's not going to be Michael f'n Oliver is it? Two issues: one, as you say, is about the quality (and moreover, quantity) of officials. The second is for teams, fans and managers to put their big boy pants on and accept that SOMETIMES bad decisions will be made. I'd have been annoyed (and unsurprised) if West Ham were given a pen like ours, but I'd still prefer that to losing the spontaneity of football at our level. |
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Comment | King Charles’ flying form foils West Ham – Report
by Northernr at 23:29:12
I mean I don't like to get too involved in the ratings - it's a number, generally between five and seven, at the end of 3,000 words of context. But two nines, an eight and seven sevens for a 1-1 draw in the league at West Ham would be fairly excessive. They're not that good, as they showed, and we should have won the game if we had a 90 minutes in us. |
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Comment | King Charles’ flying form foils West Ham – Report
by hoops_legend at 22:55:05
Brilluant report clive. I would have every player hwo started one rating higher aa both kemper and charles werr 9s and smith was 8 and kolli 7. But all subs two lower so. Lamoty and vale suffering
But its just a guide so i appreciate i am overthinking it |
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Comment | King Charles’ flying form foils West Ham – Report
by Myke at 21:40:24
Cheers Clive. I have been one of those advocating that Kemper played the full game last night, but I was under the (false) impression that Cirkin was available v Derby. The fact that he is not makes the ‘game management’ more understandable. Frustrating though that his replacement, Lamptey, had to stay on the pitch carrying an injury and will be out for goodness knows how long. Mbengue’s decision making is simply shocking and he must do better.
Just on the falling in love with loan deals thing - sometimes dreams come true. Step forward Handsome Ron |
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Comment | King Charles’ flying form foils West Ham – Report
by E17hoop at 19:35:12
I thought Kemper was excellent. You are 100% about how the game turned, and it was a real shame he had to come off. I really hope he's starting on Wednesday and is able to leave Joe Ward with nighmares. |
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Comment | Where were we? – Preview
by TacticalR at 18:24:32
Thanks for your preview.
Nuno doing a Keegan seems quite a contradiction, as he has been pretty dour in the Premier League.
Of all the challenges, unfortunately it looks like it's injuries that have come back to haunt us, and are at the root of a lot of our other problems. What's happened to our attack? Even Chair is permanently injured. God knows what is happening with Kolli. We need a big performance from somewhere. |
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Comment | Where were we? – Preview
by gazza1 at 13:13:45
It all depends on what team is selected......I am not having all this crap about he can only start on the bench. My line is of he is fit for the bench then he is fit to play and he should be started - he could be needed after 5 minutes if someone gets injured so get him on the pitch at kick off and give us a chance. Get your best team out there.
West Ham are tidy but not unbeatable.......Bowen will not like starting against Mbengue. Play well and we win. |
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Comment | Stéphan talks Kone, Kolli, Kamara and Burrell ahead of West Ham - Interview
by hopekillsyou at 14:50:19
The head coach/ managers job is to manage a squad of disparate personalities,get the best out them and pick his strongest team on the day. For JS, Taarabt would probably not have displayed the “ right attitude” ( which sounds like something out of stories of dressing rooms in the 60s & 70s - the younger players in awe of the seniors, cleaning their boots, etc all that character building bullshit. ).Anyone who’s been in management knows that you take account of individual personalities to get the best out of them. Your own ego and feelings are irrelevant. Warnock knew this. |
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Comment | Portsmouth to Blackburn (via Hibs) – Awaydays
by HastingsRanger at 10:12:59
Fabulous read, thanks.
Due to my daughter, I am in Leith on occasion. Yet to get to a Hibs match and you have not put me off! Need to time inext visit right
Was going to Blackburn via Leith quicker than direct with Avanti? |
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Comment | The international breakdown – Analysis
by Antti_Heinola at 12:04:28
Great article thank you! Funny thing about those projections is, that's pretty much exactly what I think will happen.
We'll get gubbed by West Ham, will probably have quite a bad October, then recover as injuries come back, have a good run, have a bad run, have a good run, and finish between 9th and 12th. It'll be better than last season. |
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