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Only thing of note this year was that the traditional “Cecelia’s Christmas Day Mushroom Soup” starter (a staple in our household for many years) ended up being sieved and poured down the sink after daughter number two refilled the salt grinder with fine salt not realising her mother’s eyesight and hearing would not spot the difference. Now I like a bit of salt but there was no rescuing this.
I’m probably being a bit of a thicko here, but in the prediction preamble did I miss a reference when the subject of Billy Bragg using Paul Simon lyrics for New England came up???
Happy Christmas to all and here’s to a coupon busting rare win away on Boxing Day (St Stephan’s Day in Ireland hopefully!!)
Today I don’t think we have anything on the bench to rescue this game. Concern is how to make the changes to stop another Coventry score line . Koki is offering no support to RND as he is being bypassed by sitting in and allowing their right wing open season to go out wide against RND and then they overrun us in midfield and have choices.
Maybe have Hayden in alongside Varane and Madsen to put up more of a wall (Winter is coming!) and prevent a rout.
Cannot see us opening them up with what we have today.
I think most of us are not surprised by this, so just beaten down the hatches and ride it out and get home.
I feel like we are his former foster parents who took him in to our home when he was struggling to find the right home anywhere else; and now proudly watching on as we sent him on back in to the big wide world a better and more mature human being and we watch on with pride.
Not been impressed with Varane again today but not sure Field or Morgan would bring anything else. Going to need the pace of Burrell and Koki to get us back into this
Based on this post and a couple of other thumbs up in this thread I downloaded The Devil’s Alternative but forgot to read it until a cooler of weeks ago. A great read lads thanks
That Cole Hatrick always sticks in my memory. I think it was his first when they got a free kick and the ball went in to the lower loft where I used to sit all those years ago.
Some kid had the ball and would not throw it back in when Cole came to collect the ball. The kid balanced it on the wall until Cole got to him then he threw the ball over Cole’s head back on to the pitch. Cole stood there and clapped him sarcastically and the lower loft tore in to Cole. I genuinely thought at that moment, we will pay for that - and 1min later Cole smashes the free kick in to the back of the net and then scores 3.
What excites me about this JS team so far is that for the Charlton Saito goal and for Kone’s goal yesterday there is this alien concept of having three attackers, one left, one centre and one right speedily approaching the opponents box with the ball being brought quickly in behind them through the centre. It must terrify defences. Koki kept going whereas Madsen played a perfectly weighted ball exactly where Kone needed it to be then BOOM.
I think this thread is a bit like people who post a product review on Amazon the day after they had delivery of a new microwave. I’ve plugged it in and it heated my food.
Let’s come back in 6mths and assess whether the microwave has broken down every couple of weeks or does not defrost like I was expecting.
In all seriousness from what I witnessed on Saturday the signs are good at least for the attacking options we have brought in - Kone, Burrell and Koki.
Mbengue I’m still a little nervous about - more so in how many yellows/reds/penalties he might rack up. RND and Hayden too early to tell.