My worry with giving Haaland a 9 year contract - how do we keep him hungry? He can play how he wants now and he knows he's set for life. Was there a reason we extended that long?
You have to blame pep for the way we play though. Not telling me that the 11 on the pitch cannot have a shot from the edge of the box. They're all shit scared of him. As they know if you deviate from peps plan you're coming off.Some embarrassing takes on here, show some loyalty you bunch of cunts,the greatest manager of all time and he is ours,he's not playing it's the idiots who don't listen to him and the fact that the greatest player in the last few years is missing plus age related issues collectively that's the issue, what do you want fucking Alan pardew or some other bell end in charge, you will all be eating your words next season sound like fucking rag's, we've won everything ffs, entitled pricks,we can't possibly win everything every year.
Shoot from outside the box more than once per match.Teams do seem to have got it of to a fine art, this master tactic of packing the area and hoping for the big boot up field ,and with a bit of luck ,a worldy or a cock from us,jobs a good 'un.They do not seem to be quite negative with other teams.
I know it's not for me to solve ,but how do we counter it? There is no space so pace is almost irrelevant ,and just waiting for us to produce the proverbial "moment of magic "is tempting providence .
What Pizza did you get?
Ah OK, I do apologise, maybe 171 is just league games then?No it’s not right.
He’s made 277 appearances for us.
You are a clueless Johnny Come Lately who clearly knows nowt, and I’m not going to waste my time on idiots today. Bye.Oh ffs what a waste of time you are.
And if it is once, make sure its not Akanji...Shoot from outside the box more than once per match.
Bad day out.Sat in the hotel at Wembley central and just feel flat. I was going to stay at home for this one and now I obviously wished I had.
The outcome was as many of us predicted. Loads of possession, they'd score from a break then we'd face a massed defence and never really look like scoring. What can you do against that?? You need a bit of luck to fall your way but nothing did. I'm pissed off with our players shitting their pants everytime we get a penalty. Surely, surely one player is capable of hitting the net from twelve yards with a free shot??? It appears not. Fucking Haaland has turned into Robbie Fowler, the one we got at the end of his career. What a bottle merchant. He's been found out and needs to work on his game, not least penalties!
As for the ref and var, again we knew somehow they'd screw us over but nobody expected just how badly. Mind you fucking Attwell himself could have gone into the Palace goal and we probably still wouldn't have scored.
Inside the ground was a nightmare. The sun was so strong I spent most of the game watching it on the big screen behind me. Then the sun even obscured that. Also the usual bunch of pissed up selfish bellends we get at every final. All with tickets apart but deciding they're all just going to say fuck everybody else and cram themselves into a row they're not supposed to be in. Wembley might as well scrap seat numbers and just make the whole end behind the goal standing anywhere you want.
As for the Palace fans they were probably the loudest opposition fans I've heard at Wembley. They're a weird bunch though. As I was stood on Wembley high road waiting for my pizza to be sorted they trudged past looking like they'd lost. I've never seen a more subdued fanbase considering they'd just won their first ever major trophy. Also there was some weird fat cow and her mates standing near that retail outlet. She must have been late thirties/early forties, waving a Palace scarf and winding up.every City fan that went past. She'd obviously not been at the game because the trophy presentation was still going on. There's some strange cunts in this world and she was a prize one. I'm sorry the City woman's bloke pulled her away because if anybody deserved a belt that fat bitch certainly did. Scum.
Anyway I'm in my room now. I'll watch some shit telly and try and sleep so I can get the fuck out of here and home tomorrow at the earliest available opportunity. I think this might be my last Wembley final but then I said that after the rag one last year. It's probably a laugh if you're with a gang of mates but on your own it's not a lot of fun. Winning makes it bearable but losing makes you question why you do it. I'm probably too old and tired now to carry on which is often an expensive chore. We'll see, let's hope we get that champions league spot but sadly I fear we might miss out to compound a miserable season. Fuck it, CTID!
I’m sat in the one at Hanger Lane loads of rags in here for the women’s final tomorrow ffs, got sticky toffee pudding and retreated to my room mate
Hats off. My thoughts exactly.You have to blame pep for the way we play though. Not telling me that the 11 on the pitch cannot have a shot from the edge of the box. They're all shit scared of him. As they know if you deviate from peps plan you're coming off.
Doku said it after the forrest game. I'll go every time but I don't. He's been instructed as have the entire team to play this way. In some ways they've been over Coached and all their creative juices have been sucked out of them. They're devoid of it currently and it shows when you can't break down a team that as of last week we're the same level as the worst team to ever play in the top division.
And set pieces don't get me started on those.
What happened to the maraudering wingers when we had sterling and sane running into the back post to tuck it away, we don't break with any pace, it's slow, robotic and worst of all predictable.
The opposition have all week to setup defensively as they know what we're going to do. Pass it around the box. They know we won't take a chance it has to be the perfect goal. So they sit on the width of the box push 2 men out to a winger, we recycle they shift across. We're not pulling them out of position. No sacrificial runs and when we do make a good run we turn away. Echeverri had a couple of times screaming for the ball to have a run and kdb and bernardo turn away and lay it off 5 yards.
We need some dynamism and fast
Get that mini bar opened mate!Sat in the hotel at Wembley central and just feel flat. I was going to stay at home for this one and now I obviously wished I had.
The outcome was as many of us predicted. Loads of possession, they'd score from a break then we'd face a massed defence and never really look like scoring. What can you do against that?? You need a bit of luck to fall your way but nothing did. I'm pissed off with our players shitting their pants everytime we get a penalty. Surely, surely one player is capable of hitting the net from twelve yards with a free shot??? It appears not. Fucking Haaland has turned into Robbie Fowler, the one we got at the end of his career. What a bottle merchant. He's been found out and needs to work on his game, not least penalties!
As for the ref and var, again we knew somehow they'd screw us over but nobody expected just how badly. Mind you fucking Attwell himself could have gone into the Palace goal and we probably still wouldn't have scored.
Inside the ground was a nightmare. The sun was so strong I spent most of the game watching it on the big screen behind me. Then the sun even obscured that. Also the usual bunch of pissed up selfish bellends we get at every final. All with tickets apart but deciding they're all just going to say fuck everybody else and cram themselves into a row they're not supposed to be in. Wembley might as well scrap seat numbers and just make the whole end behind the goal standing anywhere you want.
As for the Palace fans they were probably the loudest opposition fans I've heard at Wembley. They're a weird bunch though. As I was stood on Wembley high road waiting for my pizza to be sorted they trudged past looking like they'd lost. I've never seen a more subdued fanbase considering they'd just won their first ever major trophy. Also there was some weird fat cow and her mates standing near that retail outlet. She must have been late thirties/early forties, waving a Palace scarf and winding up.every City fan that went past. She'd obviously not been at the game because the trophy presentation was still going on. There's some strange cunts in this world and she was a prize one. I'm sorry the City woman's bloke pulled her away because if anybody deserved a belt that fat bitch certainly did. Scum.
Anyway I'm in my room now. I'll watch some shit telly and try and sleep so I can get the fuck out of here and home tomorrow at the earliest available opportunity. I think this might be my last Wembley final but then I said that after the rag one last year. It's probably a laugh if you're with a gang of mates but on your own it's not a lot of fun. Winning makes it bearable but losing makes you question why you do it. I'm probably too old and tired now to carry on which is often an expensive chore. We'll see, let's hope we get that champions league spot but sadly I fear we might miss out to compound a miserable season. Fuck it, CTID!
Bad day out.
Sounds enough to make you want to go to sea. :-)
because they didn't leave their own half for most of the gameDid one long ball over the top to Haaland today and it caused havoc and should have resulted in their keeper being sent off.
No idea why we don’t do it more. I know there’s hardly ever any space but when there is, do it. Rather than walking with it while they get back into position.
I’m not sure but apparently the same guy who squared off with our team doctor had a coming together with Pep at half time in the tunnel.What was the rumble between the medical staff all about? good to see a bit of passion.