Weekend Games

[@xP]

Bolton v Sheffield United.

We/Bolton lost.

[piddle2k6]

Lmao aflux what are you chatting about?

we will see how arsenal fair when fabregas gets injured and all your african players (excl adebayor) **** off to the african nations, then we will see how you cope..

Lol of the day for me was local..ish club havant and waterloovile get a draw vs swansea.

No game today which is good, means we cant drop anymore points :S

I guess we havent done too badly over xmas but if we wernt so bad at defending set pieces we could have not dropped any.

Things are looking up...ish for us, but we have to see how we cope without our loanees and see if super kev (NOT!) can get us something decent on loan.

Perhaps makin gradel permanent k ty?!

[Minstrels]

True, but Manchester United's build up revolves around those 2, as described in my previous post.

The other 3 top teams work more as a team.

Yep, Manchester City sure do work as a team don't they? Shame Liverpool aren't in the top 4 no more so we can'y really talk about them.

[Aflux]

Lmao aflux what are you chatting about?

we will see how arsenal fair when fabregas gets injured and all your african players (excl adebayor) **** off to the african nations, then we will see how you cope..

Eboue and Toure - we have Sagna and Senderos to cover?

[edible]

We won 3-2 against Port Vale. Bit ironic really, 'cause it was basically a carbon copy of the game against them at home last season...

The first half was awful and we went into the break 2-0 down. Despite dominating the possession, we couldn't create any clear cut chances. Then we went and let in two very sloppy goals, they had 3 chances all game, and they ended up scoring two of them. Anyways, we took Thirlwell off at H/T and brought on Joyce, that was the turning point. This boy is something special like, don't know why Ward has took this long just to give him a runout. He controlled the middle of park, and he got us on our way when he scored 5min after the restart. From then on, there was only every going to be one winner. A little while later, Hackney latched on to a through-ball and smashed the ball home from 20yards. Hackney got his second, and our third after he struck the ball first-time on the volley into the bottom corner, top-class finishing.

Was another distinctly average performance by us, and I'm sure if we hadn't of been playing Vale, we would have got beat. Anyways, it's 3points at the end of the day which lifts us into 2nd place. Can't wait for Donny next Saturday, should be another huge following from Carlisle.

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To the Everton fan (Not Vicky...), Oldham were playing a very weakened side today, so you can't really mention the fact that you started the game with a few players that don't normally get much of a game.

I agree, we were a weak side yesterday.
Wessels; never really plays much.
Baines; hasnt played in ages, never gets a start and he's just returned from injury too.
Jags; never really gets a start.
Stubbs; same as Baines.
McFadden; always crap.
Vaughan; never really gets a start, always injured, he only plays 15ish minutes when he plays and thats at the end of the game where he cant change the game.

The rest usually do start the game or play more than the others.
If we had our strongest out there, the game would've been different methinks.

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Also; isnt the Top 4 based on finance? I could've sworn someone said that ages ago in a thread.
And also most teams arent that good without their best players.

[Aflux]

I agree, we were a weak side yesterday.
Wessels; never really plays much.
Baines; hasnt played in ages, never gets a start and he's just returned from injury too.
Jags; never really gets a start.
Stubbs; same as Baines.
McFadden; always crap.
Vaughan; never really gets a start, always injured, he only plays 15ish minutes when he plays and thats at the end of the game where he cant change the game.

The rest usually do start the game or play more than the others.
If we had our strongest out there, the game would've been different methinks.

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Also; isnt the Top 4 based on finance? I could've sworn someone said that ages ago in a thread.
And also most teams arent that good without their best players.

True, teams aren't as effective without their best players but in reality, no one or two players can make a team, a team makes a team and if a team can work as a team, then that team will succeeded without having to rely on one or two players.

I say team too much.

[piddle2k6]

Sagna and senderos really arent title race players. Eg they would never get in the squad of Chelsea (if full team is fit) and definately not united

[Aflux]

Sagna and senderos really arent title race players. Eg they would never get in the squad of Chelsea (if full team is fit) and definately not united

No, because Chelsea and Manchester United don't have any African defenders.

It's called cover, and suitable cover because Sagna is a title race player, hence the money we payed for him - he just can't settle in London atm, Senderos is also solid - unlike Cygan, bloody hell lol.

[edible]

True, teams aren't as effective without their best players but in reality, no one or two players can make a team, a team makes a team and if a team can work as a team, then that team will succeeded without having to rely on one or two players.

I say team too much.

I was just thinking that haha!

A team is 11 players, not 2. I think they should base things around the team, not say like Ronaldo/Rooney thing.
And a team like Arsenal?

[Aflux]

Not just Arsenal, I'm not that biased.

Chelsea play a team game more this year than last year, so do Liverpool although they've always been a team. Everton, Manchester City, Aston Villa are playing team games.