Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [9th - 13th September 2011]

Alpherah said:
I should also add that it was mentioned to me by a stoke fan that the grass was left long, and the pitch was shortened in width by quite a chunk, which i thought was against the rules to change pitch dimensions mid seasons but apparently it only applies competition wide, so it means they can as long as they keep the dimensions the same for all European games, and all PL games, keep changing between the UEFA minimum and the PL minimum, which is quite significantly shorter.

Which annoys me slightly, but you have to do what you have to do i guess, small things like that .. the long throw 'fiasco' Quote Mr Wenger etc are probably why Stoke's been in the PL for a few seasons now, and other newly promoted teams have come up and gone back down on a regular basis.
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If Mourinho can do it to Barca, then I'm sure Pulis can do it to who ever he wants. :D
 
I remember when I mentioned Downing being the answer to England's left sided problem (I've said it for years, he's not going to set the World a light but he's certainly the best properly left footed winger England have) and was laughed at.

I think he's doing very well for Club and Country. He looks really sharp at the minute, he's looked "good" for a while, I actually really hope his form continues.

Carroll desperately needs to improve :(
 
Hope it gets better soon Anthony :)

I quite like Sunderland's ground (went a while back with a bird to watch Leicester with her) and the atmosphere was "alright" it's just a real shame about the absolute dive it's in.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Looks very good so far. Works hard, puts in some excellent crosses and has already formed a nice little partnership with Enrique. Desperately needs Carroll to find some form though.
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My only criticism of him, and it applies to the side as a whole, is that he needs to be a bit more ruthless.

We should have been out of sight at HT vs Sunderlan, should have won the Arsenal game earlier, should have beaten Bolton far more convincingly than we did and played well enough to have won today. We're just lacking that killer instinct at the moment.
 
BaZ87 said:
My only criticism of him, and it applies to the side as a whole, is that he needs to be a bit more ruthless.

We should have been out of sight at HT vs Sunderlan, should have won the Arsenal game earlier, should have beaten Bolton far more convincingly than we did and played well enough to have won today. We're just lacking that killer instinct at the moment.
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How do you solve it?

Is it a confidence thing? A player thing? (i.e. needing a real clinical finisher or a little pea type player?)
 
BaZ87 said:
My only criticism of him, and it applies to the side as a whole, is that he needs to be a bit more ruthless.

We should have been out of sight at HT vs Sunderlan, should have won the Arsenal game earlier, should have beaten Bolton far more convincingly than we did and played well enough to have won today. We're just lacking that killer instinct at the moment.
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Downing has balls the same size as Stephanie Ireland...none :p.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Think we need another striker. Carroll doesn't look right at the moment but I don't know if it's a mental or physical problem.
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I just dont think he is good enough to be the main man for Liverpool TBH.

Its easy to be the "big No.9" for Newcastle and be hero worshiped for winning nothing.

It took us years to retrain Andy Cole into being a proper footballer and he broke all sorts of records in the black and white stripes.
 
Tom84 said:
How did Chelsea actually play today? Better than against Stoke, Norwich and West Brom?
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Chelsea were pretty damn good.

First half was very impressive. Meireles ran the midfield and popped the ball around brilliantly. Ramires was an absolute machine and didn't stop. Mata looked very bright as did Sturridge.

The second half died out a bit, got a bit dull. Chelsea were happy to pop the ball around and Sunderland were just pathetic.

Purdy said:
Only saw a replay of sturridge's goal, the finish looked cheeky as ****, was it lucky or really good?
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Pretty sure it was an intentional back heel. It was painful watching it slooooowly go in.

Also, Sunderland's support was DIRE.

Nice to have someone ask a question about the Chelsea fixture instead of final 10 pages of the thread being about Liverpool :p
 
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Tummy said:
How do you solve it?

Is it a confidence thing? A player thing? (i.e. needing a real clinical finisher or a little pea type player?)
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I'm not sure it's confidence as such. I just think sometimes you go through spells where everything you hit goes in and another time it just won't go in.

Having a penalty box striker in the squad would be useful but I'm not sure having 1 in our first 11 would be the ultimate answer though. What you'd gain from having them in the side could be useless if you're no longer creating the chances because of a change in system.

I do think Gerrard coming back will help though.
 
The problem with Carroll is the Problem with Berbatov. United and Liverpool have a lot of pace around the flanks and build up play on the counter attack very quickly.

You are never going to make Andy Carroll or Dimitar Berbatov players who will be able to be in the centre circle one minute spraying the balls to the wing and then be in the box the next to tap it in like a Rooney/Hernandez or Suarez/Kuyt

Andy Carroll is a bad, unnecessary and over priced buy despite Daglish's current Halo effect simple as that.
 
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