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  1. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    *Not a video so don't click play!* There's a lot wrong with that screenshot from the moment the ball is played. Rose has been suckered into following his man into midfield, McCallum and McFadz on the wrong side of their men and Hyam daydreaming and playing everyone onside.
  2. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    What a difference McCallum over Pask is making. There's a lot of swagger and arrogance about McCallum's play for a lad of his age.
  3. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    I bet it looked even better in black and white too!
  4. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    Bulgarian. Swansea is twinned with Plovdiv and they've got a huge following there. :P
  5. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    You know we've made it back to the big time when there's foreign language commentary in the background.
  6. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    Incredibly sluggish start from Swansea, there's acres of space out there in comparison to Sunday
  7. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    Good competitive start with the wingbacks high and getting space. I'd forgotten about McCallum's long throws too.
  8. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    You'd have thought, but...
  9. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    Shouldn't be on the bench at all if only fit enough for those short periods. Appreciate we are bare bones but no-one should be on the bench if they can't complete 45 mins.
  10. Esoterica

    Match Thread Swansea Match Thread

    I never understand leaving your better players on the bench when they are not 100% fit. If Kelly is fit enough to be on the bench and play some part, I'd rather he started, gave me 45 mins and came off 1-0 up, rather than leaving him on the bench and be looking around at how to change things...
  11. Esoterica

    Reading game moved to Friday night

    Yep, always a few Sports bars with multiple screens around that cover the football and ice hockey matches. The hockey is bigger, certainly in Brno, due to the success of the hockey team who are regularly winning the PL whereas the football team is bottom of the top division having just been...
  12. Esoterica

    Reading game moved to Friday night

    Good for the club, bad for overseas fans. This will be the 3rd game I've had to pay to watch on top of the iFollow subscription and it's only October!
  13. Esoterica

    Match Thread Brentford Match Thread

    In a 4-3-3 the fullbacks should be more like wingbacks anyway because you don't have the natural width. So Dabo and McCallum at FB would be playing their more natural game still. 2 of McFadz and Rose/Hyam would be ok I think, if you had a 3 of Sheaf, Kelly and Hamer in front of them. The FBs...
  14. Esoterica

    Match Thread Brentford Match Thread

    You would have thought, if he was going to get some minutes, that yesterday would have been the day. Walker out, Bakayoko struggling to have any effect on the match. We know he knuckles down and trains hard though as he's been in this position before and ended up back in the team, and Robins is...
  15. Esoterica

    Match Thread Brentford Match Thread

    Nice to have some proper football chat anyway gents, without the sweeping 'player X is shit' statements!
  16. Esoterica

    Match Thread Brentford Match Thread

    His first touch was shocking yesterday, poor lad! He looks like he desperately needs a run of 20 games in his preferred position in L1 and now even McCallum, on his wrong foot, is going to preferred to him when covering Dabo. With the competition for places at CB I doubt we'll see much more of...
  17. Esoterica

    Match Thread Brentford Match Thread

    It presents a problem with Godden. He's already shown he can score at this level but if he's playing up front on his own, or as the striker who is on the shoulder of the centre backs, his lack of pace is causing knock on effects that are contributing to us getting overwhelmed in other areas and...
  18. Esoterica

    Date night

    I'm adding people who add the same thing 10 times on the 'Things that annoy you' thread to the 'Things that annoy you' thread. :D
  19. Esoterica

    Sheaf

    Sheaf looked a lot fitter and he wanted to play progressive passes yesterday and the options just weren't there. He should have had 6 options in front of him: 2 wing backs, 2 strikers and 2 10s. Instead the wing backs were deeper than him, Godden was in the pocket of the centre backs who walked...
  20. Esoterica

    Match Thread Brentford Match Thread

    McFadzean has played really well this season individually, superb recovery to cover for Hyam's lack of pace when their striker went through on goal in the first half yesterday. I think he has been a bit guilty of dragging the back 3 too deep when we are under pressure and looking for space to...
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