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Turned off after he said he didn't rate Gael and he was glad he fucked off

He started off nervy in the first 20 mins but settled down later on, I doubt there is a clause saying he must start if fit

It isn't as if the team has been put together overnight though. We made a lot of our signings early on Fleck, Elliott, Kilbane, Malaga and Edjenguele all played in the first pre season game didn't they. Brown and Ball were signed about 3 weeks ago now and Jennings has been around the squad on...

For Norwood to be offered a new contract at Man Utd in the summer just gone...that's saying something

You are aware the Leeds game was his first start at home, his only other start before this came away vs Reading. So I am assuming you were at this game to make the above comments?

No but my early pre season optimism may begin to die out already

I agree, if we fail to win Saturday I may start to lower my expectations for the season

It is a satisfactory start, however I would disagree that we deserved to win purely on the first half when we could have been 2/3 goals down

I wouldn't say Ken Deluded has superior football knowledge to any one on this forum :thinking about:

Well actually in Norwoods second or third game here vs Leeds at H he was fantastic that night imo along with Nimely and completely controlled the game by himself He only misplaced 2 passes as they were mostly simple passes to Brown or inside to Jennings. I didn't think he was great at tackling...

Come off it, there weren't that many long balls. We mostly played it out from the back unless under pressure. Also any long balls weren't high passes anyway, they were into chest or tried to be played behind the opposition full back for the striker to chase

Last season if we could have all the players at the same time i.e Norwood, Nimely with Juke If we are looking at it at any point in the season I don't think there is too much difference but I would still choose last seasons first team which we ended with and added depth to it.

I have seen Barton once and he was ineffective, to say he is an excellent player already is stretching it. From yesterdays showing alone Norwood is a lot better than Barton I hope Barton is an excellent player and am not making a judgement on him yet

I agree but if we try and play a forward/attacking pass and it goes wrong all our fans moan, the players confidence is shot and next time he will go for the safe square pass passing responsibility onto another player I think Baker suffered from this last night, in my eyes he was the player most...

I agree one thing I noticed last season was with the DM playing so deep we rarely win second ball from knock downs or loose balls around the midfield. The DM would be too deep and have to much ground to make up to win the ball Jennings stepping up a bit in the second half and his tenacity meant...

Then you leave a big gap in the middle for the opposition to play in as Jennings is too deep and Fleck too high. That is why 4-4-2 is preferred when playing with proper wide players Besides the point that Barton is a central midfielder and Kilbane is too slow to play as a proper wide player

The problem is passing forward means more likely to give away possession then loads of fans start jumping up and down screaming and getting on the players back

------Murphy Clarke--Malaga--Wood--Hussey -------------Jennings ---Thomas-----------Barton ------------Fleck -------Mcdonald--Elliott

Obviously one was out of position but Malaga was about 10 times better than Brown

Yea but this was first home game of the season and the biggest side we will see out the Ricoh in the league which may have added a few on. Also I expect we may have around 800 less away fans