Busst To Write To Eduardo (5 Viewers)

shepardo01 said:

How do you find your first post!?!

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shepardo01 said:

How do you find your first post!?!

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shepardo01 said:

Westwood WAS playing at Sunderland (after injury to Mignolet) and doing well....Westwood fell ill for a game and Mignolet had to play in a protective mask...did well and kept his place.
I'm sure everybody can see now exactly how good he was/is. Unsure as have not checked the press why he didnt feature this weekend in their squad.
In my opinion he IS a better GK than Mignolet.

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rob9872 said:

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rob9872 said:

Look at your join date, go into search, then advanced search. Choose older than to get the format, but doesnt go past 2015. Then key in a month after you joined and go back from there.

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:

In trophies there is one for first post, so I guess you could just look for that date.

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rob9872 said:

Only for newbies. Trophies only introduced in 2016. For us dinosaurs you cant use it

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:

I can't get it to work anyway.

Tried typing in the date of my first post (in both older than and newer than in case I was misunderstanding) but all I ever get it my most recent posts.

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Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:

The start of this season is very like the start of last season - we looked poor with this exact 4-2-3-1 system and I'm amazed MR has gone back to it. One thing I admired about MR last season was that he had the nerve to admit it wasn't working and ditch the system (admittedly only due to injuries). I can only hope that this season progresses like last season did.

Last season we ironically only improved after season ending injuries to Jones and Andreu forced MR to eventually change the system to more of a 4-4-2. This gave Bayliss (and Kelly) more freedom to get forward and create (giving the opposition things to think about, pushing them back and relieving pressure on us defensively) and a partner to create space for McNulty. All of them thrived.

2 DCM and 1 up top means the three play deeper and the lone forward is isolated. This season I think is even worse because LOB doesn't come off his line at all, so the defence is deeper and thus everyone in front has to drop even deeper too. We're encouraging the opposition to push out and put us under pressure. That lets them create chances and gives them confidence, while we drop even deeper to try and stem the flow of chances creating a vicious circle.

This system is designed to be solid defensively, soak up pressure and hit on the counter , meaning strikers aren't going to get many chances and need to stick the few that come away. If you've not got strikers with particularly great strike ratios or clinical finishers (as we seem to have) it puts a lot of pressure on the team defensively to not concede as they've not got faith in the strikers to put the ball away. So they're edgy, nervous and more likely to make an error due to it.

We're playing a system that doesn't play to the attributes of any of our strikers, puts a leash on Bayliss' (and Kelly's when he's fit) creativity and passing and puts immense pressure on the defence to keep a clean sheet all while not being very attractive or entertaining to the fans. Just how is this going to work?

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rob9872 said:

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