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He said he wanted 'goalscorers on the pitch'. May aswell have played 10 strikers from the off then, if it's that simple.

Racist.

Early CL kick off with Spartak Moscow taking on Zilina. Might tune in and see how McGeady gets on.

Like it when we sign these youngsters. More the merrier.

GG will like this thread now.

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Having goalscorers on the pitch is a pretty simplistic and misguided way of looking at things, tactically. I hope there was more of a thought process behind it than that.

I'll swap Carroll for him He stopped scoring when I transferred him in.

Something wrong with football when that abomination can be considered a 'good side'.

No. We should have adapted our gameplan to exploit their massive, fundamental weaknesses. The fact they're slow, cumbersome and have limited footballing ability. Why we didn't just keep the ball on the floor I'll never know. Adapting the gameplan to suit their play is what we did today (long ball to Carroll) and is why we played into their hands.

We should sign Bentley in January. We desperately need somebody who can cross a ball.

Main strength? So you're basically saying they're one dimensional? That's spot on then. They were fucking awful first half, barely resembled a football team at all. They smashed their way to a goal in the second half and then we gifted them the winner. We only have ourselves to blame for letting that shower come here and take all 3 points.

That was Kenwyne Jones, mate. Hes blaming one of our lot Anar. KJones did the same thing in the first half though.

Broken record, but we should have signed Onuoha.

That was Kenwyne Jones, mate.

Yep. Stoke were woeful, worst team we've played in that first half. We were just cowardly second half.

Williamson has been sound.

That's a good point actually. Their midfield is gonna murder us.

Everton was an exception to the rule. It was back to the norm for him today, anonymous for lengthy periods of the game.

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2-0. We wont get a sniff and they'll create a couple of chances and take them.

Going to this.

Vile team, which makes it all the worse. Why the referee lets them take 30 seconds per throw is beyond me. YES. I was saying that all the way through the game. It's a fucking joke.