johnnypd Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Someone assassinate Shola and save our next month. Oh f*** off man. This result is 100% about the defence man. Yeah our defence has been bad but two of their goals were after Shola rather hopelessly lost the ball. Attack is the best form of defence. of course Shola is to blame in part. it's not about separating the side into defence/attack and saying because we conceded x amount of goals but scored y amount that the attackers get off scot free and it's defenders to blame. it's a f***ing team game and poor performances in any part of the pitch can cause problems elsewhere. you have to defend from the front, help us keep the ball upfield and offer creativity and goal threat - if your main target man cannot do any of those four things then you are on the back foot before you even begin. rancid performance from him. he's spent his entire career putting in these awful performances, then he gets in everyone's good books with a couple of decent games, and with that credit built up he then eases down into shitness, starting off the whole process again. he's a con man, basically. Spot on. Pretty sure the Ameobi cycle is at the 'hip injury' phase. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Surely Fulham took every single chance they had?it's a shocking defeat in the circumstances, but hopefully it was a one-off. Johnson's arrival clearly changed it, but the way we capitulated against such a basic side was alarming. I can confirm that their first was never a pen and that Duff is a shitty cunt. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 also the first half im not sure if it was us playing well or it was fulham was being completely s***. because the amount of percession we had we created f*** all apart from a wonder goal. Not true. which part? cant remember any clear cut . or any one on one chances we had really Shola had 2 headers he should have done better with, Ben Arfa came close. you call those clear cut chances? playing balls to ameobi's head, never counts as chances not even the slightest because thats like saying throwing a turd of a 20 story building and asking shola to head it is like a clear cut chance. so like 80 percent of percession and a arfa chance . barring guth wonder goal, i wouldnt say we exactly spanking the ass off fulham, sorry. So you're ignoring Coloccini missing a tap in from six yards then? It wasn't a tap in. No where near. Was about as clear cut a chance as you could wish to see. Wasn't clear cut. It was a good chance but the pace the ball had on it made it difficult. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelunchbox Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 also the first half im not sure if it was us playing well or it was fulham was being completely s***. because the amount of percession we had we created f*** all apart from a wonder goal. Not true. which part? cant remember any clear cut . or any one on one chances we had really Shola had 2 headers he should have done better with, Ben Arfa came close. you call those clear cut chances? playing balls to ameobi's head, never counts as chances not even the slightest because thats like saying throwing a turd of a 20 story building and asking shola to head it is like a clear cut chance. so like 80 percent of percession and a arfa chance . barring guth wonder goal, i wouldnt say we exactly spanking the ass off fulham, sorry. So good saves don't count unless they're from one-on-ones? And you're ignoring Coloccini missing a tap in from six yards? i dont remember any good saves he had to make from shola, the colo chance thats fair enough. whilst we look dominant in the first half, fulham wasnt exactly sweating. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Geordie Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Disgraceful 2nd half showing - gutless and no passion. What the hell has gone wrong today? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnypd Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 also the first half im not sure if it was us playing well or it was fulham was being completely s***. because the amount of percession we had we created f*** all apart from a wonder goal. Not true. which part? cant remember any clear cut . or any one on one chances we had really Shola had 2 headers he should have done better with, Ben Arfa came close. you call those clear cut chances? playing balls to ameobi's head, never counts as chances not even the slightest because thats like saying throwing a turd of a 20 story building and asking shola to head it is like a clear cut chance. so like 80 percent of percession and a arfa chance . barring guth wonder goal, i wouldnt say we exactly spanking the ass off fulham, sorry. So you're ignoring Coloccini missing a tap in from six yards then? It wasn't a tap in. No where near. Was about as clear cut a chance as you could wish to see. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BottledDog Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 also the first half im not sure if it was us playing well or it was fulham was being completely s***. because the amount of percession we had we created f*** all apart from a wonder goal. Not true. which part? cant remember any clear cut . or any one on one chances we had really Shola had 2 headers he should have done better with, Ben Arfa came close. you call those clear cut chances? playing balls to ameobi's head, never counts as chances not even the slightest because thats like saying throwing a turd of a 20 story building and asking shola to head it is like a clear cut chance. so like 80 percent of percession and a arfa chance . barring guth wonder goal, i wouldnt say we exactly spanking the ass off fulham, sorry. So you're ignoring Coloccini missing a tap in from six yards then? It wasn't a tap in. No where near. Was about as clear cut a chance as you could wish to see. /Timewaaaaaarp. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 also the first half im not sure if it was us playing well or it was fulham was being completely s***. because the amount of percession we had we created f*** all apart from a wonder goal. Not true. which part? cant remember any clear cut . or any one on one chances we had really Shola had 2 headers he should have done better with, Ben Arfa came close. you call those clear cut chances? playing balls to ameobi's head, never counts as chances not even the slightest because thats like saying throwing a turd of a 20 story building and asking shola to head it is like a clear cut chance. so like 80 percent of percession and a arfa chance . barring guth wonder goal, i wouldnt say we exactly spanking the ass off fulham, sorry. So you're ignoring Coloccini missing a tap in from six yards then? It wasn't a tap in. No where near. Was about as clear cut a chance as you could wish to see. Howeh, be fair, it was never a tap-in, and he isn't a striker. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelunchbox Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Fulham changed it around and we couldn't cope. More to do with Jol being smart enough to highlight and exploit our weaknesses than ineptitude on Pardew's part - there just wasn't that much he could conceivably do - we lacked protection in midfield (which he attempted to improve by bringing Perch on albeit too late), the centre-halves were beaten for pace and movement, particularly Williamson, and Santon was a liability off the ball. There wasn't one solution out there that could respond to Fulham's changes. Saying that I would've liked us to try and change our attacking impetus at some point - Shola was truly awful, Best was out of the game and Ben Arfa was marginal albeit something of a bright spark. Problems in the rest of the team can stem from an inefficient front line. Always thought it would be a tough match, contrary to some who thought we'd walk it - but not quite that bad. Nonsense, if tactically you cant change the outcome whats the point of the Manager. Just as you said when Jol changed his team, we should have asked our team to play a lower line with the midfield closer to the back four (crowd our half, no space to counter) . They took advantage of the gap between of slow CBs and midfield which were still too high up . Mind you Pardew did not notice it even until the end of the game. It wasnt even changing who was in the team Perch for example, it was where the team should have been tighter when they are under pressure. On reflection I agree with that actually. Suppose I'm just trying to find a way to be charitable to Pardew rather than going immediately for criticism. and also pointing out that we do have some weaknesses in the side (little protection from midfield, pace at centre-half). During the match I thought we should've started defending deeper, used Best as the target man and let Obertan and Ben Arfa threaten on the counter attack. As well as taking one of Guthrie or Cabaye off. I think we could've seen the game out that way and threatened them on the break. Pardew just needs to hold his hands up and admit he messed up. All in all a good glimpse to how we could play when the flair players are deployed the right way, Thought the teams shape was great, always an outlet to pass to when the players were under pressure. Tried the same stuff in the second half but it didnt work and we conceeded like running tap. Reflection point for Pardew to balance team as to how the other team is set up playing. Hopes he keep to the 4-3-3, its looks promising with the right players. sadly i dont think pardew will try a 4-3-3 anytime soon judging by how our players performed as soon as the opposition switched to 4-4-2. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelunchbox Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 yes bolton scored hahahahahhaha Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 also the first half im not sure if it was us playing well or it was fulham was being completely s***. because the amount of percession we had we created f*** all apart from a wonder goal. Not true. which part? cant remember any clear cut . or any one on one chances we had really Shola had 2 headers he should have done better with, Ben Arfa came close. you call those clear cut chances? playing balls to ameobi's head, never counts as chances not even the slightest because thats like saying throwing a turd of a 20 story building and asking shola to head it is like a clear cut chance. so like 80 percent of percession and a arfa chance . barring guth wonder goal, i wouldnt say we exactly spanking the ass off fulham, sorry. So you're ignoring Coloccini missing a tap in from six yards then? It wasn't a tap in. No where near. Was about as clear cut a chance as you could wish to see. Howeh, be fair, it was never a tap-in, and he isn't a striker. That's not really the discussion tbf, we're just talking about chances we created in the first half. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bimpy474 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Bolton 1-0 up, if they beat the racists then this result will hurt even more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Fulham changed it around and we couldn't cope. More to do with Jol being smart enough to highlight and exploit our weaknesses than ineptitude on Pardew's part - there just wasn't that much he could conceivably do - we lacked protection in midfield (which he attempted to improve by bringing Perch on albeit too late), the centre-halves were beaten for pace and movement, particularly Williamson, and Santon was a liability off the ball. There wasn't one solution out there that could respond to Fulham's changes. Saying that I would've liked us to try and change our attacking impetus at some point - Shola was truly awful, Best was out of the game and Ben Arfa was marginal albeit something of a bright spark. Problems in the rest of the team can stem from an inefficient front line. Always thought it would be a tough match, contrary to some who thought we'd walk it - but not quite that bad. Nonsense, if tactically you cant change the outcome whats the point of the Manager. Just as you said when Jol changed his team, we should have asked our team to play a lower line with the midfield closer to the back four (crowd our half, no space to counter) . They took advantage of the gap between of slow CBs and midfield which were still too high up . Mind you Pardew did not notice it even until the end of the game. It wasnt even changing who was in the team Perch for example, it was where the team should have been tighter when they are under pressure. On reflection I agree with that actually. Suppose I'm just trying to find a way to be charitable to Pardew rather than going immediately for criticism. and also pointing out that we do have some weaknesses in the side (little protection from midfield, pace at centre-half). During the match I thought we should've started defending deeper, used Best as the target man and let Obertan and Ben Arfa threaten on the counter attack. As well as taking one of Guthrie or Cabaye off. I think we could've seen the game out that way and threatened them on the break. Pardew just needs to hold his hands up and admit he messed up. All in all a good glimpse to how we could play when the flair players are deployed the right way, Thought the teams shape was great, always an outlet to pass to when the players were under pressure. Tried the same stuff in the second half but it didnt work and we conceeded like running tap. Reflection point for Pardew to balance team as to how the other team is set up playing. Hopes he keep to the 4-3-3, its looks promising with the right players. sadly i dont think pardew will try a 4-3-3 anytime soon judging by how our players performed as soon as the opposition switched to 4-4-2. was today a 4-3-3 ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 These poor performances are the norm and a defeat like this is always on the cards as a result of our sheer inconsistent halfs and performances. It will be the undoing of Pardew and our season you feel. Tactically we are poor and mentally something has changed over the last few months. We should not be getting beat at Fulham never mind getting a hammering. Pardew needs to reassess everything, especially tactically, because we are awful. The last time we played good football in my opinion was at home to Spurs and that's because it was an open game. Boring. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Bolton 1-0 up, if they beat the racists then this result will hurt even more. Or if Liverpool win... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garth Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Have to say, hard to comprehend, how we lost that in the second half. Jol, certainly got his his tactics right there. Ameobi, what an absolute waste of space, he should have been the first to come off. Pardew lost it, there's no doubt about it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelunchbox Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Fulham changed it around and we couldn't cope. More to do with Jol being smart enough to highlight and exploit our weaknesses than ineptitude on Pardew's part - there just wasn't that much he could conceivably do - we lacked protection in midfield (which he attempted to improve by bringing Perch on albeit too late), the centre-halves were beaten for pace and movement, particularly Williamson, and Santon was a liability off the ball. There wasn't one solution out there that could respond to Fulham's changes. Saying that I would've liked us to try and change our attacking impetus at some point - Shola was truly awful, Best was out of the game and Ben Arfa was marginal albeit something of a bright spark. Problems in the rest of the team can stem from an inefficient front line. Always thought it would be a tough match, contrary to some who thought we'd walk it - but not quite that bad. Nonsense, if tactically you cant change the outcome whats the point of the Manager. Just as you said when Jol changed his team, we should have asked our team to play a lower line with the midfield closer to the back four (crowd our half, no space to counter) . They took advantage of the gap between of slow CBs and midfield which were still too high up . Mind you Pardew did not notice it even until the end of the game. It wasnt even changing who was in the team Perch for example, it was where the team should have been tighter when they are under pressure. On reflection I agree with that actually. Suppose I'm just trying to find a way to be charitable to Pardew rather than going immediately for criticism. and also pointing out that we do have some weaknesses in the side (little protection from midfield, pace at centre-half). During the match I thought we should've started defending deeper, used Best as the target man and let Obertan and Ben Arfa threaten on the counter attack. As well as taking one of Guthrie or Cabaye off. I think we could've seen the game out that way and threatened them on the break. Pardew just needs to hold his hands up and admit he messed up. All in all a good glimpse to how we could play when the flair players are deployed the right way, Thought the teams shape was great, always an outlet to pass to when the players were under pressure. Tried the same stuff in the second half but it didnt work and we conceeded like running tap. Reflection point for Pardew to balance team as to how the other team is set up playing. Hopes he keep to the 4-3-3, its looks promising with the right players. sadly i dont think pardew will try a 4-3-3 anytime soon judging by how our players performed as soon as the opposition switched to 4-4-2. was today a 4-3-3 ? was in the first half, 4-3-3, 4-5-1 depend how you want to look at it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrenBartonCentrePartin Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Bolton 1-0 up, if they beat the racists then this result will hurt even more. Or if Liverpool win... Yup, would rather Liverpool still lost to keep us in touching distance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Howaythetoon Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 These poor performances are the norm and a defeat like this is always on the cards as a result of our sheer inconsistent halfs and performances. It will be the undoing of Pardew and our season you feel. Tactically we are poor and mentally something has changed over the last few months. We should not be getting beat at Fulham never mind getting a hammering. Pardew needs to reassess everything, especially tactically, because we are awful. The last time we played good football in my opinion was at home to Spurs and that's because it was an open game. We were playing great footy first half today. Last time we played well was totenham? Yeah beating man u 3-0 playing s*** was an achievement... I didn't see today's first half of course but by the sounds of it from the radio Fulham just didn't turn up so it was quite easy for us to pop it around. As for the Man Utd game, we won and it was a great performance but it was more of a Stoke away kind of performance rather than a footballing one which we've struggled to produce all season to be honest. To lose this game 5-2 after playing so well apparently in the first-half suggests something is wrong and perhaps badly so. All season we have flattered to decieve. We rarely play good football especially consistently and our tactics are piss poor, consisting of long-balls to the forwards. I honestly believe we are winging it at the moment. Its only because everyone else around us is indifferent this season and because we have Ba and Colo among others in particular as to why we are so high in the table. I do not enjoy watching us in the main and can count only a handful of games where we have looked a top 6 side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/4126/capturewxo.png How anyone can say that's 'obviously outside the box' is beyond me. And that's when viewing a still, not them moving in. PS: on the line is inside. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Crooks Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 also the first half im not sure if it was us playing well or it was fulham was being completely s***. because the amount of percession we had we created f*** all apart from a wonder goal. Not true. which part? cant remember any clear cut . or any one on one chances we had really Shola had 2 headers he should have done better with, Ben Arfa came close. you call those clear cut chances? playing balls to ameobi's head, never counts as chances not even the slightest because thats like saying throwing a turd of a 20 story building and asking shola to head it is like a clear cut chance. so like 80 percent of percession and a arfa chance . barring guth wonder goal, i wouldnt say we exactly spanking the ass off fulham, sorry. So you're ignoring Coloccini missing a tap in from six yards then? It wasn't a tap in. No where near. Was about as clear cut a chance as you could wish to see. Howeh, be fair, it was never a tap-in, and he isn't a striker. We can all agree what it definitely wasn't was a clear cut tap in which is what it certainly was. That's for sure. FWIW Colo is capable of that although the ball was low and at pace so its a tricky one to say for sure Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlelunchbox Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Have to say, hard to comprehend, how we lost that in the second half. Jol, certainly got his his tactics right there. Ameobi, what an absolute waste of space, he should have been the first to come off. Pardew lost it, there's no doubt about it. for the life of me why any manager would stick shola as a lone striker? it just doesnt work. impossible Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe_F Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 also the first half im not sure if it was us playing well or it was fulham was being completely s***. because the amount of percession we had we created f*** all apart from a wonder goal. Not true. which part? cant remember any clear cut . or any one on one chances we had really Shola had 2 headers he should have done better with, Ben Arfa came close. you call those clear cut chances? playing balls to ameobi's head, never counts as chances not even the slightest because thats like saying throwing a turd of a 20 story building and asking shola to head it is like a clear cut chance. so like 80 percent of percession and a arfa chance . barring guth wonder goal, i wouldnt say we exactly spanking the ass off fulham, sorry. So good saves don't count unless they're from one-on-ones? And you're ignoring Coloccini missing a tap in from six yards? i dont remember any good saves he had to make from shola, the colo chance thats fair enough. whilst we look dominant in the first half, fulham wasnt exactly sweating. He made a decent save when Shola won the ball near the half way line and hit a swerving shot from just outside the box that was creeping in the corner. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 We'd better destroy those horrific Hot Pot eating, Haven Holidaying, ITV watching, Smirnoff Ice drinking scrotum excuse of a football team next up (in the league). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
garth Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Thought Jonas was really good when he was playing in the centre. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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