Tiresias Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Cisse needs to be dropped and Ben Arfa moved to no 10 role, Ferguson on left and Jonas on right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEEJ Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Just woke up, did we play well? I'd go back to sleep mate. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudil Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Beren Ignore Jayson I'm pretty sure at this stage he is just an elaborate troll. I just want some fucking progressive football man. Hoofing it at the Denmba not working again? hmmmm... perhaps hoof it at Shola? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Horrendous. Absolutely horrendous. If I was a Reading fan, I'd be gutted that my team is s*** and I was a c***, but they still should have had three points. We're lucky, lucky people today. :lol: Well, at least we're not losing these games. Still early days guys I know it's turgid but there's plenty of time to get this right. It's only June, the euros are on soon, plenty of time. FFS, it's only July, two months left, calm down Jesus, has the window closed, it's only the middle of August Still two days left, confident we'll pull something out of the hat I'm just grateful we didn't lose anyone, that's as good as a new signing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Need to change from 4-4-2 it's killing us You would have thought a lightbulb would have come on for Pardew when we got all those away wins, but oh no. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Either a 4-3-3 or a 4-4-2 with more of the full backs and wingers on their natural sides. Take your pick. About the best shout you'd have is dropping barfa behind the front two to link midfield. Putting your best 3 attacking players infront of Tiote, Bigi & Jonas today wouldnt have created wonderous football. Cabaye missing was a huge loss. The natural side line you're overplayng. I'm not overplaying it at all, it's a question of balance. 4-4-2 simply does not work with players on their wrong side. The lack of balance is at the very top of the list of problems imo. Been clear as day for fucking ages. Yep, major major issue. Highlighted massively by two games where we've created nothing until a left footer has come on, beaten a full back in his natural side and put a cross in....goal. It's staring everyone in the face. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Just woke up, did we play well? Have a guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilko Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Just woke up, did we play well? The bit from Who Shot Mr. Burns Part One where Krusty runs into city hall with two holiday suitcases saying "I miss anything?" after Burns has just announced his plan to block the sun comes to mind. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Either a 4-3-3 or a 4-4-2 with more of the full backs and wingers on their natural sides. Take your pick. About the best shout you'd have is dropping barfa behind the front two to link midfield. Putting your best 3 attacking players infront of Tiote, Bigi & Jonas today wouldnt have created wonderous football. Cabaye missing was a huge loss. The natural side line you're overplayng. I'm not overplaying it at all, it's a question of balance. 4-4-2 simply does not work with players on their wrong side. Or their right side, in all likelyhood. What, like Shane Ferguson? Ben Arfa is being severely limited on the wrong side, so is Santon. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Wally_McFool Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 RIght, point nicked, could be worse, lets hope Man U get Rooney and Van Persie sent off and a few minor hamstring tweaks that will keep their players out for a couple of weeks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Jayson Llambias on the prowl again The guy is a moron. On the rarely-used ignore list he goes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubaricho Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Probably not worth recording when it gets aired later then I guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Either a 4-3-3 or a 4-4-2 with more of the full backs and wingers on their natural sides. Take your pick. About the best shout you'd have is dropping barfa behind the front two to link midfield. Putting your best 3 attacking players infront of Tiote, Bigi & Jonas today wouldnt have created wonderous football. Cabaye missing was a huge loss. The natural side line you're overplayng. I'm not overplaying it at all, it's a question of balance. 4-4-2 simply does not work with players on their wrong side. Or their right side, in all likelyhood. What, like Shane Ferguson? Ben Arfa is being severely limited on the wrong side, so is Santon. 4-4-2 doesn't work full stop with those players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayson Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Geniune question, how else would you lot have set up the team? We've had a shocking match, not sure you can blame Pardew for the lineup. I can't believe his post after what he was saying the other day. Whys that? I believe that team shouldve done better. Poor performances are to blame moreso than any lineup. Barfa barely got into the match 2nd half, was his performance due to Pardew also? Because you were basically saying the other day that our refusal to sign players to improve the squad was fine and never costs us, nor is it likely to. Now you're suggesting Pardew's options were too limited to put out a half-decent lineup. I just said the team shouldve done better, the lineup was good enough to me. Id have expected us to still control that midfield & our wingers to do much better. I also said there wasnt any basis to doubt our squad, if we're going to play like today without Cabaye then theres your first strong basis for doubt welldone aye. That game did make Guthrie look a big miss & Anita apparently cant replace that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Probably not worth recording when it gets aired later then I guess. Well Ba's first goal will be in with a shout for goal of the month, just caught it 10 minutes ago on the stream. Brilliant goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Need to change from 4-4-2 it's killing us You would have thought a lightbulb would have come on for Pardew when we got all those away wins, but oh no. I also expected to see Obertan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Need to change from 4-4-2 it's killing us You would have thought a lightbulb would have come on for Pardew when we got all those away wins, but oh no. I also expected to see Obertan. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oakie Doke Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 my stream had an uncanny knack of cutting out whenever a goal was about to go in. If the stream froze you knew someone had scored. I watched the entire match but didn't see any of the goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Just woke up, did we play well? We woke up at the same time as you. Put it that way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Geniune question, how else would you lot have set up the team? We've had a shocking match, not sure you can blame Pardew for the lineup. I can't believe his post after what he was saying the other day. Whys that? I believe that team shouldve done better. Poor performances are to blame moreso than any lineup. Barfa barely got into the match 2nd half, was his performance due to Pardew also? Because you were basically saying the other day that our refusal to sign players to improve the squad was fine and never costs us, nor is it likely to. Now you're suggesting Pardew's options were too limited to put out a half-decent lineup. I just said the team shouldve done better, the lineup was good enough to me. Id have expected us to still control that midfield & our wingers to do much better. I also said there wasnt any basis to doubt our squad, if we're going to play like today without Cabaye then theres your first strong basis for doubt welldone aye. We had a very poor patch in December last season due to injuries catching up with us, lessons should have been learnt from that for a start. We needed another attacking spark and reinforcements at the back, we got none of these. You said you were happy with that the other day. Today's one reason why you shouldn't be but there were quite a few last season as well. And I do believe we've been fairly lucky with injuries, God help us if we pick up a few more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Either a 4-3-3 or a 4-4-2 with more of the full backs and wingers on their natural sides. Take your pick. About the best shout you'd have is dropping barfa behind the front two to link midfield. Putting your best 3 attacking players infront of Tiote, Bigi & Jonas today wouldnt have created wonderous football. Cabaye missing was a huge loss. The natural side line you're overplayng. I'm not overplaying it at all, it's a question of balance. 4-4-2 simply does not work with players on their wrong side. Or their right side, in all likelyhood. What, like Shane Ferguson? Ben Arfa is being severely limited on the wrong side, so is Santon. 4-4-2 doesn't work full stop with those players. You say that like it's ever been tried. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Geniune question, how else would you lot have set up the team? We've had a shocking match, not sure you can blame Pardew for the lineup. I can't believe his post after what he was saying the other day. Whys that? I believe that team shouldve done better. Poor performances are to blame moreso than any lineup. Barfa barely got into the match 2nd half, was his performance due to Pardew also? Because you were basically saying the other day that our refusal to sign players to improve the squad was fine and never costs us, nor is it likely to. Now you're suggesting Pardew's options were too limited to put out a half-decent lineup. I just said the team shouldve done better, the lineup was good enough to me. Id have expected us to still control that midfield & our wingers to do much better. I also said there wasnt any basis to doubt our squad, if we're going to play like today without Cabaye then theres your first strong basis for doubt welldone aye. That game did make Guthrie look a big miss & Anita apparently cant replace that. Guthrie a big miss in a 4-4-2? Why do you think he's not getting in Reading's team? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mole_Toonfan Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Cabaye was a massive miss today but we was awful in general not withstanding that. Anyway i think we can make 4-4-2 work( i obviously would rather we didn't use it) the main problem is the blatant lack of balance and the fact everytime we hoof to Ba and Cisse it just comes back again. If we actually played through the midfield and use the wings while passing on the floor it could work. So yeah hoofing and no balance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki679 Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 We can't play four-four-two with the unbalanced setup we have at the moment. Look at the difference Fergie has made in his last two appearances, a proper winger, crossing on his favoured foot. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jagten Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 Our options out of midfield are so pathetically limited in that awful formation. Ba and Cisse become isolated and their only service is the endless hoofs supplied by what appeared to be our entire team. Both are fairly useless in the air, so the system only begins to work when Shola inevitably comes on and begins to win balls which can then be fed to Ba. This is not something we should ever look to do. He'll probably play Shola and Ba against Man Utd. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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