Razor Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Oh, so this is why Southampton will beat us. fucking grim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyeyzzon Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Oh, so this is why Southampton will beat us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 No pissing about with a shadow team. Send out the strongest team possible. Reasons? A win would ensure we qualified for the knock out stages. A win may mean that we win the group and would therefore not face a Champions League team in the first knock out stage. The first choice 11 team could do with the confidence boost of a win (if we win). The supposed benefits of resting first team players for the Premiership has not been reflected in the results. At the moment we don't look like we'll be qualifying for Europe next season so we may as well give it a proper go this season. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beren Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Obertan is out for this as well, btw. Losing track of suspensions/injuries in different competitions a little bit. Krul Simpson Colo Willo* Santon Tiote** Jonas*** Amalfitano HBA Ferguson Cisse * Williamson - I'd like us to play close to our first team, but with Colo still out for one more Premiership game, I'd rather Willo got injured (if someone has to!) than Saylor ** Tiote can collect his booking in this match and sit out Bordeaux as we will hopefully have qualified already *** Pardew has already said he will play As for Ferguson instead of Ba, I think HBADembaDemba is great but I don't see it as a sustainable trio up front over a season. Would rather we just rotate Ba and Cisse through the centre. Don't think either has the stamina/legs to work the channels for a whole season. There is the option of them mixing it up during the game (as in, one goes through the centre in first half, then swap after half time), but I'm not sure how good Cisse will be at doing this tbh. It's a square peg in a round hole situation. Ferguson is also really coming along well and deserves a proper run/chance to prove himself. Encouraging. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 No pissing about with a shadow team. Send out the strongest team possible. Reasons? A win would ensure we qualified for the knock out stages. A win may mean that we win the group and would therefore not face a Champions League team in the first knock out stage. The first choice 11 team could do with the confidence boost of a win (if we win). The supposed benefits of resting first team players for the Premiership has not been reflected in the results. At the moment we don't look like we'll be qualifying for Europe next season so we may as well give it a proper go this season. We've got too many games coming up (10 before January 1st) with too many injuries already to be playing important players in a meaningless match. The "kids" have done well enough so far and they'll be fine on Thursday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Meaningless match? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aussiemag Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Krul Santon Coloccini Saylor Fergie Tiote Cabaye Anita HBA Cisse Marveaux Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliottman Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Krul Santon Coloccini Saylor Fergie Tiote Cabaye Anita HBA Cisse Marveaux Good luck wiith seeing Cabaye in the team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Meaningless match? We'll very likely win with a weakened team playing. Southampton next week is infinitely more important and should be the immediate priority. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Tiote is banned. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toondave Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 A very apt choice of avatar/post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Meaningless match? We'll very likely win with a weakened team playing. Southampton next week is infinitely more important and should be the immediate priority. I agree our weakened team may win but the policy of resting first team players for Premiership games isn't getting good results. Maybe playing a more settled side and getting them a win could be more beneficial than the players being fully rested. It could give them some much needed confidence going into the Southampton game. Loads of players at other teams play two games a week. I don't see why ours can't. For example, can Ben Arfa really only play one 90 minute game a week? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJ7 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Meaningless match? We'll very likely win with a weakened team playing. Southampton next week is infinitely more important and should be the immediate priority. Embarrassing from you to call it a meaningless match. We need to win something, and this is the best chance of doing it. Far from meaningless. Play the first team, the strongest team. They need practice and a confidence boost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyCisse Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Elliot Tav Williamson Saylor Santon Obertan Bigi Anita Sammy Marveaux Cisse Shola Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainhaircut Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Elliot Tav Williamson Saylor Santon Obertan Bigi Anita Sammy Marveaux Cisse Shola Got to love the old 12 man tactic. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley17 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Injured: Gosling, Vuckic, R Taylor, Obertan, Campbell, Cabaye, Perch Banned: Tiote Pick a team from what's left. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 This is looking more important than the league at the minute, it's probably the only thing keeping me sane at the minute anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben-nufc Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Krul Tav Colo Saylor Fergie Jonas Bigi Anita Marveaux Cisse Shola Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 If I wasn't in charge of buying some tickets, I'd probably have stayed away. We'll probably win but....whatever. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorJ_01 Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Krul Hatem Ben Arfa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Embarrassing from you to call it a meaningless match. We need to win something, and this is the best chance of doing it. Far from meaningless. Play the first team, the strongest team. They need practice and a confidence boost. We've got too many games coming up (10 before January 1st) with too many injuries already to be playing important players in a meaningless match. The "kids" have done well enough so far and they'll be fine on Thursday. Of course all this "play the strongest team!!" stuff would be quietly ignored if we picked up an injury or a suspension... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 A suspension? What, for another meaningless match? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Krul Hatem Ben Arfa Isn't that what we've played the last couple of games? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodneyCisse Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 Elliot Tav Williamson Saylor Santon Obertan Bigi Anita Sammy Marveaux Cisse Shola Got to love the old 12 man tactic. 11 hasn't been working to well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Flash Posted November 18, 2012 Share Posted November 18, 2012 A suspension? What, for another meaningless match? A red card would put someone out of the next round, wouldn't it? And a potentially far more important game against Bordeaux. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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