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Daft thing is, even on a night like Monday where we played s**** and could barely break the opposition down, we still had three good-to-verygood chances* and (yet another) stone wall penalty turned down.

 

*Gayle shot in the first half, Clark header from a corner, Mitro header from a corner. Gouffran flashed a header across the face of goal as well.

 

Yep and another blatant penalty not given (at 0-0)! We must have been denied double figure stone-wallers this season!

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Aye, his shirt was being pulled in the run up and then their defender smothered him to the ground stopping him from going for the ball. It was a stone wall penalty like.

 

totally ridiculous the number of these we've been denied,  and then have soft pennas against us. its almost like its deliberate  :shifty:

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Was the stone wall penalty when Gayle was hauled down in the box at a free kick?

 

It looked a certain penalty at the time, I've not seen a replay of it though.

 

Yep - I sit just behind the goal and I had Gayle 1st so I was watching his movement for the corner and it was absolutely blatant! I haven't seen it again on TV mind!

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Makes me laugh when I read on other forums, other club's supporters saying that the referees are shit and biased towards us.

 

If they'd actually watched any of our matches, it's the complete opposite.

 

...said every single football supporter in the World.

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I think while a new #10 would be great next season, it's not that important right now, Perez and Diame are more than good enough in this division. I'm more concerned about getting the ball to the attacking players in the first place, and that's where you need a better alternative to Shelvey than Colback, and we need to get far more from the wide positions. Dummett and Gouffran on the same wing is killing our football.

 

Perez is not good enough at this level I'm afraid. He's powder puff and offers absolutely nothing at all

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Makes me laugh when I read on other forums, other club's supporters saying that the referees are shit and biased towards us.

 

If they'd actually watched any of our matches, it's the complete opposite.

 

...said every single football supporter in the World.

 

:thup:

 

Definitely a foul on Gayle though.

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I think while a new #10 would be great next season, it's not that important right now, Perez and Diame are more than good enough in this division. I'm more concerned about getting the ball to the attacking players in the first place, and that's where you need a better alternative to Shelvey than Colback, and we need to get far more from the wide positions. Dummett and Gouffran on the same wing is killing our football.

 

Perez is not good enough at this level I'm afraid. He's powder puff and offers absolutely nothing at all

 

He's not starting anyway, he's good enough to be on the bench as an alternative to Diame. The point being, the football isn't good enough to get the ball into the last third anyway, or at least it hasn't been in some home games this season.

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Better results away from home

Much debate about why this was

Discussion about suitability of formation

Desire for two strikers

Requirement for more flair

Need more attacking intent

Do we have defensive manager?

Struggle against teams that play aggressively at SJP

Criticism of SJP atmosphere/pressure

 

Apart from that, fuck all.

 

Funnily enough it sorted itself out in the end.

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Did you see my second sentence ? I can understand if the circumstances were similar but they really aren't. That was a team who had just been promoted with a manager some thought didn't have much control over the playing side (senior players controlling things etc)and many thought would struggle, this is by all accounts the best squad in the division with a manager who shouldn't be in theis division.

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Probably had more s**** filler back then but we had a few players of a different class. Only really Shelvey and Gayle who've shown themselves to be on another level this year. Arguably Clark but our defence falls to peices when teams come at us.

Many say had we had Benitez earlier he'd have kept us up. That defence would have had Dummett and Janmaat (though Anita looked better there when he filled in) and Colo.

 

How come Anita looked decent when takinjg over from Janmaat , if not better than, and Dummett held his own............maybe it's the tactics ?

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