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Fulham 1-4 Newcastle United (01/10/2022)


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6 minutes ago, Cronky said:

Regardless of the red card, Fulham are destined for the drop if they continue to perform like that.

With Fulham it’s a classic case of take their best 3/4 players out of the team and they look ordinary - they just don’t have the depth in talent to replace the likes of Mitro/Paulinha/Willian/Tete etc 

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Mom says she’s happy that Newcastle won yesterday. Me: How did you know? She sees it in my face every time she says :lol: 

 

Looking forward to todays footie because we’ve won. Usually can’t watch the shite day after a loss. 

 

 

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First Toon match since pre-covid got me. I lived in Newcastle then, now I live in London. Work got corporate tickets literally right behind the dugout and lunch before. Absolute class experience, even if I had to pretend to be a Fulham fan (who seem a decent bunch and Craven Cottage is great btw). 
 

Red card clearly helped, but for we were still excellent and it was about as dominant a performance as I’ve seen. 

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43 minutes ago, Cronky said:

Regardless of the red card, Fulham are destined for the drop if they continue to perform like that.

No chance,they had 5 players out yesterday,and the sending off.

From what I've seen they are half decent side,and are on same points as us.

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While Fulham where poor yesterday, they have genuinely been really good this season and deservedly gotten points from tough teams, they play to their main strength in Mitrovic and arnt afraid to give it a go and be on the front foot. Marco Silva is also a really decent coach.

 

That said this result is probably their first real test in terms of how they respond to it, as you could argue there has been a bit of momentum with some of their results this season, and with injuries to key players, they'll need to bounce back quickly.

 

But honestly think they finish between 14th and 10th, which I'd be happy with so they're no longer a shitty yo-yo club :lol:

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It basically tells you that if you can be a possession based side, you will reap the rewards if the opposition has a player sent off. They were wholly unprepared and it suited us down to the ground.

 

I still think we have question marks on whether we can break down a competent mid table side who sit back and attempt to soak up pressure. Although with Wilson involved that problem becomes less of an issue.

 

The biggest positive is our base level of performance. Even on a poor day, we are a match for most sides and capable of taking a point and on a good day we can put any side to the sword.

 

Jesus do we need a bit of luck on the injury front. Can we not have our best players available for like 4/5 games on the spin? 

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4 hours ago, St. Maximin said:

First Toon match since pre-covid got me. I lived in Newcastle then, now I live in London. Work got corporate tickets literally right behind the dugout and lunch before. Absolute class experience, even if I had to pretend to be a Fulham fan (who seem a decent bunch and Craven Cottage is great btw). 
 

Red card clearly helped, but for we were still excellent and it was about as dominant a performance as I’ve seen. 

Speaking cockney is easy - just replace all u’s with a’s and speak like a fackin’ cant

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2 hours ago, Gawalls said:

Speaking cockney is easy - just replace all u’s with a’s and speak like a fackin’ cant

Different part of London mate plus the Fulham fans are often quite posh. Sorry to be a pedant but I lived half my life in the south. ;)

 

So on that note I fitted in really well with the fans. [emoji38]

 

 

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10 hours ago, St. Maximin said:

First Toon match since pre-covid got me. I lived in Newcastle then, now I live in London. Work got corporate tickets literally right behind the dugout and lunch before. Absolute class experience, even if I had to pretend to be a Fulham fan (who seem a decent bunch and Craven Cottage is great btw). 
 

Red card clearly helped, but for we were still excellent and it was about as dominant a performance as I’ve seen. 

If there was ever a ground to sit in the home end then it's fulham

Posh twats

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4 hours ago, St. Maximin said:

Different part of London mate plus the Fulham fans are often quite posh. Sorry to be a pedant but I lived half my life in the south. ;)

 

So on that note I fitted in really well with the fans. [emoji38]

 

 

 

I lived north London / muswell hill for 17 years.

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On 02/10/2022 at 08:53, SiLvOR said:

Fulham have looked fairly decent in most games, tbh. We just have a habit of making other teams look shit. Cos we're fucking brilliant.

 

We played well for sure, but usually when a team loses a man, you expect them to put up a fight. Fulham seemed to lose heart completely, and it's no wonder their manager was so angry afterwards - I don't think it was just down to the ref.  It's how a team reacts to a setback that counts.

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What really impressed me.  Was how easily we managed to find space when they went down to ten.  I'm sure a lot of that was down to how crap they were and how they managed the situation.  But they didn't really offer anything on the counter or commit many forward.  So they usually had numbers sitting deep.  Yet we always had space in midfield or we would work it wide quickly enough to get Murphy, Almiron or Trippier in space.  

 

Even set pieces, we just kept our foot on the gas and were always looking to get the ball back in play quickly and create another opening.  It was pure domination for 65 minutes or so and should have scored a couple more, for sure.  Bruno and Wilson coming off was a blessing for them.  As they were both taking the piss. 

 

Great away end and probably the best I've been in bar 'Ryan Taylor over the wall' against the mackems.  My fears of it being one of those quiet southern/London away ends were well wide of the mark.  Some great classics got rolled out, even a couple that were before my time and I didn't know all the words.  Goals and the performance help, of course.  But it just never really relented and I was pleased to hear the chants carried so well watching the highlights back.  

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On 03/10/2022 at 10:43, Kid Icarus said:

I got around to watching the full match yesterday, so I have to do player ratings, sorry. 

 

Pope: 6

Trippier 7

Schar: 7

Botman: 7.5

Burn: 7.5

Bruno: 7.5

Longstaff: 7.5

Willock: 9

Almiron: 10

Wilson: 8

Murphy: 7

 

Good marks, I had Almiron at 9.5 because he wasted a pass on 85 minutes. I kid, he was absolutely everywhere, fabulous performance. All the others are sound, would give Botman a 8.5, he makes Schar even better just by being on the pitch.

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