Nine Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 People who claim it’s all down to investment or ‘blood money’ have emotionally deluded themselves and are crying salty, salty tears. The recent success is 80% down to the management/coaching, how many examples can we give of teams spunking money only to flop badly? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjohnson Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 7 minutes ago, Nine said: People who claim it’s all down to investment or ‘blood money’ have emotionally deluded themselves and are crying salty, salty tears. The recent success is 80% down to the management/coaching, how many examples can we give of teams spunking money only to flop badly? Could easily give dozens of examples, but Chelsea are clearly the best one...biggest spend in history over a couple of windows and can't buy a win at the minute. Possibly Man U too....1.5 billion spent and not a title for years Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Everton themselves spent absolutely tons. That’s football, question is if you spend it well and have the right structure in place to get the max out of the players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broadsword Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Villa, Everton, West Ham all trying to do for years what we have done in a season. Tickles me that. ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 So what do our players have to do to be considered “top 4 quality”? Keep hearing outsiders and pundits saying we don’t have a top 4 squad on paper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
1964 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 11 hours ago, 54 said: Is Matt Richie paralysed from the neck down? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stifler Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 5 minutes ago, Broadsword said: Villa, Everton, West Ham all trying to do for years what we have done in a season. Tickles me that. ? Two of them are doing what we did for many seasons. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexf Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Interesting that first half of season the right wing was our most fruitful. Yesterday 3 out of 4 goals were from the left. Clearly we were targeting Godfrey aswell. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest reefatoon Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Match cam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiesteve710 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 (edited) 23 minutes ago, TK-421 said: Like I said, I need to see the whole move again, as the VAR just showed a still at the time (with burn in offsied position), and cant remember if the ball was in shot, but wasn't certain if the cross had cleared everyone or been headed. I think it was cleared away by the defender but Burn challenged for it so definitely interfering with play. My problem with VAR is who flagged that up (it wasn't the lino) and do they scrutinise every goal as much as that. For example, if that's Liverpool or Man Utd does it get called back or just ignored, given that literally nobody else noticed it or suspected anything was amiss, no defenders appealled for it, nothing. And that's before we get onto "clear and obvious" ffs. Not saying it is being abused but it's definitely open to it. Edited April 28, 2023 by geordiesteve710 Pendantism Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 8 minutes ago, McCormick said: So what do our players have to do to be considered “top 4 quality”? Keep hearing outsiders and pundits saying we don’t have a top 4 squad on paper. This is still a running theme from last January. 'They've spent loads of money' followed by 'wouldn't take any of their players in our XI' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 10 minutes ago, McCormick said: So what do our players have to do to be considered “top 4 quality”? Keep hearing outsiders and pundits saying we don’t have a top 4 squad on paper. Play for someone else probably. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToonTastic Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 The penalty being ruled out annoyed me more. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexf Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 3 minutes ago, geordiesteve710 said: I think it was cleared away by the defender but Burn challenged for it so definitely interfering with play. My problem with VAR is who flagged that up (it wasn't the lino) and do they scrutinise every goal as much as that. For example, if that's Liverpool or Man Utd does it get called back or just ignored, given that literally nobody else noticed it or suspected anything was amiss, no defenders appealled for it, nothing. And that's before we get onto "clear and obvious" ffs. Not saying it is being abused but it's definitely open to it. I'm sure they check every goal for possible offside to be fair. It's annoying because it doesn't matter if Burn was inside or off as I didn't impact the play. However if that goes against us and they ignored it, we would be calling it a corrupt decision. Just disappointing for Schar as it was such a nice goal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 (edited) Who’s punched out the ceiling tile? ? …and where’s TyneMurph? It’s not a real win without that beautiful gurn! Edited April 28, 2023 by Coffee_Johnny Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Changing room looks dire Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieDazzler Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 9 minutes ago, Coffee_Johnny said: Who’s punched out the ceiling tile? ? …and where’s TyneMurph? It’s not a real win without that beautiful gurn! Murphy is to the right of Bruno about to put another tile out Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiesteve710 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 11 minutes ago, alexf said: I'm sure they check every goal for possible offside to be fair. It's annoying because it doesn't matter if Burn was inside or off as I didn't impact the play. However if that goes against us and they ignored it, we would be calling it a corrupt decision. Just disappointing for Schar as it was such a nice goal. Or we would be none the wiser as it wouldn't be shown and we would just crack on. I know it's the right decision, but just intuitively it seems wrong as the offside had fuck all to do with the build up and final strike which was a beauty. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 31 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: Everton themselves spent absolutely tons. That’s football, question is if you spend it well and have the right structure in place to get the max out of the players. £800m or something, not sure if that includes the stadium or not, which they need to find another £150m for to finish it off, or face a £350m bill to put the dock back to the way it was. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cronky Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 27 minutes ago, McCormick said: So what do our players have to do to be considered “top 4 quality”? Keep hearing outsiders and pundits saying we don’t have a top 4 squad on paper. I don't think we do, but that's all to the credit of the manager and players. We're over-achieving on a massive scale, and it just shows how much can be achieved by team spirit, organisation and confidence. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 This was so similar to the West Ham performance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 The first half was an exercise in showing grit and managing the occasion. Of course we were a bit untidy and gave the ball away under pressure, but it was always going to be a scrappy game. I firmly believe we were fully prepared for that first half and it went pretty much as expected. Maybe when we're as good as Man City we can just play our way through those moments, but most teams have to just dig in and battle. Whenever we had the ball you could see we were still trying to play as much as we could. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
McCormick Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 4 minutes ago, Cronky said: I don't think we do, but that's all to the credit of the manager and players. We're over-achieving on a massive scale, and it just shows how much can be achieved by team spirit, organisation and confidence. I don’t think we’re overachieving, our level is around 4th based on our play-style, synergy and first xi quality. Players like Joelinton and Wilock performing is seemingly being treated as a novelty, when they’re clearly quality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coffee_Johnny Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Just now, McCormick said: I don’t think we’re overachieving, our level is around 4th based on our play-style, synergy and first xi quality. Players like Joelinton and Wilock performing is seemingly being treated as a novelty, when they’re clearly quality. I don’t think we’re overachieving either. Since January 2022 our level/points return is pretty solidly (Prem average wise)exactly were we are, third. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groundhog63 Posted April 28, 2023 Share Posted April 28, 2023 Ando, on the extended video, 3mins 25sec in. Deffo having a crafty wank to climax Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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