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RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - MrRight - 22-04-2016
WBA Problem
1) Tony Pulis
2) Tony Pulis Tactics
3) Tony Pulis Team Selection
4) Tony Pulis Player Buying
5) Tony Pulis Defensive Mentality
6) Tony Pulis Appointed Coaching Staff
In short the problem is Tony Pulis. WBA will only start to move forward when he is shipped out.
Then next season WBA might stop the embarrassment of being the most boring and unimaginative team in the Premier League.
Trouble is that most of you guys seem to think he's God's gift !
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - Zinman - 22-04-2016
Time to get more upbeat. After yesterday's non-show I expect Tony to tell us how adventurous he intends us to be in our final few games and pick the following team for Monday:
Foster
Dawson, McAuley ,Olsson, Evans, Chester
Gardner, Yacob, Sandro, Fletcher,Maclean.
No more than 2 men allowed in the Spurs half at any time.
Alternatively, this may be time to start Big Vic..........in his holding midfield role of course.
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - RainbowTurnedEastStand - 22-04-2016
Berahino is a good player but how on earth do people expect him to score goals with a supply line of McClean,Fletcher,Sandro,
and Yacob? ,Iam convinced he`d sign a new contract if Pulis wasn't here and all would be good.
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - valpayne - 22-04-2016
Berahino was a promising youngster who instinctively knew how to score.... He wasn't that good at holding the ball up not particularly any real pace and his passing wasn't all that special. Then he got to big for his boots and pissed on the wba bonfire... end of story.
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - drewks - 22-04-2016
(21-04-2016, 22:43)Salopbaggie Wrote:Gotta agree with you re the 2nd half, Salop - we gave a very good Arsenal team every opportunity to look good and were VERY lucky it wasn't 4 or 5-0. We just went into our shells completely in the 2nd half and gave them the space that they needed to show their skills.(21-04-2016, 21:45)drewks Wrote:(21-04-2016, 21:37)Salopbaggie Wrote: Trying to remember seeing us play a worse half of football, sloppy. schoolboy mistakes and no enthusiasm whatsoever. OK Arsenal are full of class players and that provides a little explanation, but we are not a Sunday league team (not so sure about that after the first half) so should be so much better.
Only saving grace things have to get better, don't they?
Strange how we all see things differently - I thought we looked pretty neat in possession in that half, and reasonable going forward in midfield! Every team concedes loads of possession to Arsenal who are, as you say, a class act.
We seem to be more intent on harrying them further up the pitch today, which is a good thing IMO
You are right, I thought we were awful, IMO every time we did get the ball we gave it away stupidly. I would not mind a good interception, but it was just sloppy passes (stats just come up 75% complete) . Arsenal were class, hard to understand why the fans want AW out, third in the table and play like that, us football fans generally must be hard to please.
Back to us though we made it far to easy for Arsenal to look good, you would think our players had never seen a 1-2 before, time after time they walked past us at will. For me the only saving grace was we only lost by 2.
(Bloody hell - they ARE good though aren't they??!
)
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - talkSAFT - 22-04-2016
The attendance was still 59,500 last night (down 1,000?) So what was all the hype about the missing thousands in the Press? How many Baggies were there?
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - BBB - 22-04-2016
(21-04-2016, 22:38)talkSAFT Wrote: The Telegraph reporter says that Albion were pusillanimous. (Shouldn't that be "Pulissanimous"?)
[for the benefit of the few who don't know, that means...............showing a lack of courage or determination; timid.]
Origin
late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin pusillanimis (translating Greek olugopsukhos ), from pusillus ‘very small’ + animus ‘mind’, + -ous.
Translate pusillanimous to
Use over time for: p
We all knew that, especially the olugopsukhos as it's easy to say. All together OLUG OP SUKHOS, i love being dirty.
Having now seen the score 2-0 against Arsenal, at least i got the score right, however the game was as dull as a wet squib, if he could get away with it Pulis would have all 11 players stood in the goal, boring, dull, the worst attempts on goal of anyone in the league. Some players have given up already. Hope transfer window brings brightness to all this gloom.
Will that happen>
BBB
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - Salopbaggie - 22-04-2016
I always thought that pusillanimous meant cowardice, similar meaning I guess. The thought of a game being as dull as a wet wizard "squib", is amusing, and I would definitely like to stay away from any kind of SUKOS with OLUG.
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - 4evaabaggie - 22-04-2016
(22-04-2016, 11:35)Zinman Wrote: Time to get more upbeat. After yesterday's non-show I expect Tony to tell us how adventurous he intends us to be in our final few games and pick the following team for Monday:
Foster
Dawson, McAuley ,Olsson, Evans, Chester
Gardner, Yacob, Sandro, Fletcher,Maclean.
No more than 2 men allowed in the Spurs half at any time.
Alternatively, this may be time to start Big Vic..........in his holding midfield role of course.
Zinman, I think you have gone a bit reckless with your selection, McClean gets forward and crosses the halfway line, I think we could do with another centre back or holding midfider. We must also only allow one person to touch let alone cross the halfway line. We can still make it ten games this season without a shot on target.
RE: WBA in Nawf Landon - Double Match Thread - Stairs - 23-04-2016
OK Newcastle's draw today means they can't catch us up and so just need Norwich and Sunderland to lose on Sunday to make the Spurs game less tense.