The Summer Friendlies Thread 2015

SomersetBaggie · (This post was last modified: 18-07-2015, 03:26 by SomersetBaggie.)

What rubbish, we need massive changes. I know it is only a preseason friendly but we are a very poor second best all over the pitch to a low standard U.S team.

Just about got the win but a very poor performance. TP has a lot of work to do in the next couple of weeks.

Time for bed!

wba_1996 · 18-07-2015, 03:26

Won 2-1, so at least we keep some pride.

Sloppy throughout, everyone was poor, the gaps in this squad are glaring and massive.

**Ska'dForLife-WBA** · 18-07-2015, 08:16

Oh, come on. A commentator who thought every single person on the pitch was Craig Gardner, and believed Charleston were playing the Wicked Brom-Witch of the West! What more do you want from an American friendly? Laugh

Salopbaggie · 18-07-2015, 11:11

(18-07-2015, 08:16)Ska Wrote: Oh, come on. A commentator who thought every single person on the pitch was Craig Gardner, and believed Charleston were playing the Wicked Brom-Witch of the West! What more do you want from an American friendly?

I thought the commentator was great and his judgement of us was amusing and spot on if you have even more rose coloured glasses than I have.

"one of the best teams in the world" (loved that one), "a team full of superstars" (hope the team did not hear that one they might start to believe it).

Commentator "Man of the Match" for me!

GlassEyedBomber · 18-07-2015, 11:33

Well that was pretty disappointing but there was one bright spark for me, McManaman looked good every time he was in down the wing.

betterthanbaird · 18-07-2015, 11:34

Was Mclean left back for the whole game? It looks like we might be trying to mould him into that role or we're just putting him there until we buy a left back.

Baggievicar · 18-07-2015, 12:44

Who scored the second?

betterthanbaird · 18-07-2015, 13:11

Ideye

BC Baggie · 18-07-2015, 13:51

(18-07-2015, 02:56)wba_1996 Wrote: We all think we need strikers and wingers but across pre-season the defending has been atrocious, 2 seasons ago I said the defence was getting too slow and old and we still haven't done anything about it.

How many clean sheets did we keep last season Whistle

wba_1996 · 18-07-2015, 19:24

(18-07-2015, 13:51)BC Baggie Wrote:
(18-07-2015, 02:56)wba_1996 Wrote: We all think we need strikers and wingers but across pre-season the defending has been atrocious, 2 seasons ago I said the defence was getting too slow and old and we still haven't done anything about it.

How many clean sheets did we keep last season

Fair enough, many of those were from sitting extremely deep under Pulis, but if we go into next season with a back 4 of Dawson - McAuley - Olsson - Lescott we will need to be sat on the edge of our box because even 33 year old Kaka was made to look like Usain Bolt. If the Charleston midfield last night had any quality whatsoever we would have been embarrassed as the amount of times they got runners in behind was scary.