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 aashman12  23 Sep 18 10.15am |
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Originally posted by Tequila Sunrise
Home results have let us down so far Ward scores his sitter at Watford and sakho yesterday we'd be 6th. Fine lines.
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| Jimmy Balham 23 Sep 18 10.24am |
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Originally posted by aashman12
Sorloth plays 10 mins here and there. I'm sure if he'd been given the minutes that benteke, ayew, wilf and Townsend have had he'd easily have bagged 3 goals. Lad being judged on scraps. I would love to see him get a run, we play to his strengths imo. Jordan is great, but I wonder if inside left is more his end position at palace not centre forward. Sorloth, just looks like he has the game and arrogance to me. Anyway, happy enough with the start, performances have been good in general, chance creating is high and def solid, just the body on the end.
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| Goldfiinger Just down the road 23 Sep 18 10.27am |
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Personally think Wilf should be playing more centrally. Think his talent is nullified out wide and unless he beats three men his movement comes to nothing much. Really think if he was more central he’d have more joy himself and more joy bring others in to play. Still think we’ve had a positive start to the season. If we spend all season around 11th then it’s been an unstressful year for once... I do think we’ll click in to gear soon though and give someone a pasting. It’s nice to see us playing below our best and picking points up. Newcastle absolutely didn’t want to play, and that’s testament to our team and where we’re at. No way we’re in a relegation fight this year. And that in its self is great news. Wilf is our best finisher and our most creative player. As such imo he should be played central.... with Andros and Jordan either side. No idea what Max is like yet, but I’m happy with the other two signings, both look like premiership players imo. At a guess it’ll take max time to understand the pace of the premiership and with a quality midfield this might make it tough for him to break through quickly. No doubt at some point he’ll come good.. Also feel like PVA has been asked not to break forward so much. Understand this does protect us/him from being exposed but blimey I do miss him pushing on. Also think it again limits Wilf options without his support and again means Wilf needs to beat three guys on his own and put ball in the net for us to score. Is the team actually more balanced with Schlupp playing... think him, PVA and Wilf all click when played on the left. Maybe that’s what’s missing if Wilf is to flourish there...?
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| Goldfiinger Just down the road 23 Sep 18 10.35am |
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Originally posted by aashman12
Ward scores his sitter at Watford and sakho yesterday we'd be 6th. Fine lines. Yeah i’d agree. And the fact is we’re looking the better team and teams are clearly out to stop us. The season will be nothing like last year but maybe we should be realistic in not dreaming of 7th places finish just yet.
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| Booted Eagle Bristol 23 Sep 18 10.41am |
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I am not surprised to tell the truth. We did strengthen in the departments we needed to in the summer but the personnel, particularly Meyer haven't been utilised enough. He was brought in as a replacement for Cabaye who undoubtedly would of started the match yesterday if still with us. Tekkers form has just continued in his 4 games and he would of played 6 if not injured. Not really sure if Sorloth or Ayew can find their feet. The latter looks the best bet at the moment. Personally would of liked to of seen a proper striker acquisition over Sorloth and the 2 disappeared players from January, Rakip and Jach. Ultimately Wilf is keeping us afloat in the league at the moment which certainly isn't a surprise based on our bizarre transfer policy in January and lack of game time for the summer recruits.
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| Booted Eagle Bristol 23 Sep 18 10.47am |
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Originally posted by YT
I certainly thought we would push on from last year’s finish, even frightening some of our early opponents. I reckoned 11 or 12 points from these first 6 games - unbeaten even - but the optimism has somehow evaporated. I agree that we now have a clutch of highly-paid strikers who can’t seem to fulfil their basic role (to put the ball in the net) but unfortunately the rest of the team apart from Wilf don’t know where the goal is either. On the plus side, relative to the same six fixtures last season (depending on which team we regard Fulham as having replaced) we are no worse off than last season. But last season was a relegation struggle, and I had hoped for better. Also, we aren’t on zero points and zero goals like this time last year, but we have only faced one of the big boys. Bet if you go to the Cardiff forums they will be clutching at that straw "but look at Palace after 7 games last season" but I get what you mean as the whole season. Think we look at little worse than the end. Edited by Booted Eagle (23 Sep 2018 10.48am) Edited by Booted Eagle (23 Sep 2018 10.52am)
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chateauferret  23 Sep 18 10.53am |
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Some of the performances have been drab and we do always seem to be playing catch-up cricket after the summer break. But we are five points clear of the drop zone; this time last season we were five points adrift of it.
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| Goldfiinger Just down the road 23 Sep 18 11.01am |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
Some of the performances have been drab and we do always seem to be playing catch-up cricket after the summer break. But we are five points clear of the drop zone; this time last season we were five points adrift of it. Real interesting that! Bloody amazing we’d have done if we finish the season 10 points better off. That would have put us 7th, ahead of Burnley on goal difference.
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| Booted Eagle Bristol 23 Sep 18 11.01am |
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My benchmark is 12 points from 12 games and that is actually going to be very tough now based on our next 6 fixtures, Bournemouth, Wolves, Everton, Arsenal, Chelsea, Tottenham. Need a win and a couple of draws to be there. Happy to have this season between 10th-15th and no flirting with relegation. Certainly will need better performances in these 6 than the first 6 to achieve this. Edited by Booted Eagle (23 Sep 2018 11.02am)
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| Booted Eagle Bristol 23 Sep 18 11.06am |
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Originally posted by aashman12
Ward scores his sitter at Watford and sakho yesterday we'd be 6th. Fine lines. Doesn't this though sum up our problems in front of goal, relying on defenders to win points for us ?
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| Tom-the-eagle Croydon 23 Sep 18 11.28am |
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If you can't score goals then you're going to struggle so no surprise really.
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the despotic banana  Dept. of Baboon Maintenance 23 Sep 18 12.14pm |
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Solid at the back; not very threatening going forward. I foresee a lower mid-table, low-scoring season of fine margins, narrow victories and defeats, probably lots of draws. Lose Zaha for a lengthy period and we could well end up looking nervously at the relegation spots. Luckily, at least three teams look significantly worse than us. On the other hand, if Benteke remembers that he's not an Easter Island head and is actually a dynamic athlete, finds some form and scores a few, we'll be a much more dangerous proposition. Also, if we can improve our set-pieces, we'll be able to put the opposition under much more pressure. Currently our every corner just looks like the prelude to a counter-attack.
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