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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:28 pm  
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Where did you get that ridiculous notion from?

Gerrard bemoaning Everton's ''long ball'' tactics just because Liverpool now spread it from the back is one clue.
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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:30 pm  
What an amazing game at the Magejski tonight. 7-5 to Arsenal. 4-0 down and looking terrible, a couple of substitutions later and Arsenal rampage back to 4-4 with a goal after added time at the end of the second half. They go 5-4 up in extra time, but with 4 to go, Reading equalise. Arsenal then score two more to take the win. Sensational game, almost a football-basketball cross exhibition match. Neither midfield had any defensive discipline, so once an attack was broken up at one end, another sweeping move started. End to end stuff for 120 minutes. Eisfeld, who I saw destroy Everton's kids the other week, was sensational, he looks a fantastic prospect. Walcott was fantastic as well, as were both Chamakh and Giroud. McGreary and Roberts were great for Reading.

As an aside, is anyone finding it really difficult to get on this thread of late? It takes an age to load and fails most times.
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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:53 am  
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What an amazing game at the Magejski tonight. 7-5 to Arsenal. 4-0 down and looking terrible, a couple of substitutions later and Arsenal rampage back to 4-4 with a goal after added time at the end of the second half. They go 5-4 up in extra time, but with 4 to go, Reading equalise. Arsenal then score two more to take the win. Sensational game, almost a football-basketball cross exhibition match. Neither midfield had any defensive discipline, so once an attack was broken up at one end, another sweeping move started. End to end stuff for 120 minutes. Eisfeld, who I saw destroy Everton's kids the other week, was sensational, he looks a fantastic prospect. Walcott was fantastic as well, as were both Chamakh and Giroud. McGreary and Roberts were great for Reading.

As an aside, is anyone finding it really difficult to get on this thread of late? It takes an age to load and fails most times.


That lad looked a player, I'd never heard of him before, but he looks like he'll be a really good player in a year or two if he gets decent game time, which you'd imagine he would at Arsenal. Thought Walcott was really good tonight, Arsene should give him a run of games through the middle because he can cause teams real problems with his pace and he's a good finisher too.

I'm finding the thread really difficult to get onto as well, it takes ages to load or quote posts. Maybe because it's so long it takes so long to load?
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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Wed Oct 31, 2012 9:51 am  
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As an aside, is anyone finding it really difficult to get on this thread of late? It takes an age to load and fails most times.


yes, horrendously slow and hit and miss getting on the site generally
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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:50 pm  
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There isn't any rule to how sides perform in the second season. Who's to say they wouldn't done better this season under Rodgers? Who's to say how they would have performed with Laudrup in their first season? It's ridiculous to use a side's first season in a league as the yardstick for comparing managers. Who's to say that Laudrup isn't profiting from the good work of Rodgers? He isn't exactly picking up the pieces of disappointment like Rodgers is.


I don't disagree that it's possible that Rodgers could have done as well as Laudrup, I just think it was a bit silly to seemingly make out like it's to be expected that Swansea would step on and improve when history and also the majority of the present shows that very few teams manage to do it even when they do survive the first season.

I still personally believe that if Liverpool finish in the top 8 Rodgers will have done a very good job in the circumstances, particularly if his striking options aren't vastly improved in January.
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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Wed Oct 31, 2012 10:14 pm  
You are talking about a club that has spent £67.7m on it's top 3 strikers. That's about £15m more than Manchester United spent on their top 3.

Saying finishing in the top 8 if they don't strengthen is quite odd considering the amounts they've wasted.
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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Wed Oct 31, 2012 11:18 pm  
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You are talking about a club that has spent £67.7m on it's top 3 strikers. That's about £15m more than Manchester United spent on their top 3.

Saying finishing in the top 8 if they don't strengthen is quite odd considering the amounts they've wasted.


Why is the amount they've spent relevant? Just because they've spent a lot of money doesn't mean that they've spent it wisely and guarantee that the player's they brought in are better than those who cost less at other clubs. You mention Man Utd, look at their strikers last year - the most expensive could barely get a game.

Also, whilst they might have spent that much on their 3 top strikers, they only have 2 of them at the club, and neither are exactly prolific. Dalglish spent a lot of money poorly and Rodgers has been hampered by that by both inheriting a poor squad and having the purse-strings tightened as a consequence, it's not at all odd to say that he will have done a good job to get them in the top 8. Do you think they have a squad good enough to do better than 7th/8th?
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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:06 pm  
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Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Thu Nov 01, 2012 12:19 pm  
Gutted about going out last night, played much the better football over the 90, scored 2 great goals, but undone ultimately by 3 bad bits of defending and a goal that only just crept in. Chelsea really wanted revenge it seems what with bringing on Oscar and Hazard, turned out to be just too much for Keane and Wootten to handle
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