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Offline Brend'Watkins

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6315 on: April 22, 2018, 04:03:08 PM »
Neither Chelsea or Southampton have filled their Wembley allocation. Tin Pot clubs especially Chelsea.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6316 on: April 22, 2018, 04:08:03 PM »
Those empty seats are a great advert for the FA cup. Well done to football association for playing semis’ at Wembley.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6317 on: April 22, 2018, 04:10:33 PM »
Terrible miss by Long.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6318 on: April 22, 2018, 04:13:13 PM »
Constantly referring to the fucking twat as ‘JJ’.
Fucking twats all round.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6319 on: April 22, 2018, 05:12:37 PM »
How are we four points behind Cardiff with two games remaining.  It’s criminal.

Cardiff won their first five games.

We have 1 win in our first seven league games.

By second week of September they had a 10 point lead over us so it's been a struggle all season when you have starts like that.

They had a dodgy spell over xmas when I thought they were done and they've come back very impressively.

Still hope Fulham can somehow get second though.

That's a good point, it wasn't our dodgy spell after the Wolves win that cost us automatic promotion, it was the slow start to the season.


Probably a bit of both. Relatively poor form at the start and end of the season. Similar to our title bids under SGT and BFR.
Since boxing day we have won 14 out of 20...we just have never quite recovered from our indifferent start. The home game against QPR was the killer for me though.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6320 on: April 22, 2018, 05:36:36 PM »
Man U v Chelsea Cup Final.

Meh

Offline TheMalandro

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6321 on: April 22, 2018, 05:39:29 PM »
Man U v Chelsea Cup Final.

Meh


so so so so so boring

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6322 on: April 22, 2018, 05:48:38 PM »
Yup, another Cup Final I'll give a miss.

Offline walsall villain

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6323 on: April 22, 2018, 05:55:24 PM »
Yet another two from top 6 final that no one will remember in years to come. FA cup is so boring when it was once the stuff of dreams.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6324 on: April 22, 2018, 06:20:38 PM »
Saints had over 7000 unsold seats. Really strange why so many didn't go.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6325 on: April 22, 2018, 06:23:48 PM »
Yet another two from top 6 final that no one will remember in years to come. FA cup is so boring when it was once the stuff of dreams.

Tell that to Wigan.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6326 on: April 22, 2018, 06:25:01 PM »
How are we four points behind Cardiff with two games remaining.  It’s criminal.

Cardiff won their first five games.

We have 1 win in our first seven league games.

By second week of September they had a 10 point lead over us so it's been a struggle all season when you have starts like that.

They had a dodgy spell over xmas when I thought they were done and they've come back very impressively.

Still hope Fulham can somehow get second though.

That's a good point, it wasn't our dodgy spell after the Wolves win that cost us automatic promotion, it was the slow start to the season.
Oh the games that did not matter.
And the reason it did matter, was because we put ourselves under more pressure and so when we went on our poor little runs and "our slip ups, our bad days at the office, you cant be expected to win every game" results we were left short when it did matter.
The fact that the team did not look prepared, fit  or organised enough to start the campaign on the front foot is a disgrace.

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6327 on: April 22, 2018, 06:31:43 PM »
Yet another two from top 6 final that no one will remember in years to come. FA cup is so boring when it was once the stuff of dreams.

Tell that to Wigan.
Just like Leicester winning the league that was a rare and wonderful achievement. Far too rare for me, I started watching the FA cup in the 60’s when it wasn’t dominated by the same few clubs and almost anyone (but Villa) could win it.

Offline walsall villain

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6328 on: April 22, 2018, 06:37:28 PM »
Stoke winning at HT. I fully expect them to lose followed by “a could na asked them to do more. I thought we were excellent. I really did”
Lambert is still chasing records though....
Stoke have gone 11 league games without a win (D6 L5), their joint-longest run without a victory in the Premier League

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Re: Other Games - 2017/18
« Reply #6329 on: April 22, 2018, 06:52:26 PM »
I was reading his post match comments and starting to sweat as I couldn’t see an ‘excellent’.  But it piped up in the last couple of paragraphs I wasn’t disappointed.

However, Diouf's failure to convert an excellent chance just before the break proved pivotal.

"It probably looked as bad from where you were sitting as it did from where I was standing," Lambert added.

"If that ball had come to him when he was more confident in the game, he'd have probably hit it first time. But I'm not going to criticise him because he's been excellent for me."

 


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