Fulham v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[damon loves JT]

Enjoy your Saturday evening folks 

No !

What Saturday evening? I am at work until midnight, surrounded by Chelsea fans.

[1874]

I don't know where the team that played so well against Swansea, Newcastle or Man City disappears to.

Step forward Andreas Weimann, it was his nuisance play up front that always gave us an option, his hard work, endevour and the way he used to drop back into midfield areas meant that the opposition had to pick him up and track him leaving gaps for our midfield to play forward. Its no co-incidence that since he's been out the side and we've had 2 static forwards up front that our midfield passes have become sideways, back, back, sideways, sideways, back, sideways etc.

This.

[ez]

Bent has proved he scores goals, plenty of them. We've got one of the best goalscorers we've had in ages. What a waste it is if we can't get the ball to him.

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Enjoy your Saturday evening folks 

No !

What Saturday evening? I am at work until midnight, surrounded by Chelsea fans.

Piss them off by saying their bitter local rivals won ?

[ez]

I don't know where the team that played so well against Swansea, Newcastle or Man City disappears to.

Step forward Andreas Weimann, it was his nuisance play up front that always gave us an option, his hard work, endevour and the way he used to drop back into midfield areas meant that the opposition had to pick him up and track him leaving gaps for our midfield to play forward. Its no co-incidence that since he's been out the side and we've had 2 static forwards up front that our midfield passes have become sideways, back, back, sideways, sideways, back, sideways etc.

This.

Agree. We are missing Weimann. I'm baffled why Gabby gets in the team ahead of him.

[hawkeye]

Bent has proved he scores goals, plenty of them. We've got one of the best goalscorers we've had in ages. What a waste it is if we can't get the ball to him.

the problem is that it is a team game, Bent scores when chances are served to him, we dont do that, we are not good enough to do that

[damon loves JT]

Enjoy your Saturday evening folks 

No !

What Saturday evening? I am at work until midnight, surrounded by Chelsea fans.

Piss them off by saying their bitter local rivals won ?

They have the kind of bulletproof smugness that makes them immune to minor sarcasm. And bouncing their faces off the desk is kind of frowned on by HR

[Ron Manager]

Its all very depressing but at least this is happening at an early stage of the season. I keep saying this but its simple. If you dont score goals
or even one goal you cannot win a match whether its in the Premier or the Scottish League Div 3.

We have a bloke called Bent who scores goals. I know this is true because its in the record books.

This afternoon because of the way we play he did not receive any kind of service from the full backs overlapping and slinging over crosses for
him to feed on.

Because our midfield is very average ,to say the least, the backs have to defend most of the time and dont have the time to attack even if they have the skill to do this which is debatable.

I think Mr Lambert has a great deal of thinking to do this weekend.

Good luck to him.

[eastie]

Its all very depressing but at least this is happening at an early stage of the season. I keep saying this but its simple. If you dont score goals
or even one goal you cannot win a match whether its in the Premier or the Scottish League Div 3.

We have a bloke called Bent who scores goals. I know this is true because its in the record books.

This afternoon because of the way we play he did not receive any kind of service from the full backs overlapping and slinging over crosses for
him to feed on.

Because our midfield is very average ,to say the least, the backs have to defend most of the time and dont have the time to attack if they have the skill to do this which is debatable.

I think Mr Lambert has a great deal of thinking to do this weekend.

Good luck to him.

Well written post, certainly something needs to change.

[adrenachrome]

Enjoy your Saturday evening folks 

No !

What Saturday evening? I am at work until midnight, surrounded by Chelsea fans.

Piss them off by saying their bitter local rivals won ?

They have the kind of bulletproof smugness that makes them immune to minor sarcasm. And bouncing their faces off the desk is kind of frowned on by HR

A Kick Smugness Out T-shirt might work,  on a number of levels.

[olaftab]

I'm still reeling from the news that we're over £100 in debt.

The trouble is the last time we had that sort of deficit McGregor was around to save us. Now there is no one .... We are doomed.

[olaftab]

"We keep going" is the new "terrific".

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Its all very depressing but at least this is happening at an early stage of the season. I keep saying this but its simple. If you dont score goals
or even one goal you cannot win a match whether its in the Premier or the Scottish League Div 3.

We have a bloke called Bent who scores goals. I know this is true because its in the record books.

This afternoon because of the way we play he did not receive any kind of service from the full backs overlapping and slinging over crosses for
him to feed on.

Because our midfield is very average ,to say the least, the backs have to defend most of the time and dont have the time to attack if they have the skill to do this which is debatable.

I think Mr Lambert has a great deal of thinking to do this weekend.

Good luck to him.

Well written post, certainly something needs to change.

5-4-1 or 5-3-2 ?

[ciggiesnbeer]

Cometh the hour, cometh the Weimann.

No idea what we do with our midfield though, we need more thats for sure.

Also can someone work with Nzogbia on the training field? Dear Charles, when faced with 1 player, yes you should take him on, when faced with two, well maybe you should take them on if you are feeling confident, when faced with three or more please STOP running right into them and giving away possession, you NEVER pull this off and yet you ALWAYS do it. Just make a pass ffs, do a neat one/two, but do something else. You are not Messi, I wish you were as well but you are not.

[Risso]

"We keep going" is the new "terrific".

If I hear him say that one more time......  The only direction we keep going is down.