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Author Topic: Glenn Whelan - Released  (Read 73105 times)

Online eamonn

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #150 on: July 21, 2017, 01:43:53 PM »
I'll leave it to someone else to point out what's wrong with that line-up.   ;)

Is it possible only you and I noticed?

I noticed as well.

You're all coming out of the woodwork now.

We're making a move, we're making it now, we're coming out of the sidelines!

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #151 on: July 21, 2017, 01:51:29 PM »
Just had a word with Bruce and explained to him that his preferred formation has 12 players. He didn't notice either, anyway he said we're transfer listing Whelan as of today.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #152 on: July 21, 2017, 02:01:56 PM »
One thing I will say is we appear to at last be buying proper men to bully teams in this division.  I think it could be quite interesting to watch.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #153 on: July 21, 2017, 02:06:40 PM »
I would imagine a team with Terry, Samba, Whelan and Jedi in the starting 11 would make up for their lack of speed by flattening all the outfield players of the opposition. We won't score though. If those 4 can't keep the rest of the team on their feet we might as well give up.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #154 on: July 21, 2017, 02:21:42 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #155 on: July 21, 2017, 02:22:39 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Adebayo Akinfenwa.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #156 on: July 21, 2017, 03:02:40 PM »
Chester, Samba and Terry - The good the badass and the ugly. We are going to let a lot less goals in than a 3 of Chester, Baker/Richards and Elphick would.

Whelan can actually play in a midfield 2 with a more attacking player, or in a 3-5-2 with Jedinak and Hourihane, or in 4-3-3 in that sense it opens up the ability to play three formations without having a horrible balance in midfield. Before it was like trying to make a jigsaw with pieces from three different puzzles.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #157 on: July 21, 2017, 03:04:07 PM »
Is there a brute striker we can buy to go with the rest of our new heavyweight spine?

Adebayo Akinfenwa.

What's Grant Holt doing these days ?

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #158 on: July 21, 2017, 03:28:45 PM »
Can we stop all talk of playing Whelan and Jedi together please.  Especially in front of a back 5.  I can't imagine a more depressingly defensive formation than that.  The introduction of Terry and Whelan should be freeing us up to play more attacking players, not fewer.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #159 on: July 21, 2017, 03:33:40 PM »
Agreed Ad@m. The reason we bought players like Lansbury and Hourihane is that they liked to get forward. We need to provide them the ability to do that and get them attacking and not play so deep and be concerned with defence duties.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #160 on: July 21, 2017, 03:42:52 PM »
Johnstone
Bree Samba Terry Taylor
Elmo Angela Whelan Conor Amavi
Hogan Kodja

No idea if that would work.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #161 on: July 21, 2017, 03:44:58 PM »
Actually what I have just put is balls.

Johnstone
Bree Samba Terry Chester Taylor
Angela Whelan Hourihane
Hogan Kodija

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #162 on: July 21, 2017, 03:51:10 PM »
Kippax it was balls and had 12 players!!

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #163 on: July 21, 2017, 04:03:02 PM »
Johnstone
Bree Samba Terry Taylor
Elmo Angela Whelan Conor Amavi
Hogan Kodja

No idea if that would work.
A new banner in the Holte End and we can have 13. Promotion guaranteed.

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Re: Glenn Whelan - SIGNED
« Reply #164 on: July 21, 2017, 04:03:16 PM »
Agreed Ad@m. The reason we bought players like Lansbury and Hourihane is that they liked to get forward. We need to provide them the ability to do that and get them attacking and not play so deep and be concerned with defence duties.

Lets get Adama back and run riot.

 


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