Quote from: fredm on October 02, 2020, 10:27:55 AMShows how light up top we are. Smith has very few alternatives. Glaringly obvious that another striker is needed. Will he act before Monday's deadline??Agreed. Archer from the U23s, but Smith is no longer interested in him.So has something happened/been said that makes you have this opinion, Legion? Thought Cameron was one of the up and coming hopefuls?He is (or was) as Smith prefers Ramsey and Vassilev.
Shows how light up top we are. Smith has very few alternatives. Glaringly obvious that another striker is needed. Will he act before Monday's deadline??Agreed. Archer from the U23s, but Smith is no longer interested in him.So has something happened/been said that makes you have this opinion, Legion? Thought Cameron was one of the up and coming hopefuls?
Quote from: dicedlam on October 02, 2020, 10:21:25 AMQuote from: Risso on October 02, 2020, 10:05:01 AMEarly days yet and I am not for one moment writing him off, but I was massively unimpressed with Traore last night. Hopefully he'll come good when surrounded by the likes of Jack and Luiz, but he didn't seem very interested in trying to beat some average Championship defenders last night. Can't see him dislodging Trez from the first team for a while yet.I agree. Just for his work rate alone Trez deserves to keep his place. There also seems to be a good understanding growing between him and Cash on that right side, so I only see Traore coming off the bench in the next few games.Jesus, £19m on someone not capable of displacing the utterly underwhelming Trezeguet. Come back Suso all is forgiven.
Quote from: Risso on October 02, 2020, 10:05:01 AMEarly days yet and I am not for one moment writing him off, but I was massively unimpressed with Traore last night. Hopefully he'll come good when surrounded by the likes of Jack and Luiz, but he didn't seem very interested in trying to beat some average Championship defenders last night. Can't see him dislodging Trez from the first team for a while yet.I agree. Just for his work rate alone Trez deserves to keep his place. There also seems to be a good understanding growing between him and Cash on that right side, so I only see Traore coming off the bench in the next few games.
Early days yet and I am not for one moment writing him off, but I was massively unimpressed with Traore last night. Hopefully he'll come good when surrounded by the likes of Jack and Luiz, but he didn't seem very interested in trying to beat some average Championship defenders last night. Can't see him dislodging Trez from the first team for a while yet.
Thankfully didn't see the match but Villa Talk are saying Jota was man of the match and he was only on for about 15 mins of the match, just shows how bad we must have been.
Bridge is another one that could have been tried instead of Hause yesterday. Just my opinion of course.
We must, too, remember we are still in league fighting for the title (well at this time) and have a major match in the league Sunday . Any chance of a pre match thread today.(please ,it so makes sense)Then we can put that Cup game aside and focus on what sort of Line up and performance Vs Liverpool!Beat Liverpool then this Stoke cup thread means nothing!How about we all move on to the next game?And see the bigger picture. Because that's why yesterday's team were on the field.And now it's gone . No need to dwell when we have a big game on Sunday Bring on Liverpool - I think we can get a result!Yours optimistically (for a thread some time today)FV!
Quote from: Footy-Vill on October 02, 2020, 11:38:33 AMWe must, too, remember we are still in league fighting for the title (well at this time) and have a major match in the league Sunday . Any chance of a pre match thread today.(please ,it so makes sense)Then we can put that Cup game aside and focus on what sort of Line up and performance Vs Liverpool!Beat Liverpool then this Stoke cup thread means nothing!How about we all move on to the next game?And see the bigger picture. Because that's why yesterday's team were on the field.And now it's gone . No need to dwell when we have a big game on Sunday Bring on Liverpool - I think we can get a result!Yours optimistically (for a thread some time today)FV! Some of us used to like winning cups not finishing 17th in the league. Even the Peace Cup win was exciting. Okay so I might have overegged that.
Quote from: kippaxvilla2 on October 02, 2020, 01:01:24 PMQuote from: Footy-Vill on October 02, 2020, 11:38:33 AMWe must, too, remember we are still in league fighting for the title (well at this time) and have a major match in the league Sunday . Any chance of a pre match thread today.(please ,it so makes sense)Then we can put that Cup game aside and focus on what sort of Line up and performance Vs Liverpool!Beat Liverpool then this Stoke cup thread means nothing!How about we all move on to the next game?And see the bigger picture. Because that's why yesterday's team were on the field.And now it's gone . No need to dwell when we have a big game on Sunday Bring on Liverpool - I think we can get a result!Yours optimistically (for a thread some time today)FV! Some of us used to like winning cups not finishing 17th in the league. Even the Peace Cup win was exciting. Okay so I might have overegged that.but the point is that finishing 17th isn't good enough. If the manager thinks he can't afford to put out the string team in the cup, and 11 changes from Monday tells you that as clearly as can be, then that's fair enough. He'll be judged on our league position this year, just like a cup final last season wouldn't have been enough to save his job if we'd gone down.Our aim, if you believe the owners/CEO, is to re-establish ourselves in the top half of the premier league, to do that we need to attract better players and to do that we need to improve our league placing to show we're moving in the right direction. finishing 10-12 in the league and being safely out of the dog fight with 5-6 games to go will do more to show our progress than another league cup run. If we're looking on target for that when the FA cup comes around then lets put out a stronger team in that and go for the cup that we all actually want to see Jack lift.
Guess so Paul and cup competitions have sadly long paled into insignificance compared to a spot in the Premier League.The aim surely is to build a squad that can be competitive in all competitions (including Europe hopefully), but we are a way off that at the moment.
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