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Author Topic: Pre-season 2023/24  (Read 199984 times)

Offline Steve67

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1560 on: July 30, 2023, 06:35:04 PM »
We have to stop conceding silly goals.  Fortunately, it's pre-season and we have time to iron it out. 

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1561 on: July 30, 2023, 06:35:06 PM »
Archer isn’t a replacement for Watkins. He doesn’t do a quarter of what Watkins does. You’ll get a better finisher but we’d have to play differently

Offline JUAN PABLO

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1562 on: July 30, 2023, 06:35:32 PM »
Id sell Ollie while his value his high   and  let the dons pick someone up from europe who can finish 

Offline Stinkin_Thinkin

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1563 on: July 30, 2023, 06:35:46 PM »
such a strange game we look totally dominant yet somehow it's 3-3

Online PaulWinch again

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1564 on: July 30, 2023, 06:35:56 PM »
To honest in most of these game’s defensive play has been pretty ropey.

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1565 on: July 30, 2023, 06:36:30 PM »
If Ollie had been even vaguely competent today we'd be out of sight.

archer should be by now - he would have finished them

Watkin's main strength is his positioning, he's brilliant at getting himself in the right place. Few players are better but technically he's..how can I say..got lots of room for improvement.

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1566 on: July 30, 2023, 06:36:41 PM »
Both breaks they have concentrated on Brentford and Thomas Frank. Disrespectful twunts.

This and the fact that the camera only bothers picking out the Chelsea fans in the stadium despite them not being on the pitch yet.

Offline Bad English

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1567 on: July 30, 2023, 06:36:52 PM »
Just watching Brentford paying with their fridge magnets. Don't they have any tablets or iPads?

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1568 on: July 30, 2023, 06:37:39 PM »
This is annoying but i must remember it is pre season, oh i hate Ben Mee

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1569 on: July 30, 2023, 06:39:21 PM »
Both breaks they have concentrated on Brentford and Thomas Frank. Disrespectful twunts.

This and the fact that the camera only bothers picking out the Chelsea fans in the stadium despite them not being on the pitch yet.
Yup.

Offline Bad English

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1570 on: July 30, 2023, 06:39:40 PM »
This is annoying but i must remember it is pre season, oh I hate Ben Mee
1) Totally agree.
2) Totally agree.

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1571 on: July 30, 2023, 06:39:55 PM »
Still no Coutinho?

Spotted him!!
« Last Edit: July 30, 2023, 06:41:49 PM by Steve67 »

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1572 on: July 30, 2023, 06:41:19 PM »
Only watched second half but Diego looks like a starter to me

Online Nelly

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1573 on: July 30, 2023, 06:41:19 PM »
Coutinho is playing I think? #23. Unless I'm hallucinating!

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Re: Pre-season 2023/24
« Reply #1574 on: July 30, 2023, 06:41:24 PM »
Our intensity has dropped.

 


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