• Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara

Search results

  1. J

    Gareth Bale

    Re: Gareth Bale Bale is amazing, but it really is time to start questioning AVB. I don't care how popular AVB is here, Bale is keeping him in a job. So many dreadful performances saved by the sheer brilliance of Gareth Bale.
  2. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    Formations largely are splitting hairs. For example he described us as playing 442 with Dempsey earlier in the season, but I don't think many others recognized the formation as that. For the previous 2 seasons we played with VDV in front of a midfield 2, but he spent as much time dropping...
  3. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    When the discussion started it was pertinent to the thread as it concerned the youth set up. Everyone should read the link I posted above (and below). It's a really good read about training at our academy. Sounds like we've got a really well run set up. There really was no need to worry about...
  4. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    No at Chelsea he played 4123, the same change Mourinho made when moving from a basic 433 at Porto. Mourinho sat Makelele in front of the back 4 and 2 CM's ahead, whilst AVB used Mikel in the same role.
  5. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    You know exactly what I mean. I'm fully aware he's used 433 on rare occasions, but no more, in fact less than he's used 442. But it's clearly not been his default formation. You are trying to suggest he's got the whole club playing 433, as that is the way he wants to play. There is simply no...
  6. J

    what has happened to the transfer section?

    I want Cabaye and Eriksen. The more players we have of quality on the ball the better. I really rate both Dembele and Sandro, but neither move the ball well enough in my opinion. I think we'll play a 4231 next season and think talk of 433 is nonsense. I think the 2 main midfielders must have at...
  7. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    Of course he's played 433 at times, that isn't the point. What is clear is that despite being happy to use a 433, he is, for the vast majority of games, not doing so. The fact he's changed to 433 at times, shows the option is there. So there are no excuses. He has chosen a different formation...
  8. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    He didn't though. We played 433 plenty of times last season. There was even a coaching report posted online in which it specifically said we trained a 433 session in preparation for a game the following weekend. The whole 433 thing is Gutterboyesque nonsense anyway. AVB said in an interview he...
  9. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    Who told you that was the plan? It sounds like the kind of thing Gutterboy would come out with. We've got a new guy running the youth team and a new guy running the 1st team. They play different formations. There is no coincidence.
  10. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    This site also just lists formations. http://www.football-lineups.com/tournaments/
  11. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    I think fourfourtwo.com
  12. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    Which happens to be the most popular formation in football these days. But if you look at those graphics which show average positions of players during a game, we actually play 4231 or 442!
  13. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    Or maybe, just maybe, it's because we have a new guy running our youth set up!
  14. J

    The Academy, NextGen, U18 & U21 Premier League and On-Loan Thread

    It should be evidence that the vast majority of our fans have no clue how the club is run. One of the infinite number of stupid concerns our fans expressed about Redknapps tenure was the youth set up. Yet is during the last 3 years we've recruited this much of this young talent. The club is...
  15. J

    what has happened to the transfer section?

    I'm not sure about Ben Afra. If Newcaslte go down I want Cabaye. I'd still want Moutinho also. Even though we are desperate for a striker and have a decent CM, if the opportunity to sign both arises, I'd take them. Having a striker is great, but so is keeping the ball. The poor quality of...
  16. J

    what has happened to the transfer section?

    Ince is way better than Townsend. To be honest I think the fact he's young, English, black and plays out wide, leads people to jump to conclusions about what kind of player he is. He's not a Walcott, Lennon, Routledge or Townsend type at all. Ince is first and foremost a technically gifted...
  17. J

    Danny Rose

    @KD, yes. I've seen him a bit this season and he's been really good. But tonight he's had a stinker until the goal. Nothing had come off for him. He couldn't seem to control the ball and gave it away a lot. By far the worst I've seen of him at Sunderland.
  18. J

    Danny Rose

    He's been dreadful and now scored!
  19. J

    Huddlestone

    Re: Huddlefro' Why do people still have these concerns? For some reason it's as if our fans forget he's already proven his doubters wrong. For most of this season the Hudd has been spoken about as if he's a new signing we don't know anything about. Even this week people have been going on...
  20. J

    Huddlestone

    I'm sorry but if anyone thinks we played worse today than we did against City until Hudd came on they are crazy. To say he disrupted the way we played kind of ignores how rubbish we were against City until he came on, how poor we were against Basel, Everton and Fulham. Who disrupted our play...
Back