Team Selection Time Guys. I am aware of the date and time. Tuesday. Approaching half past 5. Soon be time for Los Simpsones ... No I am not 12 but can't beat a good old cartoon can you?
Now we've all been screaming out for 4-5-1 the past few weeks and rightly so, but the goals do seem to have dried up somewhat, well we've never been that prolific actually but we can't go changing it now, especially not back to 4-4-2 or I might end up in intensive care at 12:30 Saturday afternoon. And we don't want that!
Whatever Coyle has against Muamba, which must be something in my view as he obviously doesn't like him, he has to start with him and probably more importantly which he struggles to do is to finish with him on the field for Saturday's game if we want any chance of winning in my view.
Bearing that in mind I would go for ...
Bogdan
Steinsson
Wheater
Ream
Ricketts
Ryo
Mavies
Muamba
Coker
Petrov
N'Gog
Where's the goals coming from?
Well we'll worry about that when the time comes ...
Coyle Can't Afford to Get It Wrong
posted on 6/3/12
No Ryo!!!
posted on 6/3/12
Like the look of that team. I obviously want Sordell to get some game time, but points come first. We're far too open when we play 4-4-2, especially with Mavies in the middle. A fluid 4-5-1 it must be.
posted on 6/3/12
This should help:
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/transfer-news/Transfer-gossip-Leeds-sign-Paul-Robinson-Bolton-full-back-on-loan-until-Easter-article874852.html
posted on 6/3/12
Fair comment about Robinson not being good enough for PL but people forget he had no support from petrov in many games and could not rely on knight either
posted on 6/3/12
if pratley plays...im emigrating to the moon!
posted on 7/3/12
Fair comment about Robinson not being good enough for PL but people forget he had no support from petrov in many games
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Pretty much a myth as Petrov does track back, and none of the other left backs seem to have a problem with Petrov in front of them.
posted on 7/3/12
IMO Eagles seemed to struggle with Robinson. I think the problem was he was caught out of position, doesn't have the pace anymore to get back and has the tendency to fly into a challenge. How many times have you seen Robbo arguing are giving of negative body language? It causes a knock on effect and when you have a run of bad fixtures and are out of form you don't really need this in your team.
When this happened and with Knight nowhere to be seen we were left with either Eagles or petrov to put a challenge in. Now these two are quite frankly "wimpish" when going in for a challenge and very light weight. More often than not Cahill came over to cover, this left two opponents on the back post and why we conceded so many cross goal that came from a pass across the goal.
posted on 7/3/12
*why we conceded so many goals that came from a pass across the goal.
posted on 7/3/12
if pratley plays...im emigrating to the moon!
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Hopefully there'll be room on board the space shuttle for 20 odd thousand more people to come with you.
posted on 8/3/12
im sure we could use the void in our midfield when pratley plays to make a bigger spaceship