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What a boring Weekend with no prem footie no Soccer Saturday no MOTD no Super Sunday :-( ...

What a boring Weekend with no prem footie no Soccer Saturday no MOTD no Super Sunday :-(

Roll on next weekend

Goes to show we all see things differently. I don't think we were awful after last Chr...

Goes to show we all see things differently. I don't think we were awful after last Christmas bar 3 or 4 games. The way I saw it, it was the other way round. I thought we played ok, apart from 3 or 4 games. Norwich (H), Woolwich (A) being the main examples of being poor in the league. BUT we didn't get the results when we did play well (unlike at Utd this season where we didn't play for large parts of the game, but got a good result).
Utd (H) - I thought we should have won as well as Everton (A) - and at least got a result at QPR.

T'Hudd - I think the man is ok. I don't think AVB would be playing the man if he thought he wasn't 'fit' or in shape - given Livermore was available - and AVB/Spurs were trying to offload T'Hudd - so to play him, must show some form of confidence in him.

The subs bench - isn't that the point of having a strong squad ie to cater for when you have injuries across the board? I don't think the thinning of the squad was AVB as such - that seemed like a Levy thing given the timings.

Thing is, I think that's fairly similar to last season; overall I wasn't that impr...

Thing is, I think that's fairly similar to last season; overall I wasn't that impressed by the performances last year but we always seemed nearly there.

According to some of the 'news' papers Adebayor's had crisis talks with AVB about not starting, but as all the commenters on their websites point out, his protracted transfer meant he didn't have a proper pre-season so his fitness was low, then he got a little injury, so it's only a few games that he's just not been favoured for. It looks like AVB will play him in a similar position to Defoe's, and you never drop an in form striker, but he'll get his chance.

Re Livermore, he's trying to bring Hudd back slowly since he had such a big injury, so it makes sense to me that Livermore came on for him when he did. SB, I don't share your view on Hudd, I thought he was on cracking form 18 months ago but he spent a year out with injury, he'll be a bit rusty for a while - that's why AVB wanted to sent him on loan. We can't know at this stage whether or not he'll find it again, but fingers crossed he does.

John, I agree about the subs, it really worried me from the off; I quite often feel we need an attacking MF type player to come on around 65 mins to give the team a boost, and there were no 'game changers' on the bench.

He puts an awful lot of effort into that site. I still don't follow this '...we a...

He puts an awful lot of effort into that site.

I still don't follow this '...we always lose/win against them...' bit. How can that work, when it's a different team, different manager, different footballing philosophy? But it seems to - teams do have bogey teams.

But the good news is that over the past few years we've broken more and more of these hoodoos.

I'd still like us to play two halves of good football. Maybe this is the game.

I'm still a bit lost as to the changes that AVB was to bring in - the high line, the pressing etc. I don't see much difference to before, just a bit slower in the passing - but to me that was to be expected given the changes in midfield.

i dont think we have played that well for most of this season. last season we were awful f...

i dont think we have played that well for most of this season.
last season we were awful from xmas onwards, bar 3 or 4 games.

i dont get the ade story. he missed pre season and then he did his hamstring in. so he has only missed starting 2 or 3 games.
even then, we dont want to rush him back.

the thing is, we will be playing a lot of games so u could easily rotate between defoe & ade. some games even play them together. also both are going to pick up injuries.
so overall, they will both play lots of games.

i never thought hudd was in cracking form. for me, he does a couple of good long balls and the odd screamer.

the game has become so quick and more about the middle of the park. so to have him plodding about in the middle is a hinderance to our team.

he is paid a lot of money by our club which at the end of the day is hard earnt money spent by fans. yet he still cant be bothered to get in shape. i think he shows a huge lack of desire & commitment. we dont need players like that.

our bench was weak but thats because we had the following missing-

kaboul
ekotto
parker
bale
dembele