Forum | Non-Football Related

so whats going to happen Saturday who will play up front? will Adrian have one of his unbelievable games or a headless chicken one? questions questions questions and slav hopefully has been pondering this over the break because we are going to have to be at our best for this one...spuds will start fast and we had better be on our toes and match them or it could turn into a torrid 90mins...thankfully we will be missing noble so no one in midfield spinning around and disappearing up there own backside!! and of course the mandatory yellow he gets for that lunge tackle he always does and the square ball across the middle that the opposition pounce on(harsh but just saying)...I reckon slav will have kouyate and obiang starting in the middle but with pele injured will he revert to a flat back four?.....one things for certain and we are going to have to be strong and yes I hear the players understand how much this game means to us but don't they realise all the others meant just as much....I hope really hope we put the commitment into the coming games that we did against chelski but on the evidence seen so far this season I honestly doubt that....I hope for a win and can accept a draw but defeat Saturday evening well it just does not bare thinking about. COYI lets show some character

So as we go into yet another effing International break, what's that the 3rd since the season started?, we are firmly rooted in the bottom half of the table. Certainly not what I expected when I saw the fixture list back in July. Sure the string of games we now looking at seemed daunting ( I have us to pick up just 1 point from the next 4 games from my July predictions) but coming of the back of last 8 games where I predicted we'd pick up 19 points it wasn't gonna be panic button pressing time!
Well that's gone out the window and tbh I expect us to be rooted in the bottom 3 by the time we entertain Burnley mid December. Clearly my predictions aren't worth shit so who knows, we could pick up 12 points + a SF in the EFL Cup if we turn over Manure twice in the space of 4 days, both at OT. But let's be honest, the way we're playing, there's buckley's of that happening.
We've conceded an astonishing 16 goals in those 8 games, been on the receiving end of 3 hidings and look as likely to score now as when CC was playing!
The players need to take a damn hard look at themselves in the next couple of weeks and even if it means rattling a few ego's point out individual errors and demand better. Half look like they'd rather be on holiday still and the rest seem to be regressing to the bad old days of Sam. Noble can't go forwards, Adrian's flapping around like a seagull, Kouyate's probably wondering why he's now at the back, the front 3 are playing as if they've never met each other before, there seems to be an increase of headless chicken's now that we've moved from the chicken run. Passes astray, runs down blind alleys, shots to terrorise the birds in the sky, it's been a very poor start to the season.
What's the solution? Buggered if I know, but these players are better than they're showing and they need to not only realise that but get it into their heads that hard work is the only way out of this malaise and their efforts have fallen well short of expectations, from fans, the boss, their team mates and the opposition who probably can't believe how easy they're having it at the moment. Off field distractions should not be a concern for the players. They need to concentrate 1 game at a time and improve drastically. There's no-one too good to go down

Rumours this morning that carroll is wanted by a couple of Chinese clubs willing to pay him £300thousand a week...well if we get our money back or a bit more on top then someone needs to have a word in his ear and tell him to go...its a shame because when he plays he is a great asset but sadly he is just never going to play a full season for us or anyone so financially this would be a tremendous deal for him and a chance for us to sort out our front line