I agree, and that's true about Charles, but whether they'd do the same if they didn't have Spencer Ware filling in is an open question.
Yup. Am sure I read/heard somewhere that Kompany's injury record at Man City is something like 30+ different injuries. He's had back trouble too.
While he didn't live up to to the heights expected, always thought Crespo got/gets a raw deal in the eyes of Prem yesteryear. Thought he was a good player over here, and it was only his injury in the season prior to joining Chelsea that held him back from being better.
Bilic has to change something. The defensive problems are there at fullback but the reality is we're totally ineffective in midfield and upfront too - only Antonio is near his form of last season. Bilic seems very wedded to the system that worked last season so perhaps he's thinking it's just a...
Was at the game, and didn't hear pumped out crowd noise. Tinpot we may increasingly be, and can only comment on where I was sitting, but didn't hear anything.
We were total shite. Teams now know they just have to turn up and sit in 2nd gear, we'll gift a couple of goals and have no attacking...
So judge him on half a season then? Funny how it wasn't appropriate to judge him on his 1st half season where he did well, the 1st half of last season when they were flying, but it was then fully appropriate to judge when they flopped in the 2nd half of last season. Not to mention you judging...
Wasnt surprised the game turned out like that.
I'll hope the defence performance this week was a one off, since before this week it was performing very well. The returns of four to five starters should help seal that gap, and the week 4 bye already looks perfectly timed to cope with that.
We...
Yeah I just read Ansah is out, great for us given the problems in the oline interior last week.
We've got Shields out too, so on the one hand we could have two offences airing it out with both running games currently lacking and both defences below full strength. Then again I guess the...
Ah I didn't realise that once you've accepted a trade you can then cancel it. Yeah course, if I was sending Lacy for them I'd cancel after that injury too, thought it was locked in etc but totally understand the cancellation. All good :)
Trade offer was made on Fri or Saturday though, and was accepted on Monday morn i think, before the extent of the injury was known.
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Matthews, Burnett both out, Guion and Danone Jones now doubtful. My confidence in a win tomorrow has taken a hit...