R.Bear

We're a better team without him, on current form at least. No doubt about it.

1 minute ago, Davkaus said:

There's a lot of hype about Toney but he just hasn't shown enough since coming back, for me it has to be Kane that gets the spot as Ollie Watkins' understudy.

That's great. Any thoughts on today's game? 

6 points and 5 GD clear. Over to you Spurs.

Bring Duran on!

Bailey should be in the PL team of the season.

This why resting players or concentrating on one competition is nonsense. The players are fired up BECAUSE they're won a European tie. Tiredness only exists when teams are losing games, not winning.

Even Diaby couldnt miss that!

I think Diaby has a clause in his contract that if he attempts to beat a man, gets docked a weeks wages.

At this stage of the season, not beating teams who have nothing to play for feels like a slap in the face doesnt it? Why cant they just do the right thing and down tools for us? 

On 19/04/2024 at 10:02, R.Bear said:

Cash is clumsy, has almost zero awareness and has a mistake in him almost every match. But you cannot deny that he makes things happen. He was on the end of that nice move for our first shot. Gave the keeper a stinger later on and of course, scored the goal. Beautiful penalty too.

Pretty much all this in the first half. Clumsily gave away the pen. Nearly scored with that shot. You basically have to take him, roots and all, or dont take him.

7 minutes ago, The_Steve said:

Momentum is with us 

Is that the Italian boy?

**** put a cross in you idiots.

Beautifully taken Rogers!

Should have scored there. Bournemouth are on the beach. Here for the taking.

As much as I criticise Diaby, and rightly so, I would love him to have a good game today. We **** need him too as well.

Tired or not, the players should be buzzing and well up for this.

Do the thread titles have to say "Cup final x of x"? Its cringey as ****.

1 hour ago, rodders0223 said:

The over analysis is wild.

It was just a good save.

Yep, all of that was total garbage. Glad I'm not the only one who noticed.

2 minutes ago, Sulberto21 said:

Thankfully for Diaby whether or not you trust him our manager does. 

Thanks for that, I wasnt aware that my opinion doesnt have a direct effect on our manager. Now I know.

2 minutes ago, lexicon said:

It's pretty sweet that you think you know better than a manager who holds our highest win percentage by almost 10 percent. 

Another tired comeback in a discussion. Did I say I know more than the manager? It's just my opinion. Like yours or anyone else's.

1 hour ago, DakotaVilla said:

Some posters don’t seem to be to understand game state.

Diaby did the hard yards in the first 60 mins v Arsenal and Lille so that Bailey could then come on versus more tired defenders and be a potential match winner.

This is just total bollocks. We were hoofing it long or barely putting two passes together unless it was in our own half. There was no gameplan for Diaby to run them ragged. If there was, it failed spectacularly because he barely saw the ball.

The reason Bailey caused trouble when he came on is because he's better player, takes men on and actually looks for the ball. Not because of anything Diaby did.

10 minutes ago, tomav84 said:

you would've risked further escalating his injury and potentially having bailey out for this crucial run in?

No obviously that's not what I meant. I would have played Rogers or someone else. My point was even with Bailey injured, I wouldn't have started him.

12 minutes ago, ChesterDad said:

Did you see him play ?

Yes so take that tired argument somewhere else.

6 minutes ago, tinker said:

Refreshing to see a nations media (french) defending their team, despite their fans throwing stuff on the pitch at Martinez and throwing footballs on the pitch to disrupt Ollies penalty and the ref getting in Dougs face before his and him encroaching on the ball in Dougs run up. Absolutely disgraceful behaviour tbh yet Martinez is seen as the bad one.

They're doing their job. Angry Frenchmen will be waking up this morning gnashing their teeth and wanting be outraged by Emi's behaviour. The French newspapers are just giving those fans what they want to read.

Don't hate the players, hate the game.

Cash is clumsy, has almost zero awareness and has a mistake in him almost every match. But you cannot deny that he makes things happen. He was on the end of that nice move for our first shot. Gave the keeper a stinger later on and of course, scored the goal. Beautiful penalty too.

It is odd that anyone who dares to criticise him is jumped on by the usual suspects. The statistics don't mean much to me because the eye test is far more important. I dont trust him at all in big games or against top opposition. It was mistake to start him last night, even with Bailey carrying a knock. Games like that are not for him. His lacklustre performance was inevitable.