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1 minute ago, KentVillan said:

The only bandwagon is people tearing into Wesley every time he doesn't score.

Which is just not true. He gets stick for his application, attitude and, to a slightly lesser extent, his actual ability.

TBH, I'm amazed Smith keeps picking him. Surely he sees every day Wesley getting out muscled, dispossessed and nutmeged by the more mobile training cones?

6 minutes ago, Pimlico_Villa said:

Cannot head the ball, can’t hold the ball up, can’t control the ball, has no physicality and doesn’t get any refereeing decisions. A complete and utter waste of space. 

But apart from that, he's **** deadly.

Not a bad set of PL results for us. Of all the teams around us who played - which was all of them - none of them got much closer or pulled away. In light of today's predictable loss it's the best we could hope for from everywhere else. It was looking even better until BHA snuck a late winner against Everton.

4 minutes ago, Tomaszk said:

That's not a huge technical thing, I don't expect Wes to be as good a footballer as Jesus. He should be able to hold the ball up better than him though. He should be able to move and position himself to at least compete for balls forward.

If I were JT I'd be bombarding his old mate Didier to name his price for a couple of weeks 1-1 coaching for Wesley.

Said this in the match thread:

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And Wesley showing to me again he should be treated like an 18yo hot prospect because in terms of football development, maturity and mental strength that's where he is but his size belies that.

And by that I mean he should be not a guaranteed starter if fit, as he seems to be at the moment, and unless he's absolutely tearing it up he should be getting far fewer minutes than he does.

Smith is giving him both too much responsibility, which he just isn't up to bearing yet, and too much time to mope around the pitch when he isn't on it.

Just now, jim said:

Contrary to everyone else I think we’ve been very poor. 
We looked resigned to defeat, no closing down, players jogging about. Poor. 

And Wesley showing to me again he should be treated like an 18yo hot prospect because in terms of football development, maturity and mental strength that's where he is but his size belies that.

That's enough of that now. Think I'll crack on with lunch.

1 minute ago, PaulC said:

Southampton shockingly bad but this Leicester team is very very good. They have bought well and they now have a manager they believe in unlike last season. 

Leicester to pip plop. Bank it.

I'll be disappointed if this doesn't ring up as double figures. The more of these games, in which bottom-half teams take a right Royal hammering, the better. I'm hoping we'll have enough this season to comfortably keep control of our own fate with our own results.

However, I'll take the effective extra point superior goal difference bestows.

12 hours ago, Dr_Pangloss said:

Not watching, utter disgrace.

Me neither. I decided that the instant the envelope was opened with the name of the country on it.

I won't watch any coverage or read anything about it. It'll be easy for me as I'm not much interested in international football at the best of times. A World Cup in Qatar is the worst of times.

The best way to register disapproval, short of torching Qatari assets, is to not watch. And, of course, if you are thinking of going, think again and stay home grab some winter sun elsewhere.

7 hours ago, Brentfordnylons said:

Most of his work is done offensively obviously as he’s a very special player on the ball he does put a shift in to help his full back.Very temperamental like most of these genius players like Saturday trying to take the ball off Watkins ( our designated taker)for a penalty and threw a strop when shoved away.I believe he’s premier league standard something I never thought Jota was during his best period with us.Pretty sure Dean will come back for him in January.

 

 

I assume you are quoting my little razzing poetry because you are now signalling your agreement with my assessment and are going to bow down to the inevitable?

You can have Elmo Elmohamady, Neil Taylor and a choice of Anwar El Ghazi or Orjan Nyland (free tip, go for Ghazi) plus £10m, 5% of any sell on profit and a pre-season friendly.

https://twitter.com/visualsatire/status/1183474035704979456

On 19/10/2019 at 13:52, Demitri_C said:

There has been absolutely no racism shown towards him. Perhaps you can provide some examples where this has been demonstrated ?

You don't understand the rules of that game, do you? That's not how Social Justice Top Trumps is played at all.

When you lay down The Race Card the hand is over, you're the winner. You get to just your jaw out, look around smugly at the ignorant neanderthals you've just bested with your superior intellect and morality and brook no further discussion on the matter, especially any suggestions of a requirement to justify or prove the accusation.

If that doesn't quite work out you can always reach for one of the other Court Cards. The Fascist. The Sexist or The Gammon.

11 hours ago, theboyangel said:

He was out of contract in the summer so probably tied him down to a similar paid wage to avoid him leaving for nothing next year, after their initial outlay of over £20m for him.

So, to protect their investment they give him another contract, throw several millions more at him over the next 18 months, get a handful of goals out of him as he continues to decline by getting older, slower, lazier and even shitter  and then he leaves for nothing.    Genius strategy.

1 minute ago, Demitri_C said:

A bunch of cowards hiding their faces in shitty black clothes. Go have a bath losers. 

Scum of the earth

You'd have thought they'd wear white clothes, really. Got to be a special kind of moron if you can't even do mindless racism properly.

1 minute ago, TheAuthority said:

Can't they wait until we've played them at least once FFS.

Look on the bright side. Maybe Moyes will get brought back. They were much better under him than they are under OGS.

On 05/10/2019 at 08:32, Amsterdam_Neil_D said:

Praying for a draw for nufc v manure.  We don't want them to disintegrate until after xmas.

 

 

Defo want a draw here. There was a time we'd be gritting our teeth, holding our noses and hoping for Yanitid to beat the barcodes and cabbage. Mainly because one would be way further up the table than us and therefore not a rival and t'tother because it's Newcastle, Bruce and a near rival.

However, atm, we are genuinely playing for table position against manure and want Toon kept in the bottom 3. A draw furthers our cause for both here.

10 minutes ago, Skruff said:

He's so composed on the ball. He got some terrible passes from his teammates in our defensive third while under pressure, which many would mess up. He solved it superbly every time. 

The other thing I love about him is he is a bit of a physical freak. He's obviously of an athletic build but he's waaay stronger than he looks and I think that catches a lot of opponents out. You aren't going to see him out-muscled very often.

The Belgian fans gave us the word that he was a Jekyll and Hyde character in the best possible way in that he is a cheery, affable character off the pitch but a beast when he crosses the white line onto it. We're seeing what they meant.

On 29/09/2019 at 19:36, Dr_Pangloss said:

He appears to be more built for 'show' rather than 'go'. Walker-Pieters who is a comparative midget fragged him off the ball when we played Spurs and that was instantly a big red flag. He doesn't at this stage know how to use his strength and some of this might be underpinned by a balance issue.

Yes, he's like the Reverse Engels who although of a height with Wesley looks slighter but is way more effective because he understands the laws of physics and how to apply them.

3 hours ago, JAMAICAN-VILLAN said:

They scouted him for ages so surely he must have something about him.

I think keeping Wesley in, is more Dean not wanting to destroy his confidence more than anything.

Dean might know he has a fragile personality?

One thing I can say though, is that the things fans see, he usually sees, and he gives players enough rope to hang themselves with, or perform.

Perhaps TOO MUCH rope at times.

I thought the "files" were filtering that type of player out of our purchasing strategy? I was under the impression we were buying player with "character", which is the very antithesis of "fragile".

32 minutes ago, andykeenan said:

Spurs v Bayen Munich 8pm BT Sport 2

5 minutes ago, rodders0223 said:

Do you think Bruce ever looks in the mirror and admits to himself he hasn't got a bloody clue what he is doing, but he is getting away with it so all good.

...or is he genuinely deluded enough to think he is just unlucky and not a complete outdated, stubborn, thick as pig shit dinosaur.

He's so **** stupid I'm far from convinced he even realises the thing he's looking at is his own reflection.  I can easily see him wondering why the bloke keeps echoing what he's saying and how he knows what he's going to say all the time.

17 hours ago, Tomaszk said:

He pretended to be knocked out for some reason. 

We lost the ball in a good area because of it.

Wish he'd have gone off at that point.

That was my thought when I saw it. It was one of those puzzling things that you sort of convince yourself you must be mistaken in your first reaction because it was such a weird, pointless, childish thing for him to do.

However, none of it seemed right and I say that as someone who has seen, at very close quarters, someone get into a shoving match, take a glancing swing from the other guy and go down like a tree before pretending to be unconscious because he didn't fancy it.

4 minutes ago, the_eristic said:

Depends, which leg?

Actually, if it's a toss up between him and Taylor just put him in, even if he only has a right leg meaning he has to cut inside to cross. He's still get more crosses in than Taylor and even being a human bar table footballer he'd block more shots.