Keener window-cleaner

Sorry, couldn't resist...

Managed the right way, I think Westwood could become a future England captain.

One thing that struck me was that it seems as if every new manager who has come to the club the last years has not rated Westwood at the beginning, but then somehow he has ended up as a first team regular, at least this is what I remember from the first time under Sherwood and Garde...

I think he passes the ball sideways too often

That legal crap was so boring to read, I'll just trust my lawyer on this

Just one second here... in the game yesterday, did we actually have a game plan, a team set up with the players who could carry out that game plan, and then changed the tactics during the course of the game to end up on the front foot and winning the game?

Very pleased with having Bruce almighty as our manager, and very curious to see the first line up!

Westwood and defence is a bit of a contradiction isn't it

Not even on the bench today? Seemed like we played better with GG in the middle.

This is my current 5 p on Dr Tony. At first I was sceptical, partly because I didn't know anything about him and partly because of a general prejudice that it's difficult to get filthy rich completely legit. It was also difficult to get reliable information about him. So far, the Dr has proven to me that my initial scepticism was fully unfounded. I couldn't be more happy with what he has done in this short time. He has spent more money on the team that I could have dreamt of and he seems to have started building up a good structure at the club, especially with the appointment of Wyness. I think the efficiency in the summer acquisitions is a sign that the structure is working. Dr Tony has shown unprecedented enthusiasm and openness and he has for sure issued the problem with lack of communication. The small side steps that I think he has taken, like some of his tweets, I think he has played down and handled fairly well. Overall I think he comes across as a very good and humane person. At the end of the day, it could have been much much worse, and at the moment I'm very glad and proud to have Dr Tony as our owner.

Please not 3 at the back, please not 3 at the back, please not three at the back. Please let McScoremack play, please let McScoremack play, please let McScoremack play.

Wow, this felt like one of those equations at the maths lessons at school!

I'm still not ready to jump on the sack RDM bandwagon. Mainly because I want stability. If we sacked him now we would be looking for our 7th manager in 1,5 years (Lambert, Sherwood, MacDonald, Garde, Black, RDM) and that in itself is just detrimental, regardless of the other circumstances. I don't think 1 win, 7 draws and 2 losses in 10 games is bad enough to warrant being sacked, as long as he is fully committed and hasn't lost the support from the players.

Someone please get hold of that video! What could it be? A pep talk? Just a good luck message? Some chineese sayings? Mao quotes? And what would he wear on the video?

So Bacuna is suspended for Saturday, and I'd rather not have either Richards or Hutton as right back, so why not try Westwood? At least it would decrease his possibility of sideways passing by 50%.

Very much this, all of it!

I remember we he won the Champions League with Chelsea, he did it by playing a defensive parking the bus style of play. I was a bit worried that we would get this defensive, over tactical Italian style of play here as well. But so far he has confused me. At times, like against Newcastle and Ipswich, the set up was clearly defensive. But in other matches it has more seemed like he has set up with an unbalanced over attacing style of play, some kind o 4-2-4 (where the two in the middle rather could be described as one or one and a half). I've defended RDM before and I still think it would be detrimental to sack him now, but I must say that I am less optimistic than I was a couple of games ago. I thought he got the formation right yesterday, except that I would have wanted McScoremack/Gestede instead of Grealish, but still it seemed as if we didn't play any good, at least not in the first half.

One loss in the last nine games, sounds better than it is...

Wow that link was magic!!!

Congregating is actually a very nice word!

Thanks for the clip! That was the nutmeg I meant in an earlier post. It's just pure class, more of this! More more more!!

Fully agree, it's so exciting to see him take on players and dribbling that much. That little nutmeg just at the end of the game when he flicked it through the leg's of some sorry Newcastle defender and went past was my favourite. There should be a daily nutmeg battle between Ayew and Kodjia after every game.

I retirate, I usually slag him off all the time so I just wanted to be a little bit positive, but you are right :-D

Wonderful to see a new player scoring so early! More of the same please! Would like to see him be given more responsibility in a two man midfield, seems to be good with the ball and tries to pick out good passes. Remains to be seen if he is solid and reliable enough defensively, but hopefully he can be given a more attacking role with Jedinak cleaning up behind him.

I think that was the main reason, three at the back that hadn't played together in that formation before. Chester suddenly on the right hand side and Elpfick given some old sweeper position. It looked so much better in the second when we reverted to a back four, and then we even still had Bacuna in that back four...