MaVilla

yeah i just youtube'd it, it really did happen, its not a parallel universe where keepers palm shots in to their own net.....this is reality right?!

Yeah, i tend to think Houllier at the time was doing the right stuff, pity it ended like it did. From what i remember he was trying to get us playing proper football, and i also remember him being very pro Bannan, as i say, pity it ended like it did.

was that the game we won 2-1?

which game was it he parried in to his own net??

isnt that just one level above "has a pulse"?????

because they are already up the table and mostly have a balanced team that can accommodate blooding players. we are playing catch up, with an entirely lop sided team with multiple injuries and every point dropped is a major issue for us having any chance to get "there or there abouts" Sure there are other reasons also, but our overall current scenario isnt great i dont think for blooding untried youth, or maybe its actually the ideal time?!?!?!

Subasic (AS Monaco - 34 years old) played all of Croatia's games in the world cup (in goal ofc), apart from the game versus Iceland where Kalinic played. Of the 5 UEFA Nations League games since Sept, Kalinic played in 4 of them (vs Portugal, Spain, Spain again, England). There was also one International match after the WC (vs Portugal), which Kalinic played in. (not sure what that match was all about?) How i would understand that information (not confirmed or known by myself - im guessing), is that he's currently the No 2 GK for Croatia, with a few caps under his belt, possibly now being played after the WC to develop in to their No 1 when Subasic retires from international football? edit: Jamaican Villa confirmed above Subasic has retired, so it does seem i was mostly right, and now he's Croatia's No 1 GK.

Personally I wouldn't play him on the 5th, it's versus Swansea in the cup isn't it? If that is the case I would personally play a development team versus Swansea, like ohare, Revan, davis and any other players who dont normally play in the first team on a weekly basis etc, I would also let nyland play in that game. Reason being is to give him a few more days to settle in to the club, as well rest some players as it's a congested week, the cup to me isn't important, we need fresh legs in the league imo. Also if we did do a development team I would t want him conceding goals and maybe knocking his confidence in his first game not playing with the A team.

no problem mate all those old legs will have plenty of time to recover we have a game in 3 days, plenty of time to recove........oh wait.....NOOOOOOOO!

agreed, he needs his chance! (at RB - not LB, CB, DMC ORRRRRR STRIKER!!!! )

Who would have thought with some of the comments on here someone was pining for Taylor to return to the starting lineup!!!!!

how tall is Bree?, i have seen some sites report him as 5ft 7, while i have seen other report him as 6ft?!?!?!?!

El Ghazi.

yeah 90th minute penalty save after El Ghazi fouled someone.

goals in the 4th and 8th minute of stoppage time, someone needs to check them out, i reckon they have some hack codes for this league.....

How tall is bree?

didnt watch the game, but that was a really good win for us, i was concerned we might have to settle for a draw, or maybe even lose, Swansea arent a bad team at all. Seems Nyland did a good job :P, wonder if Santa granted a wish or something?, pleased for him. How did we perform generally?, were we impressive or just lucky with a nicked goal and managed to not concede? So, 3 points off the playoffs now and we are 10th, close league! (also 3 points off 5th, if we can put together a good run now we are in a good position, we really need Grealish back though and those defensive reinforcements asap.

Any truth in the Barbet link do we know? What are people thoughts on it of it were true?

My retort to that is I don't believe for one second we would have even had the opportunity to lose the game in the last minute, we would have been dead and buried way before that under SB

Is ohare even ready?, I have seen him in a few u23 games and although he looks good he doesn't blow them away? I agree he should be integrated in to the team if there are opportunities and he is ready, but listening to some people on here I get the incorrect belief that he is the next Messi. I'm not trying to be negative, give the lad time if he is good enough, but DS needs to be given time to develop the team and in all honestly with some of the screeching after our first loss in 7 versus the best team in the league, I can see why he might not give someone a "chance". Not pointed at you by the way, just a general observation of the response to the loss in some corners. We aren't going to fix this team over night and if we want DS to blood our youth on top of DS integrating his style and bedding in his own players, we need to be a little more level headed as a group of fans. That doesn't detract from the fact that it appears the vast majority are totally on board with DS, but some of the screeching minority is pretty laughable.

How tall is bree?, I have seen some since say he is about 5ft 8 and others say he is 6ft?

Terry helped, but I also think our style of play last season covered some of his weaknesses. So basically he's double exposed this season it seems, no Terry to be the commanding CB next to him, on top of we play a more up the field progressive style of play which also seems to expose him. Oh let's add a third, now we don't have the big units in the starting 11 like Terry and jedinak, his massive 5ft 10in CB frame is additionally exposed as we literally have no big units to defend crosses or corners coupled with a GK who decent come off his line, which really shows him up as he's just not big enough to be a CB when he has no others around him to cover up the fact he is terribly weak in the air and can get knocked around. Basically if you had a lost of all the ways to expose Chester to all his weaknesses we have gone through and ticked them all

anyone got his press conference after the game?

You can polish a turd, but a turd is still a turd regardless (aka our defence)

Maybe I saw it from a bad angle, but that chance they had after we scored our first, the ball was crossed in along the floor literally towards his six yard line, and he literally just stood there and it bounced off someone and nearly went in, Elmo cleared it I think? Why on earth didn't he go for it?, or was it a bad angle I saw and it wasn't as clear cut as I think?