Pre Match EPL West Ham (A) - Sun 30th Nov - 2:05pm

[Hyena]

'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'

- Albert Einstein

"I do the same thing over and over again and I'm the first name on the team sheet. "

- Cody Gakpo

 

[binomial]

Stayed in my seat during HT last night watching on as Rio and Trey were balling it out to eachother, I said to the lad next to me there's fuck all point them being out there stood in the freezing cold, neither are going to see a minute on the pitch.

 

[mark1975]

Stayed in my seat during HT last night watching on as Rio and Trey were balling it out to eachother, I said to the lad next to me there's fuck all point them being out there stood in the freezing cold, neither are going to see a minute on the pitch.

The camera panned to Rio a few times on the bench last night and he looked utterly fucked off. He should be, Slot's treatment of fringe players is a fucking disgrace.

 

[Frogfish]

The camera panned to Rio a few times on the bench last night and he looked utterly fucked off. He should be, Slot's treatment of fringe players is a fucking disgrace.

I'd be fucked off too watching that. However he's 17 and I doubt he's pissed off at not being on the pitch. He wants to be of course, and may think he can do better, but he's still a baby and realises this may not be his time.
Or maybe he was hoping not to get on as he didn't want to be part of the shit show!

 

[Fabio]

I'd be fucked off too watching that. However he's 17 and I doubt he's pissed off at not being on the pitch. He wants to be of course, and may think he can do better, but he's still a baby and realises this may not be his time.
Or maybe he was hoping not to get on as he didn't want to be part of the shit show!

The counterpoint to that is the club have been very keen to say that we didn't want to block his progression.

Fucking shite gakpo plays 90 minutes regardless of performance.

We can't say we don't want to block his progression and then not give the cunt minutes.

He's stagnating and that will continue. He needs to be back down with the u21s to at least play SOME fucking football

 

[Red Mullet]

I am more than happy to be part of team FOM. However no single attacker is in form - so there isn't really any argument for a single one of them. The minor positive Mo can bring is that he still gets double marked and that creates gaps - but the other forwards are all fucking up every half chance and big chance.

There’s always Rio

 

[mark1975]

This is what the we should do, assuming Ekitike is out with a back injury for a while:

-----------------Alisson----------------
Ramsay--Gomez---VVD---Robertson
------------Endo---Gravy-------------
----Szobo------Macca------Chiesa---
------------------Isak-----------------

I know people keep arguing that Rio isn't ready, we lack any genuine pace upfront, Gakpo and Salah offer maginal threat with pace, so maybe swap in Rio for Macca and switch it around a bit. Macca has been poor lying deep, he looks off the pace defensively, so maybe this will free him up too and help get the best out of him. He looked better around the box yesterday, but was poor defensively. Szobo helps Ramsay, Chiesa is industrious too and will work his socks off, and suddenly the whole thing looks a bit more solid and technically a lot better while not sacrificing too much defensively.

-----------------Alisson----------------
Ramsay--Gomez---VVD---Robertson
------------Endo---Gravy-------------
----Szobo------Chiesa------Rio-----
------------------Isak-----------------

Alternately with Chiesa pressing in behind Isak, it gives us the opportunity to press and win the ball and play in Isak and work to his strengths.