PoohBear

I know you shouldn't make decisions when emotional, but I'll be happy enough to wave off morelos at the end of the season. No way we should be considering giving him a new contract.

Wank man

24 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

Eh! you want us to play with a man short????

My point was Raskin could probably do better alone than both Lundstrum and Kamara. It wasn't meant to be taken literally, just that our midfield has been really, really weak.

So unlucky therr

1 minute ago, compo said:

That leaves you a man short😝

That was my point!

Although that was a good challenge there from Kamara.

and that is more like it from Sakala!

If I were Beale I'd consider taking off both Kamara and Lundstrum, and replace them with Raskin. He couldn't do worse.

Tillman must have had doubled his caffeine dose today, needs to measure his passes a bit more 😂

I'm confused and disappointed to see Kamara ahead of Raskin. Hope he proves Beale right.

imagine a Roofe with no injury problems.

17 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

I don't care how long it takes. 

 

As long as they get the correct decision.

Eh, I definitely care how long it takes. There is no reason why it needs to take longer than around 30s to be honest.

3 minutes ago, Malangsob said:

What are these guys complaining about? 

I count 6... and a Europa Cup runner up.

8 minutes ago, Rousseau said:

Offside.

 

It's still inexplicable how he's played play-on, then stops, then gives the offside.

 

I would've given the foul, then checked the offside. 

Ok, he didn't actually look offside to me. Weird how it takes so bloody long for these VAR calls.

Not sure how we didn't get a penalty for that guy just running straight into Kent.

Fucking hell, Glen Kamara again? Can't fucking wait for this game with the ball going through Kamara, and on this pitch...

Was he not the weirdo that made up the myth of Rangers being doped up on caffeine? Think that's probably what he was getting at.

It doesn't matter what other teams would or wouldn't have done in that situation. We set the barometer. Be proud of the fact we did the right thing and can hold ourselves to higher standards than others even if it isn't reciprocated.

45 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said:

Nope.

 

Feel free to read again.

I've read it a couple of times and that's all I could gather from your post.

I don't get people who are so against what we did. They would be livid at anything like that if it happened against us, such a strange paradox.

55 minutes ago, ranger_syntax said:

Di Canio picked up a fair play award.

 

West Ham finished near the bottom of the league.

 

No actual silverware for either Di Canio or West Ham that season.

 

Choose your path.

You're either implying that if Di Canio hadn't stopped the game then West Ham would have finished with silverware, or otherwise you have no point to make. Which is it?

4 minutes ago, RANGERRAB said:

Need to see it again. Were they giving us the ball back? Why didn’t they just punt it up the park to sands or davies?

Cause the guy receiving the ball at the throw in had the touch of a drunken elephant, he didn't get the chance to blooter it, or whatever he was going to do.

6 minutes ago, Sutton_blows_goats said:

Just stop playing him. He’s shown he’s barely one good performance in ten games. 

I've never really thought he's that great a player. I don't think I'd have any emotions if he were to leave.

Reading that people think Beale has thrown Tillman under a bus and that he'll have lost a lot of respect from the players in some places. I can't agree with that, he can still defend Tillman and explain what happened. 
 

The simple fact is that we have to improve our performances though. This was nearly the banana skin, I feel like when we do slip up it might cause a cascade of results if we can't get the team gelled and performing well.

I dunno. Di canio did it for West Ham.

4 minutes ago, der Berliner said:

Two things, and they are rather obvious: 

 

Not dropping points is because Goldson and Davies are now our centre-half pairing, being fit and up to form again. Under Gio, it was makeshift time for long spells and Goldson was hardly looking in any sort of a form that he is capapble off.

 

Not putting teams to the sword is because we play the same tactics over and over again. The things that turn our games now is the introduction of a true attacker on the right wing (he goes by the name of Sakala) and that Tillman is grabbing the ball and heads and shoots at goal in a manner that should see Kent go pale with shame. Cantwell looks really up for it, is clever and shoots as well. If Raskin comes close to that and Hagi gets back into action, we have a solid attacking midfield ready. Yet, I would still prefer two real strikers against teams that put 7+ men into the area.

 

We play with one striker who isn’t a finisher or poacher. When he’s on his game he can do the other stuff well but his finishing is the weakest part of his game. Colak had pretty much equalled Morelos’ goal tally for the past 3 seasons prior to the break. I can understand why Beale is considering playing both.

Can't believe we haven't dropped more points yet under Beale. Not that I don't think he's doing a good job, just that aside from the Hearts game we have made really hard work of every other game so far. It needs to be addressed before we do start dropping the points, because with that the confidence in the squad disappears, I feel it already teeters on the brink.