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Reply | The Official Blackburn Rovers vs Swansea City Match Thread
at 12:53 2 Mar 2020
I am not sure if you were present at the Fulham game but I was and struggle to relate to much in your post.
There was an element of dog in our midfield but that dog was similar to a spaniel that likes to chase thin air or it's own tail. The way Fulham were able to by-pass through and around our midfield was very similar to how we did this under Potter less than a year ago.
Our front 3 spent most of the match chasing balls pumped into the channels - I guess you could call it lively as they chased hard but rarely got on the end of the % play. I didn't see the back 4 of the oppo being pegged back, particularly Bryan who got forward a lot and helped run Naughton ragged.
But worst of all was the inability to switch the play. Every single goal kick was clearly practiced - loft it to the left wing and hope Bidwell or Ayew could knock it down into midfield. I think they won maybe 10% of those headers and could count on one hand the number of times the 2nd ball fell to a Swans player. Fulham would attach and either Joe or Ben would put in a last minute block / foil. Rinse and repeat for most of the match.
Yes Fulham pressed high and put their forwards tight on Joe and Ben to reduce the short outlet but there were several times we could have been braver and Woodman could have chipped a ball over their heads into Grimes / Fulton, or distributed quicker before Fulham could reset.
None of this pointed to a team that was "set up to win" as Cooper likes to suggest.
So I am not sure what this upward trajectory looks like. |
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Reply | The Official Fulham FC vs Swansea Match Thread
at 15:42 27 Feb 2020
Being an exile it was nice to go to a live game - even if it was with a Fulham season ticket holder and meant I had to sit in the home end behind the goal. My thoughts on the match for what they are worth:
- no point in dwelling on it as nothing will be done but that was the worst officiating I have ever seen. I was about 20 yards from the "penalty" and saw their player wrap his legs round Roberts ankle and they both went down while the ball flew out of play about 20 feet above their heads.
- loved Ayew passion and frustration.
- Naughton was run ragged and his clearances were poor. Both he and Bidwell were terrible at closing down crosses all night.
- Rodon was an absolute Rolls Royce particularly 2nd half where he won 2/3 fantastic headers against Mitrovic. Just a shame he got dragged out wide to protect Bidwell for the goal.
- Cabango. I actually wanted to go and hug the poor lad he was in tears. Great to see the other lads rallying round him - it isn't his first mistake and it won't be his last. Great experience to play against someone of Mitro's ilk.
- Fulton I was impressed with, Gallagher was peripheral all night and Cooper obviously loves him as I would have hooked him 2nd half. Grimes gets stick and he certainly wasn't in the game much but defensively he did well.
My overriding emotion coming away from the game was depression. Watching a good Fulham side work the triangles to by-pass our midfield reminded me of the Swans of old. Instead I had to watch Woodman hoof it to the wing, followed by either Bidwell or Ayew 9 times out of 10 head it to a Fulham player and allowing them to go again.
Yes the officiating didn't help, but boy did we also try our best to give the game to Fulham - if it weren't for their lack of cutting edge there would have been no tense finale. It was, to me, classic turgid FA coached tactics of lump it to the channels and hope to feed off scraps.
On the plus side, walking back to the car along the Thames on a crisp night was lovely... |
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Reply | AJ V Ruiz 2
at 14:23 6 Dec 2019
10.30pm I believe. |
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Reply | Who doing Luton town away
at 10:24 3 Dec 2019
I live in Harpenden darling so will be getting the train which is about a 5/10 minute journey :) |
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Reply | The NHS
at 13:51 29 Nov 2019
I said it was a good read, not that it wasn't unbiased. |
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Reply | The NHS
at 12:17 29 Nov 2019
For balance though Labour say they are referencing Dr Hill to support their claims about what would happen if the Tories "sold off" the NHS but this includes the following assumptions:
- all current US sourced drugs would go up from current NIICE sourced prices to full insurance-backed US prices;
- that we would source all our drugs from the US (we currently only source around 20% I believe)
Full Fact is a good read. |
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Reply | The NHS
at 13:27 28 Nov 2019
New Zealand and Australia probably also needed a trade deal with the US more than the US needed it too and guess what, no adverse drug pricing provisions in those.
The voting public will never see the NHS as anything other than sacrosanct (despite no other nations trying to emulate it...) hence why no party that wants to not be wiped from electoral history will entertain a bad deal with the US on this specific area. |
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Reply | The NHS
at 11:37 28 Nov 2019
So just because the US want their cake and more you think the UK will just roll-over?
It only makes it a win / win for them if the UK say yeah, put up our prices and for longer and while you are at it wipe us out of electoral history.
Fantasy. |
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Reply | The NHS
at 15:10 27 Nov 2019
If this were to happen the Tory party would cease to exist as a) many Tory MPs will simply abandon the party given such a toxic policy; and b) most of the population would never vote for them again.
Ergo, it won't happen - they are dim but not so dim as to make themselves permanently unelectable. |
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Reply | Labour manifesto
at 13:28 27 Nov 2019
It was pretty excruciating watching him squirm on the WASPI funding question.
He didn't seem fully aware of the stats on what % of tax the top 5% of earners already pay.
And if he had just given an immediate straight answer on the AS issue he wouldn't have spent 10 minutes being trussed up like a sinewy turkey. |
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Reply | Labour manifesto
at 13:25 27 Nov 2019
And of course for anyone in the unfortunate position of being a full-time carer for one's spouse. |
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Reply | The NHS
at 13:16 27 Nov 2019
An incredibly lame attempt at glass-breaking to try and hide the anti-semitism row and the fact Labour are having to come clean about who is really going to get taxed to fund their fantasy pledges. |
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Reply | Luton tickets
at 10:38 25 Nov 2019
Is it usually a week following that away tickets go on general sale and not through JA? |
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Reply | Anyone voting Conservative must be mad ?
at 13:15 15 Nov 2019
Evidence for this please?
I can't believe billionaires and corporates helped come up with the "General Anti-Avoidance Rules" which gives HMRC serious powers to come down on legal activities carried out for the simple purpose of avoiding tax. |
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