Freewheelin'
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Lukaku is a really shit finisher isnt he :lol
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Football 2014/2015 |OT13| Lightning returns, check your PMs, there is no kick
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Steverulez
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Poor Eden
flabberghastly
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If they go bankrupt this month, they'll have another new buyer for a solitary 1 note.
Welcome to the world, Parmaghastly FC. They'll be playing in a former eggplant field.
I hate the Sanchez fouls. That Leicester tackle on him in our game yesterday was a shit tackle. Pisses me off that the only way to stop a class player is to kick them mentality.Poor Eden
LabouredSubterfuge
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Berahino's eyebrows are mystifying.
Stereogatari
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LTTP: EAT THAT WILLIAN GOAL CITY. EAT THAT CECH SAVE. EAT THAT DISALLOWED GOAL THAT DIDN'T MATTER.
EAT IT EAT IT. 7 POINT HEAVEN.
EAT IT EAT IT. 7 POINT HEAVEN.
Also Cesena risks points deduction because their former owner took money from the club for himself and left the club on the verge of bankruptcy with €35m debts before the club was saved by a local businessman and then gained promotion to Serie A and I think they're still paying the debts left by their former president
flabberghastly
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Christ, you're as nauseating as HateGames and doicare.
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Dat relief of pressure tho. I had to express it.
More importantly though, where the fuck have you been? Juve needs you. We need you.
jts
...hate me...
Just a heads up though, since I only found out about it recently. You can disable stuff like avatars, pics AND gifs on GAF mobile. Highly customisable. Just great.
As for Chrome, if only there were other browsers available
Wow, you are so cool.
Stereogatari
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TIL Jaaskaleinen hasn't retired yet?
Just seen the Adrian sending off.
Have no idea what Adrian was thinking there, how the fuck did he still think he was in the box?
Have no idea what Adrian was thinking there, how the fuck did he still think he was in the box?
Exactly what I just thought :lol
LabouredSubterfuge
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Pelle's become a bit shit really hasn't he?
Evans was just so fucking poor.
Indecisive, clueless, physically insignificant, clumsy twat.
It's very clear now that he looks up the pitch when he receives the ball and he gets scared. Granted, sometimes the options are few, or poor. But this incompetent languor he has going just has to be fear. And it's so unacceptable.
Falcao's meaningless to me now. Nice bloke, but his touch is way out and his confidence is buggered.
Indecisive, clueless, physically insignificant, clumsy twat.
It's very clear now that he looks up the pitch when he receives the ball and he gets scared. Granted, sometimes the options are few, or poor. But this incompetent languor he has going just has to be fear. And it's so unacceptable.
Falcao's meaningless to me now. Nice bloke, but his touch is way out and his confidence is buggered.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Falcao's every first touch was painful to see today. Lost the ball nearly every time.
So, who's off in the summer, Laboured.
Rooney, RVP, Evans, Smalling, Valencia and Young, right? You can have Kaboul and Adebayor as some of those replacements.
Young will stay.
I expect/hope to see the following go:
- Rafael
- Evans
- Jones
- Valencia
- Falcao
- Lindegaard
- Nani
- Hernandez
- Cleverley
- Powell
I'd say if we got decent offers for Young, Smalling and Evans they'll be gone too.
Steverulez
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You gotta have more class than that man, WWJD?
(What would Jose do?)
No need to make it personal against City, we should joining forces to fight back against the #conspiracy #justiceforcosta
LabouredSubterfuge
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So, who's off in the summer, Laboured.
Rooney, RVP, Evans, Smalling, Valencia and Young, right? You can have Kaboul and Adebayor as some of those replacements.
1. I'm not having any Spurs players for £50 million Scum, it's not happening.
2. Realistically Evans, Falcao, Fellaini, Rafael, Chicha, Nani, Lindegaard and Cleverley will be out. Smalling and one of Young/Valencia's also a possibility.
flabberghastly
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Southampton would probably be above City right now if Pelle hadn't transformed into a plucked squab.
Their attack has been particularly constipated lately. One goal in three matches - and deep in stoppage time for the lone one.
I keep forgetting about Nani. This summer is going to fun. Plenty of clubs will be shifting dead weight.
Please leave, Ade.
If I beat the master better 360 himself i will be in heaven
Bakkus
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I disagree with the upper 3. Especially Rafael, he's for the most part good when he isn't injured. I also refuse to give up on Evans and Jones just yet, they have both shown more solid display before this season and they are able to get their form back. Mabye we just need a leader at the back again like Hummels to get the other CBs sorted aswell.
FlutterPuffs
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Falcao needs to go yeah.
He's trying too hard. It's just gonna be painful for him if he tries to score too much.
He's trying too hard. It's just gonna be painful for him if he tries to score too much.
I think 11 goals in 24 games is still a decent return for someone like Pelle (Lambert's highest tally for them in the Premface League was 15)
It's good for a guy who flopped multiple times in Serie B and a few more in A. And when I say flopped I'm talking single digits here that you can count on one hand
It's good for a guy who flopped multiple times in Serie B and a few more in A. And when I say flopped I'm talking single digits here that you can count on one hand
Lol
LabouredSubterfuge
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It's an ok return overall but the disparity of when they were scored sticks out heavily.
Baconsaurus Rex
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The_Hitcher89
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Lukaku :lol
I'll start judging Rodgers on trophies after this season. We're still struggling for identity imo, and hopefully we can settle down and start making inroads in the cups. We've had 6 distinctly different styles of play under him already, which is ludicrous
1) Shit tiki taka first half 12/13
2) Well rounded counterattacking second half
3) Possession and movement, back to basics first half 13/14
4) Balls out intensity, 4-3-3, all-out attack no regard for defense second half
5) Absolute turgid dogshit first half 14/15
6) What we're doing now
To win a cup we need to mix it up a bit during games, rather than between halves of the season. However, my biggest problem with Rodgers is probably the changes he makes during matches. Too often the subs make things worse if anything, or we go for a tactical switch which causes things to go wrong.
Just look at the 2 Everton matches, and the League Cup game at Stamford Bridge
In both Everton matches, we just handed them the initiative when we were either winning, or looking likely to win. At Goodison we decided to try dropping back and playing on the break, when Everton weren't giving us the space to do it, and we had the wrong personnel in Gerrard and Lambert.
At Anfield, we tried protecting a 1 goal lead when Everton weren't posing any threat. It took a wondergoal to fuck it up for us, but we should have been pushing them back, especially given the fact that we were relying on an awfully shaky defensive unit to stand firm.
Then in the League Cup, we just needed a single goal, and we bought Balotelli and later Lambert on (whilst Gerrard was still on the pitch iirc). All of our intensity, mobility and movement just disappeared from our attack in a flash, and we never came close to threatening.
To be honest, I'll be happy with stability as long as its reasonably close to the CL spots. We haven't got the infrastructure to just keep changing managers like Barca, we seem to have a massive rebuilding project whenever we do it. Keep what we want, get rid of players who have little to offer. See where it takes us. If we win a trophy, boss. If not, its not too bad as long as we don't fall off a cliff again.
Those 4 months threatened to undo everything, and it is vital that we don't get anywhere near as bad as that for a long time. I'm fucking sick of the uncertainty that surrounds bringing a new manager in tbh. We're a big club, but not big enough to brute force it even if we get it wrong.
We've got a young squad that'll get even younger (and better probably) when Gerrard leaves, a few players who could be absolutely class in a couple of years, and we're generally back on the right track. Just wanna see where it goes, and periods like September to December jeapordise that badly. I didn't want Rodgers gone, but I thought we were heading to that point with no signs of it slowing down.
Really, if we'd gone another month before changing the formation and starting to get good form out of the new signings, I think he'd be gone. If not now, in the summer as we'd be well off the pace in the race for top 4.
For now, the battleship is sailing reasonably smoothly. Probably left the port too late to reach our planned destination, but fuck it. I'm happy with how things are going again.
I'll start judging Rodgers on trophies after this season. We're still struggling for identity imo, and hopefully we can settle down and start making inroads in the cups. We've had 6 distinctly different styles of play under him already, which is ludicrous
1) Shit tiki taka first half 12/13
2) Well rounded counterattacking second half
3) Possession and movement, back to basics first half 13/14
4) Balls out intensity, 4-3-3, all-out attack no regard for defense second half
5) Absolute turgid dogshit first half 14/15
6) What we're doing now
To win a cup we need to mix it up a bit during games, rather than between halves of the season. However, my biggest problem with Rodgers is probably the changes he makes during matches. Too often the subs make things worse if anything, or we go for a tactical switch which causes things to go wrong.
Just look at the 2 Everton matches, and the League Cup game at Stamford Bridge
In both Everton matches, we just handed them the initiative when we were either winning, or looking likely to win. At Goodison we decided to try dropping back and playing on the break, when Everton weren't giving us the space to do it, and we had the wrong personnel in Gerrard and Lambert.
At Anfield, we tried protecting a 1 goal lead when Everton weren't posing any threat. It took a wondergoal to fuck it up for us, but we should have been pushing them back, especially given the fact that we were relying on an awfully shaky defensive unit to stand firm.
Then in the League Cup, we just needed a single goal, and we bought Balotelli and later Lambert on (whilst Gerrard was still on the pitch iirc). All of our intensity, mobility and movement just disappeared from our attack in a flash, and we never came close to threatening.
To be honest, I'll be happy with stability as long as its reasonably close to the CL spots. We haven't got the infrastructure to just keep changing managers like Barca, we seem to have a massive rebuilding project whenever we do it. Keep what we want, get rid of players who have little to offer. See where it takes us. If we win a trophy, boss. If not, its not too bad as long as we don't fall off a cliff again.
Those 4 months threatened to undo everything, and it is vital that we don't get anywhere near as bad as that for a long time. I'm fucking sick of the uncertainty that surrounds bringing a new manager in tbh. We're a big club, but not big enough to brute force it even if we get it wrong.
We've got a young squad that'll get even younger (and better probably) when Gerrard leaves, a few players who could be absolutely class in a couple of years, and we're generally back on the right track. Just wanna see where it goes, and periods like September to December jeapordise that badly. I didn't want Rodgers gone, but I thought we were heading to that point with no signs of it slowing down.
Really, if we'd gone another month before changing the formation and starting to get good form out of the new signings, I think he'd be gone. If not now, in the summer as we'd be well off the pace in the race for top 4.
For now, the battleship is sailing reasonably smoothly. Probably left the port too late to reach our planned destination, but fuck it. I'm happy with how things are going again.
I'm well aware of how frequently off-track and slapdash that post is
Steverulez
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...is that a joke Yurt?!
There comes a point when a player isn't worth keeping if they're injured all the time, and that time is coming for Rafael. If he's not getting in ahead of McNair and Valencia, he's not worth keeping.
2 of Smalling, Evans and Jones should be sold assuming replacements can be found - I'd be inclined to keep Jones of the 3.
LabouredSubterfuge
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:lol
Shanks D Zoro
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Juve to sign him on loan next January confirmed.
flabberghastly
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Eight of the eleven were scored during a two-month period at the start of the season. He's flopped in typical Pelle fashion since then.
Facism
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LOL.
Nah fam the 360 fanbase said it was ok to pay for p2p bullshit 1990's PC online gaming so Sony was all "yeh we'll charge too cos plebs always pay"
I imagine it's very hard for you and bud not to support SOTON now
When are we going to win the league Bacon? AJAX MUST BE STOPPED
No I'm genuinely that clueless about consoles :lol I remember PSN being free so what are they talking about here
Oh boy. You have to shell out 50 shades of something to play online. Playstation Plus.
And you also get some games every month that you can play until you stop paying for the sub.
You'll cave in anyway for BB, BB.
Coldnoodle
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Serie D! I've never even heard of Serie C!
Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Parma are dead.
Sorry Suen :lol
Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
Parma are dead.
Sorry Suen :lol
WELL after some panic googling, I suppose I can handle 50 dollars per year, you fucking THIEVES
Hope they get hacked again by Wii fanboys
Any good free games atm?
The_Hitcher89
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Transistor, Apotheon, Rogue Legacy, Thief (PS3)
Facism
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Rogue Legacy is good times plus i heard Transistor is pretty sweaty.
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