[Merged] The Football Thread 2005/2006 Season - Page 112

Mal · 10-12-2005, 21:41

I didn't see it, what happened?

Hom3r · 10-12-2005, 21:46

Arsenal lost 1-0 WHaY TO GO, WHOO HOO

gazzae · 11-12-2005, 17:56

Looks like Liverpool could be the only team to challenge Chelsea - the only team playing well enough to anyway.

pedantic · 12-12-2005, 00:59

Having watched the highlights on the beeb, it isn't like we aren't creating chances, we are. So I'm not as worried as some supporters are. We need to convert the chances obviously, but it's when you don't even ceate chances you should be worried. Arsenal suffered the same as we did over the weekend, Henry missed 2 guilt edged chances and would probably have cruised the match. On another day, Rooney would have bagged a hat trick, that's the nature of football. We had enough chances to have won 2 games (about a dozen shots on target) these things do happen in football. Gary Neville was at fault for the Everton goal, why he tracked kilbane when he was running towards other defenders is a mystery. In doing so he was left exposed, in the position where he was supposed to be covering. Ultimately, a simple pass was all that was needed to McFadden, who was in acres of space to pick his spot. The experts will say, a goalkeeper should not be beaten at his near post. But fair play to McFadden, it was pretty much unstoppable.

sherer · 12-12-2005, 10:09

i blame Van Der Sar for that goal,, i've not been impressed by any of his performances so far.. all the saves he's made are only ones most keepers would have made .. plus he's let in a few goals that he shouldn;t have.. never comes off his line when he shuold.. even though he can see all the play and does punches that go to no where

with him and park and Saha doing nothing the whole match it was no wonder we only drew.. would have liked to have seen Rossi brought on sooner..

we started the match a few players down and despite the chances still can't seem to put the ball in the back of the net.. bet Keano was watching that thinking he was right to go

for the past 2 years we can't score from a corner and looks like we don't even practice them in training.. for 30m Rio needs to put in alot more effort.. including getting his head stuck in when the boots are flying.. we need a proper winger.. doesn;t Ryan Giggs no the ball is a solid object and won't go through a defender if you kick it at them ? are best kicked or a dead ball and crosser of the ball is Neville .. doesn't anyone practice this in training ? i'm sure when we play Wigin we still won't have any wingers and still can't cross or score from a corner either

we might have signed De Jong from Ajax for Jan and Keano looks to be on his way to Read Madrid

sherer · 13-12-2005, 09:52

Pele has said the WC Final will be any two from England, Italy and Brasil

so Italy and Brasil in the final then

Steve H · 13-12-2005, 20:02

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Chelsea training notes leaked - they are pretty cool :p

not sure about the part where it says owen smells second balls .. lol

gazzae · 13-12-2005, 20:49

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Originally Posted by Steve H

Chelsea training notes leaked - they are pretty cool :p

not sure about the part where it says owen smells second balls .. lol

Too slow

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...postcount=1613

pedantic · 14-12-2005, 20:43

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Originally Posted by sherer

for the past 2 years we can't score from a corner and looks like we don't even practice them in training.. for 30m Rio needs to put in alot more effort.. including getting his head stuck in when the boots are flying.. we need a proper winger.. doesn;t Ryan Giggs no the ball is a solid object and won't go through a defender if you kick it at them ? are best kicked or a dead ball and crosser of the ball is Neville .. doesn't anyone practice this in training ? i'm sure when we play Wigin we still won't have any wingers and still can't cross or score from a corner either

I think giggsy and rio must have been reading your comments.

Marge · 14-12-2005, 21:38

I heard a nasty rumour on the way home that Rio had scored, I didn't think hell had frozen over just yet

gazzae · 14-12-2005, 22:04

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Originally Posted by Marge

I heard a nasty rumour on the way home that Rio had scored, I didn't think hell had frozen over just yet

Indeed he had. Then he looked mighty upset later when Bardsley was put on in his place.

Rooney should have had a hat trick, he missed an open goal, then Ruud wouldn't give him the ball for the pen.

sherer · 15-12-2005, 10:03

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Originally Posted by pedantic

I think giggsy and rio must have been reading your comments.

nice to see us score from a corner.. still don't think they had practiced that at all. i wish Andy Gray wouldn't over analyse these things all the tne.. what happened was the ball was whacked into the ball by Giggs hoping someone would get on the end of it... no one had practiced that and no one was moving to create space like Andy Gray said

also at the weekend Andy gray was talking about the Liverpool goal v Boro.. during that goal Morientes was standing off side but the ball wasn't played to him.. it came off a Boro bloke and went to him and Andy was talking about how he was inactive etc.. surely the same thing happened with the Fletcher "goal" as it came back from the keeper he would have been on-side ?

you could see from the other corners that we still don't really have much of an idea

nice to see us getting a few goals but should have been so much more.. still no real wing play and we are very narrow.. also VDS still looks very poor.. they played a ball to the far post in the 80th min with Smith covering a defender and you could see from the replay he had no idea whether to come off his line or not

Russ · 15-12-2005, 12:34

Keano's off to Celtic

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ic/4526940.stm

sherer · 15-12-2005, 13:24

be interesting to see how well he does up there.. hope it all works out well for him.. he was a legend at United on and off the pitch and put in the effort of about 5 players put together

"There's only one Keano"

Saaf_laandon_mo · 15-12-2005, 13:29

nice to see that he took a 50% paycut too. I know 45k is still a lot of money, but if the rumours about Real are true, he gave up about 30-40k a week to play for his boyhood idols