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It was a simple thread asking for peoples opinion on who they would have bought. However, as usual, people decided to play the poster, not the post. How's the old trying to be Deppo going? You're doing well in turning up randomly on threads, but you really do need to be funnier. All IMHO of course.

I didn't realise you were dyselxic in all honesty, maybe he wasn't aware. I think we're getting to some sort of impasse here anyway, so I may well take back that award (it means you'll have to change your location though).

Haha, yeah it's getting towards that point, which one I'm not sure though!

The way you conduct your posts come across as aggressive a lot of the time. Others agree. You are no WA2 though, I have to say. When I said 'You', it was the royal er, 'you', if you see what I mean. Wasn't meant directly for you, but look at people on this thread like shurlock etc. More aimed at them. I agree I can expect that, and I agree that in isolation those threads do look ridiculous. However, I believe the myriad of points put together after 8 to 10 games means I wasn't being wholly unreasonable with my expectations. After 10 games there was a change, and I started a thread explaining that I may have been too quick to judge but that I still believe the points I raised, although possibly too early, were pertinent.

Yes he has. Early in the season when I think was Fuego (sp) was out.

Not nearly as much as yourself or others that just reply to insult me. Nowhere near. I know I'm not perfect in that regard, and that if someone replies too aggressively etc I'll bit back, but I have no problem with people having their own opinions.

Where?

No I didn't though. He is not a defensive mid. We all know that. I said that initially he could have played ahead of Davis and then as a different option off the bench to play up the spine of the midfield. I never said I wanted to sign him as a DM, but he could have played there early on. He also would have done well to replace Gaston when he got injured.

Cool, we're getting somewhere. I can see your point with keeping it on the floor, it is always easier to keep the ball against teams like West Ham by using an intricate game and not playing them at their own hoofball. However, Lambert is a very good passer of the ball. Fair enough, we do play slightly different with him in the team, looking for more knockdowns etc but I think that should be more down to tactics rather than the specific players, ie we should be able to play both ways with Lambert in the team.

But it's not irrelevant is it? That is the whole point. Him playing 40 games last season in CM, and an additional 4 or 5 this season is more relevant than him playing 4 games up front this season when Danny Graham was out injured and their other option was Leroy Lita.

Please understand the irony of me using IMHO. I know it wasn't an opinion. It was because in my previous thread I put IMHO about 20 times. Same as Davis, I wholeheartedly agree, but a better player I am sure you'll agree. ie. He would do a better job covering for Cork than Davis did. IMHO.

We had one of the worst starts to a Premiership season in the history of the Premier League. After 10 games we had conceded more goals than any team has ever conceded in the Premier League. We were a laughing stock as to how poor we were. There were numerous news outlets that were 100% sure he was going to be sacked and that Redknapp was going to come in. Yet as soon as he changes things, and whether coincidence or not, changes the team selections, substitutions etc to match the issues that I identified ( I do agree Cork being back has made a massive difference) people got all uppity and said that these were not the reasons and haven't contributed to us playing better, purely because they didn't want me to be right. And that is the crux of the issue. People will read whatever they want to into posts, will argue black is white etc, just so that they are not seen to be agreeing with someone they don't like... IMHO of course.

I said he has...he has, he has. I'm not saying that was his regular position for either, but he has played there succesfully. And he was a forward thinking mid, but not a full on behind the striker number 10. He was a central midfielder that tended to get forward more. IMHO

Of course it's opinion, it's a forum. I have never said that these were facts. Everything on this forum is opinion. Do I need to put IMHO at the end of everything I write to make sure people don't confuse it with fact? I thought he should have gone after 8 games as it seemed he wasn't learning from mistakes I thought he had made (IMHO). After 10 games he seemed to work out where the issues were, reset the team etc. Also, as I said at the time, if he wasn't picking the team (Cortese influence) then of course he should be given more time. As I have also said previously, even on that 'Lambert blah...Adkins out' thread I say on the first page that I can see the logic, but that I don't agree with it. It smacked of Adkins trying to be too clever IMHO. IMHO of course.

Yes, that is the implication, but what is wrong with that. Would you say that the 3 I have chosen have performed better or worse over the first third of the season. Of course it qualifies as hindsight. Any decision that could have been made in the past. Surely by my quick tendency to judge on the negative side of the things, I would have thought Saga was someone who was playing for a contract? Either way, conjecture about my opinion of a player who last played for us in 2009 (?) is ridiculous.

If they've got the formation wrong I assume they have probably got his positions wrong as well then. I never said he has played DMC for Swansea. Never said that. Not once. I said he played that position earlier in his career at Celta and early on at Rayo. That was the point.

I agree, and it was just my opinion. Can you at least see why I'd come to that conclusion? It seems that this opinion is seen as mental, and that's what I can't fathom. The animosity and vitriol on this site because I hold this opinion (and others that if you list them surely don't seem that unreasonable) is mental.

I never said they'd be failures? I just said if it was up to me, seeing what has happened so far this season I would have signed those 3 in front of them. Why are you jumping to such conclusions? This is why so many threads go to waste on here, you read what you want to into peoples posts and then post aggressive messages to get the OP's back up. That's all that happens on here now. Such a shame compared to the Halcyon days of S4E.

1) Where was it an advantage then in not starting Lambert? Against City we had no focal point. Against West Ham we controlled the first half but couldn't score, Rodriguez was ineffectual against Collins, who Lambert would have beasted. 2) No it wasn't. The reason was City's finishing, they could have been 5 up by then. 3) Eh? It was the wrong decision, and you know that. We needed to to keep the ball and hold the ball up to keep the pressure off ourselves. By doing that we invited United forward and thus conceded 2 late goals. 4)

Another pointless post from shurlock, glad you're around to enrich the thread.

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No, the fact that his highest ratings have come playing as a Central Midfielder, not as an attacking midfielder or a striker.

At the time though, as you've alluded to, they were 10 points ahead of us. That means that since the beginning of the season they had 10 more points than we did, ergo, they were a better team. Even catching up 1 point since game 9 means very little, especially as I seem to remember Lua Lua, who was their best and most dangerous player that season, being out for the best part of the 10 weeks between those times.

I can't remember people saying we majorly missed out on them?

Nillson and Jacobsen as well...