TijuanaTim Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Sat in and vegged out all day 'cause my Guide Dog b!tch is in heat and needs company...Prem comes on here at 7am and I watched every game, some good - some yawners. A couple of impressive teams and some very unimpressive ones. So here's a few observations.... WBA - wow, what a surprise...played some pretty solid traditional English football as well....Oh and some should tell Shane Long that the backpass is outlawed - especially from the penalty spot. Ones for us to watch - Mulumbu, Yacob, Gera Liverpool - 15 minutes of neat (Barcelonaesque) football, then the roof caved in. Stevie G (and I'm a big fan) was appalling. Rodgers failed miserably....Heard that rodgers is whinging about the refs already - humourless tvvat. Ones for us to watch - Suarez West Ham - Horrible, yet won ugly playing SamBall. Ones for us to watch - Diame, Vaz Te Aston Villa - 15 minutes of neat (Barcelonaesque) football, then zero inventiveness or creativity. Lambert failed miserably. Ones for us to watch - Agbondalhor (and he didn't even play) Reading - Awful, unimaginative lucky. Ian Harte - best player on the park, says it all really. Ones for us to watch - Harte Stoke - Ugly and predictable. Not one player was better than moderate. Ones for us to watch - Kightly Arsenal - Neat, smart, but even less toothless since losing Van Persie...the new Spaniard and Arteta looked good. Ones for us to watch - Carzola Sunderland - Alamo defence, however nothing going forward and let's be fair Arsenal didn't offer much in and around the box. Ones for us to watch - McLean (maybe) Fulham - Blimey!! Flowing, effective and without Clint Dempsey they were not their recent 'single point failure', so many good performances including Dembele, Ruiz and Petric. Ones for us to watch - Petric Norwich City - 5 minutes of neat (Barcelonaesque) football, then got eeeeeeenialated by wing play, skill and creative finishing. Ones for us to watch - No one, they're ¢rap QPR - The old QP ha, QP ha, QP hahahahaha are back. Sparkie with his clueless ex-Man Uers thought he could spend a bunch on hasbeens and it'd be easy, he had his @ss well and truly handed to him today. His team were awful to a man and guess what he picked them so the tool needs to take a long hard look in the mirror before pointing fingers!! Ones for us to watch - Hoillet Swansea - The most impressive, moved away from the predicable, if effective, Martinez/Rodgers method and played with more flair and invention. Every player including subs were great. Ones for us to watch - Dyer, Michu, Britton Newcastle - Luckiest team of the day, not that great, yet way more PASSIONATE and able to react better than AVB's flacid bunch. Ones for us to watch - Ben Arfa, Ba Tottenham - Excellent play, though dominating they typically reflected their sterile coach's inability to raise gears when needed, unlike the Magpies. Ones for us to watch - Bale, Lennon and RVDV I hope we are able to adapt from the calm, controlled passing Barcelonaesque style when we need to - for obvious reasons, all the teams stuck in that 2 year old time warp fell foul today. I think just about all the teams that didn't play will be huge challenges tho', even if we expect to do well .v. WIGIN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Give it to Ron Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Cheers Tim....Swansea, Fulham and WBA certainly got off to flyers and our start is pretty horrendous and we will be playing catch up but its a long season....just need a bloody defence!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Cheers Tim....Swansea, Fulham and WBA certainly got off to flyers and our start is pretty horrendous and we will be playing catch up but its a long season....just need a bloody defence!! Catch up? Win 6-0 today and we're top of the league! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Let's face it there have been times over the last couple of seasons where we've had to ditch the passing game and play more directly and I don't see us having any problems mixing it up in the Prem. Long ball to Lambert works a treat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Thanks for the input Coach. Glad to see you pop back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smackalec Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Just watched it on the motd repeat. Can't wait for stoke v's wet spam. Both big horrible teams that try bullying footballers. Aston Villa looked hopeless along with Norwich. Hopefully Wigan will be just as bad. That is my bottom 3 anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Fan CaM Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Agree with all said so far - great commentary Tim. I was actually a bit shocked to see some of the poor displays, however we should not go into this league thinking that the first game of the season is indicative of the entire campaign and the performances therein. Some of the teams that looked poor yesterday will come good I suspect because they've got good players that adapt DESPITE their managers/coaches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
once_bitterne Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 You should write a dossier and mail it to the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Wigan Are gash They are alright in the middle of the pitch. Other than that, all fart and no shyt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S-Clarke Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Wigan Are gash They are alright in the middle of the pitch. Other than that, all fart and no shyt Without Moses and Maloney they must be the bluntest side in history. And there is a chance that we will face them without either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westofshannonsaint Posted 19 August, 2012 Share Posted 19 August, 2012 Good post up Tim, I don't disagree with most of it. I might have agreed with it all earlier but I doubt many of the above teams will put in a similar performance against Man City as we did today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TijuanaTim Posted 20 August, 2012 Author Share Posted 20 August, 2012 Chelsea - Efficient and effective. Terry and Ivanovic were dominant and the team played differently to any other this weekend. Ones for us to watch - Hazard WIGIN - Poor, inert. Ones for us to watch - Moses and Maloney...hopefully unavailble v us. Man City - A powerful and sometimes passionate jugernaut. Ones for us to watch - Tevez, Nasri (er...obviously) Southampton Football Club - FANTASTIC, heart, skill, passion, strength...so, so proud of SFC. More light at the end of our tunnel than most. Call me a whinger, I don't care, but for one (maybe two) clusterfu¢k of a (combination) decision by (oh I love BIG clubs) Howeird Webb and his little b!tch linesperson Howeird WebbLite we'd've got a richly deserved result up there...all of you that travelled, a huge 'thanks', you gave us so much joy seeing the red army erupt when SRL equalized and then when SD gave us the lead...your reaction and celebration was epic!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 20 August, 2012 Share Posted 20 August, 2012 Everton v Man U Everton have been excellent...defended from the front from the off...full of high energy and loads of pressing all over the park...tried not to sit deep and went direct at times and just taken the lead Man U look a bit shell shocked to be fair Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
for_heaven's_Saint Posted 20 August, 2012 Share Posted 20 August, 2012 I hope Lambert is watching Fellaini! Can see Adkins using the same tactics as he did against Palace last season when he matched Lambert against Clyne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 21 August, 2012 Share Posted 21 August, 2012 Funnily enough based on the appraisal of all the other teams I'd have said Saints were blunt, defensive and uncreative for most of the match... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The9 Posted 21 August, 2012 Share Posted 21 August, 2012 I hope Lambert is watching Fellaini! Can see Adkins using the same tactics as he did against Palace last season when he matched Lambert against Clyne. Didn't work too well for Lee Bowyer and Keiron Dyer at Newcastle ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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