So Watched All Our Opponents Today

[TijuanaTim]

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

[Give it to Ron]

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!!

[Whitey Grandad]

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! ;-)

[for_heaven's_Saint]

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.

[dubai_phil]

Thanks for the input Coach.

 

Glad to see you pop back.

[smackalec]

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.

[Saint Fan CaM]

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.

[once_bitterne]

You should write a dossier and mail it to the club.

[Thedelldays]

Wigan Are gash

 

They are alright in the middle of the pitch. Other than that, all fart and no shyt

[S-Clarke]

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

[westofshannonsaint]

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.

[TijuanaTim]

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!!

[Thedelldays]

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

[for_heaven's_Saint]

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.

[The9]

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...

[The9]

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 ?