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Grealish is a bit of a fraud at City.

He was very good at Villa, but at City passing sideways won’t get you very far.

AlexLaw76

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That was a good grealish performance, he actually had good chances.

His general play was as expected, get the ball, shimmy, pass sideways/backwards if not winning a freekick.

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  On 29/12/2022 at 16:24, Holmes_and_Watson said:

I liked Redmond's versatility in adapting to whatever RalphBall was asking him to do in any given week. He's a good squad option to have.

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Redmond wasn’t prolific by any means, but he was underrated and at times harshly berated by our fan base.

Would take him over any of our current wingers.

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  On 26/12/2022 at 13:18, Crab Lungs said:

Yeah I don’t know why people didn’t see that. He was getting less than a shot on target per game at one point, so we literally could have played without a GK.

I remember when he went back to Celtic and everyone wet their pants about his ‘return to form’. I worked out he’d concede a goal pretty much every other shot. He was abysmal.

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  On 29/12/2022 at 22:38, Jonnyboy said:

 

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That highlights reel doesn’t really prove anything. If you’ve missed his tenure at Saints, I’ll sum it up for you:

- spent the first 2 seasons protected by one of the best defences in the league, barely having to save anything.

- when that got dismantled, his severe limitations were exposed over and over again - yet some people couldn’t see past a few over elaborate saves and 2-3 good games vs Arsenal away.

- the longer he spent out of the side, the more people romanticised his ability level. When recalled, he was still poor and even more exposed than before. For some reason, people still refused to see he had no command of his area, could not catch or claim a ball and for his size, was quite a wimp. Still, people clung to the few diving saves and the ball hitting him as some sort of goalkeeping legend.

- at Celtic he barely saved anything and luckily for him, wasn’t tested much.

- good shot stopper sometimes, every other aspect of his goalkeeping, useless.

- 100k a week. For that. Wow.

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I see the 'best fans in the world' streamed out of their sh1thole in their hundreds before full time last night and proceeded to boo the team off the pitch at full time.

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West Ham 2-0 down. Incredibly only have 2 more points than us, and have also scored 1 less goal. Highly unlikely, but if we won tomorrow and go above them, that could be the end for Moyes.

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  On 30/12/2022 at 20:35, Saint_Tony said:

West Ham 2-0 down. Incredibly only have 2 more points than us, and have also scored 1 less goal. Highly unlikely, but if we won tomorrow and go above them, that could be the end for Moyes.

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They’ve been awful this season. Would be bonkers if we went above them tomorrow. 

Think he’s gone if they lose this game. You can’t spend £200m and not be fighting for the same positions as previous seasons. They’ve not sold anyone! 

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  On 30/12/2022 at 20:35, Saint_Tony said:

West Ham 2-0 down. Incredibly only have 2 more points than us, and have also scored 1 less goal. Highly unlikely, but if we won tomorrow and go above them, that could be the end for Moyes.

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If that happens could we offer to swap Moyes for Nathan Wigley?

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  On 30/12/2022 at 20:54, S-Clarke said:

Faes could do a job up front for us.

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It seems players who score own goals often score one at the right end later on, so put money on him doing that in the second half!

That reminds me, Chris Nicholl once scored all 4 goals in a 2-2 draw (when playing for Villa).

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  On 30/12/2022 at 21:44, badgerx16 said:

Who wou;d have settled at the start of the season to be going into match 17 just 2 points behind West Ham ?

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That would depend  on our league position. If they were 8th & we were 11th then yes....if they are 17th & we are 20th...then no.

S-Clarke

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  On 31/12/2022 at 12:50, Chez said:

Can anyone explain west ham's rise and fall?

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It's a strange one, they've moaned for years about Gold/Sullivan not investing and Moyes has had to go and pickup cheap options like Soucek, Dawson, Bowen and Coufal which worked brilliantly. 

Now they've got some more backing and they've thrown upwards of £100m on a leading striker and a Brazilian international CM it's all gone tits up. Paquetta looks totally unsuited to the PL the more I watch him, looks like it's all a bit too fast for him. Adding Scammaca has upset Bowen and has removed the influence he was having.

I think there is an element that some managers are better working with scraps and exceeding expectations, Moyes seems to be like that. He did it at Everton for years, turned around WHU by doing similar, but now they're spending some money he's a bit lost on how to evolve things.

Weirdly Moyes would probably have worked quite well here.

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