21 Oct 2013 23:40:09
Brown is meant to be playing in the derby!
Now if he dares play O'Shea again!
___________Westwood____________
Celustka__Diakite__Brown___Colback
________Gardner__Cattermole_____________________Ki_______________
_____Mavrias________Giaccherini________________Fletcher_____________
This is our strongest team-No idea what has happened to Cabral: (
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Sh!t
That went wrong
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I read that Brown has not started a Premier League game for 21 months, and you are going to throw him in against the likes of Remy & Ben Arfa lol.
Apart from Colback, that is a dream back line for us. Bardsley is normally well fired up for the derby games, you would be missing a trick not to include him.
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No, I didn't make it up
It's in loads of articles, ssn, the journal, Daily Star, Spanglefish and even Poyet said it himself
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My team would be westwood, celutska, brown, diakite, colback, mavrias, catts, ki, giach, altidore, fletcher that's our strongest team we could play. to the mugpie Brown is better than O'shea and will make us stronger, diakite is a tank, colback always gives his all and celutska is better than bardsley!
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I'd play our development team, at least they remember how to play football.
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21 Oct 2013 19:04:55
Guess the good news about the Swansea game is that Gus has had a chance to see how useless most of the 1st team is. Bad news it he's only got a week to get it right!
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I don't expect much from us in the derby
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21 Oct 2013 18:54:47
The season starts now, quick 3 points this Sunday for starters.
we need to go for it big time ki back with fletch and josy
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Only 1 little problem, the 8 useless lot behind
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20 Oct 2013 23:06:56
Why oh why do we play the old players
We bought their replacements, yet, they don't play
GK WESTWOOD
RB CELUSTKA
CB DIAKITE
CB ROBERGE
LB COLBACK
CM CATTERMOLE
CM KI
LAM GIACCHERINI
RAM MAVRIAS
ST FLETCHER
ST ALTIDORE
Westwood-makes great saves, don't have a replacement if he turns crap or gets injured though
Celustka-Usually solid
Diakite-Everything we need in a centre back, quick, strong, great in the air and sweeps attacks away with ease plenty if times
Roberge-always very cool, calm on the ball and very tidy in winning possession
Colback-Mr, Reliable, know idea why he didn't play against Swansea
Catts-Fantastic, great captain and protects the back 4 amazingly
Ki-Our playmaker, makes space for himself, lays it off, moves forward and gets it back, simple but effective
Mavrias- IMO better than Johnson, he WANTS to be involved, full of tricks and pace and gets us further up the field
Giaccherini-brilliant, he deserves better than us, unfortunately
Altidore-strong on the ball, bullies defenders but still needs a goal
Fletcher-No9
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Spot on mr makem surely someone at the club can see the old guard are past their best and I think the new lads given the chance will get results they will never sort it out if the has beens at the club are allowed to remain in the first team k ball is a legend but I think he had no vision he like the others was pandering to the no marks who got all previous managers the heave ho let's have some new blood on the pitch please
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Thats the exact same team I would pick, Poyet needs to look at these banter pages, that team is a midtable side but are struggling why does every manager insist on playing O'shea, Larsson who are too slow, bardsley was decent 1st half but his lack of game time showed, the own goal was not his fault, but he should be number 2 right back not left back, johnson, larsson, osh*te, gards need dropping
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Totally agree, it's time to give the new blood a chance and move out the dead wood at Christmas to give Poyet a chance to do some tinkering of hi own.
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I hope and pray that Kevin Ball picked the team for Swansea and Poyet has enough about him to drop the old guard.
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Sorry but 4-4-2 does not work any more. Giaccherini is also not a winger. He has looked much more productive and effective in the central support role.
I would possibly look at the following: -
GK Westwood
RB Celustka / Bardsley (Celustka is still tweeting re Turkey all the time)
RCB Diakite / Brown
LCB Roberge
LB Dossena
DCM Colback / Cabral
DCM Cattermole / Ki
LAM Johnson
CAM Giaccherini / Borini
RAM Mavrias / Karlsson
ST Fletcher / Altidore
The options can be subs along with Whickham, Ba and Gardner
I would sell JOS, SL, CC, DV without a second thought and if possible DG to Hull if they will take him even though he hasn't scored.
In Jan I would look at getting N'Diaye back if possible as well.
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Colback should play LB
Catts and Ki should both play,
If Catts plays we won't have anyone to break up attacks and protect the defence, if Ki doesn't play we won't have a playmaker
Do you really think Johnson deserves to play, he is terrible
2 at the front could work, it all depends who we play and what we set out to do in the game
Yes, if its Man City etc, 1 up front otherwise we will get thumped, but if its a team who are equal to us (there isn't any worse at the moment) we could press high up the pitch which will give us more opportunities to score, but the defence and midfield has got to be tight for it to work
I remember when we won Chelsea 3-0 I was dumbfounded when I heard we played 2 up front but it worked, why? Simply because we had an attacking intent, we chased down everything and attacked in numbers, QUICKLY
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It's supposed to say
"If Catts does not play"
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Ok, go 4-2-1-1-2 then
GK - Westwood
RB - Celuska
CB - Brown
CB - Diakite
LB - Dossena
DCM - Cattermole
DCM - Colback
CM - Ki
ACM - Giaccherini
ST - Altidore
ST - Fletcher
Subs - Mannone, Roberge, Cabral, Gardner, Johnson, Mavrias, Borini
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