Weller Wing

I've always been surprised that we never do the warm up drills at the start of the 2nd half.

They just walked out onto the pitch, and maybe this is one of the reasons we get caught out so early in the half and give ourselves a more difficult task.

It also can prevent injuries 

This is why Everton always stay up

They're constantly shit , but there's always 3 teams even more shit.

Palace looked like a premier side tonight even though they weren't great.

We just haven't got the quality to even make a fight of it

11 minutes ago, Messi said:

I love him, and I don’t want anything said bad about him but relying on a 37/38 year old striker as our main hope for goals to keep us up this season was always going to be a recipe for disaster. 

Still think he'd be better if he wasn't so isolated. 

The fact he's still got so much enthusiasm and aggression and players like Mavididi stroll around without putting anywhere near the same effort in , is embarrassing and shows how poor our recruitment has been for so long 

Hate them but they're a decent side.

Fast,fit and strong.

Keeper played really well but as Liverpool upped it, they stayed strong and still gave Liverpool enough to worry about on the counter.

They won't win the title but a very good night for them considering other results.

Difficult game for me as probably the 2 of the 3 clubs I hate the most ( Chelsea)

1 minute ago, Fear Of The Fox said:

Certainly, we can do it up to the 70min while we're up 1-0. After the 70th min we need to leave because "everyone is working on Thursday". 

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Not forgetting the half time lot.

I went for p#ss right on the half time whistle at the Man City game and the concourse was rammed as I went down the stairs in the Kop

Hoping we can create an atmosphere similar to this, tomorrow night🤞😆

1 minute ago, Filbert Fireworks said:

2 goals conceded at home before half time to QPR.

 

Enough of the comedy show now. Pay Ruud the clown off and bring in moyes to keep us up before its too late. 

This might pose a bit of a problem 

10 minutes ago, egg_fried_rice said:

Just remembered that winks belter against these last season… he could do with another one of them today

This aged well😆

14 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

Southampton and Leeds probably felt the same though

Yes that's true 

I think that horrendous run of 1-0 away defeats to clubs with squads far weaker than ours , soured things a bit.

We did play some very good stuff 1st half of the season until sides sussed us 👍 

On 09/01/2025 at 22:16, SecretPro said:

Old enough to watch Leicester before O'Neils reign and I get all that. It's just laughable people moaned Maresca was boring but are willing to watch the epitome of boring. Not sure what this love-in for Dyche currently is but he absolute ****ing hates Leicester City Football Club with a passion and has forever particularly loved getting a result against us. 

Maresca was frustrating,  as that team should have brushed aside most of the championship but only just got over the line.

I never knew he hated us with a passion,  is this a fact or just your opinion?

It's not a Dyche love-in from me , but I respect what he's done during his career and its without argument that he's good at keeping teams up , even if it's not entertaining. 

I can't say I've been very entertained this season and would kill for a couple of boring 0-0 away results , instead of the shitshows weve witnessed 👍

55 minutes ago, SecretPro said:

He likes working on a shoestring. Gives him something to chime on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about, endlessly like a ****ing scratchy gravelly broken record.

Don't know how old you are , but we had a manager (Irish) in the late 90's that used to go on about how we couldn't compete with the big clubs and had to scrap for every point, which annoyed many opposition fans.

We did this amazingly well, with bargain players and journeymen,  that did a fantastic job , fought really hard and we were pretty much in every game , until the final whistle,  whoever the opposition was. 

I would have taken boring football for a couple of seasons if it meant we could establish ourselves as a bottom half Premier team.

Dyche, for a short period, could have stabilised us , and that's what we've needed since Brendan. 

We're probably going down and unlikely to be at the top table for a while and losing our best young talents as soon as they come through , or even before as has been discussed. 

I don't particularly mind the bloke , I don't like his brand of football,  but he's been the type of manager we've needed during this rough time that looks to be getting worse.

I hope things work out for Ruud,  and I will support him ( apart from the Wolves game) but I'd have Dyche as his replacement,  if things didn't work out , whilst we get some kind of competent leadership from above.

I wouldn't play Ward as he'd then be cup-tied and it might  scupper a big money January transfer 

19 hours ago, StanSP said:

Just needed Muller up top too... 

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Pity Bruno wasn't available tonight 

Could have had Declan Rice,  Bruno Guimarice and even Ben White rice playing at the same time.

Although their tackling sometimes gets them in hot water.

With Darren Ambrosia and uncle Ben off the bench.

I'll get my coat 

Life's a lot easier when Man City win it as I don't know too many of their fans , although the ones I do, are proper fans and have seen the shit.

London , Utd and Liverpool supporters are pretty annoying and most are plastic. 

Forest?

Always hated them and always will.

I don't think they'll win it , but I think they'll get top 4.

A very well organised and effective side and I'm very jealous of where they are and where we are

It wouldn't be so bad if he was able to offer anything going forward.

He gets in good positions,  then checks back and we lose momentum. 

A player that really looked the business a few seasons ago but has really stopped doing everything that he was previously exceptional at.

Another asset that now has no or very little value, and that's just one of the reasons the club is in such a mess

Any streams working for this?

Oops, I meant our game

Just now, old koppite said:

Makes me laugh that some of you lot on here don’t seem to take into account that Ruud has worked with the players all week and probably watched hours of recordings of how Villa play, and he has concluded the line up is the best he can put out to handle them. 

Let's hope he's right and nearly everyone on here is wrong.

To not play Facundo, when he's been our best player apart from our overworked goalkeeper,  is madness 

Had a feeling we could get something today but not very confident now

Anything is possible and I think we've improved a bit since Ruud came in.

I think we can survive but it will take a massive effort from everyone,  from Top to the fans.

I'm not negative but I know what I've seen the 1st half of the season and feel that we deserve to be where we are, based on the horrific performances, so far.

I stand by my Ipswich have been better than us , so far, even without last night's result, but things can change and we have to hope it does.

I remember people were laughing at Forest after we thumped them 2 years ago but they had the character ,and some luck, in putting a good run together,  with the help of their home fans, and stayed up comfortably, whilst we went to pieces and dropped. 

5 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

i totally agree, one of the reasons Cooper was sacked imo

as ive said before the shots stat is a iffy stat to really go by, cos it counts shots that can go out for throw ins etc

They've set themselves up to be hard to break down and have done pretty well but have been low scorers.

You need to stay in games when you've just come up and see where it takes you, competing and making life hard for the opposition, especially when they are arguably better or more established players.

I'd rather us be boring for a season and grind out the results needed in such a vital season for our future. 

I doubt even Southampton would want any of our back 4.

6 minutes ago, FrankieADZ said:

might be solid in some respects but theyve been battered in games, teams havent put them away etc

 

Well if your talking of not putting games to bed , I'd say Spurs,West Ham , Bournemouth and even Southampton would have been scratching their heads after those games where we got 10 of our points.