Fulham

[Tommy Fresh]

Just now, 00rawat said:

Drop coady still don't understand why he was dropped to begin,!!!easily a better defender then coady!!!

I beg your pardon

[Lako42]

1 minute ago, Miquel The Work Geordie said:

Nobody "looks Belgian" but Castagne looks so Belgian

Yep

 

 

Compare him to say Hazard. 

 

If someone had a gun to ya head and made you guess whether Hazard was Belgian or not Belgian, you'd be toast. 

 

Not a game I want to find myself involved in. 

[StanSP]

Just now, Lako42 said:

Yep

 

 

Compare him to say Hazard. 

 

If someone had a gun to ya head and made you guess whether Hazard was Belgian or not Belgian, you'd be toast. 

 

Not a game I want to find myself involved in. 

Sounds like a new game for Huth on Twitter. 

[StanSP]

1 minute ago, Tommy Fresh said:

I beg your pardon

Coady is better than Coady but should be dropped for Coady. 

[Safe Hands]

Not arsed….

 

ward HT for us, castagne HT for them. Jay Leno with a 99th minute winner for them 

 

3-4

[00rawat]

2 minutes ago, Tommy Fresh said:

I beg your pardon

I meant drop coady , play okoli my bad

[fox_favourite]

Draw names out of a hat for each position. Make it interesting in some way 

[Fox92]

Can’t see anything other than a Fulham win.

[StanSP]

Just now, fox_favourite said:

Draw names out of a hat for each position. Make it interesting in some way 

Do it live in the stadium. 

[Lako42]

1 minute ago, fox_favourite said:

Draw names out of a hat for each position. Make it interesting in some way 

Don't put my name in the hat please. 

[SK3Blue]

The bloke who ran on the pitch looked quicker than Vestergaard and Faes. 
 

Gerrim’ in. 

 

 

[Aus Fox]

2 minutes ago, 00rawat said:

I meant drop coady , play okoli my bad

Can a player who was dropped for the previous game be dropped? 
Drop Vestergaard, for sure and play Okoli I agree

[fox_favourite]

7 minutes ago, Lako42 said:

Don't put my name in the hat please. 

Number 45 please welcome our new striker @Lako42! 

[fazzyfox]

                             Stolarczyk

New bloke.    Okoli.    Faes.      kristiansen

                              Choudhury

Bouananotte      El Khannous.        Alves

                        Cannon.       Edouard

 

well we can’t just keep doing the same thing so try something else 

 

 

 

 

[Lako42]

9 hours ago, fox_favourite said:

Number 45 please welcome our new striker @Lako42! 

Rudkin only offered me 80k a week on a 15 year deal so i'm holding out 

[jim5000]

I’d stick Daka up top alongside Vardy.

 

Ruud seems intent on just rolling out the same 4-2-3-1 formation with the odd personnel change behind Vardy, and hoping for ‘improvement in the important moments’. It just ain’t working.

 

We don’t have the players to change the team, so we need to change the shape.

 

No doubt we will see the Soumare/Winks midfield again, which for 6 games now has proven its not working.

 

We didn’t think Soumare was good enough for the Championship, yet he seems Ruud’s first name on the sheet and has coincided with our worst run of the season.

[StonyFox]

Our wingers are ineffective , so go to wingbacks and 2 number 10s. Vardy can't start 3 in a week.

Might be a car crash, but we're in desperate need of something. Doubt we'll change from the 4231 though. 

 

                       Jakob

             Faes yannik coady

Woyo                                    Kristensen              

                 Winks Soumare

        facundo                  Bilal

                          Daka

[tinpot_fox]

“Seven in a row,

seven in a row,

oh RVN,

don’t make us sing that!”

[whoareyaaa]

2 hours ago, jim5000 said:

I’d stick Daka up top alongside Vardy.

 

Ruud seems intent on just rolling out the same 4-2-3-1 formation with the odd personnel change behind Vardy, and hoping for ‘improvement in the important moments’. It just ain’t working.

 

We don’t have the players to change the team, so we need to change the shape.

 

No doubt we will see the Soumare/Winks midfield again, which for 6 games now has proven its not working.

 

We didn’t think Soumare was good enough for the Championship, yet he seems Ruud’s first name on the sheet and has coincided with our worst run of the season.

Yup we looked a bit more of a threat with Daka and Vardy up top, as much as we love Vardy it's painful watching him up there on his own.

 

He needs to change something and hopefully this new lad can add something to the attack.

[UniFox21]

I'm half wondering if we sacrifice Mav or Buonanotte for a  better "runner" someone who will run behind etc rather than try and take the man inside all the time.

[Chelmofox]

Buonanotte. Can't keep giving the ball away. 

[Levi Port]

Just now, UniFox21 said:

I'm half wondering if we sacrifice Mav or Buonanotte for a  better "runner" someone who will run behind etc rather than try and take the man inside all the time.

Ayew punching the air right now 

[AKCJ]

12 hours ago, Lako42 said:

Yep

 

 

Compare him to say Hazard. 

 

If someone had a gun to ya head and made you guess whether Hazard was Belgian or not Belgian, you'd be toast. 

 

Not a game I want to find myself involved in. 

Eden? I agree.

 

Thorgen? Looks incredibly belgian.

[AKCJ]

Woyo has to start.

 

I don't think Justin did anything particularly wrong last night but he's tarnished. We need a Villa away type performance where Souttar, Kristiansen and Tete all looked brilliant because they were new and didn't yet realise how miserable it is here.

[moore_94]

Ruud Van Nistelrooy Pre-Match Press Conference vs Fulham

 

Coulibaly available?

“Today he wasn’t able to train with the team yet because we are finalising the paperwork. If he can train tomorrow, we will see. We’ll see if we can get him involved in the game on Saturday.”

 

Confident in Coulibaly?

“I’m convinced. It was a long spell where we were talking with the scouts about him and looking at clips and making the required phone calls on his character. It’s all positive. In that sense it’s a match. The position, the physical qualities.”
 

More signings coming?

“We’re working on it, every possibility we can add. Permanents and loans. Coulibaly is a good option for us. We needed an extra right-back because of the injury to Ricardo. Hopefully we can add more.”
 

Need a centre-back and a striker?

“We’re looking at all options that can strengthen our team. It’s important to emphasise the number of chances we are creating is okay. It’s a matter of time before those chances are taken. The concern is the chances we are conceding. With Coulibaly it helps us to strengthen our defence and allows us to rotate more.”
 

Exits?

“We’re looking at Tom Cannon’s situation very closely. What is best for him and for the club. There’s a possibility of loans being looked at, but other than that we want to keep the team together.”
 

Injuries?

“There’s no injury news from yesterday’s game and no players coming back for Saturday.”
 

Are you fed up of good performances but no points?

“We’ve talked about it for a while now. We need to turn those performances into points. Desperately we want to be out of that situation by the end of May and every game we don’t collect, that’s one game gone and it makes it more difficult. There are three or four teams very close who are dropping points and that makes it possible.”

 

Tougher start than expected?

“I have to say that from the first day I joined, I said it would go to the last day, this battle. You have hopes that you can surprise and get results early, so in that sense, it’s disappointing that didn’t happen. There is patience required for a six-week start in the collaboration between me and the club and there needs to be belief that on this path, we will turn performances into points. This one hurts, but today you get up, work with the players, analyse where we can be better and shake it off. Less than two days we are back on the pitch again.”
 

Lowest you've felt last night. How feeling now?

“A lot better. The disappointment after the game, we all shared. The dressing room was the same. This game was one we were looking to prove our development. With the chances we created, we felt we should have been on top. The second half they were on top.”
 

How to keep spirits up?

“It’s what we’re here for. We want to show what we’re about. I want to show what I’m about when things are not going your way. Sir Bobby always said: ‘when the going gets tough, the tough get going.’ That’s what I thought about this morning.”
 

Spirits?

“When you’re in a tough moment as a player, you want to see the manager how he reacts, and when you see spirit and character and belief, you join him on the path to success. We can only turn it around with hard work and togetherness. We’re capable of showing that on Saturday.
 

Fulham?

“It’s an organised team. They have very good profiles in positions. It’s the team that crosses the most in the league, with the full-backs. They are high in the league and they’re doing well.”
 

Relief over PSR?

“We were focused on football. The rest is out of our hands. That stays the same.”
 

Coulibaly?

“He’s a strong, powerful player. He’s good at defending one-v-ones. He can play low, in the middle, high. He knows how we want to play and the role of the full-back. He’s very hard-working. He’s a good character. He’s at an age where he’s at the start of the prime of his career. We need to make him feel at home so he can make an impact immediately.”
 

More challenging than expected?

“In the sense of the Premier League, no. I knew what to expect. Being at Manchester United and as part of the backroom staff and managing the four games, you know how tough it is. Coming here, there is belief there that this squad can stay up, but we know historically that as a promoted side, you’re battling to stay up. That’s an extremely big challenge.”
 

Balance of addressing issues without harming belief?

“You can give brutal honesty with the intention of making everyone better. It’s never wrong to address things. That’s a mutual feeling with players.”
 

Fans?

“It’s important for us to keep giving signals that we’re trying. We kept pushing for the goal, Soumare against the crossbar, Daka’s chance. It’s up to us to keep the crowd lifted.”