Match Day Thread AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Norwich City, Sunday Sept 27th

Don’t you mean “when” and not ‘if” DD ?

 

Has any reason been given for Buendias absence?

very hard game without our 4 main suppliers in Cantwell, Buendia, Dowell and Stiepermann

 

This is starting to feel a bit like Robert Chase

 

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I still have the “Chase him out” mug

 

Buendia and Cantwell are almost certainly leaving, Vrançic is seen as a last resort when everything else has failed, and Leitner is still on the naughty step. So, having got rid of or frozen out all of our creative players, we play a system with two very fast wingers sending over crosses for a tall striker whilst playing a guy up front whose game is all about making clever runs for defence-splitting passes by creative midfielders.

Meanwhile we do nothing to try to deal with a leaky defence.

Is anyone optimistic about this season?

 

No

 

Not seen any of the game, but it's odd reading some people call it our best performance of the season, and others seeing literally no positives.

 

Well, it certainly dimmed my optimism, but this was always going to be a tough game against a relegated PL side. Hernandez carried a threat with his pace and ability to run past players to get into the box. Quintilla, Skipp and Placheta are still adjusting to our system, two of them coming into English football for the first time. I'll begin to judge things after 10 or 12 matches, but not before.

 

Be careful Lisbon, the truth is out there.......We had one of the worst defence records in Championship, the worst in the Premiership and still DF persists with a known weak defence. Gibson has sat the bench: is he meant to be cover for any CD who gets crocked?

 

He should / must start next week, with a view to (re)building the defence around him.

 

For me, this is already looking very similar to the season when we came down with Neil. As I've said before, though, Neil took us up without having Webber handing him fantastic players on a plate and also almost managed to keep us up, instead of totting up the embarrassing total of 21 points and looking totally clueless for the second half of the season.

Because of 2018/19, we can't sack Farke, and probably shouldn't. But more and more I suspect he just got lucky, and by the time he does go, the dream is over, Webber leaves for a bigger club, and we're back at square one.

 

Where is General Melchett when you need him?

 

Quaffing brandy in his club, of course. What else are the English upper classes supposed to be doing when the going gets tough?

 

Just imagine how much worse everyone would feel if we had just lost 1 - 0 to a team that had finished above us last year having controlled much of the game and had 2 decent penalty shouts turned down.

 

Can a player really be described as "a threat" if he neither scores nor assists on a regular basis? Soon after Hernandez arrived DF said he needed to produce more by way of end product. I don't see that he has.
And you say the new players are "still adjusting to our system". What system exactly? The style of football that led Skipp and others to choose to come to us has been abandoned, the chief on-field architects of it either told they can leave or leading candidates for being sold.
As for today's game, I can't think of anything that could do more to convince Pukki that he should leave than the way we were set up and played. Rob said we played well; we were outplayed the entire game by a team who clearly knew what they were doing and did it well.

 

He usually has something perceptive to add to the debate. Having stated that, I haven’t seen his contribution for some time, but surely he is still out there? Bah!

 

Quite.

Robbie thinks we were outplayed. I think we were just outscored. Unfortunately, though, the latter is what matters.

Farke’s running out of time, fact. Playing well isn’t enough - only scoring and winning will be.