FOOTBALL: Season 2006/07 Discussion Thread

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:47 pm 0

A little bit from column A ....

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:48 pm 0

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:49 pm 0

4-0 now. Bloody hell. They're making Greece look like they did Jamaica.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:57 pm 0

The Greece I remember from Euro 2004 played very defensivly and just went on the counter. Can't see the match but are they conceding cause they're trying to attack (friendly, nothing to lose by trying new things) or are we just getting all the breaks?

Edit : Sounds like we're getting lucky. Goalkeeper flap on the first goal, deflection on the second, poor clearance and rebound on the third, fourth came from the second attempt ... don't want to diss because these kind of chances when the other team make a mistake were the ones we left begging in the WC. But it's only a friendly. Be nice to see us do this in a real match. And score goals without there being some form of assitance.

2nd Edit : Oh how far Ireland have fallen ...

Arthur Ringworn · Post by **Arthur Ringworn** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:06 pm 0

Blimey, England are looking quite like a team. Although Greece are looking very poor.

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:44 pm 0

17 games and still only one goal for Defoe.

I'd love for him to prove me wrong but sheesh ... compared to Crouch and his 8 goals in 12 games (who saw that one coming?) ...

Fixed for Rev : I'd love for him to prove me wrong but sheesh ... compared to Crouch and his 7 goals and 1 should not have counted goal in 12 games (That Trinidad and Tobago player never saw his hair being pulled coming) ...

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 9:47 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote: I'd love for him to prove me wrong but sheesh ... compared to Crouch and his 8 goals in 12 games (who saw that one coming?) ...

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:05 pm 0

Was that Greece's reserves in the first half? They were bloody rubbish.

Decent performance, nothing really spectacular. Good to see Hargreaves finally showing his Bayern form for England.

Sounds like Holland gave the Republic a good going over tonight as well.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:16 pm 0

Greece were dreadful. It was like watching Bolton on a bad day.

I've never been convinced by Defoe and I can't see him playing much for England. Bent neither - both of them at the moment are Kevin Phillips strikers, OK against poor teams but they'll never get that much against the best. Same with Andy Johnson. Hope that one of them will step up but I doubt it.

In contrast Crouch has a really nice touch about him. But he's not that great a target man.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:25 pm 0

Well, at least Greece could be arsed to play in the second half.

Contrarily, I've always liked Defoe. It was a great bit of play by him to set up Lampard. As for himself, he never had a sniff of a goal chance. His general play was alright, I thought.

I don't think anyone should get carried away by that game, though. It was just an easy run-in for McClaren, and Greece obviously couldn't be arsed, and only stepped up a gear when they realised they were being utterly humiliated. Still, there were signs of reasonable-ness there, and maybe we can take that on and actually progress as a team, for a change.

merman · Post by **merman** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 12:28 am 0

The key thing for me was the tempo - we played at a higher tempo, hassled the Greek defence more, and Rio's forward forays made some space.

Again, I'm not getting carried away (5-1 to win Euro 2008 at William Hills? Nah) but good signs, particularly Richardson and Lennon after they got on.

Conversely I felt that Defoe had another poor game and should be dropped. Or change his name by deed poll to "Jermain Just Offside Defoe"

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 10:47 am 0

Liverpool have agreed a fee for Kuyt. Who the hell are Newcastle left with now?

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 1:03 pm 0

Dio wrote:Liverpool have agreed a fee for Kuyt. Who the hell are Newcastle left with now?

Yeah, just read that, don't really know how good he is?
But, in Rafa etc..

Long shot, but Pongolle I would of thought will be surplus to requirements, and a good player.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:32 pm 0

Dio wrote:Liverpool have agreed a fee for Kuyt. Who the hell are Newcastle left with now?

I had a kick about with my mates the other night and scored three times.
Expecting a call from Roeder any time now as he's tried and failed to sign every other striker in the world.

merman · Post by **merman** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 4:18 pm 0

Dio wrote:Liverpool have agreed a fee for Kuyt. Who the hell are Newcastle left with now?

Maybe they should put in a bid for Sam Parkin. Everyone else is.