16 Oct 2014 21:23:31
Cheered up abit, quite excited for saturday now (not really), teams lads? Personally I would play howard (meh) browning jagielka distin baines barry besic mcgeady naismith pienaar lukaku, agbonlahor vs hibbert is just too scary, browning please, need distins pace, although alcaraz is a good footballer, he simply cannot play against villa, although we have no one to bring it out from the back, stones :(, no one else to play behind rom, if he plays lukaku on the wing again i'm giving up completely, let mcgeady run at cissokho, he will get past him, then lose it, but it will be fun seeing a few tricks on show, let pienaar do whatever it is he does (still don't know), if we didn't have such rubbish in joel I would drop howard, new goalie in jan needed, (marshall?), thank god we've only got 1 or 2 minor injuries, its not like we are without the best right back in the lea. oh, at least we are not missing the best young defender in the coun. erm, at least we have mira. oh, thank god ross didn't get injured in pre seas. oh FFS EVERTON!
Marshall is a.fair shout. Think he is in last year of contact too
Swan, I would go with your selection although I would not be too scared if Hibbert played instead of Browning. what we do need to do is make sure we are in a position to stop Villas counter attacks which we have never really donein recent times I totally agee with you, in my opinion, Rom has to play through the middle if not then he may as well be on the bench.
17 Oct 2014 14:25:18
swan don't forget we are without McCarthy too to add to the injury list, plenty of positives to look forward to key players to return from injury and help us push up the league. I would presume ross is due back soon as he isn't on the injured players list on the OS.
17 Oct 2014 15:25:30
I wouldn't call mccarthy a big loss, could put a statue where he plays, does the same job and might actually score
17 Oct 2014 17:14:06
donno swan, I agree he can go missing in games, but that is partly down to the position barry takes up both defensively and offensively. I think J Mac could do a job alongside Besic, both energetic and have the ability within them to pass the ball around, just haven't been impressed with barry this season, he's a shadow of what he was at the beginning of last season and feel we may be playing him too much to the extent with him now burning out. He's been a yard of the pace defensively, and offered very little building attacks from the back when he drops between the 2 centre backs which I feel has been the cause of why we have conceded so many sloppy goals this season in a strange way.
17 Oct 2014 22:05:52
Most mammals have the ability to pass the ball around, he just doesn't go forward, doesn't carry the ball, doesn't spread play or put people through, he runs around aimlessly, slides in, passes it backwards, may aswell have someone with actual ability in there, besic and barry for me every time, gibbo to come in aswell
18 Oct 2014 00:30:17
Barkley shouldn't come straight back in. Naturally he would be a Naismith replacement and SN is the only player who can be pleased with his performances this season.