Hindsight is a wonderful thing
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 Pierre  Purley 15 Dec 16 9.58am |
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Why change it at all! We were not behind but level. No need to tinker just leave the team to get on with it and try and get to the end with hopefully a draw. If we were behind then gamble in the hope you can get a goal (like at Hull) last night there was no need. AP just can't leave things be at times!
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thai-eagle  chiang mai 15 Dec 16 10.03am |
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Liked Flamini and Cabaye together, too. Throw in Ledley and Macca, Tomkins on right back and we should have a decent team for Chelski. Think Chungy had a decent game too, just wished he stopped his habit of passing backwards. The same goes for Benteke, though...
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superbeagle  Vauxhall 15 Dec 16 10.05am |
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Unfortunately Tomkins out til Jan with injury.
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| Deleted11 15 Dec 16 10.18am | |
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When you're struggling near the bottom any point is a good point. I'm not saying I would be ecstatic about 16 point from 16 games, but if we can average 1 point per game, the likelihood is we will more often than not be safe and be able to build for the coming season.
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| Terry Vegetables Forest Hill 15 Dec 16 10.50am |
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hindsight? As soon as I saw him call Campbell over from warming up, I thought who is he going to sub him for? I could only think benteke, & was telling my brother this was extremely risky and weren't too happy about it. Then he goes and pulls McArthur off !! I was mortified, & said so at time, I mean surely if McArthur had to be subbed Townshend would have been better swap. A minute or so later they score & i was telling me bruv told you so. Majority of ground had foresight to see that!
catford kid, caught up supporting "team of the 80s" in the 70s.. |
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| Mad4palace 15 Dec 16 10.58am |
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Pardew seems incapable of seeing the correlation between substituting a central midfielder and the opposition scoring. Changing your shape when you're holding on for a result is suicide.
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| OknotOK Cockfosters, London 15 Dec 16 11.04am |
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I don't think hindsight was that important. The situation vs Hull was different. We were actively chasing the game after having gone 3-2 down. Against Man United we had something to hold on to. Even if the substitution itself didn't affect the goal/game, what it does show is the mentality Pardew was giving to the players - that settling for a point at that stage wasn't right. And that's plain stupidity. It encourages a recklessness that you'd thought would have been beaten out of them with a very hard and big stick after Burnley, Swansea, Hull, and several other games. And we look *so* susceptible after scoring. It's like the team is literally incapable of holding together when we score.
"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show |
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| Croydonlad sydenham 15 Dec 16 4.11pm |
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Originally posted by chateauferret
How likely was it that we would get the ball up to campbell and he would score? We were far likelier to nick it by winning the ball in front of the defence, breaking quickly and putting Zaha or Benteke in. Remove McArthur and any chance of that is f***ed. Edited by chateauferret (15 Dec 2016 9.32am) Good post
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ParchmoreEagle  Belair 15 Dec 16 4.55pm |
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Hindsight is the very thing Pardew has but has not acted upon. Losing in the last few minutes is a pattern going way back to the FA Cup. Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing, for people with brains.
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