golden era darraghmac vendettas

it helps that he has a friendly demeanour and is sort of photogenic in that jamie redknapp way rather than the sort of grunting neanderthal former utility players who constitute the majority of that profession

the cabbie on the way back had talksport on (surprisingly tolerable when it's just rapidfire transfer news) and then whatever bbc piece of shit in which jermaine jenas was explaining how adebayor was not difficult or lazy but just mistreated by arrogant avb, and sure to be a hit in the aaaaarrrghs' dressing room when he appears to save them from relegation

look I won't be one bit surprised he scores ten league goals but everyone knows he's a dead weight at spurs.

I'd be only half surprised jenas doesnt tog out for arry tween now and may tbh

Jenas unaware of Adebayor's pre-Spurs career maybe

Jermain's a good lad is jermain

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-3103123/Real-Madrid-job-Rafa-Benitez-dreamed-used-tell-club-meant-Liverpool.html

good luck to him I say

http://i.imgur.com/WXkycRo.jpg

Trippier signed, surely the end for Walker/Naughton, just need to sort out left-back now

No other forward in English football history, perhaps, has ever looked as though he grew up dreaming of being a left-back as Rooney.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/sep/20/anthony-martial-manchester-united-wayne-rooney-southampton

jonathan wilson owes u royalties

https://twitter.com/Blaugra_Nah/status/650775852179849216

Harsh on the fat lad

still didnt write that 2005 girl

cant believe i never posted itt about the time i was strolling the south quays at temple bar and passed an italian restaurant window and who was in there alone at a table and it fuckin heavin with grub enough for six but fatty robinson how i didnt go and check behind the cistern for a fuciin revolver ill never know

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDjh8j8XgAQeR1q.jpg

if i may make a case for the ahem defence

trippier has been limited but ok til this season, with a brilliant right foot and a neat line in getting his cross in from most angles and situations

his attacking form has certainly dipped but his defensive performance is only slightly beneath what we're used to (not far off walker at his best, rly)

given there's no better alternative at the club its kind of on poch not to have set out the required baseline rules and i was more than half serious when i suggested that one of our two defensive leaders (more likely one per full back) should be kicking arse on the pitch regarding offside trap and getting caught wrong side of his man (the two likeliest and most damaging sins)

add this to the pretty enormous workload poch puts on his fullbacks (central defensive players get away with murder imo) and outside of the heat of the game i can take a measured view that trippier looks awful in a system that has continued to ensure he gets hammered with his own flaws every week.

the fucking cunt

Trippier signed, surely the end for Walker/Naughton, just need to sort out left-back now

― imago, Friday, 19 June 2015 16:40 (three years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brilliant

this is not an incorrect position, taking into account that the alternatives were walker and trippier

walker was improved by poch removing him from certain *situations*, walker (like most players post first england cap) has never improved in himself tactically or mentally. he is still the likeliest weak link of any team in which he plays.

naughton is well let me say rather that kyle walker-peters is an upgrade

the great unmentioned is aurier, whose capacity for reckless fuckups dwarves auriers, whose positional awareness makes a baresi of trippier, whose inconsistency of delivery in attack makes sissoko look (even more) like xavi

trippier's damage to this team is something poch can contain but not remove, and hes already done it once with a stupider player

i can take a measured view that trippier looks awful in a system that has continued to ensure he gets hammered with his own flaws every week.

― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 1, 2019 7:37 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

trippier is bad at his main job and has gotten bad at the secondary bit that used to make him being bad at his man job acceptable i hope he dies

― deemsthelarker (darraghmac), Tuesday, April 30, 2019 10:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just sayin', like.

deems vaudeville

theyre both valid angles and i can take both as required

trippier has no inherent limiter on not playing the opposition onside or being the wrong side of his man. nothing and nobody makes him cross the ball as stupidly and poorly as he did last night and many times this season his lazy execution or planning of a pass has cost us or almost cost us. hes a professional footballer and absurdly easy on himself about not cleaning up his own sloppiness. no pass from me for that.

all of these things have been observable from day one this season and no alternative has been realistically available, save for aurier or kwp stepping up (neither has consistently done so so as to be an actual replacement). we have tried each and have played sissoko either there or in an alternate role or in a niche babysitting role at times. we are now playing a young centre half there at times. its safe to say a problem is recognised.

being unwilling to relax the demands on the position in order to perhaps safeguard or refocus on the positional/defensive area of the game seems not to be a valid consideration- blind spot from the manager here imo but the squad is in bits and what can you do. so in knowing the cunt will fuck us again and again, youd allow that a manager might attempt whatever is in his power to ameliorate or mitigate, so poch out an all

ask me about serge aurier, go on

kepa is the new paul robinson, but cost 60 times more

this is like the 20th time i've clicked on this thread forgetting it's on ILF