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One Teddy Maybank

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Well he seemed more back to his old self on the bench today. A few kicked bottles and a yellow card.
Thought he was relatively passive compared to what he has been.
Should have been all over the incident when Pedro was fouled in front of him, not an imaginary card, but a bit of remonstration as per Emery.
 




Hugo Rune

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After just hearing RDZ’s interview on talk sport I’m not so sure.
He just sounded so down beat to me.
Maybe I’m just hearing things.
When RDZ speaks to the press, I don’t think it connects in his head that he is speaking to the fans. I’m not sure who he directs stuff at, the players? The officials? The club hierarchy? Our opponents? The press themselves or even the fans?

What I do know is that he fronted out to the fans last week. Face to face. And it sounded ok.
 


um bongo molongo

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When RDZ speaks to the press, I don’t think it connects in his head that he is speaking to the fans. I’m not sure who he directs stuff at, the players? The officials? The club hierarchy? Our opponents? The press themselves or even the fans?

What I do know is that he fronted out to the fans last week. Face to face. And it sounded ok.
I think he’s just a ‘heart on sleeve’ kind of guy, and he wasn’t happy with some of our final third play. I’d imagine if you spend all week drilling the players and then on match day they don’t make (what you see as) the right decisions you’d be pretty downbeat.
 




Guinness Boy

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I think he’s just a ‘heart on sleeve’ kind of guy, and he wasn’t happy with some of our final third play. I’d imagine if you spend all week drilling the players and then on match day they don’t make (what you see as) the right decisions you’d be pretty downbeat.
This for sure. We managed to both play well and look toothless. It frustrated me, must have been killing him.

Luckily we got there in the end and we’ll hopefully see a rejuvenated team and manager at Newcastle.
 








DJ NOBO

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If Tony’s ok with it, why would a fan care ?
Yep, I’m also not one of these fans that frets about Tony’s outlay. The more investment the better.
It’s more how it’s spent.
Some fans talk about Lallana’s positive influence off the pitch. No doubt this is true it’s just not worth anything like as much as someone who delivers on the pitch . Which he has never been able to do consistently for us.
Someone pointed out his large weekly wages are inflated by the initial signing-on fee being factored in. Fair enough, this does mitigate it somewhat.
 




HeaviestTed

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Did I detect a little bit of plan b yesterday?

We played our usual “fannying around at the back” BUT dunky hoofed the ball a couple of times to adingra AND that weird corner where dunky was in the box then ran back to the half way line and the ball wasn’t kicked into the box.

Seemed to me like some new things were tried.
 




el punal

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Certainly seemed to get the tactics spot on today. Pedro and Buonanotte man-marking the central midfielders when out of possession worked a treat, with Welbeck joining in when FB had to get across to Digne. Then, once Villa were getting edgy, Enciso’s arrival put a bit more emphasis on attack. Top stuff.

Very unusually, think he went straight down the tunnel at the end, guaranteed to provoke more questions, but pleased to see the players looking a bit more like their old (and young) selves.
Going down the tunnel bit? I’m sure I read that Roberto said he needed a fag (cigarette, before anyone jumps to the wrong conclusion!). :lolol:
 




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I think he’s just a ‘heart on sleeve’ kind of guy, and he wasn’t happy with some of our final third play. I’d imagine if you spend all week drilling the players and then on match day they don’t make (what you see as) the right decisions you’d be pretty downbeat.
Yes, he's open and straightforward.

And yet some will still suggest that his open straightforwardness, his tendency to say what he thinks regardless of how it might be misinterpreted, is all part of a carefully constructed act, and the real message is 'come and get me', directed towards the Big Clubs, like Bayern Munich and West Ham.
 


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Did I detect a little bit of plan b yesterday?

We played our usual “fannying around at the back” BUT dunky hoofed the ball a couple of times to adingra AND that weird corner where dunky was in the box then ran back to the half way line and the ball wasn’t kicked into the box.

Seemed to me like some new things were tried.
You mean played raking pin-point accurate balls out to a nippy winger, in the style of one of the Top European defenders. Probably Italian or Spanish?

:lolol:

(It was great, wasn't it? As to your main point, my knowledge of football is not good enough to allow me to range around the alphabet. It was good though, whatever it was. We looked tremendous, later, on MOTD :thumbsup: )
 


Hiheidi

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In The Athletic today, Naylor says "Talks have started with Bloom about the plans for next season, in particular the scale of squad strengthening".

But he also does point out "The future is still unclear, but the present looks perkier after a performance against Villa that, although still well short of peak Brighton under De Zerbi in terms of silky build-up play and fluency, was at least a vast improvement"... over last week.

 




Paulie Gualtieri

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Beginning to wonder if we have agreed a reduction in fee to train Fati but not risk him before his inevitable shop window feature this summer, noting we brought on Barco at LW near the end.

He must me match now since his injury
 


Justice

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Yep, I’m also not one of these fans that frets about Tony’s outlay. The more investment the better.
It’s more how it’s spent.
Some fans talk about Lallana’s positive influence off the pitch. No doubt this is true it’s just not worth anything like as much as someone who delivers on the pitch . Which he has never been able to do consistently for us.
Someone pointed out his large weekly wages are inflated by the initial signing-on fee being factored in. Fair enough, this does mitigate it somewhat.
Fans worrying how a billionaire spends his money seems bizarre to me in the first place.
More investment in quality this season and Europe was there for the taking.
 




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