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Dannyboylister wrote: I personally would have left the defence as it was and just put LBM or Bowyer on the right. I'm no manager but I do know if we had conceeded late on he would have been slated so much for that decision.
Probably would have been slated for bringing our only creative midfielder off for Bowyer too. I think he's just got to do his own thing and accept he's going to get slated whatever.
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prophet:marginal wrote: Man City and Blackburn are both quite interesting fixtures. I can see us sharing the points in both matches and would be pretty surprised if they both beat us, tbh.

City will be struggling without both Benjani and Vassell, basically hoping a pairing of two other players will do the damage.

From what I saw of Blackburn from MOTD, there's always going to be a shakiness to a team with Robinson in its back five.

What we 'save' from sacking Curbs surely gets swallowed up in the signing on costs of a new manager. And if they were so sure that this was an option a month ago, why wait to see what the results threw up?

If we lost our next two league games and went out to Macclesfield, maybe. Otherwise, I struggle to agree that they could, let alone will, adequately replace him.
I don't think he should go but if you look at all the signs then his time is limited.

- Bookies Favourite
- Fans on his back
- No money from the board
- Redknapp getting linked again from quite "in the know" sources.
- Crowds down on last season
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Scaloni Is The Messiah wrote: Probably would have been slated for bringing our only creative midfielder off for Bowyer too. I think he's just got to do his own thing and accept he's going to get slated whatever.
You're not wrong mate.
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Well my view is that no serious judgement can be made after the first game. We won, that's all that counts.

After all Reading got a draw away at ManYoo first game last season - and look where they ended up.

Good win against bogey team (at home)

Let's see how things go from here
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Dannyboylister wrote: I don't think he should go but if you look at all the signs then his time is limited.

- Bookies Favourite
Hughes now occupies that slot and may be in a more precarious position if they go out of UEFA. What the bookies predict shouldn't be a reason to sack him
- Fans on his back
Those around me at the game were, like me, reasonably happy with yesterday's game. If we're already otherwise on his back, that reflects badly on us, imho.
- No money from the board
- Redknapp getting linked again from quite "in the know" sources.
Those two points together don't quite fit. Would Redknapp turn his back on perhaps his most potent strikeforce, immediately after having assembled it?
- Crowds down on last season
The first match was >32000, with a tiny away support, V down the road and mid-August holidays all rolled into one.

I too don't think he should go.

Far from it. I'm personally disappointed that is not possible that he won't be allowed to be judged on results. We had a fairly good run of them, in pre-season, and although it got a touch shaky in the face of a well-drilled fight back from Wigan, we still got the win.
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I don't think he should go but if you look at all the signs then his time is limited.

- Bookies Favourite
- Fans on his back
- No money from the board
- Redknapp getting linked again from quite "in the know" sources.
- Crowds down on last season[/quote]



well working on your above proviso , curbs isnt the only one ..there's


moyes

benitez


keegan


spent a bit of time yesterday atching curbs in the dugout, and comparing him to bruce, who was all over the placein

th technical area, curbs was in a coma



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Perhaps I'm at lunatic but I wouldn't be suprised to see us sitting with 9 points out of 9 at the end of August.

City are a technical team, with their front line currently AWOL - good time to play them, and in many ways they are more suited to us than Wigan.

Blackburn, Ince or not, well.....we always beat them. Again, they are not as athletic as Wigan....and it was their athleticism that caused us problems yesterday
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chigwells finest wrote:I don't think he should go but if you look at all the signs then his time is limited.

- Bookies Favourite
- Fans on his back
- No money from the board
- Redknapp getting linked again from quite "in the know" sources.
- Crowds down on last season


well working on your above proviso , curbs isnt the only one ..there's


moyes

benitez


keegan


spent a bit of time yesterday atching curbs in the dugout, and comparing him to bruce, who was all over the placein

th technical area, curbs was in a coma



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Sorry if this has already been mentioned, haven't read all the thread.

Wigan reminded me yesterday of the last team to wear nasty dayglow yellow shirts at UP, Sheff Utd of the late 80s. I thought in the second half they upped their tempo and put us under pressure in the air, especially with the long throw. Like I said, Wigan reminded me of a team in the old Wimbledon/Wednesday/Sheff Utd mold.
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Ridler wrote:Sorry if this has already been mentioned, haven't read all the thread.

Wigan reminded me yesterday of the last team to wear nasty dayglow yellow shirts at UP, Sheff Utd of the late 80s. I thought in the second half they upped their tempo and put us under pressure in the air, especially with the long throw. Like I said, Wigan reminded me of a team in the old Wimbledon/Wednesday/Sheff Utd mold.
I actually though they played some decent football...especially through the centre
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Romford wrote: I actually though they played some decent football...especially through the centre
I agree, I think we ran out of ideas. To be fair the difference in the first half was one good strike and a badly defended corner.

We just seemed static at times, with no invention. It was the tried and teated formula of hit it wide, run into a corner, win a set piece.

No one seemed to want to run at players with the ball.
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BH

Maybe that's because at times it seems we seem to lack anyone who actually can !!

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Romford wrote: I actually though they played some decent football...especially through the centre
I suppose so. The long throw did lead to their goal. We still can't defend them properly, I'm surprised more teams don't use the long throw against us.
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I'm worried about Big Russ, he hasn't posted............I don't think he survived his first experience :lol:
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Probably still bladdered, or realised that supporting West Ham for ever is too depressing and has topped himself.

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bubbles1966 wrote:Perhaps I'm at lunatic but I wouldn't be suprised to see us sitting with 9 points out of 9 at the end of August.

City are a technical team, with their front line currently AWOL - good time to play them, and in many ways they are more suited to us than Wigan.

Blackburn, Ince or not, well.....we always beat them. Again, they are not as athletic as Wigan....and it was their athleticism that caused us problems yesterday
I might be wrong with this, but I don't think we won back to back games last season. So the last time we did would have been Bolton and Man Utd games to stay up.

Let's hope that changes on Sunday
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davids cross wrote:I'm worried about Big Russ, he hasn't posted............I don't think he survived his first experience :lol:
I was just thinking the same... :shock:
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Palacios........ what a player. He is by far head and shoulder above anything else Wigan have at the moment with Valencia second and we just kept giving him all the time in the world to bring the ball forward and choose what he wanted to do (pass/shoot/cross)

also have to tip my hat to Carlton Cole. He gave Wigan problems all day long. Even so during the first half they tried to double up on him!
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sanchoz wrote:Palacios........ what a player. He is by far head and shoulder above anything else Wigan have at the moment with Valencia second and we just kept giving him all the time in the world to bring the ball forward and choose what he wanted to do (pass/shoot/cross)

also have to tip my hat to Carlton Cole. He gave Wigan problems all day long. Even so during the first half they tried to double up on him!
Palacios was apparently signed by Bruce on a tip from Wenger........ Bruce was after Flamini but Flamini wouldn't go to Birmingham (understandable) and Palacios was on trial with Arsenal
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