West Ham Utd 1 Southampton 1 (14/02/12)

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Re: West Ham Utd v Southampton: match thread

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Would love to see us play 5-3-2 one day soon. Something like....

-------------------------Green----------------------------------
------------Reid-------Tomkins------Faye-----------------
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Faubert-------------------------------------------------Taylor
----------------------Noble-----Collison---------------------
---------------------------Morrison---------------------------
---------------Cole--------------------Baldock-------------

Subs: Maynard, Vaz Te, Demel, Hall, John
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wizzo_66 wrote:Bald guy hasn't got a bib on and is Faubert. So that looks like Faubert and Vaz Te either side of Cole.
Sorry, two bald guys in that picture, one in a red bib behind Faubert who you can hardly see in this snap but in a better pic below...
Agree that it could well be those three up top though. Taylor must be injured again? or playing in the middle??

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Who is that at the back of the queue in the pic featuring Ravel?

And why has he come in his Pineapple Dance Studio fancy dress?
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It's Jacko
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In that get up, he should beat it. :D
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sutts07 wrote: Agree that it could well be those three up top though. Taylor must be injured again? or playing in the middle??
At LB as Mac has picked up a knock.
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Whos confirmed georgie mac is injured? he is clearly in action in todays training photos
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the bubble hammer wrote:Whos confirmed georgie mac is injured? he is clearly in action in todays training photos
The restaurant at which his wife booked a table :wink:
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I'd start with Morrison.

The ruthless little ****'d thrive tomorrow night.
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Why shouldn't we ****ing beat this lot FFS? Headbanger . I fully expect us to do so
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I shall be going, i personally couldnt give a **** how many go, hopefully pub wont be to chocker.... happy days.




oops meant to put this in the almost there thread,
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Hoping I can get my laptop to connect to my schools WiFi so I can at least follow the game via text. It will help me drone out my boring Statistics class.
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wizzo_66 wrote:Would love to see us play 5-3-2 one day soon. Something like....

-------------------------Green----------------------------------
------------Reid-------Tomkins------Faye-----------------
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Faubert-------------------------------------------------Taylor
----------------------Noble-----Collison---------------------
---------------------------Morrison---------------------------
---------------Cole--------------------Baldock-------------

Subs: Maynard, Vaz Te, Demel, Hall, John
Great looking line up there. Agree with all the players but 5-3-2 has a tendency to go really tits up if the team isn't trained well in it. It can cause a massive gap between the wing backs and centre backs which is easily exploited.

I'd drop Taylor to left back, shift Reid to right back and play with a flat back four. Then have Faubert, Noble, Morrison, Collison in midfield.
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Nervous and excited about this one all at the same time, really could go either way.

Hoping ravel will get a cameo appearance in this as well, can't see him starting.
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Lifted from the Peterborough thread:
Swiss Pauli wrote:4-1-4-1 for a 2-1 win:

Green - O'Brien, Faye, Reid, McCartney - Tomkins - Faubert, Collison, Noble, Taylor - Cole.
Would be a big game for Collison in centre midfield replacing Nolan.
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4-1-4-1 for a 2-1 win:

Green - O'Brien, Faye, Reid, McCartney - Tomkins - Faubert, Collison, Noble, Taylor - Cole.

Great. One Goalkeeper, 7 defenders plus Collison , Noble and Cole. Didnt we used to play 4 defenders, 4 midfielders (all attacking and maybe one to do some defending) and a 2 man strike partnership?...What happened to football?..What the hell is a 4-1-4-1 formation?
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shammy wrote:What happened to football?..What the hell is a 4-1-4-1 formation?
Like all things in life, football changes.

A 4-1-4-1 is a jazzed up way to say we're gonna use a 5 man midfield, with one holding, sitting in front of the back 4 & protecting them the best he can.

The problem is the terminology's all changing at the moment because of the technology coming in & it isn't uniformed at the moment so one formation can actually be classed as a few different number lay outs.

I'm still adamant though that formations will soon be a thing of the past with the terminology currently being used as it is like 4-1-4-1 etc, as it's really all about how a team does and doesn't keep its shape and does or doesn't get dragged about & like i've always said, no team defends with 4 nor attacks with 1 or 2 anyway..
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Not bothered who plays or who plays where for us!

For once, whatever team goes out there, lets play some entertaining football, win the game and revel in a cracking atmosphere at the Boleyn under the lights.

Not too much to ask, is it?
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sussexhammer74 wrote:Not bothered who plays or who plays where for us!

For once, whatever team goes out there, lets play some entertaining football, win the game and revel in a cracking atmosphere at the Boleyn under the lights.

Not too much to ask, is it?
Well entertaining players in attacking frames of mind tends to lead to entertaining football. So I am afraid it is too much to ask.
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