Recent content by davek

We get no luck with this lad. The Euros could have regained some value lost on him and a sale this summer. Hopefully he gets back fit for them and puts himself in the shop window. Every penny will count for us this summer if we stay up.

I agree. Maximum of 7 I think...and I think we'll have to improve about 50% to get that many. Still, there are 4 winnable games for sure. Burnley was winnable and we managed to get the three points on offer. I suspect we will a couple times more.

I prefer to use the gold-standard PL site.

Where is that from?

Goal scorers are rewarded, I suppose. The contract renewal was last November after he'd scored his 3rd for the current season and we were flying.

I agree that if you want to play a possession game you don't play Doucoure. But we're not a possession based team. If we get away from that with another coach, ditch Doucoure, I suppose. But until then I have the feeling he'll weigh in again before the season is out and he'll hand a couple...

He should't have deviated from it at Chelsea. That mauling was 100% down to him.

*sigh* https://www.premierleague.com/players/74585/Nathan-Patterson/stats

Patterson can deliver a very dangerous ball. That ball to Danjuma was a peach and I said so at the time. But he can't do it often enough for our purposes. I can understand the desire to play a more offensive FB but the pros don't outweigh the cons of using Patterson. Last game aside, our...

I stated it: PL stats.

Hels not great, but he's been vital. The two are not mutually exclusive.

A win against Forest no matter what Luton gets this weekend settles the nerves down. Even if they win and we win they'll still be adrift of us with 4 to play - and more of a danger to Forest. We need this win - it goes without saying.

He was way less to blame than most last season.

I completely agree about Garner, something I advocated a while back. But Patterson isn't the answer in terms of getting those crosses in we need. PL stats shows that he's played 39 times and crossed 71 times with a cross accuracy of 15%; so basically way less than two crosses per game. That's...

Scored 11 in the last 2 seasons so far. If we hadn't had his goals we'd have been relegated last season and on the way to relegation this season.