The "In Defence of Allardyce Thread "

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EFC78 said:
Not sure how, but it only just dawned on me the other day how injury hit our whole defence has been for most of the season. Probably because Funes Mori wasn't exactly seen as first choice and because Baines started the season. But as suspect as Funes Mori can be at times, I think he'd have made a big difference, purely for the fact that he is left footed, but also has age on his side.

When all are fit i'd like to see Coleman - Keane - Mori - Baines, but obviously Baines needs replacing in the summer (now ideally but not going to happen), and we'd ideally be looking at bringing in another better quality centre back in.

As poor as it's been this season, injuries have had a significant impact.
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Injuries have been huge this season. The following players have/will have missed the bulk of the season: Coleman, Funes Mori, Baines, McCarthy, Barkley, Bolasie. That’s 7 of what would probably be our first choice starting 11 at the start of the season. Keane has carried knocks all season.

A poor squad decimated by injuries and suffering a severe lack of confidence. We’ve changed managers twice and despite all of this Allardyce has us in 9th. It’s not great but it could and should be an awful lot worse.

We may be thankful of that snatched draw v West Brom by the end of the season and definitely of ground out wins over Huddersfield Swansea and Newcastle. Absolutely critical period for us that Allardyce managed.

Playing the likes of Leicester Arsenal Spurs Liverpool is not where we should be judging Allardyce with this team. Bournemouth was disappointing and West Brom uninspiring (even though they’ve shown what good form they’re in), but we’re kind of having the reverse of the start of the season in terms of fixtures having played Chelsea United Spurs and up next Arsenal all in the first few games of the second half of the season.

Realistically we need to beat Brighton Newcastle and Southampton at home and pick up some draws elsewhere.

A win tonight would be huge but Leicester are a far far better team than us.
 
Saint Domingo said:
Injuries have been huge this season. The following players have/will have missed the bulk of the season: Coleman, Funes Mori, Baines, McCarthy, Barkley, Bolasie. That’s 7 of what would probably be our first choice starting 11 at the start of the season. Keane has carried knocks all season.

A poor squad decimated by injuries and suffering a severe lack of confidence. We’ve changed managers twice and despite all of this Allardyce has us in 9th. It’s not great but it could and should be an awful lot worse.

We may be thankful of that snatched draw v West Brom by the end of the season and definitely of ground out wins over Huddersfield Swansea and Newcastle. Absolutely critical period for us that Allardyce managed.

Playing the likes of Leicester Arsenal Spurs Liverpool is not where we should be judging Allardyce with this team. Bournemouth was disappointing and West Brom uninspiring (even though they’ve shown what good form they’re in), but we’re kind of having the reverse of the start of the season in terms of fixtures having played Chelsea United Spurs and up next Arsenal all in the first few games of the second half of the season.

Realistically we need to beat Brighton Newcastle and Southampton at home and pick up some draws elsewhere.

A win tonight would be huge but Leicester are a far far better team than us.
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Absolutely spot on.

The recent run of fixtures has provided those who already disliked Allardyce with ammunition to continue their agenda and make out like the poor football and results is in large part down to him, when in reality there are loads of different factors, but most significantly the team he inherited isn't good enough, and is imbalanced.

The West Brom and Bournemouth games were poor and Allardyce can justifiably be criticised for them performances but to make out like it's all down to him like some do is wrong. We have been throwing points away against sides like that all season, and last - Boro away, Watford away, Swansea away last season, Brighton and Burnley under Koeman, Palace and Southampton away under Unsworth.

The recent bad results against the better sides has just continued the trend of the start of the season.

It's now down to Allardyce to make sure we don't lose home games like the one tonight, and grind out wins against the poorer sides at home like Palace, Southampton and Brighton. If he does that we will stay up and then we can rebuild in the summer and put this terrible season behind us.

Things were looking far more perilous sat in 18th under Koeman, and after the Southampton humiliation under Unsworth after suffering 5 defeats in 7.
 

Eggsyblueskin said:
What utter unsubstantiated twaddle.
Facts are Unsworth had control of the team weeks prior.
Unsworth trained and selected the team to face West Ham and devised the tactics.
Unsworth managed the game from the touch line.
All of this is inarguable. So how did our oversized gravy boat intercede exactly? Telepathy? Did he put his bucket of KFC gravy down at some point to stand and shoot HOOOOOF! just before Rooney’s wonder goal.?
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You see this is the type of comment I was talking about. So desperate to beat allerdyce you can't see the facts.

Yes unsworth was in charge of the club in the weeks leading to allerdyces appointment and we were the worst team in the leauge and the Europa leauge. Conceding goals left and right and getting out played by the likes of palace who were rock bottom of the leauge at the time. People on here seem to make out like we were Brazil 02 or something under unsworth.

We got destroyed by Southampton on the sunday under unsworth, fact. From the monday onwards allerdyce was in and around finch farm, fact. When we played west ham on the Wednesday we played a different style, different shape, players were being played in position they've never played under unsworth, we had a actual shape and we defended, fact.

Oh and guess what style of play unsworth has gone straight back to in the under 23s? Yep, back to his style we played at Southampton. Strange that he stumbled onto such a winning formation then just totally gave up on it, eh.

Answer me those questions? Lets see if you can actually defend your side of the discussion instead of just hurling the same old tired fat jokes about our manager.
 
There is no defence for Sam and in the team. That selection lost any semblance of patience I had left. We all knew we would get beat but he just gave it to them on a plate. Pathetic!!
 
17 points out of 24 against sides around or below us

No great shock we've been rinsed against the top 6 with that back 4/5

Last night was the final straw though, throwing a game with all attention on Palace 7 days away
 

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