Match Reaction vs United

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

Then what do we do? Buy 3 players for every position? :lol:

Nowt we can do, we just have to deal with it and to be honest we've coped well anyway.

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What a strange post. What we can do is make sure we have cover, anticipating that we will have key players injured. You say nowt we can do. I say that we should have invested in some proper striking options up front, and arguably a specialist winger or 2 - because we had absolutely nothing to change the game yesterday attacking wise and if you think otherwise you are on something.

You say we've coped well so far. Well we didn't yesterday in what was the biggest test our title credentials to date. Only a huge over optimist would back us to last the season with this squad of players.

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Originally Posted by IBK

What a strange post. What we can do is make sure we have cover, anticipating that we will have key players injured. You say nowt we can do. I say that we should have invested in some proper striking options up front, and arguably a specialist winger or 2 - because we had absolutely nothing to change the game yesterday attacking wise and if you think otherwise you are on something.

You say we've coped well so far. Well we didn't yesterday in what was the biggest test our title credentials to date. Only a huge over optimist would back us to last the season with this squad of players.

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We have striking cover. Both of them are injured.

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Originally Posted by IBK

What a strange post. What we can do is make sure we have cover, anticipating that we will have key players injured. You say nowt we can do. I say that we should have invested in some proper striking options up front, and arguably a specialist winger or 2 - because we had absolutely nothing to change the game yesterday attacking wise and if you think otherwise you are on something.

You say we've coped well so far. Well we didn't yesterday in what was the biggest test our title credentials to date. Only a huge over optimist would back us to last the season with this squad of players.

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No-one is backing us to last the season with this squad of players because we won't. We will spend in January just like Gazidis said over the weekend.

The aim was to get to January still in the mix. At the moment we're exceeding that aim.

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Originally Posted by selassie

I was expecting a point at best so wasn't overly surprised with the outcome. It looked to me….especially in the first half prior to RVC's goal as if the players were quite happy to play within themselves and limit the opposition.

It didn't really feel to me as if the players ever had the confidence to take the game to Manure.

We improved 2nd half and despite dominating possession it was very much a "huff and puff" type performance. We did admittedly open them up a little towards the end but I never really felt we had control of the game.

The league is still wide open this season, there isn't really any stand out teams so far, maybe us and Liverpool at a push, but I do fear our lead will be chipped away once we face Chelsea and Man City.

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I agree with all that, mate. What feels deflating today is that although we have clearly made an improvement as a team, we really are no better than the competition - and our league position so far is as much down to transition at all of our rivals and a kind fixture list as anything else. It was depressing that while Manure's 'big players' turned up yesterday, ours went completely missing.

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Originally Posted by IBK

What feels deflating today is that although we have clearly made an improvement as a team, we really are no better than the competition - and our league position so far is as much down to transition at all of our rivals and a kind fixture list as anything else.

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Did you expect us to be better than the competition?

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Originally Posted by She Wore A Yellow Ribbon

No-one is backing us to last the season with this squad of players because we won't. We will spend in January just like Gazidis said over the weekend.

The aim was to get to January still in the mix. At the moment we're exceeding that aim.

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I hear you, but I think that we are gambling big time with what might be our best chance to win the league. Yesterday exposed our lack of options for all to see. Also, I think we can safely take whatever talk comes out of the club with a massive pinch of salt. January is traditionally not a happy hunting time for us - and rarely is there any real quality available then anyway.

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Originally Posted by Syn

Did you expect us to be better than the competition?

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Before the season, no. But when we were 5 points clear and with Chelsea; Citeh and Manure uncharacteristically dropping points plenty of people were beginning to believe that we were - and with some justification.

Yesterday pisses on that particular bonfire.

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Originally Posted by IBK

I hear you, but I think that we are gambling big time with what might be our best chance to win the league. Yesterday exposed our lack of options for all to see. Also, I think we can safely take whatever talk comes out of the club with a massive pinch of salt. January is traditionally not a happy hunting time for us - and rarely is there any real quality available then anyway.

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It exposed our lack of options because our options were injured/ill. :shrug:

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Originally Posted by GayPete

We have striking cover. Both of them are injured.

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Who - Sanogo? Says it all really. :lol: However you slice and dice it when you look at the consistent top 6 teams in the league and compare their striking options to ours, it's a bit of a joke, really.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

It exposed our lack of options because our options were injured/ill. :shrug:

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When aren't they injured/ill?