Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
Not true. Absolutely nothing wrong with his knees.
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Timo Werner
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Bishop
Nick Barmby
Rice does not "make their defence look good" they already had a good defence with good numbers before he arrived. Rice just took their defence solidity to another level.
Chrissivad
Chris Armstrong
I'm hoping with a pre season he and the other players will have a better understanding between each other.
braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
Agreed. While to some extent we know exactly what we get with him there's also a reasonable chance that he will be a bit better next season.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
He took it to elite levels
I never said he makes their defence look good
He is the reason their GA column improved by 50%
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glasgowspur
Andy Thompson
He's a piece in a jigsaw, let's wait for the jigsaw to be completed before we judge. There's still a lot of pieces to be put in place.
Bishop
Nick Barmby
You literally said he makes their defence look good. Read what you wrote.
If that's not what you meant fair enough but it's what you wrote.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
I said he fixed their defenceYou literally said he makes their defence look good. Read what you wrote.
If that's not what you meant fair enough but it's what you wrote.
And he makes their Cbs look good and allows their attack to work by giving them a platform to work from
I’ll add, just to be controversial I don’t rate Gabriel. He is just a thug and bro very good when you go at him physically. Saliba is class.
Reya isn’t a top 3/4 keeper too
But if you stop shots and source… which is a BIG change with rice there, you concede less
That’s the weakness we had. We concede from a lot of the chances that go against us
Lemonade Money
Les Medley
And it says 4 to 5 years on the box.
glasgowspur
Andy Thompson
Yeah but levy is a man, and what man reads the instructions.
SpurMeUp
Gary Stevens
I had a Matin Luther King moment last night….I had a dream that we won the league.
I want to pretend it was a premonition! But for it to be, it is all about us stopping the number of goals conceded. We give away simple goals. The goons have successfully shored up their side and have a mean defence. If we could replicate this advancement ourselves and configure the side to be hard to score against, plus retain this way of playing where possible, then I think we would be up there competing for the title. We were for a third of the season. Our weakness is goals conceded. Offensively we need more, but already have enough guile to score 1-3 goals a game.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
It’s stopping simple goals
Counters and set pieces
The set piece hit in the second half of the season cost us about 10 points IIRC
Yes, but it took Arsenal 3 years to sort out all their problems under Arteta and they still haven't won the league. To expect us to solve all problems and compete for the title next year is a stretch.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Don’t tell that to our fans
Indeed. I don't know how everyone else feels and of course we have to see how the transfer window pans out.
But personally, I'd be happy with us having a real crack at the Europa and/or going deep in one of the domestic cups and finishing 5th again (perhaps would even mean CL this time). That whilst having improved/more consistently good performances on the pitch would make me very happy. There is no chance a club like ours is just going to waltz up the league and become title challengers at the click of a finger.....
SpurMeUp
Gary Stevens
SpurMeUp
Gary Stevens
Totally! There is no measure of ‘conceding easy goals’ but you can take a view. And a large proportion of our goals against fall into that column. Just changing the set piece goals conceded to the league average would have meant we finish in a CL spot. Take out the ‘wouldn’t have been a goal with better defending or team setup’ and we’d be more or less at arse’s level.
It is a big ask. We’re some way off, but it IS possible.
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Not every deal is going to be a star name. We'll probably spend biggish on a couple of positions and deals like Werner will allow that while not ending up short in other areas.
Jurgen the German
Willie Hall
Sound logic and completely agree. The only problem is I don’t think signings like this will help us close the gap.