Christoph Stiepermann
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With or without VAR we never get decisions at this level and never will. I don't even get mad anymore, it's just how it is for us for some reason
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It's fair to say we have a physical disadvantage in this league. You only have to look at us during the hand shakes at the beginning of games v the bottom 15 or so in this league to see that. Every smaller club in this league is packed with pace, height and power and the greater finances of every club and better scouting have meant these players are also technically gifted now as well. Tactically this league seems to have regressed in the past 5 or so years, nearly every team plays simple counter attacking football based on a solid defence and a few strong, fast outstanding dribblers.
But i think our problems at the moment are more simple. Buendia and Stiepermann who are so crucial to our play haven't found their feet yet, Hernandez who gives us another dimension has been out all season, we haven't had a settled CM pairing and our defence is ravaged by injuries. Yes we're small and slow for this league, but with a fairer wind and the momentum and confidence we came up with we could've had a real chance at thriving for a while.
People won't like this excuse because there's no one to directly blame but it's the injuries and some poor individual form that have killed us. Sucks but that's the truth.
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33 minutes ago, Jim Smith said:I’ve bought into the philosophy in terms of the passing and playing it out from the back (although when it goes wrong it looks truly awful) but what I don’t buy is that it has to be at the exclusion of good, old fashioned defensive basics such as preventing crosses from coming in or marking opposition players in our own six yard box. Farke has never quite got the defence drilled so they perform on a consistent basis. We simply won’t outscore teams every week at this level. Look at the likes of Palace, Burnley and dare I say it Shef U. They make it really hard to score against them and as a result are able to grind out points in a way im not sure we are capable of.
I don't see those issues as tactical or something we're not being drilled correctly on. It's simply that we have a small, inexperienced team. To play Farke's style of football you have to be technically gifted as a bare minimum. This squad has been largely built on a shoestring so we've sacrificed physicality and experience for players who first and foremost fit our philosophy. We have some tall players but they aren't quick or that strong and some fast players who are weak and inconsistent, much of our team is also out injured. I would argue there's very little Farke can do on the training pitch to stem the flow of these types of goals.
We're not yet at a place where we can afford players who are physically and technically good enough so we are where we are. It's not fun and this was my main fear coming into this season that we'd be dominated physically and in the air but it is what it is and we have to get on with it.
Kenny McLean, a physically average, attacking midfielder currently being deployed in a holding midfield role is our best header of the ball in the team at the moment. That says it all really, no amount of careful coaching can fix that problem
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Only thing i agree on is the physical size issue. It's the main thing i was worried about going into this season. All the bottom 15 or so teams minus Leicester and Bournemouth are full of 6ft2+ athletes. West Ham and Palace are the extreme example here and that extra strength, pace and height can overwhelm our young, slight team. We have big players, but they aren't quick and we have fast players who are easily brushed off the ball, PL teams are full of players who have both and can play a bit. They don't need to knock it around like we do when they can dribble through us and win areal balls 90% of the time with ease.
We still look a good side but against the also rans in this league it's looked a bit like U16's v under 18's at times this year and there's little we can do to address it even without injuries.
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There's a reason why farke rarely changed the team last year even if we had dips in form, the way we play benefits greatly from continuity and an understanding between players on the pitch. This injury crisis has really killed us, we've not been at our fluent best because we've had to change the team around so much and it's also killed that bit of momentum most teams get promoted with. Despite what Farke says I can see it's gotten to the players as well, they look really fed up and hard done by.
You need a degree of luck to stay in this league as a promoted side alongside quality, we haven't had any this year. All we can do is carry on supporting but it's looking ominous at this early stage. It's gutting because with a mostly full strength squad I think we could've made a real go of this.
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Draw v burnley
Loss v Palace
Win v Villa
Draw v Bournemouth
That would be 5 points and a great haul. Burnley and palace are the type of teams that cause us problems, plus we never win at that cesspool Selhurst Park. We should have enough to beat Villa but Bournemouth are brilliant at home and a draw there would be a brilliant result.
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On night games, train times to Great Yarmouth are an absolute joke, if I leave dead on the whistle at 90+4 then sprint hell for leather to the station i only make the train half the time. Or then there's another one or maybe two carriage train an hour or so later that people get packed into like sardines, absolute stupidity. I stay till the end because I don't work mornings and I can run, that's not the case for everyone though so i don't blame people for leaving a few minutes early, everyone's circumstances are different.
It would have been a crime to leave early Saturday though, why wouldn't you want to drink in that atmosphere?
As an aside, getting into your seat well after kick off because you were p155ing about in the concourse is unforgivable and you should be banned from CR for life.
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19 minutes ago, shefcanary said:The Prince is a Prince in name only. He has no personal fortune and borrowed cash from the Bin Laden's for his stake. McCabe owns the ground and the training academy. If he decides to play tough he may either charge a fortune in rent or even evict the club a la Coventry. Whatever the Prince has to find a substantial amount of cash very quickly, which many people doubt he can. The Blad3s are looking at very turbulent times.
I haven't been on their forum or spoke to any of their fans, but I'd imagine the locals are pretty angry at the situation? They have such a good thing going at the moment and some shady guy with no connection to the club is trying to spoil everything. I assume they're united in all wanting this sale to fail?
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I'll appoint my son in law to run the club...
That should raise about a million red flags. No matter what happens this season if that sale goes through our little rivalry with Sheff Utd will drop flying back into the rear view mirror pretty quickly. They can have all the cash they want, I'd rather be paupers and have Webber running the club than millions and the random son in law of some "Prince" calling the shots
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Where has this insane improvement come from? last year he looked a decent Championship player that could develop into a very good Championship player but this year he has gone up several levels and is looking like a star player in this league. If he maintains this level of performance I don't think he'll just be worthy of wearing the number 14 shirt he'll actually be an improvement on the last player to wear it.
Outstanding performance today to go along with his other brilliant performances this season. Did he always have this potential or is Farke really the prodigious coach we all think he is? Makes me wonder how good the Murphys could have been if Farke could have started coaching them early
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I didn't see the thread started earlier. Apologies to WWIAFTM
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For me, not using a relative metric, all players are judged the same regardless of reputation or worth and that a 10 is a performance that will be remembered forever not just by us but by every football fan and a 1 is an Ali Dia or Michael Theoklitos, this is how I saw today
Krul 8
Byram 7.5
Amadou 8
Godfrey 8.5
Lewis 7.5
Tettey 8
McLean 7.5
Cantwell 8.5
Stiepermann 6.5
Buendia 8
Pukki 8.5
Subs N/A
How did everyone else see it?
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Remember when a pundit who works for the BBC said Pukki wouldn't get 10 goals this season? I have no interest in what they have to say, i just want to see them embarrassed and lost for words.
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You can have all the tactical knowledge in the world but what separates the top class managers from the rest is also being a top human being that doesn't need to do anything to command respect from your players and others. Guardiola and Klopp have this type of character and brilliantly for us, so does Farke.
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Chris Hughton and Jamie Redknapp have been surprisingly excellent and effusive in their praise for us and I'm sure their view is the one most widely held.
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Third season in a row now under Farke we've started shaky and improved massively after the first international break.
Going off of our performances in August it was no wonder most were predicting a loss, now I think we can assume that was more like what we'll perform like for the rest of the season because it's now becoming a pattern that we kick on from this point. Last year people thought the Middlesbrough win was a one off then we just got better and better, I can see the same happening again. Play like that for the rest of the season and we'll never be in relegation trouble.
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Top class and not even a CB by trade. Another excellent Webber signing. So cool and calm on the ball and a clever defender with excellent decision making and positioning.
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It's taken the pressure completely off and gives other members of our squad a chance to shine. If the first team with no injuries lost 7-0 there would be some negativity about, as it is we literally can't lose, we put in any kind of performance and the crowd will stay with the team and applaud them off. This adversity could be the catalyst for us picking up a resilient streak and going into games with a siege mentality.
I still think we'll lose heavily, but bring it on!
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Can we call up players from the u23's or do we have to go with whoever we named in our 25 man squad? I'd much rather risk young players on the bench tomorrow than see Michael McGovern put in at CB or Pukki asked to drop into midfield for example
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I wouldn't risk any recurrence of injury so only fully fit players for me even if they're not ready as we have little to lose
Fahrmann
Byram
Bushiri (recall)
Amadou
Lewis
Tettey
McLean
Buendia
Stiepermann
Cantwell
Pukki
Literally have no choice but to close the spaces, press incessantly in packs and hit fast on the counter. get Pukki another goal and keep the scoreline to something respectable and we'd have done amazingly well
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If any of the U23 CB's were considered ready they would have been on the bench by now. After our 4 main CB's I'd imagine the pecking order is
Amadou then Tettey then Lewis (Farke has played him there in friendlies.) We won't be bringing a free agent in or dipping into the youth team. Our best young CB Bushiri hasn't started a game for Blackpool yet so I doubt he's ready either, if someone like Hanley can look so exposed at this level an inexperienced teenager in such a crucial position would get absolutely crucified.
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In the past called for Worthington/Grant/Roeder/Gunn/Hughton/Adams's and Neil's head as fast as anyone so I never just go by blind faith. But Farke and webber never lost me, because I could see what they were trying to do, they kept saying the right things and to be brutally honest their way was the only choice we had. Our old way of following the same model as every other club but with just less money or money made solely from parachute payments, hoping to pluck the next big thing in management from obscurity somewhere to have us punching above our weight had hit a brick wall, we needed a complete uproot of every aspect of the way the club was being run and therefore it was only sensible to assume there would be some short term pain in that transition.
In 17/18 we had disharmony in the squad, the old guard who didn't want to be worked in training, a bunch of foreign imports given no time to settle and a clutch of players who were not suited to our system, then at the start of last season we had to start again with almost a whole new team that needed time to gel. Although I admit our performance away at Ipswich was a worrying low point, I was confident it would turn around eventually. Not to the extent it did, I saw us becoming another Brentford/Bristol type team that plays good football with a young team but only ever flirts with the playoffs and never gets promoted but for a while I was okay with that, I never saw it turning out this well but I knew eventually under Farke we'd become a good team.
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Aarons Amadou (Or Zimbo if fit) Godfrey Lewis
Tettey (Or Amadou) Vrancic
Buendia Drmic Cantwell
Pukki
Back 5 picks themselves but a lot depends on if Zimmermann is fit. We need a specialist DM in there either Tettey or Amadou and Vrancic because of his long range of passing to get us out of trouble when were penned in, also his free kicks might be useful. Drmic in for Stiepermann as we'll need to take one of the few chances we get and Stiepermann's shooting has been horrific so far this season, I see him as vital to how we play so I'm hoping Drmic can offer something similar.
Approach this like we did Leeds away last year. Focus on pressing and hitting them fast on the turnover, be clever with tactical fouls and keep the full backs just a little bit more suppressed than usual. We'll probably lose, but if we give them a good game and score a couple we'll head into Burnley full of confidence
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They always do my head in, worst one for me is getting our German players names mixed up -Christoph Stiepermann, Marco Zimmermann, Morris Trybull etc...hence my username that mocks that and their description of Pukki always winds me up as well. How many times do we have to hear "Not the quickest or very easy on the eye?" like seriously, where does that line come from? Stating the obvious here but he's got decent pace and is a clever player with a good touch and scores nice technical goals, why the f does the not very quick or easy on the eye line keep getting lazily repeated? it's almost as if none of these ill informed morons have actually watched him play!
Match Thread v Brighton
in Main Discussion - Norwich City
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We look to me to be playing a 5 3 2, certainly at least off the ball and while it has tightened us up at the back a bit, we've lost most of our threat going forward. It's a sensible approach to take but I'm not sure it suits our players, we're too lightweight in the tackle and easily brushed off the ball to play deep defensively. If we play our usual game we're often carved open too easily. I'm glad I'm not Farke as I have absolutely no idea how we can get the balance right with the players we have available.