Week 2 of humble pie eating -apologies Mr Sargeant

[Rhino1 292]

Getting indigestion, last week I apologised to Mr Idah after I called him a waste of space earlier this year, now, for the second week running humble pie needs to be eaten. Josh, complete waste of money, couldn’t score in a brothel or hit a barn door from 5 yards Sargeant, has turned into a beautiful, football equivalent, butterfly soaring in the sky. Although one crack of thunder does not make storm, his effort of recent weeks, and his goals last night, at least warrant a full grovelling apology, judged too quickly, there is perhaps a wonderful footballer under that ginger mop! 
okay can I make it a hat trick, the “Mayor” to me is desperately overrated, gives ball away too much, moans too much. Hands in the air complaining  that a pass from a colleague went astray, while the opposition walked passed him, wake up, stop whinging and roll up your sleeves McLean !! McLean hat trick vrs Palace here we come!! 

[sgncfc 1,227]

As one of the few who had genuinely said that Sargent would be a player, two goals does not suddenly make him the player we thought we were getting. It's promising that his luck seems to have turned and that all his hard work is paying off - and no one could ever deny that he works his socks off. Same with Idah - when he works hard, things happen. Last night, he either got tired or bored at stages of the game and disappeared for long periods, but when he gets his gander up he is a very difficult player to mark. Neither are quite there yet, but you're right that Sargent is a much, much better player than most on here recognised.

Likewise Maclean - he is picked time and time again by football coaches who know much more than we do. Whether by luck or design he makes things happen.

Idah needs to either drop deep to pick up the ball so he can turn and run at the centre, or really push high onto the centre backs where he can bully them. He and Pukki swapped over a bit last night to do that, but nowhere near as effectively as against Everton. Once you then add Sargent and Rashica buzzing around on each flank and causing problems, we suddenly have quite an effective and varied unit going forward. Add Normann to the midfield to give us more ballast alongside a Rupp, PLM or even Gilmour and a solid back four and, a proper Dean Smith plan emerges - something which, unfortunately, the very likeable Daniel Farke never seemed to have, even when we were winning two Championships.

Unfortunately, I suspect we might run out of winnable games but at least we are no longer the whipping boys or the worst PL team of all time or even an embarrassment. Given we have now won 4 times as many games as the wealthiest team in the world....

[Thirsty Lizard 3,159]

32 minutes ago, sgncfc said:

As one of the few who had genuinely said that Sargent would be a player, two goals does not suddenly make him the player we thought we were getting. It's promising that his luck seems to have turned and that all his hard work is paying off - and no one could ever deny that he works his socks off. Same with Idah - when he works hard, things happen. Last night, he either got tired or bored at stages of the game and disappeared for long periods, but when he gets his gander up he is a very difficult player to mark. Neither are quite there yet, but you're right that Sargent is a much, much better player than most on here recognised.

Likewise Maclean - he is picked time and time again by football coaches who know much more than we do. Whether by luck or design he makes things happen.

Idah needs to either drop deep to pick up the ball so he can turn and run at the centre, or really push high onto the centre backs where he can bully them. He and Pukki swapped over a bit last night to do that, but nowhere near as effectively as against Everton. Once you then add Sargent and Rashica buzzing around on each flank and causing problems, we suddenly have quite an effective and varied unit going forward. Add Normann to the midfield to give us more ballast alongside a Rupp, PLM or even Gilmour and a solid back four and, a proper Dean Smith plan emerges - something which, unfortunately, the very likeable Daniel Farke never seemed to have, even when we were winning two Championships.

Unfortunately, I suspect we might run out of winnable games but at least we are no longer the whipping boys or the worst PL team of all time or even an embarrassment. Given we have now won 4 times as many games as the wealthiest team in the world....

And apparently since November we've won as many Premier League games as Chelsea :).