Friends of Fulham

NEW FOF'cast 🎙🎧 You've gotta be Joachim, right?

Hi all,

New FOF'cast available for you to download from SoundCloud, iTunes, and Spotify.

In this show, we are joined by regular co-hosts Owen Smith and Gerry Pimm, but also joined once again by Mike Gregg, who give there thoughts on the following topics;


⚽ The 1-1 draw with Newcastle at St. James Park

⚽ Friends of Fulham Man of the Match

⚽ The Anderson red card, dubious penalty, Wilsons dive, and VAR

⚽ Back in the bottom 3 over Christmas

⚽ Mitrovic being back in the fold

⚽ The Southampton game on Boxing Day

⚽ Southampton Predictions


SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/friendsoffulham/fofcast-youve-gotta-be-joachim-right

iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fofcast-youve-gotta-be-joachim-right/id1535958097?i=1000503250996 (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fofcast-youve-gotta-be-joachim-right/id1535958097?i=1000503250996)

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/episode/58AiKA9JrvqEtMmQExHJza


Thanks once again for listening, and, as always, your feedback is appreciated to help improve future shows  049:gif

(We unfortunately had some technical issues in this show, and lost Gerry Pimm early on, however, managed to continue with Owen Smith and Mike Gregg. You may experience some background noises whilst listening to this Pod, which we can only apologise for)

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Listening to the debate around Mitrovic  I agree that we definitely shouldnt sell him in january. But I do feel that the reason he isnt getting into the team has mainly  to do with the nature of the Premier League . Bottom half of the table sides cant play slow football ,controlling the ball ,and get lots of crosses into the box for a big man in the box. No team in the league currently plays this way. Dont say Burnley because they may well prove my point by going down. They also dont set out to control possession.
Our performances against Liverpool and Leicester would not and could not have been achieved with Mitro in the team. Why-  because he cant participate in the high energy aggressive press which made even Liverpool struggle at times. If we play deep with Mitro then we cant get in behind ,or are more limited in this regard.
So the conundrum with Mitro ( and even more so if TC plays as well ) is that we may lose plenty of our recent defensive stabilty by not playing with a low defensive line, because if we do then we have no  threat on the counter. The Liverpool set up and tactics really tested the champions ,and completely disagree with the  idea that in some of the recent performances we have been playing for draws.

By having Mitro or Tc in the team ( or both) then we set out to play in a certain way - with attacks being built primarily from what happens in the opponents final third. Parker has clearly seen that we are not good enough to play this way against most teams in the division and has started leaning towards a more mobile,pacey ,fluid set-up with quick players who can deliver offensive press and second ball dominance.  As Benitiz , before Parker ,clearly felt ,there was no place for a player like Mitrovic in this type of system (although he could be used off the bench to change games ).

Or, as GJ would say: "Wukkim".