Two birds with one stone:
Schwarzer
Kelly Senderos Hangeland Riise
Murphy Sidwell
Kasami Dempsey Dembele
Zamora
West Brom 2-1 Fulham - just because I refuse to believe we will get our first win of the season with an away game, plus Roy is too canny a manager to lose home games to mid-table teams.
I think Jol will probably stay with the same team the drew with Citeh. I'm going to go for a 1-0 away win, early goal and then we'll sit on it.
Schwarzer
Baird
Senderos
Hangeland
Riise
Duff
Murphy
Sidwell
Dempsey
Dembele
Zamora
Probably be a draw but my heart says WBA 0-2 Fulham, bit of revenge for the unjust result there last year
I think it'll be the City team and I'm fairly optimitic so say 2-1 to us.
The team I'd like to see would be
Schwarzer
Kelly Grygera Hangeland Riise
Murphy Baird
Kasami Dempsey Ruiz
Zamora
Subs Etheridge Senderos Gekcov Sidwell Frei Dembele Duff
Schwarzer - Kelly, Grygera, Hangeland, Riise - Sidwell, Murphy - Dembele, Dempsey, Duff - Zamora
Harsh on Baird.... Duff needs a good game really. Might be tempted to give him a rest and play Ruiz, especially as Hodgson will have drilled his team on how to stop him.
Ruiz gets in my team because we have to get him integrated and he can't play in Europe. Kasami adds attitude and muscle.
Duff isn't at his best and Hodgson knows all about him. He'll have drawn up plans based on the players he knows and I think we should surprise him. If not Ruiz then Frei. It may be that Ruiz and Dembele are one luxury player too many certainly in tough away games.
Quote from: TonyGilroy on September 23, 2011, 12:00:23 PM
Ruiz gets in my team because we have to get him integrated and he can't play in Europe. Kasami adds attitude and muscle.
Duff isn't at his best and Hodgson knows all about him. He'll have drawn up plans based on the players he knows and I think we should surprise him. If not Ruiz then Frei. It may be that Ruiz and Dembele are one luxury player too many certainly in tough away games.
Noooooooooooooooo! You used the term 'luxury player'.
What exactly does it mean? The player is either good enough or he is not, luxury does not come into it.
I would be happy with a draw.
It's not as if we have had many of them so far :005:
Our away form is still lousy so a point will do.
I know that we should be looking to be more ambitious against clubs around our level, so I would like to see some attacking intent and desire to win.
0-0, doing neither side any good.
From what I've read on here, think he may stick with Sa, or at least give him half an hour.
For me a "luxury player" is one who has potential to do great things but won't consistently play to a team pattern and put in a hard defensive shift.
Quote from: TonyGilroy on September 23, 2011, 12:11:51 PM
For me a "luxury player" is one who has potential to do great things but won't consistently play to a team pattern and put in a hard defensive shift.
Thing is, I think Dembele does work hard on defense. His form is inconsistent, but I dont think it is a luxury to have him in the side.
Same lineup as v. Man Citeh -- although I'd prefer Briggs to JAR -- and we get our first 3 points and our first away win at the same time, 1-2. Goals from Dembele and Dempsey.
Oh, and what's the over-under on the date the fawning over Roy ends? You'd think he was still our boss.
I'm actually feeling pretty confident about this one as WBA played a number of first team players for the full 120 mins mid-week where obviously we rested the majoirty of our and the first teamers that did play, played reduced games.
I'm going for our first win! 2-1 Fulham!
history says we will lose this game 1-0 because we are away from home and we have no luck so far this year. I am hoping for a 2-0 fulham win with Ruiz getting the second after coming on in the 2nd half. Here is the lineup...
Aussie
Kelly Senderos Hangeland Riise
Duff Murph Sidwell Dempsey
Zamora Dembele
Riise is going to show up in the this game and maybe get a goal. I think we will get a goal early on. Under 15 minutes.
Kasami, Ruiz, Sa to come on as second half subs.
Barring injuries, I'm guessing it'll be the same lineup as against Citeh.
I suspect 1 goal will decide this one, so I'll toss a coin to see what's what. Heads for Albion, tails for Fulham.
What do you know, Fulham have their tails up - we're gonna win!
same team as against citeh and 0-0
lets just gamble and say 3-0 fulham! ruiz + sa debut goals?! where is the optimism guys.
Schwarzer
Kelly Senderos Hangeland Riise
Murphy Sidwell
Kasami Dempsey Dembele
Zamora
2-0 with Bobby and Clint getting the goals.
Schwarzer
Grygera. Hangeland. Senderos. Briggs
Sidwell. Murphy. Duff
Dempsey
Zamora. Sa
Subs: Etheridge, Baird, Riise, Dembele, Frei, Ruiz, AJ
Brom 1-2 Fulham. Sa early and Dempsey.
Quote from: LukeJennings on September 23, 2011, 11:49:42 PM
lets just gamble and say 3-0 fulham! ruiz + sa debut goals?! where is the optimism guys.
It has been ground down by seasons of mediocre away form...!
Would be fab if Jol could break the mold.
