Blue Horseshoe loves MANU - The Other Teams' Thread - [R]

Tevez looked off to me

 

as someone who did watch the game I believe the point being made is that AVB continues let his obstinace get in the way of good decisions

while I do agree with you that Spurs were the better side and were quite unlucky in the first half- hitting the post and the bar- at the end of the day football is a result oriented business and it became pretty clear in the second half that Newcastle were most likely getting something out of the game

The point which stuck out to me was when Stuart Robson (and no I dont agree with all of the points commentators make) made the interesting statement that perhaps AVB would try to alter the system by bringing VDV on. He suggested that VDV could join Sigurdsson behind the front man. While I did think that Lennon and Bale were getting good change out of both fullbacks their final product was not the best and Pardew wisely dropped Tiote a little deeper allowing him to break up the attacking play through the middle and neutralise Sigurdsson.

What did AVB do? A like for like swap while keeping the same tactical system in play. Speaking as someone who witnessed this first hand far too often for my liking last season- it does not bode well that the initial showing of the new AVB was that he is still the old AVB. I also found it interesting that he is sticking to his policy of bascially outsing players- Defoe, Gallas, VDV- but still choosing or being forced to play them.

I still suspect this will not end well imo.

 

Soton put up a good fight and showed that imo there really are no easy games in the Prem

the days of Derby may be long past us now and I think the League is better for it

 

Jay Rodriguez (Burnley, £6m), Paulo Gazzaniga (Gillingham, undisclosed), Steven Davis (Rangers, free), Nathaniel Clyne (Crystal Palace, compensation not yet agreed)

 

Adkins is a solid Manager as well

starting to see a trend in the better promoted teams of good, sound managers who try to have their teams play football- Rogers, Lambert, Holloway, et al

I really hope that trend continues and we see less of the "keep us up at all costs" Managers such as Warnock