| First point of the season 17:17 - Aug 31 with 1970 views | _clive_baker_ |
Out of the bottom 3. Bloody enjoyable game actually, really felt like we belong at this level and nice to see the new additions settle in well. 2nd half was really, really good I thought. Either side could’ve won it and on balance 1-1 was right against a good side with a lot of quality.
Early days but I think we’ve recruited well. Omari, Delap, Greaves, Phillips all look at home in the premier league, no surprises with Phillips of course. Szmodics has a real engine and Clarke such good quality on the ball, they’ll both bring a lot. More to come from Ogbene I hope, not completely sold on what I’ve seen of him in the past but certainly has attributes we sorely miss beyond Burns.
We’ll keep getting better, but if someone said we’re out of the bottom 3 after 3 games you would’ve taken it with our set of fixtures. |  | | |  |
| First point of the season on 17:43 - Aug 31 with 1838 views | Trickster |
Good post, agree with all of that. Ogbene does appear to be a slight down grade on Wes but a much needed solid replacement in his role. First full prem game though so time to develop in the team. |  |
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| First point of the season on 17:52 - Aug 31 with 1749 views | Clapham_Junction |
The calibre of the opposition made the first two games difficult to judge, but today I thought we looked like a decent Premier League team.
Given we still had a few players in the side who have only just arrived, it'll be exciting to see how good we are when they're all up to speed (thinking back to when the January 22 signings clicked and we went on that ridiculous run). |  | | |
| First point of the season on 17:57 - Aug 31 with 1698 views | FrimleyBlue |
| First point of the season on 17:43 - Aug 31 by Trickster |
Good post, agree with all of that. Ogbene does appear to be a slight down grade on Wes but a much needed solid replacement in his role. First full prem game though so time to develop in the team. |
He's not that different to wes in that he has the speed but needs the space. It actually fits well as you're not losing the role regardless of which one plays.
Game time and getting him to use the space in front of him and get some balls for him to run on ala Chaplin to burns and it'll work well. |  |
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| First point of the season on 18:03 - Aug 31 with 1625 views | _clive_baker_ |
| First point of the season on 17:57 - Aug 31 by FrimleyBlue |
He's not that different to wes in that he has the speed but needs the space. It actually fits well as you're not losing the role regardless of which one plays.
Game time and getting him to use the space in front of him and get some balls for him to run on ala Chaplin to burns and it'll work well. |
What I find so impressive about Burns is his defensive discipline and impact out of possession. That comes from real muscle memory and knowing the system so well, but he’s unbelievably good in that respect. Don’t expect to see that from Ogbene yet but positionally just not up to speed yet, a bit loose in possession too and a clumsy free kick he gave away in a really dangerous position. I’m not worried about his output with the ball, I think that bit will be fine. | | | |
| First point of the season on 18:07 - Aug 31 with 1571 views | FrimleyBlue |
| First point of the season on 18:03 - Aug 31 by _clive_baker_ |
What I find so impressive about Burns is his defensive discipline and impact out of possession. That comes from real muscle memory and knowing the system so well, but he’s unbelievably good in that respect. Don’t expect to see that from Ogbene yet but positionally just not up to speed yet, a bit loose in possession too and a clumsy free kick he gave away in a really dangerous position. I’m not worried about his output with the ball, I think that bit will be fine. |
True on the wes side. I'm not sure if ogdene can match that aspect however for someone who's only joined on Tuesday I felt ogdene did solid job working with tuanzebe. It's good to have two solid options.
Not quite sure however how this leaves things for johnson.... | |
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| First point of the season on 18:13 - Aug 31 with 1522 views | Cafe_Newman |
The Fulham players faces at full time reminded me of the Liverpool players at half time:
"What just happened?" |  | | |
| First point of the season on 08:40 - Sep 1 with 1135 views | Help |
Slowly ticking the boxes. First goal last week. First home goal this week. First point this week. Looking forward to the first win soon |  |
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| First point of the season on 09:05 - Sep 1 with 1052 views | tractorboy1978 |
There were so many chances to play Ogbene in behind like we've seen so often with Burns in the past. But we didn't seem to want to play that ball.
That bottom end of the table is already shaping up as you would expect it to isn't it? I'd earmarked Southampton, Leicester, Everton, Wolves, Forest as the teams we would be fighting with and 4 of those are in the bottom 6 already. |  | | |
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