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with all due respect to ryan's post (which I mostly agree with) everything I want to see from the team I saw first half, meaning the tools are there but we need to be able to sustain that tempo for a full 90 minutes.
a lot of assumptions being made on the second half,
1. johnson is no more than two weeks away from full fitness.
this will increase our attacking threat down the right hand side
2. henderson (you'd hope) wont be as cautious again.
a debut infront of a 45,000 crowd against your boyhood team you've supported and then played for since you were a child couldn't have been easy. people advocate slick one touch passing, to me henderson showed he can slot into that type of play because many of his passes were made with one touch so we held onto possession
I say judge us when we are fitter and when we have a few games under our belt.
'don't look at the table until you've played 10 games' I can't remember which player/manager said it but it but it's a reasonable rule of thumb.
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I've a feeling it may have been Hodgson who said that. Still agree with it though.
with all due respect to ryan's post (which I mostly agree with) everything I want to see from the team I saw first half, meaning the tools are there but we need to be able to sustain that tempo for a full 90 minutes.
a lot of assumptions being made on the second half,
1. johnson is no more than two weeks away from full fitness.
this will increase our attacking threat down the right hand side
2. henderson (you'd hope) wont be as cautious again.
a debut infront of a 45,000 crowd against your boyhood team you've supported and then played for since you were a child couldn't have been easy. people advocate slick one touch passing, to me henderson showed he can slot into that type of play because many of his passes were made with one touch so we held onto possession
I say judge us when we are fitter and when we have a few games under our belt.
'don't look at the table until you've played 10 games' I can't remember which player/manager said it but it but it's a reasonable rule of thumb.
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I've a feeling it may have been Hodgson who said that. Still agree with it though.
