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Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:45 am**

bavlondon wrote:What happened to Bermie starting them? Fecking hypocrites eh. You just wait as soon as we thrash them 6-0 on Wednesday people will be calling on me to start the next thread. I will be the new lucky mascot this season just wait and see, I can feel it!

I would luv that Bav...anyways i expect a reaction like after the Boro game last season... 4-1 to us :buttrock

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 8:36 am**

If Riera is ready i'd play Kuyt upfront with Benny down the right... if not then Voronin or Babel to partner Torres upfront.. Gerrard back in the middle alongside Mascherano for me too..

Benny Gerrard Mascherano Riera

Kuyt Torres

see how that works out...

Hope Torres looks better out there his first touch in the tottenham game was absolutely awful... nothing to do with service and all that.. just had a terrible game and was always running at defenders rather than spaces when he got the ball... surely having Babel and Kuyt down the flanks didnt help... not that Gerrard was that great or anything but Gerrard to me was the one who suffered more from the lack of service...
Anyways.. against Stoke.. regardless of the players Rafa choses to play, we should be controlling the possession simply because Stoke arent going to be wanting any of that... Play Benny down the right (going deeper) with Johnson coming from the back and with Gerrard and Mascherano in the middle we'll have a better attacking balance about us id think...

anyways... will be interesting tos ee if Benitez makes any changes to our setup/players (besides Babel that is)...

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 9:40 am**

Same team but replace babel with yossi and have him and kuyt further up field to support Torres

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 10:02 am**

i think, and i know its early, but we may suffer from a 2nd place hangover

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 11:15 am**

The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:14 pm**

stmichael wrote:The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Ha - good point.

Spurs away is a tough game to start the season.

This game is a real test of how we cope with "park the bus" teams.

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:31 pm**

Effes wrote:
stmichael wrote:The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Ha - good point.

Spurs away is a tough game to start the season.

This game is a real test of how we cope with "park the bus" teams.

Lets hope we cope better with that than the last game, which was a real test of how we coped with "teams who get off the bus, leave it in the carpark and play football".

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:53 pm**

bigmick wrote:
Effes wrote:
stmichael wrote:The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Ha - good point.

Spurs away is a tough game to start the season.

This game is a real test of how we cope with "park the bus" teams.

Lets hope we cope better with that than the last game, which was a real test of how we coped with "teams who get off the bus, leave it in the carpark and play football".

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:58 pm**

Would be our first Premiership win over the potters, our first goal, our first avoidance of embarrassment on top of first win of the season. A must win, to not win is unthinkable and could leave us 5-6 points behind the mancs and Chelsea not to mention other teams.

Seriously we need to be winning 15+ games at home, may sound a lot but if we're to win 27+ in the season then surely the majority need to be at fortress Anfield - newly renamed in optimism as it's currently "welcome to Anfield, point's yours if you want it"

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:05 pm**

Effes wrote:
stmichael wrote:The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Ha - good point.

Spurs away is a tough game to start the season.

This game is a real test of how we cope with "park the bus" teams.

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 2:59 pm**

bigmick wrote:
Effes wrote:
stmichael wrote:The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Ha - good point.

Spurs away is a tough game to start the season.

This game is a real test of how we cope with "park the bus" teams.

Lets hope we cope better with that than the last game, which was a real test of how we coped with "teams who get off the bus, leave it in the carpark and play football".

aren't they an endagered species?

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 3:13 pm**

JoeTerp wrote:
bigmick wrote:
Effes wrote:
stmichael wrote:The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Ha - good point.

Spurs away is a tough game to start the season.

This game is a real test of how we cope with "park the bus" teams.

Lets hope we cope better with that than the last game, which was a real test of how we coped with "teams who get off the bus, leave it in the carpark and play football".

aren't they an endagered species?

wouldnt really say so...

Tottenham, Villa, WestHam, Wigan, Wolves, Fulham, Chelsea, ManUtd, Arsenal, ManCity... thats more than 1/2 the clubs in the league who take up a somewhat attacking mentality regardless of the opposition..

Would say that Stoke, Hull, Burnley, Blackburn, Bolton, and maybe Portsmouth would probably look to frustrate us when they come up against us... not too sure about the other sides...

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:13 pm**

bigmick wrote:
Effes wrote:
stmichael wrote:The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Ha - good point.

Spurs away is a tough game to start the season.

This game is a real test of how we cope with "park the bus" teams.

Lets hope we cope better with that than the last game, which was a real test of how we coped with "teams who get off the bus, leave it in the carpark and play football".

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:14 pm**

Judge wrote:
Effes wrote:
stmichael wrote:The irony is, if we beat Stoke on Wednesday, we'll have picked up more points than we did in the two corresponding games last season.

Ha - good point.

Spurs away is a tough game to start the season.

This game is a real test of how we cope with "park the bus" teams.

That's one groovy cat innit?

Posted: **Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:15 pm**

Another point - is this a MUST WIN game?

I think it is to be honest.

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