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It's a good question but this will be again covered in detail at the fans forum:
A lot of it comes down to science and other complicated big boy trouser stuff, but basically if you factor in the fitness and availability levels of all Academy teams, the ladies team, the pupils at Jack TIzzard, and all children Year 4 and above on the White City Estate we are currently at 94.3% availability, which is higher than its ever been.
I can understand frustration around West Ham being there for the taking, but injuries aside (a different, darker thread) I thought yesterday was good for that squad and the club.
Hopefully that will be the end of any thought of fielding weakened teams on these occasions because the players, and I'd say the majority of fans, will have left feeling positive.
One bit of quality from Sommerville against our developing cult 'hybrid right back' and a strong finish. Otherwise I think we'd have gone to penalties which would have been interesting.
There was a huge squad huddle on the sideline before extra time that contrasted with how West Ham looked to me, a club in crisis. And that's without even getting into the stadium discussion - e.g. I have very little idea how the ref was because a lot of it was happening in a neighbouring time zone.
I'm as titillated as the rest of us to see him signing, but I did think there were a handful of those really poor team performances during the slump where he wasn't really able to affect things, regardless of his hair, teeth and other aspects of dreamboatery.
He'll be a great addition, but not the messiah (obviously) and he wasn't cheap at all.
On a certain level this reminds me of buying myself a pair of very expensive earphones mid December, on the credit card, because I felt I really did need them and they were so much better than the other two pairs I already had..
They are good though and life's too short so fcuk it.
I think he does have pace and size, workrate seems ok. Some of the other categories who knows, we'll need to see a lot more of him. He's probably a baller, they all are these days.
But IF he were to get in the team ahead of Kolli at this moment it would just scream of internal politics Shirley?
Yeah I thought that was one of the stranger 3-0 results I've witnessed.
More than half of our play today was hard to watch, with the exception of maybe 15 mins after the first goal, and bits and bobs in the second half. That Dembele effort where he seemed to take it wide of the goal from a central position and shoot weakly summed up a lot of it.
All that said seeing Kolli going from frustrated to grinning like a Cheshire cat in the space of 10 minutes was great, and underlines the obvious fact that he needs to play a lot more.
All over the place every time we tried to develop something, nothing stuck, no control, nowhere near enough intensity, shit ref, comotose lino, out-thought and beaten far too easily.
Maybe try going all out to win every game in front of us, and rotate the squad as needed, rather than over thinking and overly dicking about with away gsme tactics, effort levels and personnel?
I think that's all fair enough. The main problem I have with how we played though is we actually seemee too focused on the fact that it's 4 games in 9 or 10 days.
Field has height, so if you're playing him up there try and hit him and build from further up the pitch.
Instead it was all about moving forward slowly and deliberately in some sort of crab formation, backwards of square until everyone has got over the halfway line while staying in the green zone on their heart monitors, managing their load and thinking about the 4 games in terms of 12 points rather then what's right in front of them.
Why not have a decent go at them, press high, work at a higher rate and rotate a winning team as needed?
It all looked over thought, other than the lack of thinking where players who were having an off night should've been subbed for their replacements - Saito and Kone seemed the most obvious to me.
This is a high bar. I think a lot of these songs end up being the ones that threaten to eclipse an album.
The example I've been using of that for the last 3 or more decades is "...in much the same way as Mary's Prayer eclipsed the 'Meet Danny Wilson' album".
This one is a bit like that, and the album feels quite similar in a strange way. If you don't want to deal with the slightly distracting home video I'd just listen - 'I'm Still Trying' by Matthew Fowler.
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