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gareth bales form or lack of
« on: May 01, 2011, 11:00:08 AM »
Despite winning the player of the year award Gareth Bale has flattered to deceive this season overall imho. Yes he destroyed inter over the 2 legs but since that has done next to nothing. His last few performances in particular have been dire. Has his head been turned? Has his ego become inflated? He seems a level headed young chimp so maybe not.
He didnt look interested yesterday at all and his recent performances for us have not been up to par. I think Harry is to blame. He has lots of options at left midfield niko, that peanut fella- not sure what he does though and even Modric but continues to utilise an underperforming player in this position that if the right bid comes in the summer will be off to pastures new in anycase.
I may be shot down for this but he isnt even our best player this season modric is. I would even go so far as to say sandro has performed better overall this season than him and has been "our" young player of the year.
Discuss ladies and gentlemen ........




and gareth  :lol:
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Re: gareth bales form or lack of
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2011, 11:13:02 AM »
Bale was poor yesterday and I'm still trying to work out where he was supposed to be playing? Everytime I looked up he was central and ahead of Vdv. We needed widith and he should have been on the touch line, especially when Ivanovic had been booked. He's clueless at LB and has a lot to learn.
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Re: gareth bales form or lack of
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2011, 11:19:02 AM »
And i would also like to be shown evidence where this ridiculously futile side swapping between Lennon and Bale that arry champions every game actually works!!!!
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Re: gareth bales form or lack of
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2011, 11:28:44 AM »
Has Lennon been released out of Cashley's pocket yet?
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Re: gareth bales form or lack of
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2011, 12:11:32 PM »
Quote from: bigv on May 01, 2011, 11:19:02 AM
And i would also like to be shown evidence where this ridiculously futile side swapping between Lennon and Bale that arry champions every game actually works!!!!
Bang on BigV - its Harry's pointless tinkering again playing "Premiership Manager" and failing miserably
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Re: gareth bales form or lack of
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2011, 01:02:39 PM »
Gareth Bale is still the biggest threat we have, and even if he is a bit out of form at the moment(which i dont think he is) I would still rather have him on the pitch over Kranjcar or Pienaar
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Re: gareth bales form or lack of
« Reply #6 on: May 02, 2011, 06:45:44 AM »
The problem as i see it is that many defenders know what pace he has and therefore take every opportunity to clip his heels [ Ivanovic yesterday being a prime example]. This constant fouling looks like they have been slightly beaten by pace and therefore they get away with quite a bit of this cynical fouling before they are booked].
They realise that, if left, Bale will rampage past them all afternoon.
The problem is that i think Bale anticipates this clipping and almost expects it. Therefore he is reluctant to be as aggressive in his runs as he once was, he is also reluctant to go full pace because he knows what will happen and the faster he is going the harder he will fall [Game against Ars*nal being an example].
What I don't understand is that once he has had the defender booked why don't we feed him more ball and get him to run at the nervy defender even more.
In other words i think he is expecting to be fouled and this is effecting his approach. None of this would be as bad if  he was allowed to take the resulting free kicks. Presently we use VDV who is only effective from near the penalty area and Kaboul who is only effective if the wall is poorly positioned. Bale is a known dead ball master, he wins most of the free kicks so he should be given a shot at taking them.
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Re: gareth bales form or lack of
« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2011, 07:49:27 PM »
Quote from: pukekohespur on May 02, 2011, 06:45:44 AM
The problem as i see it is that many defenders know what pace he has and therefore take every opportunity to clip his heels [ Ivanovic yesterday being a prime example]. This constant fouling looks like they have been slightly beaten by pace and therefore they get away with quite a bit of this cynical fouling before they are booked].
They realise that, if left, Bale will rampage past them all afternoon.
The problem is that i think Bale anticipates this clipping and almost expects it. Therefore he is reluctant to be as aggressive in his runs as he once was, he is also reluctant to go full pace because he knows what will happen and the faster he is going the harder he will fall [Game against Ars*nal being an example].
What I don't understand is that once he has had the defender booked why don't we feed him more ball and get him to run at the nervy defender even more.
In other words i think he is expecting to be fouled and this is effecting his approach. None of this would be as bad if  he was allowed to take the resulting free kicks. Presently we use VDV who is only effective from near the penalty area and Kaboul who is only effective if the wall is poorly positioned. Bale is a known dead ball master, he wins most of the free kicks so he should be given a shot at taking them.

The head of the nail mate, you have just whacked it me thinks! spot on fella!

And as for the free kicks issue lets give Bale the role for a while as he can belt the with accuracy!
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Re: gareth bales form or lack of
« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2011, 08:29:12 PM »
Quote from: Metalanimal on May 02, 2011, 07:49:27 PM
Quote from: pukekohespur on May 02, 2011, 06:45:44 AM
The problem as i see it is that many defenders know what pace he has and therefore take every opportunity to clip his heels [ Ivanovic yesterday being a prime example]. This constant fouling looks like they have been slightly beaten by pace and therefore they get away with quite a bit of this cynical fouling before they are booked].
They realise that, if left, Bale will rampage past them all afternoon.
The problem is that i think Bale anticipates this clipping and almost expects it. Therefore he is reluctant to be as aggressive in his runs as he once was, he is also reluctant to go full pace because he knows what will happen and the faster he is going the harder he will fall [Game against Ars*nal being an example].
What I don't understand is that once he has had the defender booked why don't we feed him more ball and get him to run at the nervy defender even more.
In other words i think he is expecting to be fouled and this is effecting his approach. None of this would be as bad if  he was allowed to take the resulting free kicks. Presently we use VDV who is only effective from near the penalty area and Kaboul who is only effective if the wall is poorly positioned. Bale is a known dead ball master, he wins most of the free kicks so he should be given a shot at taking them.

The head of the nail mate, you have just whacked it me thinks! spot on fella!

And as for the free kicks issue lets give Bale the role for a while as he can belt the with accuracy!
Totally agree. Bang on ;)
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