Sentences with phrase «odd players in»

There is not a great deal of daylight between 20 - odd players in this squad.

Not exact matches

We can choose to write off various forums as meaningless «gabfests» especially when we're not included, but it seems odd that most if not all of the other serious players in Asia see value in groupings such as the EAS, and it smacks of sour grapes.

It's fine to acknowledge a players role in odd poor results etc but it's a managerial issue when the bad results are as frequent and repetitive as they are with us.

Chelsea, Spurs and Man Utd all let in far fewer goals than we have... so the odd goal here or there has meant probably 6 - 8 points plus losing to eg West Brom Watford and Palace is another 9 points... Wenger cant play for the players and some of our defending has been very poor this year!

But then AFC operates in a pressure free comfort zone hence mediocrity has become the watch word... manager is assured of a job for life no matter how badly he is performing, that reflects on the players as they know that as long as the manager still has a job then they cam continue drawing their huge weekly checks and delivering the odd patches of good forms....

I find it odd that we got rid of players of Bennett, Marshall, and Jeffery's caliber for a bunch of stiffs and people have a steadfast faith in Pace.

He does have benefits for the odd game against certain players but out of a long season of many games he not start in many for me.

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he might have one or two decent passes in a game, score the odd goal, but for all that money i would have expected a game changer, a dynamic player, not a lazy sulky player with lots of personal problems, including his own poppa suing him for money.

Any player can make the odd chance in a multitude of ways, it's about doing it consistently and efficiently.

It has been an odd season for Tottenham Hotspur in 2013/14, with things starting brightly with over # 110m being spent on new players, before two managers were sacked.

We keep hearing that Arsenal have mega millions in the bank that the boss could splash on new and big name players but apart from the odd one or two like Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil he seems stubbornly reluctant to do so.

I don't think he's a feature back (last year proved that), and I'm not advocating that the Cardinals turn him into one — plus the results don't lie with Chris Johnson — but Ellington is such a dangerous weapon on the ground and through the air that it's been a little odd to see him become little more than a player that comes in to spare the starter a few times a game.

Let youth and fringe players with the odd first teamer compete in the Europa.

Which means the status quo is probably the way to go, and we'll just have to accept that Olympic baseball is an odd, quadrennial intrusion into a summer already overstuffed with baseball, and because there's no way to get the best players in the world to represent their respective countries, there isn't going to be a way to make Olympic baseball a thing, like you can with Olympic basketball.

Wenger has often spoken about only bringing in the right player at the right time, but we have seen him make the odd «panic buy «with varied success (Andre Santos and Mikel Arteta are two polar examples).

With his record of 200 - odd something goals, Henry is now regarded as the best - attacking player in the Premier League.

And I really don't care what anyone say, If I have shit loads of Money and I cant get what I want, I will not just panic buy and get in Just any odd player.

When great players like Hazard available in the past, there's a real scramble for them Wenger may be sometimes indecisive in transfer and very reluctant in paying over the odd but he is always spot on in which player can improve the team.

2) Find this an odd comment — in an 11 man team all of the top clubs have 5 attacking players.

We are paying out millions to two players (Walcott and Wilshire) who are either not willing or unable to deliver the good on the field and this seems a very odd stance for a club who refuses to get involved in the big buy figures than many other clubs do when purchasing their new players.

Walcott has proved nothing in terms of consistency / goal delivery and except the odd flash in the pan game he could never be labelled as a world class player.

People who say we do not need another dm know zero about football while coq has done a fantastic job he will not be able to play every game and of course is bound to pick up the odd injury flamini is simply not good enough to do the same job it is a must we sign another quality dm so we are covered in every position for every occasion for big games we could even play both and sacrifice one of the flair players although i doubt wenger will do that the options will be there sign a gk, dm and cf and we willbe serious tittle challengers next season.

Getting the puck behind the net forces the other team to keep all 5 of their players low, instead of in position to generate an odd - man - rush against.

its frustrating being a gunner every single period of the season including the transfer window... we want to b d best but our transfer situations begs to differ... how many tyms do we need to shout spend, spend, spend b4 dat happens???? wat is d point of being in d «top 10 financially rich clubs» list every year but don't spend like 1????? sure, we'll buy d odd 30m player but is it enough... dat stingy prof will always look for «value» for money spent but he has dat worked out for d past 12 years walcott - waste tbh chamberlain - waste chambers - so far, waste spending 15m five times is 75m which could have been used to buy 2 top 30m signings....

Nonetheless, it's odd for Wenger to signal any interest in a player.

The defence we have should be the best in the league, it's just that Wenger doesn't care about defence which is odd because as a player he was a defender.

Even the best player in the world is known to partake on the odd occasion.

First and foremost, in the attacking department we need someone who'll score against the most stubborn defences, even if that player only scores 16 or 17 in 30 - odd matches.

Odd that Rosicky is the OLDEST player in our squad (by 2 years at least), yet his pace / skills / stamina or displays in general haven't deteriorated like Arteta or Flamini has.

In 45 odd million they have got 3 great players.

I had followed Arsenal long enough that we have pretty strict wage structure (the belief of football as a team sport and squad harmony is important) and we never pay over the odd for player or greedy agent — which in turn can help us to get the best value for our money All in all, whether it is a smart move, we should patiently wait until end of the transfer window.

In the CL Klopp used to do this all the time, Wenger himself highlighted it when Klopp said yes we are missing half a team as well as Arsenal, but then the entire team showed up minus an odd player.

The only striker that thrived at Arsenal in the last 10 years was Van Persie and he soon realised that in order for him to compete for the big prizes he had to move on.30 odd goals for Manure the first season he is there and he wins them the league.With the form he was in and the team that he led in his last season it needed 2 - 3 players and we could have won the title ourselves but that was Wenger and nothing has changed for the positive since.We WILL NOT win anything big all the time he remains at the club

We've got the odd outstanding player in the team with the majority being more than capable but, without a unified approach to how they go about their business on field it could well be another season where we just scrape through.

Perhaps he's talked candidly with Popovich and the players; there has been no reporting to that effect, though, and Leonard has been radio silent in public, which in fairness is not particularly odd for him.

Whilst I hate Antony Krastrinakis with every fibre in my body he did make a good and reasoned point regarding Bale yesterday — said the world record deal to RM was stupid and undeserved — Ronaldo went to RM as PFA Player of the Year, Ballon D'Or winner, UCL and PL winner and 40 odd goals under his belt in the previous season — Bale went there on the back of his first good season, half a dozen wonder goals and no medals and titles.

His loyalty to players is a double edged sword, I think we could forgive the odd player here and there if the rest of the team was above average, we have so much average now though that someone like Ramsey who had so much potential... He takes the brunt as he represented a lot of hope for us, that hope has been crushed recently and there is a bitterness in the air around the players who represented that.

Always find it odd when I see football apparel not offered in a size that would fit a good majority of football player sized people.

Odd stuff indeed from a player who likes to eat the ball, but then you still have to be a little of an individualist to play lacrosse in the Midwest.

It's not about addressing issues in the team — the odd gem of a player is more luck than good scouting and identification of players.

OL' CASE TAKES THE YOUNG «UNS ASIDE Charles Dillon Stengel set up shop in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week, fully three weeks before the major league training season begins, to look over 30 - odd young baseball players who hope some day to take permanent possession of the revered New York Yankee uniforms they are now wearing.

That last game I was willing our players to just get on top of them up the bloody tempo but too many of them were either tired or out of sorts, then Elneny start chasing down the ball down and in the 70/80 odd minute he chased it from our area all the way back up to their GK pressuring each man all along the way.

Ken I accept that the players are responsible and there is no excuse for the debacle such as at Swansea last week.Of course Wenger didn't coach them to make these mistakes but when it is week in week out you have no option other than to look at the root of who where and why and it alls comes down on Wenger.These are all very good players who have all played and play international football for their respective countries, so the odd mistake is part and parcel but it is more than this and the evidence is there in black and white for all to see.

However, there was that sickness but to consider and Arsene Wenger played some young Gunners and had players in odd positions.

Arcobello was the odd NHL man out on Team USA's second line flanked by two strong college players, but his two points in five games were key in getting the team as far as it did in the tournament.

Honestly, in tight games against a stubborn defence, I used to wonder if Alexis would purposely hit the odd miss pass, to a defender that does not want that ball at his feet with players closing in.

Just looking back to conversation and how it began, now realised you suddenly popped in between without knowing what the debate was.The debate was started when a person signified that we do smart tranfers unlike other teams, to which I said getting 4 quality players for 77 odd million is smart and I also wanted to know what smart actually means and thats why I picked old examples.

Two sides to this and I do not mind the odd player getting some Wenger love, like Iwobi currently... who knows in a few months time who else could be worth it?

The Dodgers also acquired Nick Punto in this trade, which seemed a little odd at the time: one of the game's top first basemen on a contract the Dodgers wanted to possess, coupled with a former ace and a former star who had both fallen on hard times... and also a bench player who hadn't hit even a little bit in his first year with the Red Sox and was only owed a little over $ 300,000 for the rest of the season.