Comments on: Some praise for the back-up boys

By: Mike H

Mike H — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:48:43 +0000

What sums up the TIFF for me is:

A few weeks ago, Roy was rubbish for allowing Zamora ON the pitch.

Now, Roy is rubbish for taking Zamora OFF the pitch.

By: Bad Andy

Bad Andy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:06:55 +0000

To be fair to Gera, his tackling has always been pretty good and he’s never shirked a sliding tackle. It’s just the other aspects of his game that have been slightly disappointing. He’s done well to threaten Davies’ place in the side when he returns from injury.
I thought captain Hughes was immense last night btw

By: rich

rich — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:33:14 +0000

To follow that up, I think people judge us against perfection. The obvious response is that these things are all up for debate on message boards, but I would like the word “reasonable” added there, because I don’t think we see reasonable debate very much.

By: rich

rich — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:26:40 +0000

well that abouts sums it up then. My memory of last night is of an epic, if ultimately unfortunate encounter between a terrific Fulham side and a thrilling Roma side. No, we didn’t pass them off the pitch for 90 minutes, but hey, we’re not Barcelona.

Sunday – we’ll probably lose quite comfortably!

By: Fulfan

Fulfan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:18:26 +0000

I have to agree with you rich about the negativity on Tiff. All I have read today is

1) Its roys fault, subs were poor
2) We were terrible in the second half
3) Dio is rubbish

I am amazed that we can nearly beat one of the best teams in italy who have been everpresents in europe and all we get from ‘the faithful’ is a bunch of moaning. I cant wait till sunday, I think we might be tired and struggle. I wonder how the Tiff crowd will deal with anything other than a victory?

ps. I nearly passed out when I saw people on Tiff lamenting BZ being taken off last night.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:27:26 +0000

I loved Greening’s tackling last night. Not as creative as Murphy, but probably better defensively. Great game by him. I thought that Fulham without Murphy or Schwarzer was a team that was going to lose, but I now think Stockdale and Greening are pretty good replacements.

My admiration of Roy just keeps growing. The management team need to chuck money at him – give him his retirement fund – but also get him to be the official adviser for Murphy or whoever is going to be the next manager.

By: rich

rich — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:28:22 +0000

I’ve stopped visiting TiFF and feel a lot happier about football again now. All the negativity around the players and the club was just doing my head in, I just didn’t realise it. In my own silly little world all of the Fulham players are really good, they just don’t always show it. I get a bit more upset than I should do when I see them slated, so in the end I decided that I wasn’t doing anyone any favours by going there. I couldn’t see why some people had to be so negative. Yes, it’s all opinions, but opinions, as they say, are… well, everyone’s got one. Yeah, that’s what a message board’s for, but, well, anyway.

So last night I still think the lads did brilliantly, all of them. I have no idea who they’re being negative about on the message board, which is no bad thing. The only player I thought was a bit dodgy was Paintsil at left back, purely because he has no left foot. Between here, CCN and FoF I reckon there’s enough decent Fulham talk to keep me going.

By: Nick W

Nick W — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:35:05 +0000

Bobby Zamora on the offal:

“We’re over the moon with the performance but the result was not what we wanted. It’s a squad game these days and the lads that have come in have been different gravy.”

I was really impressed with Baird’s passing as well. A couple of great balls to try and release Kamara, and his passes into the channel for Zamora were superb as well. Lacks the physical presence of Etuhu, but has performed admirably. Thought the midfield were all excellent in the first half, but simply couldn’t get the ball in the second.

That, I believe, actually demonstrated how invaluable Bobby Zamora is to the side. By holding the ball up, he allows the midfield to get hold of the ball in advanced positions, whereby we can control the game and create chances. Without Zamora, forward balls are merely collected by the opposition defence, who start yet another attack.

By: Fulfan

Fulfan — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:23:26 +0000

totally agree, it is easy to forget that we fielded a second string midfield and they all had good games and (although others on tiff disagree) I felt greening really stepped up aginst a very good passing team. I think it is a testament to this side under roy hodgson that we will not be out passed or passed out of the game. Roma were a better technincal side, but that was down to their quality players.