Albion duo set to return from injury to face Tigers (From The Argus)

What is happening with JFC? Don't think he has featured for the DS team since coming back from loan and does not appear to be anywhere near the first XI (behind Hammond, Crofts, Dicker), another loan out?

I am pleased to see these two return. I think they could both be essential facing Hull who are almost certain to press high and not allow us to settle on the ball, preventing us from playing our often ponderous build up play. We have been caught out with this tactic in the past but Buckers speed will keep attack minded wing backs preoccupied. Hopefully he will be assisted on the other wing too. If we are going to come out on Saturday night with 3 points we will have to be much more direct in our build up and the use of 2 very fast wingers is a key part of that... imho of course. Fingers crossed.

We need Buckley back to his best, if we are going to make the play offs.
I have hunch that cms playing in Barnes role will produce something exciting .
As for jfc he did himself no favours at Oxford, he ended up sub for end of his loan period after a good start. I hope he pushes on.

mark by the sea wrote:
We need Buckley back to his best, if we are going to make the play offs.
I have hunch that cms playing in Barnes role will produce something exciting .
As for jfc he did himself no favours at Oxford, he ended up sub for end of his loan period after a good start. I hope he pushes on.

Which Barnes role? Surely his greatest strength is that he has more than one? I might be wrong, but I can't see CMS being used as anything other than an out and out centre forward.

Great news. Bruno and Buckley combine exceptionally well. And they are both potential match winners.

Hope CMS and Ulloa work together – there were signs of it on Saturday. A pity about Barnes’s temperament – he’s been doing a valuable job the length of the field, of late.

Ever since Bennett was sold we’ve missed a genuine box-to-box player – so vital with Bridcutt sitting deep as, without one, Gus is prevented from playing two strikers up front. Perhaps Lopez is the nearest we have to a box-to-box player, now.

Gus might not want to throw caution to the wind with too attacking a formation against Hull of all teams – one of the best counter-attacking sides in the league.

When we signed Dobbie most people thought that he would play in the hole behind CMS, could we see Ulloa in that role?

VegasSeagull wrote:
When we signed Dobbie most people thought that he would play in the hole behind CMS, could we see Ulloa in that role?

Given his size and apparent physicality, he seems - like CMS but in a different way - more suited to being a proper centre forward.

Old Scrote of the Amex wrote:

VegasSeagull wrote: When we signed Dobbie most people thought that he would play in the hole behind CMS, could we see Ulloa in that role?

Given his size and apparent physicality, he seems - like CMS but in a different way - more suited to being a proper centre forward.

Yes you are probably right but given that Poyet only plays one out and out striker I wonder if that means that CMS is now nothing more than cover for Ulloa as he is not big and strong enough to play the hold up guy.

mark by the sea wrote:
We need Buckley back to his best, if we are going to make the play offs.
I have hunch that cms playing in Barnes role will produce something exciting .
As for jfc he did himself no favours at Oxford, he ended up sub for end of his loan period after a good start. I hope he pushes on.

Also mark please lets not forget all reports from his time with Oxford.With all these young DS players coming in now its time the club said change your ways or your out.If their familys think their wonderful young men let them pick up the bill on their free lifes.

VegasSeagull wrote:
When we signed Dobbie most people thought that he would play in the hole behind CMS, could we see Ulloa in that role?

I believe Ulloa will lead the line on the break, predominently taking the back post on most attacks while CMS goes near post. CMS will probably continue to harry the oppo defence and back line when they are in posssession, with Ulloa dropping back behind him.

Gus,please please play CMS just behind Ulloa with two wingers i.e.Lua Lua and Buckley.Attack is the best form of defence so my team for Sat. is:
TK, Calderon or Bruno (they're as good as each other),El-Abd,Upson,
Bridge,Bridcutt,Lua Lua,Buckley,CMS,Ullo
a,Hammond or Dicker.Subs.:Ankegre
n,Calderon or Bruno,Vicente,Orland
i,Lopez,Hammond or Dicker,Hoskins.

Freeloaders wrote:

mark by the sea wrote:
We need Buckley back to his best, if we are going to make the play offs.
I have hunch that cms playing in Barnes role will produce something exciting .
As for jfc he did himself no favours at Oxford, he ended up sub for end of his loan period after a good start. I hope he pushes on.

Also mark please lets not forget all reports from his time with Oxford.With all these young DS players coming in now its time the club said change your ways or your out.If their familys think their wonderful young men let them pick up the bill on their free lifes.

What reports? Are you still upset you didn't get a leg up in the pro game despite all your connections? Let it go, man, let it go!

VileFreeloader wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:

mark by the sea wrote:
We need Buckley back to his best, if we are going to make the play offs.
I have hunch that cms playing in Barnes role will produce something exciting .
As for jfc he did himself no favours at Oxford, he ended up sub for end of his loan period after a good start. I hope he pushes on.

Also mark please lets not forget all reports from his time with Oxford.With all these young DS players coming in now its time the club said change your ways or your out.If their familys think their wonderful young men let them pick up the bill on their free lifes.

What reports? Are you still upset you didn't get a leg up in the pro game despite all your connections? Let it go, man, let it go!

Get a life you sad little man Hovite.We can all work out its you.I know one thing for sure you don't know one person that works in the game.Now you do some real work for a change and stop making up new post names.You never have a thing to say about the club,or the storys above.

Same old song with the same old lyrics..

Freeloaders wrote:

VileFreeloader wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:

mark by the sea wrote:
We need Buckley back to his best, if we are going to make the play offs.
I have hunch that cms playing in Barnes role will produce something exciting .
As for jfc he did himself no favours at Oxford, he ended up sub for end of his loan period after a good start. I hope he pushes on.

Also mark please lets not forget all reports from his time with Oxford.With all these young DS players coming in now its time the club said change your ways or your out.If their familys think their wonderful young men let them pick up the bill on their free lifes.

What reports? Are you still upset you didn't get a leg up in the pro game despite all your connections? Let it go, man, let it go!

Get a life you sad little man Hovite.We can all work out its you.I know one thing for sure you don't know one person that works in the game.Now you do some real work for a change and stop making up new post names.You never have a thing to say about the club,or the storys above.

Not Hovite - try again... or better still, try engaging more with the posters and the topics rather than throwing around ad hominem attacks based on your own petty grievances.

SeagullOverSelsey wrote:
Gus,please please play CMS just behind Ulloa with two wingers i.e.Lua Lua and Buckley.Attack is the best form of defence so my team for Sat. is: TK, Calderon or Bruno (they're as good as each other),El-Abd,Upson, Bridge,Bridcutt,Lua Lua,Buckley,CMS,Ullo a,Hammond or Dicker.Subs.:Ankegre n,Calderon or Bruno,Vicente,Orland i,Lopez,Hammond or Dicker,Hoskins.

This 4-4-2, playing Ulloa and CMS together conversation keeps coming up since Ulloa arrived. Most people seem to agree that it's unlikely Gus will play two out-and-out strikers. It certainly doesn't look likely, at least from the start of a game.

So, then the discussion moves to CMS playing behind Ulloa or vice versa. I totally agree with Old Scrote on this. They are both centre forwards and, for different reasons, aren't really suited to playing in that 2nd striker or "number 10" role.

I'm just intrigued as to what characteristics/attr
ibutes people think a player should have to play this "number 10" position....

The position is mainly to link the midfield to the attack so, in my mind, it requires a player with good touch to control the ball in a tight space, creativity, vision to pick a killer pass and technique to play the pass needed.

I believe we have a few players that possess those attributes. Vicente being the stand out but also Orlandi and Lopez. Basically, the Spanish players! (No coincidence there!)

CMS, IMHO, could not be described with any of the above attributes. So, as long as I'm seeing that position in the correct way, CMS is just not an option.

I've said before in another thread that I don't really see playing 2 strikers being an advantage in our style of play as I think it suits counter-attacking teams far more.

Anyway, just wondered how others saw this number 10 position and how they see CMS managing to fill it. I wasn't just picking on you SoS, it was just your post I happened to quote!

VileFreeloader wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:

VileFreeloader wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:

mark by the sea wrote:
We need Buckley back to his best, if we are going to make the play offs.
I have hunch that cms playing in Barnes role will produce something exciting .
As for jfc he did himself no favours at Oxford, he ended up sub for end of his loan period after a good start. I hope he pushes on.

Also mark please lets not forget all reports from his time with Oxford.With all these young DS players coming in now its time the club said change your ways or your out.If their familys think their wonderful young men let them pick up the bill on their free lifes.

What reports? Are you still upset you didn't get a leg up in the pro game despite all your connections? Let it go, man, let it go!

Get a life you sad little man Hovite.We can all work out its you.I know one thing for sure you don't know one person that works in the game.Now you do some real work for a change and stop making up new post names.You never have a thing to say about the club,or the storys above.

Not Hovite - try again... or better still, try engaging more with the posters and the topics rather than throwing around ad hominem attacks based on your own petty grievances.

A mug like you will never tell me what to do or say ok.

Freeloaders wrote:

VileFreeloader wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:

VileFreeloader wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:

mark by the sea wrote:
We need Buckley back to his best, if we are going to make the play offs.
I have hunch that cms playing in Barnes role will produce something exciting .
As for jfc he did himself no favours at Oxford, he ended up sub for end of his loan period after a good start. I hope he pushes on.

Also mark please lets not forget all reports from his time with Oxford.With all these young DS players coming in now its time the club said change your ways or your out.If their familys think their wonderful young men let them pick up the bill on their free lifes.

What reports? Are you still upset you didn't get a leg up in the pro game despite all your connections? Let it go, man, let it go!

Get a life you sad little man Hovite.We can all work out its you.I know one thing for sure you don't know one person that works in the game.Now you do some real work for a change and stop making up new post names.You never have a thing to say about the club,or the storys above.

Not Hovite - try again... or better still, try engaging more with the posters and the topics rather than throwing around ad hominem attacks based on your own petty grievances.

A mug like you will never tell me what to do or say ok.

'Mug', is that the only pathetic insult you have in your increasingly feeble arsenal? You are such an embarrassment...