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<blockquote data-quote="St Helens RLFC" data-source="post: 99364"><p>As for the match, it was a none event really. We dominated from start to finish but huffed and puffed really badly all afternoon and we never really looked like making the breakthrough. We just had the odd half chance here and the odd half chance there and that's not enough at home. We are normally excellent at home but our distribution and use of the ball was atrocious today. We really should be blowing teams who sit deep away but give the Bloos their due they defended really well and actually had the best chance of the game when we were knobbing about on the edge of the box. </p><p></p><p>Thankfully Johnson had his shot initially blocked by a great bit of defending and then hit a poor effort which Reina did well to knock away. I swear if you drew a line on his head he would actually look like a penis. I find it no coincidence that the American word for penis is "Johnson." </p><p></p><p>Anywho, it was far from pretty. Despite the numerous times Rafa kept telling them to keep the f**king ball on the floor we persisted in going long. Stubbs might be a hideously deformed, moaning parrot faced t**t but he's good in the air and he won virtually everything. Lescott is a class above and would slot comfortably into any of the big 4's defences. I know I'd like him at Liverpool. And he was out of position today as well. Yobo also looked good. Only in defence did I get to have a look at Everton though as the midfield was none existant other than to tackle and I know that Johnson is quick. </p><p></p><p>I was a bit puzzled by the 3 up front. That works well on the road against rubbish. Not so well at home against a well organised team. The problem Rafa has is that all 3 are playing so well at this moment in time it's hard to drop any of them. I would have lined up 4-4-2 today as I think we had more to gain from it. It has served us well at home all this season and I'm not so sure as to why we switched from it today. Kuyt was on the left of midfield. I would have played Kuyt and Bellamy and had Gonzalez on the left. He would be against Hibbert who is: </p><p></p><p>a) Absolutely woeful if resiliant </p><p>B) Slow </p><p></p><p>But no matter. We didn't win today and even though the Blues couldn't have complained had we won comfortably I can only congratulate them on their defensive effort.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="St Helens RLFC, post: 99364"] As for the match, it was a none event really. We dominated from start to finish but huffed and puffed really badly all afternoon and we never really looked like making the breakthrough. We just had the odd half chance here and the odd half chance there and that's not enough at home. We are normally excellent at home but our distribution and use of the ball was atrocious today. We really should be blowing teams who sit deep away but give the Bloos their due they defended really well and actually had the best chance of the game when we were knobbing about on the edge of the box. Thankfully Johnson had his shot initially blocked by a great bit of defending and then hit a poor effort which Reina did well to knock away. I swear if you drew a line on his head he would actually look like a penis. I find it no coincidence that the American word for penis is "Johnson." Anywho, it was far from pretty. Despite the numerous times Rafa kept telling them to keep the f**king ball on the floor we persisted in going long. Stubbs might be a hideously deformed, moaning parrot faced t**t but he's good in the air and he won virtually everything. Lescott is a class above and would slot comfortably into any of the big 4's defences. I know I'd like him at Liverpool. And he was out of position today as well. Yobo also looked good. Only in defence did I get to have a look at Everton though as the midfield was none existant other than to tackle and I know that Johnson is quick. I was a bit puzzled by the 3 up front. That works well on the road against rubbish. Not so well at home against a well organised team. The problem Rafa has is that all 3 are playing so well at this moment in time it's hard to drop any of them. I would have lined up 4-4-2 today as I think we had more to gain from it. It has served us well at home all this season and I'm not so sure as to why we switched from it today. Kuyt was on the left of midfield. I would have played Kuyt and Bellamy and had Gonzalez on the left. He would be against Hibbert who is: a) Absolutely woeful if resiliant B) Slow But no matter. We didn't win today and even though the Blues couldn't have complained had we won comfortably I can only congratulate them on their defensive effort. [/QUOTE]
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