| Amos 11:51 - Oct 27 with 6506 views | NW5Hoop |
Genuine question: what did people think of Amos last night?
I don't know, because there was a bloke a couple of rows behind me — I was in the Upper Loft last night —Â who just had it in for him. He got worked up into an apoplectic rage. Everything that went wrong was Amos's fault — for not having tracked back, for forcing Chair to drop deep, for not getting into the box, for not making a tackle, for committing to a tackle. It was so, so, so boring. It was like listening to someone who's not been given their meds. And, naturally, it made me root for Amos.
So I am not capable of seeing this rationally. Hence my question: was he any good?
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| Amos on 11:23 - Oct 28 with 1446 views | TacticalR |
Nick Hornby's observation of this phenomenon during his first visit to Highbury:
Our fans and our players by TacticalR 3 Feb 2018 21:02Nobody read 'Fever Pitch'? This is the first thing that the youthful Hornby notices when he goes to watch football:
'It wasn’t the size of the crowd that impressed me most, however, or the way that adults were allowed to shout the word ‘WÃNKER!’ as loudly as they wanted without attracting any attention. What impressed me most was just how much most of the men around me hated, really hated, being there. As far as I could tell, nobody seemed to enjoy, in the way that I understood the word, anything that happened during the entire afternoon. Within minutes of the kick-off there was real anger (‘You’re a DISGRACE, Gould. He’s a DISGRACE!’ ‘A hundred quid a week? A HUNDRED QUID A WEEK! They should give that to me for watching you.’); as the game went on, the anger turned into outrage, and then seemed to curdle into sullen, silent discontent. Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.'
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| Amos on 12:26 - Oct 28 with 1379 views | BuckR |
Thought Amos was excellent for an hour on Tuesday and is exactly what Johansen needs playing next to him to give him some help and some legs! | | | |
| Amos on 13:19 - Oct 28 with 1330 views | TheChef |
I have to admit I haven't that sure of Amos (in so much as what midfield role suits him best) but given the fairly thankless task he was presented with I thought he gave a very good account of himself. Hopefully he can push on from here.
Ironically Tuesday night was probably the right kind of game for Dom Ball, and I'd have started him instead of Gray with Dykes as the one up top. | |
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| Amos on 16:53 - Oct 28 with 1238 views | QPROslo |
Coming back from injury to play as the one man midfield was a pretty tough ask, especialy when it's not his best position. He made a good fist off it but the ease with which Sunderland played through us indicates the team selection wasnt right, other than it gave Amos a game.
I reckon Amos is at his best in an attacking midfield role pressing defenders, an alternate for Chair, Willock or a 2nd striker when he's fit enough to do that and Warburton wants to make a change and play that way, probably against a team determined to play it out from the back. Think he was doing exactly this in his best ever game for us at Bournemouth when he got injured. | | | |
| Amos on 10:21 - Oct 29 with 1098 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
You are the LfW Hansard!
All very true. [Post edited 29 Oct 2021 10:22]
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