Arfield said to be starting.

TomtheClaret wrote:Arfield said to be starting.

Said by whom?

His Brother

TomtheClaret wrote:Arfield said to be starting.

Good.

Good heavens, you mean ?

We aren't allowed to have technical wingers, are we?

Who knows. Just wait for a team sheet, Tom was ill and they kept that quiet.

Could Arfield be starting in place of Boyd (please)?

CombatClaret wrote:Who knows. Just wait for a team sheet, Tom was ill and they kept that quiet.

Sean likes to keep his cards "close to his chest." And, quite right.

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According to Arfields brother he is playing LW which suggests its Brady making way

Starting with Scotty in this game might be wise, if it's still a draw with say 15 to go then bring Brady on to try for a winner, just in my view.

Arfield scores winner at Anfield

Talksport just confirmed Arfield, Barnes and heats in. Vokes Robinson and brady out

Weird decision. Brady plays at left back all the time. Surely he's capable of doing a defensive job in midfield?

Excellent news Arfield for half hearted Brady. Need all the tracking back we can get! Feel sorry for Big Sam. Win headers last week Barnes a threat though. Come on you Clarets.

Horses for courses. We are going to need Arfields defensive work rate today, if we want to have a glimmer of a chance.
Brady's time will come.

This is a complete pxxs take by Sean.Arfield has been poor most of the season and to leave out our creative players Defour and Brady against a team with a shaky defence is ridiculous .

At some point, we are going to have to actually try and win an away game. Grafters over flair won't get us an away win.

Arfield in for Brady.oh dear so let's have runners with zero pace or creativity,let's play the same formation even though it hasn't worked in the other 13 away games.TRY a different formation.

Half-hearted Brady? I've read some shite in my time but that's up there. Jesus.

On Irish radio they said Brady was injured and will miss Ireland's game against Wales

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MDWat wrote:Half-hearted Brady? I've read some shite in my time but that's up there. Jesus.

Have to agree with that one

Brady is suspended for Irelands game vs Wales

Liverpools bench looks weak.

No game changers, should we score first and fustrate we could get something!

We won't be doing much attacking then. I have a feeling Gray will have a good game though so hope he can nick something from the long balls.

Woodleyclaret wrote:This is a complete pxxs take by Sean.Arfield has been poor most of the season and to leave out our creative players Defour and Brady against a team with a shaky defence is ridiculous .

You know Defour is injured, right?

Baffling

Who is in set piece duty today then?

A Barton free kick may just be written in the stars today..

I guess SD accepting we won't be troubling them much so put a grafter in like Scotty.Pains me see such low end championship tosh like SA starting against a powerhouse club but only SD knows how to set up the best team available . If nothing else Scotty will always put a shift in

Looks like we'll be defending all game then....Why play two up front when we won't be able to get the ball to them apart from massive punts up field?

FactualFrank wrote:We won't be doing much attacking then. I have a feeling Gray will have a good game though so hope he can nick something from the long balls.

Well weren't going to be doing too much attacking whoever was on the pitch. Liverpool are always going to have most of the ball and commit men forwards so this is always going to be a game in which we firstly have to perform well without the ball and then secondly take our chances to counter attack. Arfield and Boyd know our system defensively and it isnt like Brady has been pulling up trees on the ball in the last couple of games. I'd have started Brady myself for his set pieces but the logic of the selection is clear and it isnt particularly negative.

I think if Gudmun or Defour were fit he would have played Brady and Vokes and give a real 442 wingers .crosses et al go . Then again...

lakesclaret wrote:I guess SD accepting we won't be troubling them much so put a grafter in like Scotty.Pains me see such low end championship tosh like SA starting against a powerhouse club but only SD knows how to set up the best team available . If nothing else Scotty will always put a shift in

"lower end Championship tosh". Idiot.

Start showing more respect to players who have won us two consecutive promotions from the Championship and are on course to consolidate our position in this division.

good decision for me, tells Brady he isn't working hard enough regardless of how much he cost

Maybe as an attacking winger Brady isn't used to running backwards yet...makes sense

Vegas Claret wrote:good decision for me, tells Brady he isn't working hard enough regardless of how much he cost

It says to me that Dyche has his doubts over Brady's form, but it's also a less attacking move. Having Boyd on one side who couldn't take on a tortoise is fine, but both wingers having little to no chance of ever going down the wing is slightly disappointing.

Anyway, COYC. A draw would be a marvelous result.

4-4-2 again? Well it's worked so far this season

Claretspice

Its simply my opinion,stop acting like a moaning old woman if someone says somat you don't agree with.and grow a pair while you're at it

I think Boyd and arfields "tracking back" is overrated. Just watch them today. They will run a lot, but there won't me much in terms of stopping counter attacks, stopping crosses, stopping the full backs overlapping. It's mostly ineffective in comparison to a "normal" winger, because it just invites their full backs forward. That makes their defensive midfield drop slightly, and gives gray and Barnes absolutely no room. Especially as we hit it straight down the middle most of the time to them

lakesclaret wrote:Claretspice

Its simply my opinion,stop acting like a moaning old woman if someone says somat you don't agree with.and grow a pair while you're at it

You can hold whatever opinion you like. It doesnt stop it being idiotic and disrespectful but if that's what you think, so be it.

Our wide players have been excellent so far.

claretspice wrote:Our wide players have been excellent so far.

I think arfield has been our worst player by a country mile so far

Really? Fair enough. I think he's been excellent. Kept the ball well, stepped into the centre of midfield when needed and tracked Mane and Clyne effectively.

But then i thought until that equaliser we'd produced about a perfect away performance, so i thought all our players had been excellent as a minimum.

Arfield is the worst player on the pitch.If Arfield and Boyd could head the ball further than a yard then we would still be in front

Parkvilla wrote:Arfield is the worst player on the pitch.If Arfield and Boyd could head the ball further than a yard then we would still be in front

It's ok he's now off.

Brady is playing like he's injured. Garbage.

Brady??? Looks awful so far...

I hope Brady is just off form cos if not we have been stitched up.

I hope he gets better , How much did Southampton pay for Redmond... As Dyche says there no true value in the market you ever pay it or don't.

Wages ???

Some of you are being very insulting regarding the Eiorish Messi - remember he's the football genius, circa January 31st - no ?

watsonsclarets wrote:I hope he gets better , How much did Southampton pay for Redmond... As Dyche says there no true value in the market you ever pay it or don't.

Wages ???

Yet he had to shop there: Brady, Hendrick and Westwood....excess of £20million?