[quote author=Hardcastle link=topic=42120.msg1240193#msg1240193 date=1293786937]
Roys attitude in all this is bizarre.
Is he trying to get sacked?
Attacking the fans and the owners in one night.
Players attitudes are equally unlikable though.
Torres really looked like he couldn't give a fuck. He's cost us a fair few points this season in half arsed performances.
This club is infested with shite.
We need a fire sale, a new work ethos installed, new players,new management- the whole shabang. The buck shouldn't end with roy.
We didn't just lose due to an inept tactical performance.
Zero effort,zero creativity.
Fuck everyone off bar gerrard,carra,raul and pepe
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You are right HC it was not just because of the tactics and selection, but that was the main issue.
We have always said , or at least I have, that last season ,and to a greater extent this year, we have a decent team, but a very thin and largely shit squad, I have been bleating for the last 2 years about our shortcomings up front and when a player that should be no more than third choice at best is looking as good if not better than Torres that is a real problem.
Anyway we have a crap squad, and that is not Hodgsons fault, and so you have to get the shape tactics and selection absolutely spot on each and every time to make the most of it, if you don't you are fucked.
We never looked like scoring on Wednesday and when we went one down everyone said the same thing " I can't see where one goal is coming from - let alone two", and so it came to pass. No one on the bench was capable of changing the game, possibly Maxi who for some bizarre reason did not feature at all - OK he is a bit slow, but he is one of the few players we have than create something.
As soon as the team ran on the pitch the words "where is the width" was on everyone's lips. We don't have it in spades at the best of times. He fucked the whole shape and played our most in-form player out of position , just to accommodate fucking Lucas in the middle. Look, Lucas has not been playing badly, but not to the point that everything revolves around him. The substitutions, just made no sense at all Hodgson has now hung himself with the same noose as fucking Benitez, he must have found it in the cupboard at Melwood and it is made up of strands from Lucas, square pegs in round holes, crap substitutions and crap spouted to the media.
I can't believe I thought he could steady the ship for a few months until the ownership change.
regards
