I hardly call failing to break down Chelsea choking.
League cup was against the champions elect and villa have saved their best for matches against us for 3 years now.
Still feels like a massive knee jerk reaction and a bit of a witch hunt
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League cup was against the champions elect and villa have saved their best for matches against us for 3 years now.
Still feels like a massive knee jerk reaction and a bit of a witch hunt
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I think he was on about this season. Although saying "we went on a superb run playing some amazing football" might be a slight exaggeration.
However I think DB has a point. The man deserves another season. Selling Suarez and Losing Sturridge to injury is enough to cripple any team. Sure he's made some shocking decisions in the transfer market, but I don't believe this is entirely his fault.
Besides, a new manager isn't going to win us trophies any time soon.
Rodgers will probably never overcome the supine reverence he feels for Mourinho and he gets outwitted every time.
League Cup: ditto.
As for Villa, that's a really romantic thought, Dreamy, that a team can 'save' its best match for us three years on the trot. What do they do, circle the fixture on the calendar and then count the sleeps before they need to start playing properly? Well, I can see how that would bamboozle a tactical genius like Rodgers. Out of interest, who are we saving OUR best performance for?
How dare we win games by having goalkeepers play well and attacking midfielders score good goals.
I was commenting on Dreambelievers staement that that result was one of our superb displays this season which it wasn't. There is a difference between a superb display and a good result isn't there? Over christmas we got a good result at burnley but we were lucky as fuck. I notice as well that you ignored the parts about bad refereeing decisions and bad finishing but maybe that wouldn't have fitted in with your sarcastic comment.
Superb displays have been few and far between this season. Results remain the most important thing but lets not kid ourselves that every result we've had this season has been because of good performances.
In europe we were hopeless from start to finish.
In the League cup we got past middlesborough on penalties after a crap performance, then got past Swansea somehow with two late goals we hardly deserved and then we played bournemouth away and played very well in the first half and against chelsea we did quite well at home but never even looked like scoring in the away leg.
Who did we play of any consequence in the FA Cup? Crystal palace away maybe but all the other teams were shit and we were still taken to 2 replays by championship teams.
I notice you totally ignored Ballotelli being onside Sunday?
If we are going to start using referee decisions in our favour or against in arguments we might aswell not bother.
If you want to use the lack of performance as a stick to beat the team with then fair enough.
But don't say we've got luck from refs.
It's embarrassing.
That was one bad decision that went against us but when we played southampton there was a whole host of decisions that went for us. And thanks for telling me that i can't use refereeing decisions in a discussion whilst using one yourself.
I also didn't say we've got luck from refs just very lucky from one referee in one game.
Right there.
And yes I was deliberately being obtuse when using the Ballotelli example.
If some loser analysed ref decisions all year it would probably even it's self out.
So it's fucking pointless using them over a season of 38 games.
I notice you're doing a massive job here aftertiming too.
Where were you when we were winning these games?
If some loser analysed ref decisions all year it would probably even it's self out.
So it's fucking pointless using them over a season of 38 games.
I notice you're doing a massive job here aftertiming too.
Where were you when we were winning these games?
Is he not a darts player?
I'm hardly in the minority when it comes to increasing my posts after a bad defeat. This place is usually at its quietest after a victory because people don't feel the need to vent and i'll post when i feel like it. Also i only initially mentioned the refreeing decisions in one game (southampton away) beacuse i was replying to Dreambelievers assesment of it being a superb performance, which i disagreed with.
The last bit is correct.
I remember 2 superb 90 minute performances all season Spurs away and Swansea at home.
It's not been good enough but I hate this aftertiming shit saying that we were rubbish all along and only pointing it out now.
It's been very inconsistent (performances and results) this season i agree and i'm not saying we have been rubbish all season (though we were up to christmas) but i like most people was hoping and expecting it to be better than it has been. When pellegrini is under pressure for his job after winning the league last season then why shouldn't Rodgers be under similar pressure? If a manager can't cope well with pressure then he's unlikely to be succesful. The thirteen game unbeaten run that got us back into contention was great but it only papered over the cracks as we were so far behind already.
Pretty shocking, even with £100 million to spend and 3 months to look for a replacement and we only identified balo as realistic target we could get
The rumours are that we tried for Falcao and Cavani but got rebuffed straightaway. What bothers me more, if we're adopting a strategy of not spending big (wages or fees) on top players, why aren't we able to identify the players before they get massive exposure? How come we weren't in for Depay last summer, for instance?
Four if you include the CL. And you have to. And I'm a "give him another year" merchant.
Three years down the line and the defence still looks like the Keystone Cops despite buying millions of centre halves. Been dealt a shitty hand? Meh.
I'm not sure if this will make me more popular or not and stop looking at my jib!
We save it for Spurs it would seem!
And its not so much they circle it and save it, they just seem to play at a confidence level they don't show against other weeks.
Confidence is a wonderful thing.
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