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I've seen Barca panic very late on and allow Pique wander up front to good effect but nothing was more annoying that watching Huth ramble about up front at times.
He reminded me of a bullock on a farm realising the gate to the field was left open and he went about his business wandering aimlessly around the farm yard. He didn't know what he was doing, he didn't know where he was going but he was just happy to be out.
He reminded me of a bullock on a farm realising the gate to the field was left open and he went about his business wandering aimlessly around the farm yard. He didn't know what he was doing, he didn't know where he was going but he was just happy to be out.
Yup; more info here:
-- http://www.talksport.co.uk/magazine...liverpool-chelsea-southampton-and-more-184624
Ha, I was pretty fucking close.
We finally beat one of the weakest teams there is, and crawl to 11th in the league and the manager is hailed as a tactical genius for failing on his start up for the n'th time in a row?? Wow..
As I said in another thread, the first season is the natural season for such bold moves.I'm not knocking Rodgers, I'm just saying don't get carried away. A manager treats a team in his first season with a degree of cool reason, unemotional pragmatism and unsentimentality that rarely survives. It's like giving a kid someone else's Lego kit - he'll happily tear it to pieces and keep changing it, until he likes what he's made and then he gets protective. In the first season a manager is less inclined to hesitate about changes - after all, most of the players aren't really his, and he's still assessing them, and implicitly he's still criticising the previous regime. Once he's assembled a squad that's stamped with his signature and plays in accordance with his style, the readiness to change things mid-match tends to fade. (I only said 'tends,' I'm not saying Rodgers will follow suit.) Typically that's when changing things starts to seem to some managers like a self-criticism, an admission of guilt, and many of them resist more and more. That's certainly how I saw Ged and Rafa change. Ged was worse. Rafa, admittedly, tended to associate tinkering with part of his approach, often the odder the better, so he'd seem to do it almost for the sake of it, but he was never so pragmatic as he was during that first season, when he was like a breath of fresh air with his responses during games. So I'm just saying - applaud it now but wait a while before deciding this is going to be a long-term quality.
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