Pathetic-embarrassing-terrible-appalling-useless-diabolical ....****E! Pick any of the above! I’m ducking speechless, it’s exactly the same as every other game week after week!
So what we need is an(other ) international break, so DF can hone the skills and tactics like he did after the Villa and Millwall drubbings
My cousin drove down from London for the game today. Poor sod! All the things I said to him about what I've seen this season. It all happened, and it's all the same things people walking out of the stadium were saying, then all the canary call. Another case of every supporter knowing it, but the manager seems oblivious. Slow, Predictable, Side-Side-back, never get to the byline and cross, no more than 1 player in the box at a time, playing 1 pass too many, or holding on to the ball a few clicks too long, no invention. Everyone seems to know the issues, none of them get addressed!
Sorry but what little patience I had has run out. It’s the same ****e every week, this DOF and HC malarkey ain’t working and if we’re all honest no-one really thought it would. We’re going nowhere fast and with so many seasons in the PL and so much money it’s a fecking disgrace.
Another thing we both really noticed today, is we were so bloody soft on the ball. So easy to out muscle. Plus little clashes and our players rolled around on the floor while were were under attack! Get up and help your team! No one has any f**king balls in our team!
Oh dear again, we can't continue this way, there are no excuses for getting outplayed by Barnsley on your own patch. It sounds like the players just didn't turn up, has the manager lost them? after the previous results and a rest with two weeks to prepare are they confused? are they all just a bit substandard? (clearly not from some previous stuff but you could say that of the manager too). As a casual fan who would have to travel to see us, I wouldn' bother even on a freebie ATM. Bah!
We were awful today. Our midfield were ****. Just nothing getting won in midfield. 1st, 2nd or 3rd balls. Defenders looked petrified. Poor ball retention and decision making. Lucky to draw tbh.
Well General, if I witness more of the same dross next Saturday, I'll seriously consider not bothering going to games (other than 1p5wich!!).
With reference to your comment re; skills and tactics! A few weeks back I went on a tour of the Colney training facility, this is what we were told. Players arrive about 9:15am they then have blood and urine samples taken to see if they’re fit to train! If they pass that then they have breakfast, followed by a massage, then it’s off to the gym, by now it’s about 11am, They then spend most of the rest of the day until around 3:45pm doing fitness work! At the end of the day they may have a 10 minute 7 a side kick about! No mention at all of tactics or skills or taking free kicks/corners or any thing like that! I asked about why substitutions were left so late and that sometimes our best performers were taken off! They all wear gps units that send back their physical stats to computers in the dugout! So if a player is sending back signals that he’s a bit tired he’s taken off and someone who’s not so tired is put on! No mention of if the player coming on is a better footballer or might make a difference to any given position, the decisions are made purely on fitness! This explains a lot to me, like why we can’t take corners/freekicks, why there’s no leaders on pitch and why our best players/performers are substituted! The beautiful game has become a computer game being played badly!
