Our crappness does not excuse theirs. Fair play to them nabbing the points, but they have a grind in front of them to stay up. Not bitter, just realistic.
You're entitled to your opinion but the tip over was from Mendez Laing. Murphy cut inside from the left and hit a strong shot which McCarthy did well to block, straight forward or not. As I said Arter should have done better. Carry on staring at your belly button. Only time will tell if your new manager will turn things around. He has a lot to do.
I just remember when we were newly promoted and fans of more established clubs looked down their noses at us. Cardiff were good value for their win, and earned the win with a battling performance and doing the basics well.
Just having a friendly chat. With one or two exceptions it appears you guys aren't up for it. Therefore, will do something much more interesting, watching Harry on Celebrity. Down to last 2. Could well win. Nighty night.
We're not a bad bunch, we've just been forced fed **** for too long on the football front. Good luck with your journey.
It would depend on what I saw of their performance at the games. If they were drawing in defenders en masse, creating space and making good passes that improve our position in the game (and maybe set up others to get the assist statistics that seem so important), I'd be fine. I'm not wedded to Redmond. I'm wedded to what he's doing. At the moment. In a club that isn't doing terribly well. I don't think he's the best midfielder in the division. I don't consider him perfect. But I do consider him the person on the pitch playing for Saints most likely to make something positive happen out of nowhere (closely followed by PEH who does it in a very different way by scaring the crap out of goalkeepers from improbable distances). If someone with a different name can do the same or better job than Redmond, all to the good. Vin
Is it really though FLT? Surely a point will come where we have to acknowledge that they are not working out. Regardless of whether we play a diamond or a 4:4:2, whether we play them left right or in the middle if the outcome has always been the same then there's little left to try. After 3 seasons now, its actually silly to believe they will simply just get better, the best we can hope for is that man management has been awful for 2 years and that RH can change the script. In truth that is probably all we can hope for because as others have mentioned, wholesale changes are not likely to be incoming.
See Vin's post above. If they do well, then yes. If not, then no. Asking us to make a comment on the unknown is a little sily. You asked us if our stance would be the same if others played instead of Redmond... how the hell do we know?
What City have got is a bunch of decent but average players punching above their weight, who know their limitations but work their nuts off for each other, the manager and the fans. We fans can’t ask for more, if we go down and yes there’s every chance we will but it won’t be due to a lack of effort. I just wish the press and opposing fans would accept City for what they are; it’s not pretty to watch but it can be effective.
And created nothing. Mate, I was there. They never looked like scoring, bar one edge of the box effort McCarthy tipped over the bar. Two **** teams playing in a blizzard, had 0-0 or a spawny goal from a **** up written all over it.
Exactly. We cut ourselves open rather than Cardiff doing it. Most, if not all of their chances came from us giving the ball away.
If you want to believe that mate, you carry on. My personal feelings at half time were, "thank god Cardiff are even more **** than us. Against any half decent side we'd be buried by now."
Yep I agree. When people said there are three worse teams than us, currently I don’t get that. When people say our squad is better than that, I don’t get that either. We are not balanced. We are not a fast counter attacking team, or a physical up and at ‘em team. We can’t keep clean sheets and we can’t score. We have pissed all that money away on Boufal, Carillo, and lots of others. For nothing.
I didnt ask you anything about your stance, my point was directed in general and nothing to do with your opinion specifically. I was making a point that after after 47 games and a single goal to his name we could drop him for any number of players and potentially the results would be just the same. I would be very surprised if they weren't significantly better. There's really not an argument for keeping or playing any of the forwards at the moment. A complete clear out would be justified
