Ok, now that the dust has settled and my anger has subsided a bit, only a bit as you shall see,
here's my take on yesterday's game. As I write it's 6.00pm on Sunday, up until now I've been
'spitting feathers' and unable to post on here, I've read no other threads.
No-one is a greater admirer and supporter of Paul Lambert than me and I've
heaped praise on him for two and a half years, he has been without doubt our saviour.
However, no-one is totally exempt from critiscism and Paul you are now going to get
it with both barrells. We currently sit eighth in the Premier League and have amassed
an incredible 35 points so far, well done and thankyou. If we only win one more game between
now and the end of the season, IMO it would take Champions League form from the dross in the
bottom three places to overtake us. We were in the last sixteen of The F.A. Cup with many top
sides already knocked out, we had an excellent opportunity to progress and be only ONE
WIN away from a Wembley appearance.
So what does the great man do ? He belittles the competition by fielding a team,
that had he done so in a League fixture, we would have sent in the men with white coats.
I'm bittlerly disappointed, angry and feel extremely let down. I don't give a toss about perhaps finishing
a few places higher in the table and receiving another million quid, in years to come who's going
to remember a slightly higher league finish? I thought football was about winning games,
winning trophies. Younger fans on this forum probably think money is more
important than winning The Cup and that, I'm afraid, is symptomatic of today's sad society.
Our last league game was a week ago we have no other fixture until next Sunday,
why do players need to rest ? Total bollocks, I thought todays professional footballers were,
(I use the term loosely), athletes? An 'athlete', believe me, can run around for more than ninety
minutes in fifteen days. Why does John Ruddy need a rest FFS ? Don't give me the
'to give young Jed first team experience crap', send him out on loan when Declan Rudd is fit if
you want to do that. Why wasn't Grant Holt even on the bench ? When we needed a goal yesterday,
he would have inspired the rest of the team and no doubt we would have got that equaliser.
Ok, what other excuse do we have for fielding an understrength team? Injuries, we don't
want to risk getting injuries. Most injuries to today's professional footballers happen on the training
ground FACT. There's just as much chance of pulling a hamstring or whatever while training.
Paul, I'm gutted, you've let ME down if no-one else. When City take to the field against
Manchester United next week, it had better be a 'blood and guts' performance and not the shower of
****e we had to endure yesterday.
One final point, it has been well documented that Paul Lambert has styled himself on a
certain Mr Martin O'Neill. Well, this theory has just been blown out of the water, look at the side that
he fielded against Arsenal yesterday and look at the result. A virtual full strength line up that has now
seen his side progress into the quarter-finals, nuff said.
No doubt several of you are going to pick this post to bits and argue PL's case and that's
fair enough, but it won't change my opinion of yesterday's events. Of course I still have complete faith
in our Manager, we all make mistakes but yesterday's IMO was a big one.
RANT OVER
I'm still signing off with ............
OTBC ..... CTI
.... IN LAMBERT WE TRUST !
here's my take on yesterday's game. As I write it's 6.00pm on Sunday, up until now I've been
'spitting feathers' and unable to post on here, I've read no other threads.
No-one is a greater admirer and supporter of Paul Lambert than me and I've
heaped praise on him for two and a half years, he has been without doubt our saviour.
However, no-one is totally exempt from critiscism and Paul you are now going to get
it with both barrells. We currently sit eighth in the Premier League and have amassed
an incredible 35 points so far, well done and thankyou. If we only win one more game between
now and the end of the season, IMO it would take Champions League form from the dross in the
bottom three places to overtake us. We were in the last sixteen of The F.A. Cup with many top
sides already knocked out, we had an excellent opportunity to progress and be only ONE
WIN away from a Wembley appearance.
So what does the great man do ? He belittles the competition by fielding a team,
that had he done so in a League fixture, we would have sent in the men with white coats.
I'm bittlerly disappointed, angry and feel extremely let down. I don't give a toss about perhaps finishing
a few places higher in the table and receiving another million quid, in years to come who's going
to remember a slightly higher league finish? I thought football was about winning games,
winning trophies. Younger fans on this forum probably think money is more
important than winning The Cup and that, I'm afraid, is symptomatic of today's sad society.
Our last league game was a week ago we have no other fixture until next Sunday,
why do players need to rest ? Total bollocks, I thought todays professional footballers were,
(I use the term loosely), athletes? An 'athlete', believe me, can run around for more than ninety
minutes in fifteen days. Why does John Ruddy need a rest FFS ? Don't give me the
'to give young Jed first team experience crap', send him out on loan when Declan Rudd is fit if
you want to do that. Why wasn't Grant Holt even on the bench ? When we needed a goal yesterday,
he would have inspired the rest of the team and no doubt we would have got that equaliser.
Ok, what other excuse do we have for fielding an understrength team? Injuries, we don't
want to risk getting injuries. Most injuries to today's professional footballers happen on the training
ground FACT. There's just as much chance of pulling a hamstring or whatever while training.
Paul, I'm gutted, you've let ME down if no-one else. When City take to the field against
Manchester United next week, it had better be a 'blood and guts' performance and not the shower of
****e we had to endure yesterday.
One final point, it has been well documented that Paul Lambert has styled himself on a
certain Mr Martin O'Neill. Well, this theory has just been blown out of the water, look at the side that
he fielded against Arsenal yesterday and look at the result. A virtual full strength line up that has now
seen his side progress into the quarter-finals, nuff said.
No doubt several of you are going to pick this post to bits and argue PL's case and that's
fair enough, but it won't change my opinion of yesterday's events. Of course I still have complete faith
in our Manager, we all make mistakes but yesterday's IMO was a big one.
RANT OVER
I'm still signing off with ............
OTBC ..... CTI
.... IN LAMBERT WE TRUST !
