What Black, Hoddle, Redknapp or any of our other dozen staff clowns hopefully have done is sit Tarabarabat down and say: We've got Liverpool, Chelsea and the Champions Man City coming up. Now is your chance to earn your move in January and show everybody that you are good enough to excel at the top level in England. BUT, you must be fit. You have two weeks to knuckle down and shed a few pounds and get yourself sharp. If by the end of that time you look in good shape, you'll play in all those big games. This is your chance. Grasp it with both hands. What's the chances any of them even said that much to the lad?
There should be quite a lot of sitting down and saying "get yourself fit" to quite a few players if they're as knackered as we're led to believe. At least we have enough backroom staff to do one to ones with the whole squad now.
He's an incredibly infuriating player but he has that something 'special'. Bar Hoilett, he's the only player we have who instinctively wants to go forward when he gets the ball. Unfortunately for us, Hoilett likes to consistently run into a dead end.
I think Leroy Fer instinctively wants to go forward too Nutsy but more in the Yossi Benayoun mold, as in coming from deeper and then laying it off. The problem with our whole team is that the Manager doesn't encourage this type of play. In fact, I think he actively discourages it for fear of losing the ball. Its not the players fault they keep going backwards and sideways with it. They're coached to do that. You know about that more than most on here Nuts having sat through five years of Trapattoni's overly cautious approach. Matt, I still can't fathom how Harry doesn't get how telling the World his team isn't fit, isn't an excuse but a very poor reflection on him.
I have a nasty suspicion that it's a reference to the players that get thrust into the team when they've crawled their way through last minute fitness tests (Barton, Mutch and Sandro). Ironically, we've ended those games with the fit players on the pitch. Either way, Arry has never elaborated and it just makes him look a bit simple (especially when bemoaning a genuine lack of fitness in another).
You know about that more than most on here Nuts having sat through five years of Trapattoni's overly cautious approach. I'm still receiving counselling over that Swords. The only positive from those days was at least you knew what team would be selected from match to match and how we would set up to play. It's a guessing game every week with Harry. No set pattern of play and different players every week. Ridiculous.
