I feel pretty sure that their tweets had very little influence on the feelings of saints fans. If you mean "did they influence other journalists?", then that's quite possible.
Stop being so pedantic. I meant it in a figure of speech way as in "it's 100% mostly down to him" I'll rephrase then shall I, 80% Poch, 20% the players for underperforming. He ripped out the core of the team, all at the same time. Sunderland was a long way to go to watch that shower of sh*t
Do we? Don't worry, I'll forget all about this when we do have more pressing concerns, but right now we don't!
....and Poyet dropped nearly all of his first team, yet they still managed to perform........so is that not down, in a large part, to the players?
Which meant if we had played a full strength team we probably would have won. Kill the game off, then take the players off, not the other way round.
Nope Pochettino told Lambert not to score. I saw his face when Lambert missed. He was smiling and laughing.
We will never know if we would have won with our first team. What we do know is Sunderland played with a reserve team and played better then our mix of a team.
It' from the cup game. I'm not sure how they measure it, maybe they just mark the areas in which he had the ball in possesion.
I can't believe this argument is still going on. Nothing new at all being said. Why not just leave it and think about tomorrow's match? Vin
I spread the blame wider, 10% on the fans, we should have had more, 20% on BT for messing the kick off time about resulting in less of our fans getting there, 20% on the weather before and during the game, 25% on Poch for his team selection, 10% on Sunderland for misreading the script and winning despite fielding a worse team (on paper), and the rest on our players who didn't turn up and perform as they should have, no doubt there are other nuances that I have missed, the refereeing perhaps, I welcome any other possible causes that may have contributed, but whatever, nothing will change now, unless there is late evidence that Sunderland played an ineligible player, anybody know one?
Pochettino is not immune to criticism. I don't understand why you're all defending him so vehemently. No matter what he said in his press conference, he obviously disrespected the cup. I would put a lot of money on Schneiderlin, Boruc and Jrod starting tomorrow. Morgan played pretty much every game in the league one and championship seasons, he can handle two games a week, as proven by the genuinely big difference he made when he came on. No one will convince me that Pochettino played his strongest available team. And people saying "get over it talk about west ham", if you don't like threads discussing bad performances, don't read them.
