Figueiredo took a touch instead of just clearing it first time. That sort of indecisiveness and ****ing about is probably why Baxter tried to claim the ball. If he just put his foot through it without taking a touch, it would never have been a goal. More ****ing about for the third goal. Figueiredo is one of the worst centre-halves we’ve had in years.
I was watching on I follow yesterday. Even at 0-0, their ‘expert ex player’ (no idea who he was) was continuously stating that our players body language was not right. Very worrying, suggesting something is very wrong in the camp.
I can’t think of one thing he’s good at as a centre-half. I suppose he’s okay at aerial duels but that’s it. Positional awareness is non-existent; man-marking is poor and he constantly loses his runners; his reactions and decision-making is woeful and his passing is some of the worst I’ve seen in a City shirt. The guy is utter dross and stealing a living.
I must admit I thought the same,there's a distinct lack of enthusiasm throughout the whole bunch...It stinks of something not being right!!
I think it's all got lost in translation - apparently he demanded they all play Shota football and they misheard him
Slater’s post match interview, “ Once we figured out what we needed to do 15 minutes in” …. I mean come on man
The fact you drink Aperol is up their with a decision as bad as Fig’s were yesterday! It tastes like earwax I’m worried about you Ernie. Show some maturity and ask for an Old Fashioned next time, instead of drinking like an elderly Austrian woman
The thing that staggers me in all this is the speed at which things have become questionable?Just 2 weeks ago today 20,000+ people were in the process of flocking to a home game,today there's real concern that we've fell into a bottomless pit with no way out. Arveladze has clearly been found wanting at this level and several of the 'big buck' foreign influx are lacking in desire to play for the badge,that's appalling given the figures they're being paid?If they don't want to bust a gut playing for us then let them acquire some splinters in their arses on the bench!!! Acun has some serious soul searching to do because,sadly,he's going to have to bin his 'friend'.If he is contemplating replacing his friend with another friend then he must take a step back and consider whether he can afford to run the Club on gates of 12-13k...That's how serious this has become in a very short space of time.
even if it's not likely he would want to come, surely you've got to at least be on the phone to dyche and other managers with experience of this league
I kinda get what you're saying Den, but the Aperol was a penance that was waiting for me when I'd finished watching that ****show of a football match. The second Aperol was agreed to as She was beginning to thaw a bit by then and it's her holiday drink of choice, so I was trying to show some solidarity. I guess looking back that I was also subconsciously punishing myself for not giving up when they got the third but actually sticking it out to the final whistle. A kind of luminous orange liquid flagellation if you will allow me the conceit. The round of cosmopolitans was in order that I could win a bet. Namely that the pool bar couldn't make a cosmopolitan as good as me. They couldn't - not by a long chalk. The negroni was a palate cleanser after the Aperol and crap cosmopolitan. The Tanqueray was the only gin on the gin page of the bar menu that a) wasn't Gordon's or b) didn't have fruit in it. At that point I think I had entered a legally binding contract to drink something off of that page, so Tanqueray it had to be. There was probably some beer involved as well but surely that doesn't count if you can't remember it.
I’ll have you know that my wife is currently drinking an Aperol Spritz as we sit at a street side bar just up from the ancient Roman ruins at Herculaneum and she’s not yet elderly (still under 50, just), whilst I am over 60, half German and drinking a PeronI. What say ye to that?
