I'm not climbing down from any of it. Yes, Powell's timing was right. As you say, it's a week before... he's now cleared the air to completely focus on Sunday and use the momentum of last week, rather than dwelling on a game we were never going to win. Yes, losing a game can be acceptable if you achieve your overall season's objectives.
I'm sorry but your climbing down faster than a dalek from a dustbin. You've ignored the fans unmitigated right to expect us to try and win a game (we beat them this season btw) and your saying he is right to be happy? You've made points about the IRA and paraolympians to try and make your point that losing is acceptable. It's not. Laying down and giving in is never acceptable and then to be happy !!!! Where is the line? When now does winning start? Are we saying that all games now are winnable? Or not against the top 10? How confusing is that? What are our objectives? If not to win games to stay up?
Does it really matter whether he said he's happy to only lose 3-0 or whether he might have said he's happy to only lose 1-0? A loss is a loss and in our position no one can be happy. However his comments could be seen as an arm around the shoulder for the team but that should have stayed in the dressing room.
Don't start turning every thread into something resembling a detailed critique of War and Peace. Brevity is always a bonus in your case
Hilarious Jimmy. Please point us in the vague direction of your last interesting post... .......bindweed blows across my computer screen..........................
you think they didn't try? They weren't good enough, simple as that. And you're waffing on about lying down and giving in, where I'm talking about compromise and the big picture. I'm saying of all the games we've had this year, Leicester away will be the hardest... look at the table. Our objectives are to stay up, but Powell knows enough that his squad shouldn't beat themselves up over Saturday. Winning started the previous week
@TVR Powell's comments sent out the wrong message. That we are small time. Yeovil got a point at top 6 Reading with EIGHT men.
Lord Powell wasn't actually a happy bunny at all, far from it. He seemed very low, and was mumbling into the microphone. If he'd been genuinely cheerful with a broad smile, laughing and joking, saying "I'm very happy with this 3-0 loss" when asked what he thought of the game that would have been different, but to take his words literally while ignoring his body language doesn't quite add up.
V-a-v: I was more taken aback by his downbeat demeanor than this quote, which tbh only meant he was looking for some sort of positive from a ghastly performance. I know we were outplayed by a better team and I wasn't there, but to hear the leicester commentators(who seemed pretty fair) saying that Leicester were walking through the midfield as though we weren't there was what really got to me.
FHB No updates in the last ten days on the contract situation for CP and his staff, but lots of rumours that he has been asked to take a reduced position working under a Director of Football next season.
This forum would be seriously weakened without Vol and typical's posts. They offer the counter-argument to the merits of Chris Powell, and that is what any decent debate needs. Or do some of you guys want nothing but a Powell love-in? In my mind, CP's comments after the Leicester match were belittling and disrespectful to our club, not to mention those travelling Addicks who had to witness such a poor display. Each and every season, relegation-haunted teams go away to the top sides and pull off draws and wins by way of fight, determination and spirit, yet none of these qualities were on show last Saturday. No player, manager, or fan should go into a match expecting a heavy loss, for that shows a lack of faith in one's own ability and character. Any doubts should be locked away.
When Powell said that, he did so with a wry smile on his face. He meant that, given how many other chances Leicester had created, he was only happy that we didn't lose by more. He did not mean that the team travelled to Leicester hoping to lose, or that, before the game, if you had offered him a 3-0 defeat, he would have been happy to take it. In fact, you could read his comment as praise for Ben Hamer, who did indeed make some good saves. And Vol I don't. But it seems silly to judge Powell as a leader and motivator based solely on what he says to the media. He's managed to motivate them to promotion from L1 and to pull away from the relegation fight last season, and to my mind it seems reasonable to think he can do it again.
This particular quote is the least of our worries. Put a mic under a manager's nose after a game like that there's a good chance he say something inappropriate, and he did. What bothers me more is that we signed a RB on a decent contract, yet he doesn't get a look-in. Although FHB jnr told me that Nego looked a bit shaky against Wigan I want to see Wilson at RM, we need him there. Lord P must have told Roland that he needed a RB, and Roland came up with Nego. Yet RB has been a problem for a long time, and I'd expect the manager to have someone in mind who he'd want there given the chance. So either Roland ignored him or Lord P didn't have a wish-list at all. Either way it looks as though not everyone is pulling in the same direction, which means one thing- relegation. Look at the options for RM- Green, had enough chances, Pritchard or Cousins. I don't want any of them there while Wilson is fit. No offence to Pritchard I really used to like him but playing him out of position has finished him, he's lost confidence, which is a pity, because the old Pritchard was the type of character we could do with. And NO MORE COUSINS ON THE RIGHT. There really are bigger problems at The Valley.
