london blue 2 wrote:I'm concerned that vs Roma and during those fifteen or so unbeaten games we discovered some kind of rhythm and game plan to dominate games. The blueprints of which seemed to have been torn to shreds and replaced by this shit.
We have a really really bad habit of rushing players back in when thier replacements and doing perfectly well without them. This sets us back every fucking year.
london blue 2 wrote:I'm concerned that vs Roma and during those fifteen or so unbeaten games we discovered some kind of rhythm and game plan to dominate games. The blueprints of which seemed to have been torn to shreds and replaced by this shit.
We have a really really bad habit of rushing players back in when thier replacements and doing perfectly well without them. This sets us back every fucking year.
clippo22 wrote:I think once we get yaya and bony back our performances will return to normal and we will go on a winning run, but that only papers over the fact that without yaya we are looking very average. Fernandinho has been very disappointing this season, £30m for one good season is far too expensive, he compliments yaya very well but when yaya isn't available he has to provide creativity himself, and he can't do it. In the summer we need to sign a centre mid who is able to dominate the game like yaya can, someone who can create chances but also receive the ball and hold it, someone who the other players trust to pass it to and 9/10 they won't lose it.
Don't ask me who that player is though because I havent a clue! Closest I can think is Pogba. We need to find the next Pirlo/Xavi/Kroos and sign them up!
South Stand Balti wrote:london blue 2 wrote:I'm concerned that vs Roma and during those fifteen or so unbeaten games we discovered some kind of rhythm and game plan to dominate games. The blueprints of which seemed to have been torn to shreds and replaced by this shit.
We have a really really bad habit of rushing players back in when thier replacements and doing perfectly well without them. This sets us back every fucking year.
This for me is the main point. MP was forced to fill the middle of the park because of injurirs to forwards. This makes us stronger but MP got lucky. Now he had two fit forwards he just plays two in midfield and we get overrun. He can't see it and can't learn.
carl_feedthegoat wrote:Just watching West ham corners...so fuckign easy , right in the middle.
Why cant our fuckign inept muppets do this simple task !!!
twosips wrote:We frequently take short freekicks though and dont put it into the area anywhere near as well as West Ham did for their goal
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I'm as gutted as the next person with the way that our current, indifferent form (to put it mildly) seems to have finally derailed our season and dashed all our hopes as to what we might have achieved in our defence of the title.
However, at the end of the day, it's all relative :- we're certainly not going through the same problems that Glasgow Rangers are currently having to endure (although we have in the not too distant past), we haven't gone down the same road that Portsmouth travelled fairly recently and, dare I say it, we're not in the position that Leeds United are in at the moment.
We're not fighting against relegation (although we know all too well what that feels like), we have a first class ground, unrivalled youth facilities, a management structure and owners who are second to none and we have great players in our squad, all complemented by an increasingly stable financial base.
There are so many teams and Clubs in a far worse position than ourselves and I'm sure that they'd love to have our 'problems' to contend with.
I'm not ignoring the hard fact that our season seems to be disappointingly fading away but there's always tomorrow and, provided we manage to get our act together for the remainder of this campaign, there's always the prospect of better things in 2015/2016......and we've still got the chance to play a little bit of decent football before May comes around.
In the summer, I'm surmising that we might have a sizeable 'clear-out' with new faces coming in and this ought to provide grounds for a little optimism so, in spite of the way that things seems pretty grim at the moment, I feel it's important to keep some form of perspective.
There's no need for anyone to start slashing their wrists.......at least not just yet, so let's calmly see what transpires.
nottsblue wrote:Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I'm as gutted as the next person with the way that our current, indifferent form (to put it mildly) seems to have finally derailed our season and dashed all our hopes as to what we might have achieved in our defence of the title.
However, at the end of the day, it's all relative :- we're certainly not going through the same problems that Glasgow Rangers are currently having to endure (although we have in the not too distant past), we haven't gone down the same road that Portsmouth travelled fairly recently and, dare I say it, we're not in the position that Leeds United are in at the moment.
We're not fighting against relegation (although we know all too well what that feels like), we have a first class ground, unrivalled youth facilities, a management structure and owners who are second to none and we have great players in our squad, all complemented by an increasingly stable financial base.
There are so many teams and Clubs in a far worse position than ourselves and I'm sure that they'd love to have our 'problems' to contend with.
I'm not ignoring the hard fact that our season seems to be disappointingly fading away but there's always tomorrow and, provided we manage to get our act together for the remainder of this campaign, there's always the prospect of better things in 2015/2016......and we've still got the chance to play a little bit of decent football before May comes around.
In the summer, I'm surmising that we might have a sizeable 'clear-out' with new faces coming in and this ought to provide grounds for a little optimism so, in spite of the way that things seems pretty grim at the moment, I feel it's important to keep some form of perspective.
There's no need for anyone to start slashing their wrists.......at least not just yet, so let's calmly see what transpires.
Well said that man.
I only hope that some of the new faces in the summer are ones familiar to a few of the board members on here, namely Doug, twosips and Ted, in so much that they are lads from the academy
Mikhail Chigorin wrote:I'm as gutted as the next person with the way that our current, indifferent form (to put it mildly) seems to have finally derailed our season and dashed all our hopes as to what we might have achieved in our defence of the title.
However, at the end of the day, it's all relative :- we're certainly not going through the same problems that Glasgow Rangers are currently having to endure (although we have in the not too distant past), we haven't gone down the same road that Portsmouth travelled fairly recently and, dare I say it, we're not in the position that Leeds United are in at the moment.
We're not fighting against relegation (although we know all too well what that feels like), we have a first class ground, unrivalled youth facilities, a management structure and owners who are second to none and we have great players in our squad, all complemented by an increasingly stable financial base.
There are so many teams and Clubs in a far worse position than ourselves and I'm sure that they'd love to have our 'problems' to contend with.
I'm not ignoring the hard fact that our season seems to be disappointingly fading away but there's always tomorrow and, provided we manage to get our act together for the remainder of this campaign, there's always the prospect of better things in 2015/2016......and we've still got the chance to play a little bit of decent football before May comes around.
In the summer, I'm surmising that we might have a sizeable 'clear-out' with new faces coming in and this ought to provide grounds for a little optimism so, in spite of the way that things seems pretty grim at the moment, I feel it's important to keep some form of perspective.
There's no need for anyone to start slashing their wrists.......at least not just yet, so let's calmly see what transpires.
Ted Hughes wrote:South Stand Balti wrote:london blue 2 wrote:I'm concerned that vs Roma and during those fifteen or so unbeaten games we discovered some kind of rhythm and game plan to dominate games. The blueprints of which seemed to have been torn to shreds and replaced by this shit.
We have a really really bad habit of rushing players back in when thier replacements and doing perfectly well without them. This sets us back every fucking year.
This for me is the main point. MP was forced to fill the middle of the park because of injurirs to forwards. This makes us stronger but MP got lucky. Now he had two fit forwards he just plays two in midfield and we get overrun. He can't see it and can't learn.
It wasn't lucky it was brilliant.
And he didn't just change to two strikers. He brought back Aguero as the lone striker & he was shit. Just as he has been plenty of times in the past when played as a lone striker. He can only do it when absolutely 100% match fit. So yesterday he tried him in a two with Dzeko. Then he switched again to a system with Milner more similar to the system we used at Christmas. Then he tried Jovetic as an attacking mid to fire passes in to Aguero. He tried all kinds of changes. All of it worked to some extent but we still didn't finish.
Next season we should look at how the team played without strikers & try to emulate it with strikers in the team. We were getting lots of players in the box.
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