Re: Fortress Etihad
Posted: Mon Oct 31, 2016 8:43 am
Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Original Dub wrote:Nigels Tackle wrote:yeah, really sad to want the players to wear the shirt with pride and passion for 90 minutes in every game...
what a boring cunt i am.
Pride and passion hasn't been our biggest issue by a long way this season.
I don't know what matches you were watching but so far, only spurs and first half against Southampton could that be said.
Yet you mention it every week.
Can you not see that individual errors have been our undoing when results didn't go our way?
Seriously?
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That is such a nonsensical post even by your standards. In above topic you say that workrate and application, hallmarks of pride and passion, has been missing yet here you say that there has been practically no lack of effort.
Now I personally don't think we lack effort or even pride and passion. Players are just little bit confused with Pep's fairly sophisticated system in certain situations. They will get used to it eventually. I think Pep should have hold on to and/or play some of the old leaders more to get people around more comfortable and THEN drop them to bench and/or get rid. But he obviously wants to drill it from day one and I'm certainly going to give him benefit of doubt for couple of seasons. I think at that stage with some of the youngsters maturing we will be all-conquering side.
Mate, I think OD created that thread to highlight to the people moaning about application and work rate that that's not really the issue. In hindsight it's easy to blame a poor result on lack of work rate - especially if it is a game of two halves. But if you assess each half and write it down in a thread, you will probably see that that's not the issue at hand.