MK.......
There is such irony in that post.
When you make a statement about tactics, managers, players etc you are capable of some of the most informed posts on this board.
BUT...at the same time, you are also guilty of some of the worst cases of carrying arguments across threads. I (we?) have lost count of how many times you have dragged the HR argument into threads where it is totally NOT the issue.
Your perception and simply not true. And as stated above, this will always happen because everything is related.
AVB Tactics, Modric (and AVB's handling of the situation and poster's perception of the way Modric is behaving now amazingly changing now it's a manager they like in charge), signings, GDS, youth, the way our club is set up for the long term, player fitness etc ALL relate to the previous Manager and even beyond him and you're damn right that everytime someone slags Redknapp off for something they praise or ignore AVB to do I'll be calling it out.
Someone makes a snide remark about MOTD transfer policy, I'll be there calling BS. Every single fudging time. The difference between me and most of those "others" is that I am happy to back my opinions up with REASONED logic and debate, not just hearsay and emotions. I'll take a look at all arguments and media stories and not just pick and choose the ones that suit my agenda (any pro-Redknapp story for example is his mates in the media, same with any anti-AVB story. But any anti-HR, pro-AVB story? That's a great journalist right there and his words should be treated as gospel? WALOB!).
And I remain consistent in my views. People are already starting to judge AVB on pre-season FFS. A pre-season where he doesn't had Parker, VDV or Modric (three of our six key players from last season, Friedel, Bale and Ade being the other three) available. The Modric, VDV and Parker pyramid was basically the main reason we were so excellent and retaining controlled possession last year and fans expect AVB to achieve the same with other players? Madness. And then you also have the fact that Sandro, who is likely to relieve Parker of his first team place this season, available too. Give the man a chance FFS.
I am not pro-Redknapp. Never was. I was pro-Manager of a Manager who got us to the 4th, 5th, 4th (although according to at least three posters, one of them being a mod (and what a fudging joke that is considering he is one of the snide group of posters offering literally fudge all to debates other than asking us to trust him about clearly completely spurious information he has, ITK my arse. He should be banned from the site and instead he gets made a mod! I can't even block him now as a result) it was nothing to do with Redknapp and all down to Levy and now it looks like we're going to be in four a less successful season than in recent years that IS down to Redknapp even though he no longer Manages us!). I am not anti-AVB either, although he was far from my choice of Manager and I do think he royally fudged up at Chelsea regardless of external reasons. I am pro in giving managers slack, even more so when I think they've earned it due to previous relative success at the club in their previous two or three seasons in charge (which is why I though Jol's sacking was disgraceful and still do).
So I'll continue to carry "debate" across threads when I see a post that I feel strongly about to be factually incorrect or even more so when a poster is clearly demonstrating double standards. If the mods don't like it? Ban me.
