Ange in or out?

[Lilbaz]

Sugar bought us AFTER the end of the 1990/91 season.
Even during the Gazza-dominated FA Cup semi-final our future was uncertain; hence why a win for us was so huge..

Fair enough i was 13 so didn't really pay much attention.

 

[Gutter Boy]

Sugar bought us AFTER the end of the 1990/91 season.
Even during the Gazza-dominated FA Cup semi-final our future was uncertain; hence why a win for us was so huge..

Yeah the narrative was we needed ECWC qualification or bust. Plus we'd have to sell Gazza and Lineker or bust.

 

[Silly McSilly Face]

Your post referenced 'first choice defence'. I've given you the facts for that first choice defence. You decide to select stats for past 6 games, of which said defence have played twice and conceded one goal. 'First choice defence' has barely featured for 25% of games this season which has an obvious impact for stability. The rest of the games the back 5 has been forever changing, that again does not help stability.

This doesn't mean you can't be critical of Ange, of the system and whatever else but you can also acknowledge the difficulties faced for balance....

Every manager faces those difficulties. My post referenced the availability of our first choice defence in the context of chopping and changing. Precise words were "We haven't looked solid defensively even with our first choice defence available."

Unsure where the lack of balance comes in. I mean it's really hard to come across as balanced when you're analysing being 16th after 35 games having finished 5th the season before and having spent over £150 million in the summer. Sometimes there is no balancing it: it's been a complete sh*tshow. It's been a complete sh*t show with our squad largely available and it's been a complete sh*tsshow without.

 

[NYSpur]

Didn't ghat average group finish 3rd in the league the season prior?

They did --- and they still were average! I had a season ticket at that time and was never enthused by Venables' Tottenham, who, imho, were not a patch on Pleat's nearly team.

So why did we finish third if we were largely an average group? Well, Gazza was there and Lineker scored 26 goals that season. Also, there was a large gap to the top two. My point is that having a couple of top class players can paper over some cracks with a workmanlike supporting cast, and we do not have that at the moment.

 

[Lilbaz]

They did --- and they still were average! I had a season ticket at that time and was never enthused by Venables' Tottenham, who, imho, were not a patch on Pleat's nearly team.

So why did we finish third if we were largely an average group? Well, Gazza was there and Lineker scored 26 goals that season. Also, there was a large gap to the top two. My point is that having a couple of top class players can paper over some cracks with a workmanlike supporting cast, and we do not have that at the moment.

You said we finished 10th in the league because we had an average group. I pointed out we finished 3rd in the league the season before with the same group.

Yes gazza and lineker were world class players. If we had 2 world class players in our squad we probably would do better. But our squad is not yhe 16th best in the prem. We should be doing a lot bettr than we currently are.