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Steffen Freund
My future planning is usually done and dusted in 180minsThe future planning's going really badly.
My future planning is usually done and dusted in 180minsThe future planning's going really badly.
I agree about pre-season, and last seasons 'slump' had some reasoning you could reconcile (although that's being lumped together with the 3 games this season for full effect), so is this all boiling down to 90 minutes versus Saudi Sportswashing Machine as we got pass Villa and knicked a point at the champions?
15 points from the last 15 games and an insipid loss in the CL Final
Time to turn this around and fast otherwise the door should beckon !!!
i agree, after watching some of pre-season i thought we looked fresh. Some of the youngsters looked capable, Moura and Lamela looked handy and Kane well rested.I think you are right in that there are a few things being compunded together.
Our run of games since the turn of the year is relegation form. That includes a huge chunk of Poch working miracles with a completely screwed group, and now the "fresh start" post the summer - a summer which actually went well.
Crux of it is, people expected something of a turn around/up swing, and instead we get more of the same - but without the excuses.
The thing is where was this line of criticism/despair when we'd gone downhill for 3,6,9,12 games since the new year last season? Was it reasoned out as we had legitimate excuses or looked over because of the CL run? If we were ok with that period then as i said before we're literally looking at the Saudi Sportswashing Machine game that has flared all this up.
Personally the team picked should easily have been good enough to get 3 points BUT we'd returned to the cautious no risk approach, together with lacking invention, variety and creativity. That might come from the manager, and probably does if it appears to be effecting the whole team. Maybe the 'not nice Poch' they don't want to upset?, so dont want to eff up? BUT pre-season looked the complete opposite...weird.
One problem, as i posted yesterday, if we play good or bad, we're not as good at the back now, so conceding is always on the cards.
This will all be sorted out by the Brighton game!
either way!
That's not different, that's batbrick crazy.This is not a prelude to bashing him because he is 'different' ?.......i hope not.
Hi mate, good to see you back.
I sai yesterday that the DCM issue certainly doesn't help especially in comparison to what 2 of Dier/Wanyama/Dembele were giving a while back. But the defence is in transition, with the new guys still to prove it and 3 of the old guard, either getting older or leaving sometime soon.Last season it made sense. Its not like people didnt see it, rather they could see it - AND see why. And it was fair to say, to a point, c'est la vie.
This season, as Ive said, that reasoning doesnt exist. There is straight up no reason why we shouldnt be performing better. No excuse. And I think that situation is exacerbated when there is realisation that maybe this could be a continuation of a long term issue.
That cautious approach, that lack of energy and dynamism, personally I think that comes from the manager, always. And to have him moaning about the squad being unsettled really concerns me - its his job to make sure that isnt so.
And the defence - I dont think its actually THAT bad, the issue is more a lack of cohesion in the team leaving our defence exposed. IMO of course.
So if he's done amazingly and is batbrick, he'd of done even better if he wasn't batbrick?That's not different, that's batbrick crazy.
Now, I still hold onto the belief that Poch is just fudging with us all/the media and deflects attention by saying patently fudging stupid stuff about auras etc. I'll continue to hold that belief because the alternative is that the man's a fudging halfwit.
Hey, welcome back fella.This will all be sorted out by the Brighton game!
Sadly either way!
AgreedSo if he's done amazingly and is batbrick, he'd of done even better if he wasn't batbrick?
But he's done amazingly, agree?
Hey, welcome back fella.
Sparing your blushes, the very man to lighten up the gloom on here.
This will all be sorted out by the Brighton game!
Sadly either way!
Oh my! this could be a glimmer of batsh.ittery contributing to real tangible success........but how can we prove it?Agreed
This will all be sorted out by the Brighton game!
Sadly either way!
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