Good afternoon fat fighters.
Looking around at what other people achieved in their preseason friendlies it’s difficult to make a solid case for the end of the world being nigh. Looking at our lot fanny about for an hour and a half yesterday it’s easy to make a case for bellowing, ‘Sell the lot of ’em!’ at your telly box.
It was unedifying stuff. I’m a Pav fan and whilst he was really poor he was actually more interesting than Just For Men’s new poster boy PSB and the boy Defoe combined.
Krankie had some moves but that was largely about it. The game was a pedestrian affair despite the locals largely going bonkers from start to finish. My eye was particularly caught by a gentleman in the crowd sporting one tooth and a bible opened in the palm of his hand as their goal went in. Perhaps we should get him to look at the NDP for us.
What else can I tell you? the Kaiser Chiefs were a pretty insane bunch but they were as keen as custard. By contrast we looked every inch that if we’d been played someone good we’d have been not just been beaten but humiliated.
The crux of the problem (and you’ll be relieved to hear I’m not going to spend the rest of my life dwelling upon this game) was our midfield. J**** has been accused of being invisible. Well this was a masterclass. It wasn’t just the South African Broadcasting Company’s abysmal telescopic coverage that made him near impossible to identify.
We missed Modders, Wilson and Sandro any one of which would have ordinarily usurped him in the picking order.
It was only a friendly. Nothing to get our knickers in a twist about. But if you were weighing up the pros and cons of joining THFC’s playing staff you wouldn’t be swung by this if it was featured in the brochure.
Apologists will talk about ‘regaining fitness levels’ and ‘adjusting the climate’ but it was tepid on the whole and I’d rather they wore someone else’s shirt if they want to serve this fare up in future.
All in all we lacked charm.
BIOYC!
Oh, and we need to cut our losses and ship some of these jokers out of here….
It was abysmal to the extreme! All I want after seeing that is to see jenas, corluka, Defoe, crouch, keane, Hutton, and eff off somewhere else and take pav with em. I can’t believe they have a White shirt with a cockerel on their backs! We’ve had some lazy ego fuelled big time chariots at the lane but never so many at the same time. God, for a Graham Roberts or Stevan freund to kick them into reality. First game of pre season is no excuse, what happened to personal pride and not wanting to embarrass themselves??? All those mentioned were in the shop window so to speak and have only accomplished knocking more zeros of whatever levy is asking for them. Thank god for the young lads out in Spain and their impressive win over forest. As Yoda said said to Obi “no, there is another”.
i think you’ll find the cockerel is on the front of the shirt. The numbers go on the back. :whistle:
Yeah it does read that way don’t it lol but I’m guessing you know what was meant.
See Redknapps refound his case of verbal diarhea again. As if dribbling all over the Chelsea squad sheet wasnt enough hes now salivating over Utds. Perhaps he’s decided to show Modric the other team he should be considering? We’re scrapping for 4th with the Scum and the Bin dippers, and Modric my old son thats all you can hope for if you stay here. Then again, one or two, one or two in know what I mean. Nothing like a bit of ambition aye Harry.
I’m getting tired of this. In my head, redschnapps will settle this court case out of court, will lead us to a 6th placed finish next season and then will bugger off to engerland and then, finally, we can bring someone in who has the ambition that we supporters share.
No offence to arry, cos he will always be a legend for what he has achieved, but i’m losing patients as I know that this is no longer a long term project for him, despite what he says.
I wouldn’t mind taking a punt on Mark Hughes, he’s highly ambitious and could well be in it for the long haul. I want someone to build a f$%£ing dynasty, not some east end wide boy who has more to say about other clubs than about ambitions for the one he’s paid by.
Hughes is good shout. Moyes or big eck would be good choices too. It is hard to pop Harry cuz what he’s done has been fantastic beyond believe but it dies feel as tho he’s just going thru the motions until the fa call him.
Agreed. I think we’d have a job getting Moyes from Everton; it’d be interesting to see what he could do on a half decent budget though. Big eck? please clarify…
I just want someone who is talented, ambitious and committed to building something special. I want someone to give us atleast 10 years and for us to put our trust in.
Big eck is Alex mcleish
Does anyone know what the latest on Harry’s court appearance is? Is it tomorrow? All a bit worrying that it’s not all over the press right now…
patience*