Good morning.
It’s funny how people’s minds work when they become anxious. The boss’ line up was naive, the changes he made a no brainer if you listen to those that don’t wish him well. After Arry’s appearance MOTD the same mob are anticipating QPR finishing 5th. And does anyone know why Arry has his arms on his seat like he’s driving a wheelchair?
If we learned much from yesterday it is that Jamie Redschnapps is a malicious toad that we need reinforcements. This was proof if it were ever needed that we did indeed get off lightly against City. Or at least some 75 minutes of of proof.
The knock on effect of players being out has been guys being played out of position and guys getting played who simply aren’t good enough. Let’s have a look at the whys and wherefores player by player and see if we can reach a conclusion that makes sense in the bit under Villas-Boas’ snap.
Given the circumstances I’m more minded to think how many we might have conceded had he not been there. This bizarrely or not depending upon how your mind works is is precisely the right time to hand over the reigns to Hugo. We cannot afford to play with this guy’s head. We already have one psychological minefield on our goalkeeping staff and don’t need a second. Was it a faultless performance? No. Welcome to the real world. Brad’s 141, he’s be just fine about it.
I remember running a piece a few years back saying that King had had it. One bright spark suggested that blogs such as mine were irresponsible and didn’t aid the player’s recovery, in fact the opposite. I was making his knee worse. So I await the accusation that I made Kyle Walker daft as a brush. Watching him has become a bit depressing. He urgently needs someone assist him to master basic defending and then half a dozen other simple passes he needs to master. All this belting around is largely pointless.
Good works get overlooked and mistakes are bellowed about from the rooftops. Sounds a lot like the way my ex operated. Maybe he’s as sick and tired of playing alongside Forrest Gump and ‘this weeks’ other CB as we are watching them. You build a ateam from the back. And the return of Benny cannot come soon enough.
Despite shoeing some promise, this was a step to far. Again, if we had better options then he wouldn’t be exposed like this. For all of Benny’s faults and various quirks he’s a proper Premier League left back and minus him we’re simply wall papering over the cracks. Verts does play for Belgium at LB, but the last time I looked it is a Tottenham shirt he wears every week. The defense needs balance and that will only come from being settled in it’s formation.
Had a comfortable enough game but I’m convinced that the way forward is him playing CB with Kaboom. Benny on the left of them and we throw the two Kyles half a pool cue each. ‘Now, our operation is small, but there’s a lot of potential for “aggressive” expansion. So, which one of you fine gentlemen would like to join our team? Oh, there’s only one spot open right now, so we’re gonna have…Tryouts. Make it fast.’
A bit of a nothingy performance if we’re going to be honest with ourselves.
‘Paaaaaaaaaaaaaaain!’ One tough rockin’ bar steward. No prisoners, but more importantly he is constantly wanting to build, turn possession into attack. You can hear him on the ball. ‘Who’s with me?!’ What a great buy. Inspirational character.
Oh look, let’s stop kidding ourselves. Get that Carroll lad in from the off and be done with it. Carroll deserves a run based upon whilst he doesn’t offer the occasional breathtaking pass he offers so much more in every other single department.
How the mighty have fallen. This was supposed to be a big season for him and he’s becoming increasingly invisible for huge parts of games. We need him to put in bigger shifts, it’s that straightforward. Defensively he thinks he’s above it all and sure, while the goal was superb, the rest of his 95 minutes wasn’t. Needs some tough love and less indulging.
What an idiot and anyone who wants to whine about Howard Webb’s decision to show a red is being beyond naive.
A largely horrible performance were any good he did was marred with a largely miserable attitude after Adebayor walked. So for 75 minutes his one dimensional contribution was joyless. He constantly looks to others and never to himself. Infuriatingly limited.
We keep waiting, hoping.
Did playing 10 men for really add up to a 3 goal difference in the scoreline? No. Having to field a hotch-potch side yet again and having to play without the best player from our last game is what killed us off. The opening 11 was good. I didn’t see anything wrong with it at all given the missing personnel. The substitutions were also spot on.
What some of you may not wish to factor in is that the Arsenal side that played was stronger than was widely anticipated and they actually had a good game and deserved to win. 5-2 isn’t pinching it. So you need to look at why and not just make knee jerk responses.
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lloris made 1 save fukin useless
gallas is finished ay past his best pushed up to far and stil played all and sundrie onside.
verts looks jaded already
kyle & kyle yes its a comedy show
bale is lazy disappears for theBIG games
sandro is world class so expect im to leave in the very near future
thudd is thudd this mobility lark is not his game
lennon ffs get in the game
ade is as daft as a brush but in the last two games has looked back to fitness
defoe always looks for someone to blame and its very easy after yesterday
we will play worse this season and win but of the 2 most important games of the season,we have lost 1
HH I would like to retract my previous statement “A lot of sense spoken today”………….I fear it could be downhill from here.
Hudd against arsenal was always going to be a disaster, you need busy people tracking runs. Hopefully Carrol gets a run
I’m still really confused about the sending off – everyone HH included thinks it was a sending off. Maybe I’ve lost it but it was a forward’s tackle, yes late but he caught him on the foot, it wasn’t a leg breaker and held little malice or intent. The ball was bouncing and he went for it, missed it and caught the guy on the foot. A 3 game ban too? I just think compared to some tackles given reds (or that go unpunished like Charlie Adam’s on Bale) it was pretty low key
Agree about the tackle. ‘Letter of the law’ and what have you. Well, the contact was minimal and it was an obvious attempt to win the ball, even if it was high. Nothing in comparison to the Charlie Adams style leg breakers. Ref could easily have given a yellow and a stern ticking off for it, would have been a better decision. Arguing that if it had been a goon on one of ours we would have been screaming for a red is besides the point – of course we would, we are bias. The ref has to make sensible, nuanced decisions, and he could very easily have shown a yellow yesterday and I don’t think there would be any outrage after the fact.
The fact that he “only” caught him on the foot is irrelevant. Ade slid in with both feet off the ground, that is rightly deemed as dangerous and potentially leg breaking. Ref had little choice. In fact I don’t think the ref wanted to send him off, he took some time to think about it and spoke to the linesman before producing the card, it wasn’t knee jerk by the ref.
Like I said, if he had given a yellow, do you think there would have been much of an outcry or a load of criticism? I don’t think so, which suggests that he could easily have gone with that option – he didn’t have to ruin the game.
You are assuming there would be no outcry, you don’t know that. The ref followed the rules (I think reluctantly) which are clear on that type of tackle. You can’t flout the rules just because there may not be an outcry. The ref’s decision was correct, there’s no argument about that.
A ref is allowed to use their own discretion and judgment. yes, it’s my belief that there would be no outcry if he had deemed this a yellow. For the simple fact that similar tackles go without reds and no outcry.
FFS, both feet off the ground, leading with his studs, knee high…and you don’t think that’s a straight red? Really?
I think LLL has written the words for me really – would there have been an outcry if it had only been a yellow, probably not.
The tackle being ‘knee high’ is an interesting interpretation as that was where the ball was – if the ball had been on the floor and Ade’s tackle had been knee high then he clearly wouldn’t have been going for the ball and yes a red card would be a clear punishment.
The two feet off the floor argument is a bit funny too – it’s pretty hard to do most things like running and jumping without having both feet off the floor.
2 losses to the gooner scum 5-2 at the hemmerhoids is not acceptable in what ever manner it took place and until the players hate that as much as the fans do nothing will change. :angry:
Did lloris forget to put his dentures in ,he looks like my granny.
We played better than when we lost 5-2 last season. Last season ‘Arrys selection for that game was arrogant and stupid, we lost every 50-50, Bale wandered around like he was the dogs b’s and allowed Benny to get doubled.
It is hard to know what to take from yesterday because of the sending off. I think they would have scored at least 2 if we had our full 11 out, the question is how many would we have scored. So just a couple of points, Bale needs to learn or try some defending, he sort of hangs about near the opposition attacker and neither blocks the cross or makes a tackle, ironically I might have made him play on the other wing in the 2nd half, least Lennon tries to defend. I’d like to see Carol given more playing time. AVB is our manager now, sacking him this early will only create more instability. I remember when Burkinshaw took over we got relegated, granted we didn’t have the internet then, but no called for him to be sacked.
I’m not calling for him to be sacked, it’s not realistic. We are stuck with him until he either sorts himself and our performances out or else fucks it up royally and gets himself sacked. Obviously, hopefully it will be the former.
I did say when he was hired, however, that Levy’s nuts should be on the line over this one. Too many poor appointments in the past and sacking a manager who had given you your best finishes mean this has to work out.
In regards to KB, he effectivly had to build three sides in as many years when he took over ‘Keith Who?” from TN most of the players were pretty ordinary-and he got no backing whatsoever from the board intially-if you recall-Ian Moores, Kevin Scott and an awful lot of dross-then put them with the likes of Pratt, Coates and Naylor-and you’ve got a dreadful team that deservedly got relegated, although it did fight til the end-then the re-build to get out of Div 2, bought Hoddle and McNab through-upon promotion we spent 750k on 2 luxery players-but leaked like a seive in the top flight 7-0 Liverpool-5-0 at home to the Goons 3-1 home defeat by 3rd Div Swansea, yeah-we’ve alwys been a top-top side!!!-That 1981-4 side took in essence 3 seasons to build-not overnight- and perhaps there’s a lesson in standing by your man and backing him eventually can pay dividends!
Bollox. Last season we played the best footie in the epl – everyone said so, sure we had off days and a few twonkings, so did the other good teams. This season we look like a crappie championship side with the attacking menace of a toothless greyhound. Anyway if we were so bad under Harry how do you explain two 4ths and a 5th, plus a champions league quarter final in 3 years? Reality check required I think – that argument just doesn’t stand up for long. Doesn’t mean I want HR back, too late for that we have to move on, but its going to take a looooong time to reach those heights again and it wont be under this manager, hopefully it wont be under levy too.