Based on what I saw last Sunday, even that's optimistic. Lots of folk around me walked out at 3-0.
Kinda pisses all over what supporting is meant to be about.
I think there is massive frustration at the lack of tangible success and the current manager will carry the can for that to an extent. I thought about this in the week and was thinking "You know what, to be fair to Ange, even if he finished 8th or 10th next year, I'd give him another year".
The...
Agreed 100%. I don't believe Ange will do much here beyond what Martin Jol achieved. I just don't think we'll ever have the players to do what he wants and it's a bit too high risk for me anyway. But if he does what Jol did, realistically, he won't have done a bad job and the football is much...
Im not sure it’s as simple as the players willingly ignoring instructions. Ange places very high demands on his players and asks for a lot of things that are counter intuitive. Perhaps the players just aren’t capable of pulling them off, perhaps they’re shy of confidence and reverting to what...
Players develop differently. Van de Ven came in and ripped it up immediately. Gareth Bale took years to look like a player.
Ledley King looked a natural from the start. Harry Kane looked like he’d barely make a Championship player. They’re people, not robots.
He’s a very young man, in a very...
I’m amazed by some of the shit I’ve seen posted here. My goodness. For me, the signs are encouraging on Dragusin. He didn’t play great on Saturday but every single one of the starting eleven were miles off it so I wouldn’t draw any conclusions yet. Judging a player after effectively one and a...
Yeah I’ve dialled back my expectations and am just trying to enjoy the football under Ange. To be honest, I’m never expecting us to really challenge under him. I’m not sure he has the ability to do it at our club and I think the playing field is so heavily sloped against us.
I don’t really...
Sensible post but the difficulty is that our existing squad isn’t static. Players like Romero, VdV, Sarr, Udogie and others will be on the radar of “bigger” clubs while Son will eventually start to deteriorate if he hasn’t already. Sometimes it feels like an endless game of “we just need...
Good post and I agree. Sorry, should have said qualification for CL rather than 4th/5th given the ambiguity around it.
And your point regarding Woolwich is a fair and good one.
I love Ange and am behind him but this statement is absolute bollocks in my view. And the problem with it is that it allows the club and the manager a subjective out if we don’t get CL football.
What he’s saying is “if I think I’ve got a team to challenge next season and we finish 5th instead...
His predecessors have done exactly what you suggest (give youth a chance and experiment) and that’s part of the reason why we’ve never performed well in those competitions.
To be fair to Ange, I think he's too cavalier, but not one of his players performed today. You can blame the system and tactics to an extent but when not one player puts in a shift, no tactics or system can win you the game.
He wasn't particularly brilliant but was tidy and didn't make any fuck ups like a lot of lads so I voted him too.
I couldn't believe it when he had the ball and looked for a pass for about 5 seconds. Go absolutely nothing in terms of movement and had to play safe. You could see he was pissed...
It's clearly an honest misunderstanding where, to be fair, you questioned it in a very reasonable way given how emotive it could have been. Think it's best you leave the posts as they are because I'd imagine a lot of people could interpret it the same as you initially did.
I watch a bit of...
To be honest, I didn't even think the assist for Johnson was that good. He delayed too long for me and potentially chose the wrong option because Johnson had a Villa player up his backside when he finished and he did very well to score it. Deki might have been a better option. Either way, he...
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