Obviously, we massively fucked up in 11/12 when we should have been 3rd and out of sight. 4th with a quartet of strikers in Pav/Crouch/Defoe/Keane is the nearest we've come to 'achievement' in recent years.
Trying to pick a pair to play up front out of that quartet was like trying to decide whether you'd prefer a punch in the crotch or a kick in the crotch.
Astonishing that this debate over points tally/league position is still running.
Talk about trying to complicate something that doesn't need to be complicated.
I don't think either of them are achievements to be honest.
I agree. It was a brilliant achievement last season...
...by Gareth Bale.
Yeah, fuck knows why Levy bothered employing AVB. The team would have reached 72points without a manager in charge. We had Gareth Bale, fuck giving the manager any credit at all. In fact, did we even need the other 10 players on the pitch? We had Gareth Bale. He was the sole reason we got 72 points last season
Yeah, fuck knows why Levy bothered employing AVB. The team would have reached 72points without a manager in charge. We had Gareth Bale, fuck giving the manager any credit at all. In fact, did we even need the other 10 players on the pitch? We had Gareth Bale. He was the sole reason we got 72 points last season
If we had no AVB Bale would have hit 30 league goals and we'd have won the league.Yeah, fuck knows why Levy bothered employing AVB. The team would have reached 72points without a manager in charge. We had Gareth Bale, fuck giving the manager any credit at all. In fact, did we even need the other 10 players on the pitch? We had Gareth Bale. He was the sole reason we got 72 points last season
If we had no AVB Bale would have hit 30 league goals and we'd have won the league.
We could have had Zippy from Rainbow in charge and Bale would have still had a great season. He well and truly papered over the cracks of what a mundane manager AVB was. Did anyone notice how hardly any of Bale's goals were team efforts? Can anyone name more than two games where we actually looked good for more than 45 minutes?
Yeah, fuck knows why Levy bothered employing AVB. The team would have reached 72points without a manager in charge. We had Gareth Bale, fuck giving the manager any credit at all. In fact, did we even need the other 10 players on the pitch? We had Gareth Bale. He was the sole reason we got 72 points last season
I'm glad you've finally recognised this
I said last season that AVB wasn't having the impact I'd hoped for. Not terrible, but pretty middle of the road. Bloody tedious 99% of the time as well. I thought the lack of movement and imagination would simply be a necessary evil as he adjusted the team to his own vision. Then this season it became apparent that it was his vision.
Bale had an exceptional season, and was the difference between us having an average season, and having a good (but not good enough) season. It's amazing how desperate people are to blindly refuse to concede that a great season from a special player was more deserving of praise for our success than a manager who looked out of his depth.
I guess Maradona was only a bit-part player in Argentina winning the world cup in '86. After all, Carlos Bilardo was the one who made the brave decision to play him. Tactical genius
We could have had Zippy from Rainbow in charge and Bale would have still had a great season. He well and truly papered over the cracks of what a mundane manager AVB was. Did anyone notice how hardly any of Bale's goals were team efforts? Can anyone name more than two games where we actually looked good for more than 45 minutes?
Astonishing that this debate over points tally/league position is still running.
Talk about trying to complicate something that doesn't need to be complicated.
Yeah, fuck knows why Levy bothered employing AVB. The team would have reached 72points without a manager in charge. We had Gareth Bale, fuck giving the manager any credit at all. In fact, did we even need the other 10 players on the pitch? We had Gareth Bale. He was the sole reason we got 72 points last season
Did he? I seem to remember him being little more than good for the first half of the season. Certainly not better than other players in the team. About the same level as he was the previous season.
Exceptional second half of the season but if we truly did have a mundane fraud as a manager that wouldn't have mattered a jot because we would have been long cut adrift.
And there were plenty more than two games were we looked good last season.
If we had no AVB Bale would have hit 30 league goals and we'd have won the league.
Thank Christ eh? Always the ones you least expect. Anyway he isn't a poor manager, I haven't seen any real evidence that he is but if he is Levy is the man who hired him. If he felt he was poor he should have got rid of him in the summer.How is sacking a poor manager bottling it? All I can say is thank fucking Christ almighty he did sack him