I think it’s pretty clear that he’s not serious about winning the FA Cup at all.
Expected them to beat Rochdale. Expected them to beat Newport. There's something fundamentally wrong with the mentality somewhere.He would quite correctly expect the team to be able to beat Rochdale, but there were poor decisions being made in the first half. I think that Pochettino clearly does not rate the FA cup as highly as the Champions League or the EFL, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't rate it at all.
Clearly, he shouldn't have laid on the assist for the first goal, because it probably caused you to be incontinent. On that basis alone, and to save us from your verbal diarrhoea, he should never play for us again.Not the end of the world. We'll beat them at Wembley and plenty of our squad need the minutes, apart from Sissoko, obviously, who should never play another single minute of football for the rest of his life.
Disagree. It’s squad management. He needs to give the chance to the back up players so they get minutes and match fitness, also it’s important for squad morale to share the minutes, if these players don’t get started in these kind of games then it shows a complete lack of faith in them. He also needs to rest the main team when we have so many games still. These games are never easy, it’s the smaller teams biggest game of their lives. Good we got the draw and hopefully that same ‘2nd team’ can make a better job of it at home.
So, didn't you expect them to beat these two teams?Expected them to beat Rochdale. Expected them to beat Newport. There's something fundamentally wrong with the mentality somewhere.
I was fuming when he played the kids in the semi-final last year. TAKE IT SERIOUS POCH!
Naaaaaah. From today's performance and team selection we've got a whole 2nd 11 in need of game time. Worked out pretty well really. Another game for them.I was fuming when he played the kids in the semi-final last year. TAKE IT SERIOUS POCH!
I was fuming when he played the kids in the semi-final last year. TAKE IT SERIOUS POCH!
Expected them to beat Rochdale. Expected them to beat Newport. There's something fundamentally wrong with the mentality somewhere.
This means the Palace game moves from the Mon night, that is a result if nothing else as hate playing Monday nights...!
Annoying though another midweek game, need to enjoy this week off as it be our last week off for a while.
But still in the cup, fair play to Rochdale but we should play reserves at Wembley again and get the job done, but just before playing Huddersfield at home and the big Juve game
Yeah, that's what I've been trying (poorly) to sayAnother needless replay and whilst it's 'another opportunity for squad rotation/minutes etc' I'm really unenthused with the mentality and application from these 'fringe' players.
Why can we never seemingly control the damn midfield and dictate play and tempo?! Are we that solely reliant on one player (Eriksen) for this?! Worrying if so..
The only worrying thing for me is that this second string don't show the burning desire to get into the first team. Results like this don't bode well for certain players who probably believe they are first teamers but might find they are no longer..
He didn't play any kids as such here, all of them are 1st squad & that's probably more worrying.