Very good point. I would add to it that I’m not worried. If we truly only had two players who *could* score, that would be a problem. But we have many players who do know how to score, and I’m sure we’ll see that throughout the spring.
Yeah the issue is they are currently our best 2 players or at least most effective. Whenever a team loses their best player it's a struggle. You only have to look at last season's champions to see that. It's the same for pretty much all teams.
We should definitely sign Raquel Welch. Would distract the opposition enormously.
Certainly would if we played against a side managed by Wayne Rooney.
Where are you getting this ' they aren't being coached it' from. I mean I'm not at training sessions so I don't know what's being worked on, but I find it impossible to believe that Jose and his team would stand on the touchline week after week telling them to press, watching them fall back deeper and deeper, and yet not address it in training.
Yeah I'm certainly not trying to absolve Jose of all blame. It's clear he's made big mistakes at times. It's also clear he's being blamed for stuff that's not under his control and there is stuff being completely fabricated to enforce those points.
Sorry, we don't press fine. There was some effort but no cordination or structure when compared with some of the better teams around us.
No we didn't press as well as City or Pool etc do. Fact is under Jose we never will it's not his philosophy.
Its my perception of 99% of the games since Jose has been in charge not just the last few!But they haven't ignored his instructions week after week, that's just your perception based on the last few games where they have.
I've explained this innumerable times, against City, the goons, Leeds and others we have pressed intelligently, making teams play where we want them to both to render their attacks less potent, and to set them up to play into the traps we set.
We did all this in most games up until Anfield. After that game it just stopped for no immediately apparent reason, other than the players just stopped doing it on the pitch.
Do you honestly believe the coaching staff had the players in after the loss at Anfield and said to then "right lads, the system has worked up until now, but because Liverpool locked a win against us we've decided it no longer works so we're tearing it up. What we want you to do now is sit on the 18 yard line, yes Pierre, you as well, stand stationary when we win the ball back and not have an attempt on goal until we go a goal behind. We'll win the league that way boys, trust us."
Now JM might have mishandled the management of the players themselves in some way though, from a little insider rumour I've got from my Brother, there's a bad element within the playing staff, led by one player in particular.
Not naming any names, but it rhymes with Gary Spinks
Pinch of salt of course, but smoke/fire and all that...
He said that?!? If true, then what a stupid comment.
I disagree. The size of those tits, she'd be offside most of the game!
Pretty much what I’ve been saying from the off. It’s not the system, it’s the application.
Yes we do, we don’t go “gegenpress” in the opposition third to take the ball off them there, we press to force the pass into areas where we can pick it off when they’re further up the pitch, giving us room to get in behind. We’ve done this multiple times this season when the players are on song, Christ it’s been highlighted on the TV enough times!
