glacierSpurs
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- Sep 28, 2013
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Am so sick of this season's mentality when last season was built with so much toughness. Enough of those talks of the bigger clubs falling last season so we were where we were FFS. We scored loads and defended superbly. We did not see Liverfool capitalising on that last season or any strong showing in the few seasons before, so by logic they must be a small club? This season they are firing again and yet they are continuously called a big club?! Going with the flow? WTF?
For the bad games we played, so many reasons were being put into the fact we bought wrongly, had too many injuries, we had European commitment etc etc. Even the press, the manager, and the fans seem to all give these excuses to this club that all these are the reasons for our poor showing so far this season. But really??
Take out the point tally and some will say we are not far off form last season; we had great possession stats; we had good unbeaten records. Some will say we cannot expect to steamroll every team comes our path. Some says we cannot take the team for granted and assume winning every game with good performance is second-nature. Some says we limit to chelscum to just a 2-1 victory is what they will take and no shame in that. Some says their bench is holly-molly world class than us, but everyone knows there can only be 3 subs, and we made 2 in the likes of Dutch league golden boot and Lige 1 speedster. VS that with Willian, Oscar and Ivanovic, are we really miles apart? I know some will say yes, but beginning of the season, Janssen and GKN were bloody good prospect signings for many people.
Excuses. All these are excuses from top to bottom. It breeds into the mentality of the club and players all failures are OK, so long as we tried. Yes, of course it is. But at the back of all bad results and performance, one got to wonder did we really try?? CL showing and uninspiring games. It is not even on hindsight anymore. Almost everyone seems to only put in the bare minimum to show at least some effort, but are those really enough? We all knew the answer very clearly.
I thought we finally managed to shake off the tag of being the 5th-6th team from last season showing by being so fit, so energetic and aggressive. Being top 3-4 should always be the mantra to build on it, because we are expanding as a club, building an excellent stadium in the coming year or two. We are branding ourselves as a big club, yet performance and mentality we are not showing for it this season, because of all these excuses where people will always retreat to for some solace in bad times presumably of so much hurt inflicted over the years with high expectations. This ghost of the past needs to be exorcised with stronger winning will from the club and higher expectations through and through from the fans to wanna be a consistent top-4 club regardless of our transfers, injuries, schedule etc. We can if we want, as the 1st half against chelscum showed. Hence there should really be no falling back to the category of being 5th or 6th and think it is ok as we are developing. Now we are sustaining as a top 3-4 club.
For the bad games we played, so many reasons were being put into the fact we bought wrongly, had too many injuries, we had European commitment etc etc. Even the press, the manager, and the fans seem to all give these excuses to this club that all these are the reasons for our poor showing so far this season. But really??
Take out the point tally and some will say we are not far off form last season; we had great possession stats; we had good unbeaten records. Some will say we cannot expect to steamroll every team comes our path. Some says we cannot take the team for granted and assume winning every game with good performance is second-nature. Some says we limit to chelscum to just a 2-1 victory is what they will take and no shame in that. Some says their bench is holly-molly world class than us, but everyone knows there can only be 3 subs, and we made 2 in the likes of Dutch league golden boot and Lige 1 speedster. VS that with Willian, Oscar and Ivanovic, are we really miles apart? I know some will say yes, but beginning of the season, Janssen and GKN were bloody good prospect signings for many people.
Excuses. All these are excuses from top to bottom. It breeds into the mentality of the club and players all failures are OK, so long as we tried. Yes, of course it is. But at the back of all bad results and performance, one got to wonder did we really try?? CL showing and uninspiring games. It is not even on hindsight anymore. Almost everyone seems to only put in the bare minimum to show at least some effort, but are those really enough? We all knew the answer very clearly.
I thought we finally managed to shake off the tag of being the 5th-6th team from last season showing by being so fit, so energetic and aggressive. Being top 3-4 should always be the mantra to build on it, because we are expanding as a club, building an excellent stadium in the coming year or two. We are branding ourselves as a big club, yet performance and mentality we are not showing for it this season, because of all these excuses where people will always retreat to for some solace in bad times presumably of so much hurt inflicted over the years with high expectations. This ghost of the past needs to be exorcised with stronger winning will from the club and higher expectations through and through from the fans to wanna be a consistent top-4 club regardless of our transfers, injuries, schedule etc. We can if we want, as the 1st half against chelscum showed. Hence there should really be no falling back to the category of being 5th or 6th and think it is ok as we are developing. Now we are sustaining as a top 3-4 club.
