Well I am home, had a coffee and a sandwich and watched the worst rag side I have seen in thirty years lose to a poor Newcastle team. That cheered me up a little as some rag toerag on the bus was laughing about our result. Laugh at that you rag c****!!!
Where to start on today? Well for the first fifteen minutes we were okay.......then that was that, it was all downhill from there. The whole side looked unbalanced, slow, lethargic and error strewn. Devoid of pace, ideas, heart, leadership and they couldn't even do the basics right. It was so poor I almost thought I was back at Maine Road and the takeover hadn't happened. Was it four times we passed the ball straight to their forward who was then as good as one on one with Ederson? It is no exaggeration to say we could have been three goals down at the break. Walker was shocking, Pep later said he had a virus and that's why he came off. If that is true what the hell was he doing out there?? Cancello was poor on the left and the right. Otamendi, Fernandinho and Zinchenko are just too slow and positionally dreadful. Ferna looked every one he of his thirty four years today, playing in that back four I am not surprised!
The midfield was sluggish, had no bite or guile and gave the ball away cheaply, especially Rodri when he wasn't caught in possession. Who is playing the holding midfield role because I saw no protection for the defence?
Up front we were slow, square and out of ideas. Why do we insist on keep hitting high balls into the box when our forward line are all well under six foot??
You would have thought we had played in Turkey on Thursday not Wolves. They were hungry, pressed well, defended magnificently and had pace up front that terrified us everytime they came forward.
So two games lost already and eight points behind the dippers. I think this season with the loss of Kompany and injuries we aren't turning this one around. People can throw all the usual crap at me like fanny merchant, wouldn't like to be in the trenches with you etcetera but the evidence is right there on the pitch before our eyes.
We need to put one or both of the kids into that defence and get Fern shielding them. They cannot do worse than Otamendi.
Moving forward we have to replace Stones and Mendy. Both are always injured and I am afraid in Mendy's case after almost three years out it is time he called it a day. We cannot wait forever. Stones just hasn't made the progress we expected and if he plays one game and misses six through injury it is hardly surprising.
Hopefully we get some bodies back and make a fight of it but I fear it will be too late. I am not looking forward to Anfield with that defence that's for sure!
Where to start on today? Well for the first fifteen minutes we were okay.......then that was that, it was all downhill from there. The whole side looked unbalanced, slow, lethargic and error strewn. Devoid of pace, ideas, heart, leadership and they couldn't even do the basics right. It was so poor I almost thought I was back at Maine Road and the takeover hadn't happened. Was it four times we passed the ball straight to their forward who was then as good as one on one with Ederson? It is no exaggeration to say we could have been three goals down at the break. Walker was shocking, Pep later said he had a virus and that's why he came off. If that is true what the hell was he doing out there?? Cancello was poor on the left and the right. Otamendi, Fernandinho and Zinchenko are just too slow and positionally dreadful. Ferna looked every one he of his thirty four years today, playing in that back four I am not surprised!
The midfield was sluggish, had no bite or guile and gave the ball away cheaply, especially Rodri when he wasn't caught in possession. Who is playing the holding midfield role because I saw no protection for the defence?
Up front we were slow, square and out of ideas. Why do we insist on keep hitting high balls into the box when our forward line are all well under six foot??
You would have thought we had played in Turkey on Thursday not Wolves. They were hungry, pressed well, defended magnificently and had pace up front that terrified us everytime they came forward.
So two games lost already and eight points behind the dippers. I think this season with the loss of Kompany and injuries we aren't turning this one around. People can throw all the usual crap at me like fanny merchant, wouldn't like to be in the trenches with you etcetera but the evidence is right there on the pitch before our eyes.
We need to put one or both of the kids into that defence and get Fern shielding them. They cannot do worse than Otamendi.
Moving forward we have to replace Stones and Mendy. Both are always injured and I am afraid in Mendy's case after almost three years out it is time he called it a day. We cannot wait forever. Stones just hasn't made the progress we expected and if he plays one game and misses six through injury it is hardly surprising.
Hopefully we get some bodies back and make a fight of it but I fear it will be too late. I am not looking forward to Anfield with that defence that's for sure!