A lot shit off the media I can take. Id it gets too stupid I'll ignore it. I don't read or buy newspapers, I don't watch sky sports news nor do i listen to TalkSport. My exposure to horseshit is quite low so it doesn't bother me.
Bluemoon though after a defeat or even just a poor performance is the most ridiculous scene going. Full of stupid posts. I seriously can't be doing with it. Knowing I'm fans of the same club as some of the people who come on here after a defeat takes the shine off this club a little. So I stay well clear after games for a few days.
We're not even established as a top three side yet. We've finished up here once (and only three times since the war). So let's just concentrate on what we do to establish ourselves up here again and not worry about anyone else. If that means 3rd again then great I'll be buzzing with that, 2nd yeah even better, champions I will cry with joy. But for me it's not clear that we have the best team or squad, I don't give a fucking shit how much money someone cost us or how much we've spent overall; it doesn't mean we should be doing this and that, it just means we have an expensive squad. Barcelona have a squad that cost about £50m tops and they're possibly the beat team ever!
Last season we were average a lot. We were rarely shite and rarely brilliant. And there was a lot wrong with us:
20th in the league at scoring in the last ten minutes
Shocking away record against the top half teams
SHITE against the top 6 away (W0 D2 L3 F1 A8 Pts2/15) we didn't even try to attack let alone create chances or score goals against top six sides away from home
We let too many teams have too long on the ball
We aren't ruthless enough
Sometimes we'll be happy to sit on a 1-0 lead
We scored just 60 goals last season (the average for league champions since it became 20 teams is 78.4 goals a season)
Poor away in Europe (P5 W1 D2 L2 F3 A7)
Not enough tempo at times
No pace in the squad
No counter attack game
A lack of creativity
etc etc etc
Of course we have a lot of good points, more than bad. But in three months do people seriously think all of these areas will have been addressed and improved? Even if every one has, some wont be a dramatic improvement. I have said all along, since the day Sheikh Mansour rook over, that we wont be at the height of the revolution until 2013. Some said that was a stupid amount of time and we should be doing this and that now(!) but 2013 is only 16 months away now. Leading up to then, and even possibly for a while after, we'll be a working progress. A lot of people can't get this into their swedes though and the shit they talk is unbelievable in their overreactions to defeats whilst not understanding we aren't THAT* good yet (although we are good and are getting better).
I'm trying to enjoy every minute of this trip and people whinging because their expectations are too high as they expect us to be PNE or Arsenal without even having addressed all of them points above, bring me down a bit.
