mancity111
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BobKowalski said:bluemc1 said:BillyShears said:I'd expect that comment from a two bit tabloid hack on the Sunday Supplement if i'm honest.
yeah bit OTT it could be put another way, With an England international striker and a 3 time PL winning defender in the back 4
Of course its OTT. Thats the point. Chelsea have been crying out for striker all season and they let one go who just may help fire Liverpool to the title - hence 'Chelsea reject'. Same with Kolo. Deemed not good enough for us and let go on a free. And where to? Thats right Liverpool in order to help them (possibly) beat us to the title. You have to have a heart of stone not to cry at the irony. The one I forgot was Victor Moses and many thanks to chris85 for pointing it out. It made my day.
The cherry picking a post in an attempt to deflect from the actual points raised re big games has become a predictable tactic closely followed by the "...well you liked Mancini blah, blah" pivot which I guess is one way of not dealing with the issues. I am on record here saying that the League Cup was on my personal bucket list and thank you Mr Pellers. Its purely a personal thing and not shared by everyone but there you go.
I still think we have an excellent chance of winning the league but the points remain:
1) Pellers in game management is too passive.
2) Use of subs is too predictable and seems to be pre planned with no account taken of game momentum.
3) The big games. Our record against our immediate title rivals is poor. Played 6. Won 2. Drawn 1. Lost 3. Games against your immediate rivals in a tight race are crucial given the point swing. At three key points in the season where the title was there for us to take control we failed to do so. Slip up once well ok. Twice is a concern. Three times is fucking criminal. In the CL our 4 big games were Played 4. Won 1. Lost 3. And the one we won was a dead rubber. There is a pattern. There is always a pattern. So far we have dismissed the pattern in favour of 'players making mistakes' and 'bad refs' and yes at Anfield we are playing the ref and will not get some decisions just as Liverpool didn't get some decisions when we played them at home so guess what don't give them a 2 goal fucking head start.
I am not looking for Pellers to go. He won't go anyway and as I said I was made up over winning the League Cup so I am not interested in calling for his sacking even if we don't win the league. But if we do lose the league to Liverpool there will be a few managers including Pellers who will have to take a long hard fucking look at themselves and seriously up their game next season. Furthermore if we do lose out to Liverpool and/or finish 3rd I do not want to hear any more fucking garbage about the vast improvement this season or whining about what a **** Mancini was as a) I already knew he was a ****, b) I didn't care he was **** and c) the **** wouldn't have finished fucking third.
Now all that said this title race is far from over and the thought of the summer with Liverpool as Champions is frankly too awful to contemplate so lets win the next 6 fucking games and make sure it never happens and that we never speak of it again. Ever.
He wasn't the clubs first choice and probably wasn't the second choice either , who knows he might not have been our third choice but it is his first season in the premiership so for that reason I think he has to be cut a bit of slack.
It's a learning curve for him despite his years in management and I agree the bar will be set a bit higher next season but lets see what happens in the next 6 games first starting with Sunderland.
Rogers obviously as has come to light wasn't Liverpool's first choice either when King Kenny was shown the door but as things have transpired he has had all the right doors open for him to go from 7th last season to where they are favourites to win the title this year.
I personally never regarded King Kenny a great manager but he won a title with Blackburn and 3 at Liverpool and no Liverpool manager has come within a bulls roar of his winning percentage since his first time in charge so the fact that Rogers has them at the precipice doesn't surprise me.
Annoying yes that we haven't got the results against Chelski and Liverpool that we would have liked but 1-1-4 from our first six away games we both agreed Bob might come back to bite us.
The first 25 minutes on Sunday was a bit of a microcosm of our early away form ie terrible in patches of away games and punished on the scoreboard as a result.
There is no easy solution , no season is perfect and I think we have to hope we learn as a club from top to bottom and do things better in player injury management in particular soft tissue injury mamagement before we can hot the heights we know we can.
Too many of our key players have been missing in games we needed them fit and firing eg Aguerro last Sunday.