Lucas North said:
Blue Train said:
Fed up of blind blues singing his praises week in week out and greeting every game with 'oh we'll just set Big Nige on them and it's all ours' only to watch him totally fucking disappear and let their playmakers run rampant.
Doesn't create, slows down every counter-attack, and what's more, doesn't do any of the shit everyone says he does best: hardly ever tackles, rarely breaks up play (except ours) and never protects our defence.
Both Vieira and Zab have put in way more dominant midfield stints recently.
Thank fuck for that.
de-jong IS the problem, he's shit and l have never ,ever slagged off a City player before.
Wake up and smell the coffee, kids.
Absolutely spot on chief.
Unfortunately, most people cannot see past the aggressive stance, the midfield hard nut, the clenched fists and the fact that he has played a few times for the same international team as Alfons Groenendijk.
The single-most problem for all our attacking ineptitude in games like this is the one-dimensional game of De Jong. He wins it sometimes, sure, but then he either gives it away, knocks it to the side or generally slows the play down to such an extent that even the most mediocre of teams can get back in position and see what is going to happen next.
I am telling you now, with De Jong in this side, we will never break the four, nor come close to doing it. Without him, we might, only might, have the players to do it. He is the single most reason we are struggling to attack/pressure teams at this moment and don't give me he is vital to protecting the defence nonsense. Barry and Vieira can do it equally as well, it's just they are more positionally astute than to have to run twenty yards and fly in to it.
We had it right on Sunday and God only knows why we changed it tonight.
There are times when I really think we have the thickest set of supporters in the world. The fact that they cannot see past what this imposter is doing for us says it all.
I have come to the conclusion that the only people who don't see it are dim, pre-pubescents who like aggressive people or the kind of supporter who loved Michael Brown in 1998 and touted him as being "world class".
