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Positives From Our Blackest Night In Beswick
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Millwallawayveteran1988
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WEMBLEY76 said:I have had blacker nights - the West Ham quarter final defeat 2 days after a Wigan home defeat,hope really was expired that night.
0-3 Forest at home in the cup wasn't our greatest day ever either
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The defeat at Wembley last may was particularly grim. A scandalous no-show by our so-called team and I got pissed wet after the game as well. Ho-fucking-ho.Millwallawayveteran1988 said:WEMBLEY76 said:I have had blacker nights - the West Ham quarter final defeat 2 days after a Wigan home defeat,hope really was expired that night.
0-3 Forest at home in the cup wasn't our greatest day ever either
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jimharri said:The defeat at Wembley last may was particularly grim. A scandalous no-show by our so-called team and I got pissed wet after the game as well. Ho-fucking-ho.Millwallawayveteran1988 said:WEMBLEY76 said:I have had blacker nights - the West Ham quarter final defeat 2 days after a Wigan home defeat,hope really was expired that night.
0-3 Forest at home in the cup wasn't our greatest day ever either
I think the clue was in the word Beswick.... I do agree with you though. I did too! Soaked
jimharri said:The defeat at Wembley last may was particularly grim. A scandalous no-show by our so-called team and I got pissed wet after the game as well. Ho-fucking-ho.Millwallawayveteran1988 said:WEMBLEY76 said:I have had blacker nights - the West Ham quarter final defeat 2 days after a Wigan home defeat,hope really was expired that night.
0-3 Forest at home in the cup wasn't our greatest day ever either
Not in Beswick though :)
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Agreed. It wasn't our blackest night and it wasn't in Beswick either. It was a mildly disappointing evening in Bradford, Manchester.
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Tryin me best, mate but been like a bear with a sore head all day. Still angry about last night. The only crumb of comfort I can find is that there can't be any underestimation of how far we've got to go to compete with the cream of European football and any ideas of greatness have been shot to shit. But we will get there and no matter how f*cking frustrating it is at times, we'll live and breath every minute of it following our Club. CTID.baildon blue said:Get back to strangeways prison . We don't want that negative talk :)MillisleBlue said:We won't regularly be playing teams like Bayern Munich...
jimharri
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Fair point!Sky Blue said:jimharri said:The defeat at Wembley last may was particularly grim. A scandalous no-show by our so-called team and I got pissed wet after the game as well. Ho-fucking-ho.Millwallawayveteran1988 said:0-3 Forest at home in the cup wasn't our greatest day ever either
Not in Beswick though :)
Good riposte!WestGorton said:Agreed. It wasn't our blackest night and it wasn't in Beswick either. It was a mildly disappointing evening in Bradford, Manchester.
We were outplayed in every position on the pitch and out thought by management. We had about 10 minutes where Bayern fell asleep and stopped playing, but it's not the equivalent of a bright spell. There really weren't many positives on the night but there are opportunities to be taken from the game, that can hopefully be turned to positives as we go on.
There is no shame in being beaten by a better team, but there is in being out worked. We should never be out worked by any team, ever, never mind when we're at home.
I think we've all seen when weaker teams stay with better teams for a large chunk of a match because they are working twice as hard as them. There should never be a case where we are out worked. It's unacceptable, especially when you look at the wage these guys are on. The least that is expected of these guys is to work for their pay.
Bayern were proactive, they came to our pitch and attacked us. They were proactive, we were reactive, which shouldn't be the way for a home team. They didn't fear us, they came to our pitch and just owned us. That simple. They knocked us aside like we were nothing.
They just seemed so unprepared. Bayern didn't change the way they played over night, but we were so unprepared for it.
They had a better attitude, which is really disapointing. They played as a time, while I've always felt that we act like a group of individual players, which doesn't help.
They seemed to know where their players were at all times, they knew what the plan was with and without the ball, The backed eachother up and filled in gaps. We had a bunch of players going in, making decisions and passing balls on a whim and a prayer. It's not good enough.
The only positive..It wont happen in the Premiership, the teams aren't good enough to do that to us.
Hopefully we can learn from it, work harder and be more prepared in the future.
What's so sad though is our attitude, has we lost sight of where we used to be. This was my biggest concern when the club was bought, have we so quickly forgotten where we used to be. We should be grateful for what we do have, we were incredibly lucky that we were bought and not some other mid table team. Lets not forget the club we used to be.
Not long ago we would just be happy to have the opportunity to play such an incredible team, never mind be calling for players and management alike to be sacked because we couldn't meet their standard.
There is no shame in being beaten by a better team, but there is in being out worked. We should never be out worked by any team, ever, never mind when we're at home.
I think we've all seen when weaker teams stay with better teams for a large chunk of a match because they are working twice as hard as them. There should never be a case where we are out worked. It's unacceptable, especially when you look at the wage these guys are on. The least that is expected of these guys is to work for their pay.
Bayern were proactive, they came to our pitch and attacked us. They were proactive, we were reactive, which shouldn't be the way for a home team. They didn't fear us, they came to our pitch and just owned us. That simple. They knocked us aside like we were nothing.
They just seemed so unprepared. Bayern didn't change the way they played over night, but we were so unprepared for it.
They had a better attitude, which is really disapointing. They played as a time, while I've always felt that we act like a group of individual players, which doesn't help.
They seemed to know where their players were at all times, they knew what the plan was with and without the ball, The backed eachother up and filled in gaps. We had a bunch of players going in, making decisions and passing balls on a whim and a prayer. It's not good enough.
The only positive..It wont happen in the Premiership, the teams aren't good enough to do that to us.
Hopefully we can learn from it, work harder and be more prepared in the future.
What's so sad though is our attitude, has we lost sight of where we used to be. This was my biggest concern when the club was bought, have we so quickly forgotten where we used to be. We should be grateful for what we do have, we were incredibly lucky that we were bought and not some other mid table team. Lets not forget the club we used to be.
Not long ago we would just be happy to have the opportunity to play such an incredible team, never mind be calling for players and management alike to be sacked because we couldn't meet their standard.
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Mdr said:We were outplayed in every position on the pitch and out thought by management. We had about 10 minutes where Bayern fell asleep and stopped playing, but it's not the equivalent of a bright spell. There really weren't many positives on the night but there are opportunities to be taken from the game, that can hopefully be turned to positives as we go on.
There is no shame in being beaten by a better team, but there is in being out worked. We should never be out worked by any team, ever, never mind when we're at home.
I think we've all seen when weaker teams stay with better teams for a large chunk of a match because they are working twice as hard as them. There should never be a case where we are out worked. It's unacceptable, especially when you look at the wage these guys are on. The least that is expected of these guys is to work for their pay.
Bayern were proactive, they came to our pitch and attacked us. They were proactive, we were reactive, which shouldn't be the way for a home team. They didn't fear us, they came to our pitch and just owned us. That simple. They knocked us aside like we were nothing.
They just seemed so unprepared. Bayern didn't change the way they played over night, but we were so unprepared for it.
They had a better attitude, which is really disapointing. They played as a time, while I've always felt that we act like a group of individual players, which doesn't help.
They seemed to know where their players were at all times, they knew what the plan was with and without the ball, The backed eachother up and filled in gaps. We had a bunch of players going in, making decisions and passing balls on a whim and a prayer. It's not good enough.
The only positive..It wont happen in the Premiership, the teams aren't good enough to do that to us.
Hopefully we can learn from it, work harder and be more prepared in the future.
Great post - captures my sentiment. Its easy to pick holes in the performance after the event but it was obvious the formation was wrong after 15 mins, the bit I could not understand was the time it took the manager to change things on the pitch. The fact we let them score so early in the game messed up the game plan !