by 112-1077774096 » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:53 am
rotation, rotation, rotation.
personally i thought it wouldn't be too much of a problem this season as we had more class in the squad to blend right in, as you all know last season i was dead against it.
it seems however i was wrong about this season, a thought entered my head that i never really considered before, its all very well choosing the top players for the big games, against the likes of chelsea and man utd and arsenal, and also select them for some other games. but when we have played our full strength team lately they looked liked strangers, i never considered that its all very well playing the full strength team as they would deal with anything, but it seems they can't as they are like strangers to each other because there is no stability in the team, there is no motivation and no desire to perform.
tell me why crouch is under performing? i know why, because he is dropped or on the bench when last season he was our top scorer, tell me why he doesn't look , why should he?
of course in public the players say its great and they understand, do any of you think they say this in private? of course they don't and it won't be long before player power kicks in, we are not different from other clubs, the same mentality applies to our players as it does with other teams.
think about how frustrating it is for players, think about torres, whats going on there, 22 million to sit on the bench, or on the other hand have we paid 22 million for a player who can only manage one game a week? I am sure he can manage more but he isn't being allowed to.
i say on the second page in here rafa will very soon loose the trust of the fans if he carries on making the same mistakes, houllier did the same and was too stubborn to change, players out of position etc. he is trying to be to clever.
for those of you who say he is a tactical genius, then what does that make harry redknap and steve bruce, they both out thought the genius in the past 7 days and both must have been delighted when they saw torres on the bench, or gerrard in the first game on the bench.
rafa is doing other managers work for them and his stubbornness will cost us again this season, i know its a long season blah blah blah but we all know how hard it can be to make points up, we had the run on the mancs this season with their poor start but we haven't taken advantage of it.
blame international games, blame injuries, blame whatever you want guys, but the fault lies at rafas door while he makes mystifying decisions about team selection and tactics. On saturday we had no pace up front, we had kuyt whose finishing is poor and i watched the game and i have to say his first touch is a complete joke, hard work is not enough, he needs more. babel is not a winger and he never gets down the line, he wants to cut in all the time. i have no problem with arbeloa or the rest of the back 4 on saturday (even though they created some chances).
my problem is rafas insistence that he is doing the right thing when results and performances prove otherwise. we have dropped 4 points against mid table teams already, we should beat wigan and then some idiots on here will say "i told you so, in rafa we trust blah blah blah"
well sorry guys but i don't trust him at the moment to make the right decisions, I am not saying get rid of him, but someone needs to have a word in his ear before we are also rans again this season, we have just seen a successful manager get the boot and I don't think G&H will tolerate failure as they want a return on their money, I don't think his job will be as safe as he thinks if we start going in the wrong direction or continue playing dross like we have this last week.
so is criticism justified here? damn right it is, he picks the team, he picks the tactics, he made the decision to let our star striker sit on the bench for 2 hours out of the last 3 ours league football when we were struggling to score, and why does he make that decision? so he can say he makes the decisions and nobody else.
f*cking stupidity of the highest order, i saw his interview where he says we need more goals, no sh*t sherlock, we started well with scoring, so many different players, but at the moment they aint doing it so why leave the one guy who might on the bench?