by bigmick » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:24 pm
We will be OK once we snap out of this bliiiiiiiiip and once the players get their heads around the fact that they are in a scrap for fourth, and that that in itself is something worth getting out of bed for. Obviously they'll know that we are out of the title race, but it's a lot easier to be "up" for games when you are going for silverware that it is to get "up" for finishing fourth. This particularly applies when you are competing against a team like everton (who will surely be our closest rivals) for whom fourth place would be considered an unbelieveable achievement. They will be most definately "up" for every single game at the moment, and they have denied us before.
It really is imperative that we get back to winning ways fairly soon. Since to achieve that objective the rules of the game stipulate that you need to score more goals than the team you're playing against in order to achieve this, it might be time to consider an alternative to Kuyt. Soonish would be good, and we might even get really radical and consider playing the bloke who came off the bench tonight and scored. He does do that occasionally (I seem to remember him getting one in an FA Cup match as well recently on one of his rare appearances) and unlike Dirk, I reckon he might do it a little more often if he gets the opportunity. It's got to be worth a go surely? I'm not saying we've got to make friends or anything, just perhaps give him a go as we don't seem to have anyone else.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".
