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Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:28 pm
by Bad Bob
I'd bet my house that Benitez told the players to slow it down last night and during the 2nd half at Chelsea as well. He's ALL about controlling tempo and keeping things tight and organized. Ergo, I think the fact that we didn't manage to do so has more to do with players playing with urgency and adrenalin and less to do with instructions or lack thereof from the manager.
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Wed Apr 22, 2009 1:54 pm
by bigmick
It essentially comes back to the base camp theory. We are like we are because we haven't been there before. Ferguson has said a few rimes now that if they go into the last game needing to win in order to be Champions, he'd take that all day long. If the Mancs go a goal up against Pompey (which I think they will) then they'll try and squeeze the game dry, get the second and cruise home. We can do it too, the players are good enough, the manager as Bob says invented the blueprint but just now it is beyond us.
It's hardly surprising when you think about it. You've only got to read a amtch thread while the game is being played to see it's not just the manager and players who get a bit jumpy. You get the manager being called a c..., such and such a player being called a w@nker and the team a bunch of no hopers until we pull ourselves out of the sh!te and suddenly the manager is a genius, we're "proud" of the teams efforts and the bloke who scored the winner is the messiah. All these opinions come from the same posters within ten minutes.
I'm not in any way shape or form slagging those posters here please understand, we're all guilty of it because we want the fecker so much. Some lads have got kind of a reverse phsycology thing going on whereby if they say "ah feck it we'll never equalise" we generally do, or if they say "take Kuyt off he's a donkey" he generally scores and more power to their elbow. I tend to not move positions if things are going well, I'll send Eff the dog out of the room if I'm looking for a change of luck. Whatever floats your boat, but the players feel the need to win it and they just get a bit carried away occasionally. If it was the managers fault needless to say I'd say so, but it isn't. Perhaps the base camp theory is going to hold good after all, my only beef is that I'm absolutely convinced that not only will we need the experience of the cauldron next time, we'll also need to be a better football team. Arsenal showed this morning that they are on the improve, Chelsea are too.
Got to say though, all technical analysis aside, we should be charging pay per view on every match of ours at the moment and saving up the money to buy whoever we want. Feck me it's compulsive viewing from the first minute to the last in every game just now, you can't even go for a p!ss or you'll miss a goal.
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Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:07 pm
by andy_g
what's happened is that we have been possessed by the spirit of keegan's newcastle (the 1st one, that is). we're attacking like crazy men and it is a sight to behold, love it. but our defending, and i'm stumped as to why except for the fact that everyone else is playing further forward, has gone to the dogs in the last 3 games.