chicago_shearer

Pathetic.

We are f***ing s*** officiating regardless. We can blame lousy decisions but when you have a team of good players playing obscenely badly it's the coaching teams fault. These players head balls without think where the ball will go, hoof and pass to the opposition and over play things when glaringly obvious easy passes could be made. They don't even do the basics right and haven't for a long time. it's a f***ing shambles.

 

Any impetus and inventiveness the new players brought has been coached out to revert to safe tactic norm. We are atrocious and for no other reason than the way we are set up. We should have hammered Wigan today. I have No idea what we do on the training ground but it's obviously a far cry from what every other club does because we continue to make poor teams look dangerous and better teams like Barcelona.

 

Knee jerk reaction over and out.

 

Couldn't agree more.

 

We've been cheated out of a point and a opposition red card but it doesn't change the fact that we were absymal today.

 

Again, irrelevant.

 

How the f*** is it irrelevant? Had we got a point I'd have still said we were s***. Because we were.

 

It's not relevant because even though we were s***, that isn't even the second reason we lost, let alone the first.

 

It just just seems pointless to mention it when it's a by-product of us not only having loads of players out injured, but being completely f***ed over by the officials. And not just the direct affect that those things have, but the way it effected our play.

 

Our attacking play is clueless and appalling every week, yet it's not worth criticising our attacking play for being clueless and appalling this week, because the ref was s****?

 

No, what I mean is that this match hasn't even given me the opportunity to criticise our shitness. We were s*** without Cabaye, then Debuchy, then Haidara. And with the worst refereeing performance I've seen since Martin Atkinson's.

 

We were s***, but nowhere near as much as we were robbed and unlucky. Our shitness just doesn't seem worth being talked about after that. They're justifiably excused today.

 

I'm not buying anything implying the side we had out today wasn't good enough to get a point or 3 off Wigan, sorry.

 

The last 3 starting 11s to play Wigan away were:

 

http://i.imgur.com/YifVmSw.jpg

 

(0-4, 2-2, 2-3).  Hardly worldbeaters on the whole but they all got more than we did.

 

And I'm also not buying us simply being on the bad side of misfortune and bad refereeing today either, we looked toothless.  Bad luck implies we deserved something out of the performance and we didn't.  I'll grant you that we should have been up against 10 men and might have then made a better fist of it, but it comes to something when you're bemoaning not having a numerical advantage against a team looking nailed on to be relegated instead of just getting on with beating them.

Good post.

We need to get to 40 points asap before this starts to get edgy.

4 more would probably do it. But we'll leave it to May at least. No way will they make this comfortable.

Hard to say whether we would have won had Debuchy not got injured. We were completely on top until then. Things then went down hill from there. Can kinda understand the awful performance in this game. Performance aside you can't deny Halsey screwed us over ridiculously.

Taylor had a good chance, but I don't think we looked exceptional. And even if we were playing great, 12 minutes of good football and then falling to pieces when your right back pulls his hamstring just isn't an excuse.

Dragged back into relegation mix. Crap performance. Cheated by shamefully bad ref (again)

Think we'll stay up because of the amount of teams in the mix, but we'll leave it as late as possible. And the Europa QF won't help things.

Horrible way to spend 2 hours.

Tiote is shocking.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Tiote isn't good at football.

Really struggling now.

Fucking hell this passing is shit.

GET A SHOT ON TARGET CISSE PLEASE

QPR striker Jay Bothroyd: "Very bad tackle yes [see 1626]. But at normal speed I think he just missed the ball as he was clearing it and unfortunately connected with his knee. It's easy to comment when you see in slow motion. I hope Haidara is OK - fingers crossed."

...and then hops up to chase down the ball. He knows exactly what he's done.

That's just a huge slice of disgusting injustice.

Wigan should be a man down. But otherwise they look a lot better organized and a lot more dangerous going forward. Fucking sick of how wasteful we are.

I hope the bad refereeing decision doesn't distract from how unforgivably shit this performance has been.

Going out to Spurs or Chelsea would be disappointing as well as boring at this stage of the competition. First choice Basel obviously, but at least Benfica or Lazio would be an interesting tie.

LOL. And he scores after that.

Oh good a corner. This will end well.

Cabaye you beautiful Frenchman.

Now go on and fucking win this.

Cisse has been shit.

Stoke have been awful, we've been fairly good except the final third,  so eagerly awaiting fluke Stoke goal in the second half after the team talk. yawn.

Good performance, golden opportunity to get comfortable in the table, pissed away.

Such a shit season.

Unjust.

Ameobiesque

Southampton at home for fucks sake. This is pathetic.