So here I go with a few kick backs on your points, will get the rest later. Just didn’t want you to think I was ignoring you. 😂
How do you know that Tino and Hall were both ready to go into the first team ? Yeah Tripps and Burn had a few stinking games all pro players do. It’s called being human, and was mainly down to workload and fatigue.
Remember last season, playing the toughest teams in Europe and being robbed of the knockouts places. Those players gave the hearts last season.
I’m a forgiving kind guy, so all in I’m letting that slide. Plus I manage a very tight team and I know errors happen when the workload goes up, I can swap them out but would I ? No because the replacements would be worse and less capable and there would be more errors.
The Tonali issue was a cluster fuck that no doubt cost us a few points, but he might have had a shit start to his time here and cost us points the other way as-well. Remember him and Bruno looked a bit flakey before the ban.
Did it cost us Europe very highly unlikely.
Maybe if some of the wrong ref and Var things went our way we would be in Europe ? That had just as much effect on our league position. Cost us a point at least in the Manu Game. It gave Chelsea an extra 2 points over the season. Those 2 things alone did cost us Europe this season.
Rewriting history on the injury crisis, that all started with freak injury’s and snowballed due to the size of our squad and not having the players in it that could do a job replacing the players with niggles, pushing the tiny squad to its limits with the games we had and the cup teams we drew.
Yeah Howie was slow with subs on the main for the season ,but look at what the options when’re Matt Bloody Richie.
Personally Europe last season as nice and needed as it was, was wrong for our development. We didn’t have the squad for it. As we will see with Villa this season and Tottenham.
Also for me Last season was Amazing and very little of the causes of our problems were caused by the club. Most where outside forces you cannot plan or mitigate for. Not considering the power plays from the cartel to hold us back.
A fourth place finish and sixth in two season, after 14 years of Failure by Ashley and all attached to him is Amazing.
