Darth Crooks Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 There isn't a single system or set of personnel in any area of the team that is proven to be able to function competently for even two consecutive games. There isn't any bizarre team selection going on. Just a bloke trying to reshuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic and only just realising that every single chair has something fundamentally wrong with it. This. We've been screaming at the squad imbalance and wrong signings for several seasons and it's been ignored. The last time we had a balanced team was under Pardew, who of course said it was because he didn't have the players. McClaren as shite as he was was hung out to dry in the same way Rafa has. Rafa will take it in his stride though because he's not desperate and will just leave if he's not supported. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 There isn't a single system or set of personnel in any area of the team that is proven to be able to function competently for even two consecutive games. There isn't any bizarre team selection going on. Just a bloke trying to reshuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic and only just realising that every single chair has something fundamentally wrong with it. Spot on this. The guy has no chance with these players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
STM Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Like any manager should, he thinks he can fix the problems and make players out of the likes of Sissoko and Wijnaldum, who have shown fleeting moments of quality. Ultimately he is wrong and at any normal club he would be given the chance to rectify that mistake in the summer by shipping them out. Sadly, it's too little, too late. He's been given a load of duds. Slim chance he might stay next year. Only if noone comes in for him, then he might fancy it. What a horrible mess Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bimpy474 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Hope we keep him, made a poor team selection against Norwich like, mind you he's picking from a barrel of shit though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varadi Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Not a chance he stays imo - he'll have seen enough behind the scenes already to know that the club is absolutely rotten to the core. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Not bringing him early enough smacks of the 'trying to get by/not invest any money' mentality that Ashley has brainwashed through the club. The difference a month would have made would have been immense and, in financial terms, it would only have a been a few hundred grand, max. Shameful. His inevitable departure is the biggest missed opportunity of the Ashley era. Incredibly, we've snatched a defeat from the jaws of victory in a way only NUFC and our feckless players can. I think the fact that so many managers/coaches have failed to get a response from these cunts says so much about the fundamental cultural problems at the club. In particular that these knackers have been sold the dream of 'come to NUFC and be like Yohan Cabaye, he went to a proper club' is so fucking screwed up, it's untrue. That strikes at the heart of Ashley's ownership, that these chancers, bluffers and mercenaries are 'convinced' to come here on the basis of leaving. They're all coming with the wrong mentality. At least under FFS/SJH the signings were all signing up to men who had a pride in the club/region and wanted to compete. If you can only talk to these new players about how much money they'll all make when they leave it's no wonder they're so fucking half hearted on the pitch. They win, either way. They achieve their ends. They go, we stay. They benefit, we suffer. It's the most one sided relationship in sport this NUFC. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Not a chance he stays imo - he'll have seen enough behind the scenes already to know that the club is absolutely rotten to the core. Of course he will and the fat cunts little outburst a couple of weeks ago would have been recieved by Rafa's people as a warning shot of life under the fucking dictatorship. Like fucking North Korea with marginally better haircuts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Like fucking North Korea with marginally better haircuts. They're mostly bald. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Made some mistakes on Saturday, but he made the substitutes to rectify them and nearly salvaged something. Entirely the fault of the players that the 3rd goal went in. I love him and hope that he stays, still think we've got a great chance. This time last season, Hull were 9 points ahead of Leicester - Leicester survived and Hull went down. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Weirdly enough, if even one of our shit LBs had been fit we probably wouldn't have lost to Norwich or drawn the derby. Canny gutting really. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Made some mistakes on Saturday, but he made the substitutes to rectify them and nearly salvaged something. Entirely the fault of the players that the 3rd goal went in. I love him and hope that he stays, still think we've got a great chance. This time last season, Hull were 9 points ahead of Leicester - Leicester survived and Hull went down. Nope. After 31 games, Leicester were 3 points behind Hull with a game in hand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lovejoy Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Made some mistakes on Saturday, but he made the substitutes to rectify them and nearly salvaged something. Entirely the fault of the players that the 3rd goal went in. I love him and hope that he stays, still think we've got a great chance. This time last season, Hull were 9 points ahead of Leicester - Leicester survived and Hull went down. Nope. After 31 games, Leicester were 3 points behind Hull with a game in hand. yeah. this view is often skewed by the dates. After 31 games Leicester had started their revival. If we get out of it, it'll be a monumental escape, bigger than last years. We won't, obviously. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figures 1-0 Football Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Made some mistakes on Saturday, but he made the substitutes to rectify them and nearly salvaged something. Entirely the fault of the players that the 3rd goal went in. I love him and hope that he stays, still think we've got a great chance. This time last season, Hull were 9 points ahead of Leicester - Leicester survived and Hull went down. Nope. After 31 games, Leicester were 3 points behind Hull with a game in hand. No idea what table I saw then, maybe it was a few weeks before. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 At April 3rd last season teams had played 30 games. This year, same date - 32 games. I think. Saw something like that on MOTD2. There's still that shred of hope with me. Beat Southampton and I'll believe. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 He's a legend for even giving me about 10 days of hope, he dared me to dream again, he made me feel something about this club again - and the inevitable when we go down, and the players let him and us the fans down will be that much more painful. Man has some set of stones - he came in here knowing the club (the fans) and how if he had the opportunity to get it right - my god, would be an epic legendary journey - but no, of course not - fully believe all the SHIT and Disgusting decisions made by Mike Ashley and his 2 chairmen, scouts, board, and managers have once again have set us with relegation in the crosshairs. 'preciate that Mike Ashley, you fucking cretin, hope you don't wake up tomorrow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 The problem for Rafa is that he's having to do stuff now that he would have normally done pre-season and not everything will work for him. It's a massive plus that he can see when it's going wrong and does something about it earlier rather than later. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 The problem for Rafa is that he's having to do stuff now that he would have normally done pre-season and not everything will work for him. It's a massive plus that he can see when it's going wrong and does something about it earlier rather than later. Don't get used to it Mick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 There isn't a single system or set of personnel in any area of the team that is proven to be able to function competently for even two consecutive games. There isn't any bizarre team selection going on. Just a bloke trying to reshuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic and only just realising that every single chair has something fundamentally wrong with it. I love that quote (should be in the subject title) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stottie Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 At April 3rd last season teams had played 30 games. This year, same date - 32 games. I think. Saw something like that on MOTD2. There's still that shred of hope with me. Beat Southampton and I'll believe. By the sounds, the dead in the water team we have emulate is Fulham in 2007-8. Fulham were five points from safety with three games remaining and then found themselves 2-0 down at Man City with 20 minutes remaining. However, a Diomansy Kamara double and another from Danny Murphy turned certain defeat into victory. Roy Hodgson’s men then defeated Birmingham and Portsmouth, which enabled them to avoid the drop on goal difference at the expense of Reading. West Ham pulled off an impressive escape the previous year, but they had Carlos Tevez. One problem that Rafa (and McClaren before) faces is that some of our most experienced players are hopeless. Look at Steven Taylor turning his back on Norwich's second. Or Colback, the one left standing with experience of playing left back, giving away stupid fouls in the previous games. Senior players making fundamental errors betrays any logic of playing them for experience, something any incoming coach with selection problems will be tempted to default to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robster Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I'm still trying to get used to the positive Mick I'm really enjoying reading Mick's positive posts. Shame they are going to be so short lived . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 There isn't a single system or set of personnel in any area of the team that is proven to be able to function competently for even two consecutive games. There isn't any bizarre team selection going on. Just a bloke trying to reshuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic and only just realising that every single chair has something fundamentally wrong with it. Couldn't have put that any better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 There isn't a single system or set of personnel in any area of the team that is proven to be able to function competently for even two consecutive games. There isn't any bizarre team selection going on. Just a bloke trying to reshuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic and only just realising that every single chair has something fundamentally wrong with it. Couldn't have put that any better. True, although I do think a team built around Mitro is quite obviously the way to go. Overall the team will never be great but we might just nick a couple of wins. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 There isn't a single system or set of personnel in any area of the team that is proven to be able to function competently for even two consecutive games. There isn't any bizarre team selection going on. Just a bloke trying to reshuffle the deckchairs on the Titanic and only just realising that every single chair has something fundamentally wrong with it. Couldn't have put that any better. True, although I do think a team built around Mitro is quite obviously the way to go. Overall the team will never be great but we might just nick a couple of wins. Starting Mitrovic isn't going to fix that car crash of a defence. Or put some life into that wussy midfield. Or even guarantee a goal in the next few fixtures. So now we are back to the sinking Titanic and shuffling shitty deckchairs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Yeah of course, I'm just saying IMO there is a clear strategy better than the others. It won't fix everything of course. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Easy to say that now Ian (and I agree) but Mitrovic was getting called worse than shite two minutes before his goal in the derby. This is what I mean, it's got to be really hard picking a team from that shower. Even the guaranteed starters are there mainly in the absence of anyone at all you can rely on to put in even a 7/10 performance. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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