Ronaldo Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 It doesn't matter if you are the greatest tactician the world has ever seen, there's not much you can do with defenders as godawful shite as that. Sunderland and Norwich both invested in a big solid defender, we didn't. Now we stand there watching as shit teams rifle shots in from daft angles. Fair enough, but don't start Steven fucking Taylor. No excuse for that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh74 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Even if we stayed up he would have too much work to do on this squad. I hope he gets a good club in Spain in the summer. Valencia jobs available. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 442 is a dead formation. We'll be even more rotten in midfield. The team that's top of the league argue differently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintdempsey Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Just because he's a class manager doesn't make him excempt from criticism. Selection today was poor, Taylor over Lascelles which in turn meant Mbemba had to play on the wrong side and Cissé over Mitrovic were the wrong calls IMO. And Sissoko should probably have started at left back after doing well there in his brief spell vs. Sunderland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 It doesn't matter if you are the greatest tactician the world has ever seen, there's not much you can do with defenders as godawful shite as that. Sunderland and Norwich both invested in a big solid defender, we didn't. Now we stand there watching as shit teams rifle shots in from daft angles. Fair enough, but don't start Steven fucking Taylor. No excuse for that. Aye that was a monumental howler like. That's the problem with hiring managers with 10 games to go, they spend the first 6 games finding out how shit the players are. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Bye Rafa. It was a beautiful pipe dream while it lasted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Carries no responsibility for this clusterfuck at all. He can only work with this set of wankers so much but ultimately poor defensive play and individual errors undo any good he does on the training ground. Always had the 'too little too late' whiff of it when he was appointed and that's exactly what's happened. Hard to summon up any emotion right now. Just don't care any more, fuck them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc4eva Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Should have been changed by Christmas but we knew that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JH Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 We are sinking too deep for him to be able to pull us out. He'll get blamed by some idiots for us going down and will probably walk away as a result, which I wouldn't blame him for. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufc4eva Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Carries no responsibility for this clusterfuck at all. He can only work with this set of w*****s so much but ultimately poor defensive play and individual errors undo any good he does on the training ground. Always had the 'too little too late' whiff of it when he was appointed and that's exactly what's happened. Hard to summon up any emotion right now. Just don't care any more, f*** them. He has no footballers to use and they are all thick as fuck. Zero intelligence shown in our games. Wijnaldum, Shelvey and Tiote did fuck all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 His starting selection cost us today. Terrible. If it was SMc he'd be getting slated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ketsbaia Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Rafa can't do anything about this. Our shitness overpowers his qualities. I disagreed with the starting 11 but I think any combo would've been shit. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 That's bound to happen though. New managers need time to assess the squad. I think Wijnaldum and Sissoko have started every game this season. At least one needs dropping. Just to try something else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
olliemort Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Picking Taylor ahead of lascelles why ? That's a big part of what cost us today Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanshithispantz Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 I think we might have gotten something if we'd started Lascelles tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gallowgate Toon Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 His starting selection cost us today. Terrible. If it was SMc he'd be getting slated. Considering there were 2 weeks of prep, it was pretty bad. The set up just seemed awful. Cisse couldn't/can't hold the ball up, Sissoko has no clue as a LW, Wijnaldum started OK and then did his usual disappearing shit. Townsend took a while to get into it. I couldn't see a cohesive plan to start. Again, his subs and Plans B/C seemed much better. Think he might be putting too much faith in players being badly managed, tbh. He'll have analysed us to death and know our weaknesses but might think they performed poorly for other reasons. Simple fact is, too many of them are either shit, gutless or down-right thick. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 His starting selection cost us today. Terrible. If it was SMc he'd be getting slated. I'm starting to think McClaren was shown up for being much worse than he is. It's all about the players on the pitch, and bar Mitrovic there's nobody showing any fight. What a set of cretins. Carr has unearthed some real gems like. He needs his p45 along with thumb. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 He starts with Tiote and Cisse. Both of whom have wanted away for three years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkie Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Was a lost cause by the time he got here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 There's a Quantum Leap episode where Sam goes back in time and makes him get the job at Christmas. If Sam doesn't do it there'll be thousands of Newcastle fans starting every sentence with 'If we'd stayed up and kept Rafa...' for the next 20 years. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh74 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Must admit like i thought he would muster at least half a performance out of these arseholes. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Ahh well, gonna be interesting to see if he stays or not, until the day after the last game when he confirms he's gone and the club say absolutely nothing about it and then Sherwood pops up in July. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Must admit like i thought he would muster at least half a performance out of these arseholes. I wanted to believe it, but we have a shit defence and no reliable goal scorers. That's not going to be fixed by a new manager no matter who he is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minhosa Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Of course he won't stay man The dickheads in charge wouldn't pay him the money for one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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