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...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Fair enough, I don't disagree really. Personally I would've backed Mitrovic even though he was missing a few chances, but it's easy for a fan to say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neesy111 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 The issue with mitrovic is that we will never stretch teams with him playing due to his complete lack of pace. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cp40 Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 The issue with mitrovic is that we will never stretch teams with him playing due to his complete lack of pace. you would if you had the sense to sign and play a pacey small player off him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRC Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 The problem with Mitrovic is he misses so many easy chances. There is no system that will work with this lot, we can't create chances, and when we do we don't have the quality to finish them. Sick of us getting into a good position, then putting a shit cross in, or we do put a good cross in and we lack the decent finish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ_NUFC Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I wonder how many times McClaren missed a trick by failing to build on momentum and not changing a promising or winning side. West Ham game sticks out to me like a sore thumb, when the whole team actually looked great but we dropped and chopped and changed the side at Watford as if we were playing fucking Barcelona. And he kept doing that throughout his tenure. Momentum, as we've seen with Leicester, is huge for confidence, especially in average to shit players (i.e. our entire team). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 The issue with mitrovic is that we will never stretch teams with him playing due to his complete lack of pace. you would if you had the sense to sign and play a pacey small player off him. Exactly. Some of the fastest attacks in PL history have included a frontman with no pace - us under Bobby being a good example. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest chopey Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I still think our best front two are Perez and Mitrovic so how about Darlow Lacelles, Taylor, Mbemba Janmat, Shelvey, Saviet, Sissoko, Townsend Mitrovic, Perez Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I still think our best front two are Perez and Mitrovic so how about Darlow Lacelles, Taylor, Mbemba Janmat, Shelvey, Saviet, Sissoko, Townsend Mitrovic, Perez Taylor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 I still think our best front two are Perez and Mitrovic so how about Darlow Mbemba Lacelles Colo\Taylor Janmat Tiote Town Shelvey Sissoko Mitrovic Cisse With Townsend in the hole supporting Cisse and Mitro. Perez and Win to come on. Need some thing drastic to shake shit up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
triggs Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Mitrovic and Cisse up front is clearly our best chance of scoring goals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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