The Prophet Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Considering how excited I was for the game, the pure apathy being felt today is weird. I've been consuming much less football recently, with the cavet I'd watch these games, so I've been anticipating them for a while. We get battered and no anger, no disappointment, nothing. Just a bit fed up. Copium perhaps. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madras Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) I really think some would have rather we'd got beat 2-0 in both legs and been dominated because 2-0 doesnt sound as bad. Edited March 19 by madras Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
J7 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) Aston Villa getting howked with Paul Lambert as manager while circling the plug hole wasn’t one of the comparisons I was expecting as a defence of last nights tactical disaster tbh. Edited March 19 by J7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Duper Branko Strupar Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 21 minutes ago, J7 said: It’s hugely damaging. Barely anyone outside of our fanbase will remember 6-1 at Orient or the odd horrendous result on the road to relegation. For where we want to go, or even to stand still, last night was a disaster. We embarrassed ourselves at the highest level and potential signings saw a tactically inept second half performance, a collapse akin to Qarabag’s and a manager deciding to start Burn and Trippier. Burn chasing Lewandowski around in the other half was ridiculous. That said, it’s probably more damaging for the manager than the club as a whole who can change him if needed. Fuck me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Interpolic Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Been quite at peace with it all and looking forward to Sunday. Stupid I know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbydazzla Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) 37 minutes ago, The Prophet said: Considering how excited I was for the game, the pure apathy being felt today is weird. I've been consuming much less football recently, with the cavet I'd watch these games, so I've been anticipating them for a while. We get battered and no anger, no disappointment, nothing. Just a bit fed up. Copium perhaps. The scourge of modern football possibly. Difficult to feel an emotional connection to something that has become so utterly vapid. Edited March 19 by bobbydazzla Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 We got dicked in the second half of the second leg, it happens. Fair play they clicked and ran the score up a bit but there's no goal difference in the cups, it's not nice to ship 7 but it's not like it's a regular thing, it happens once a decade. They won, we're out we all move on, it's now history Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turnbull2000 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) 10 hours ago, Wullie said: It's also impossible to separate from the context of what happened to the other PL teams who got relative thrashings. There's very clear evidence that the combination of the schedule and the strength of the other PL teams is contributing to the players being exhausted by March and relatively fresh elite players being able not just to beat them but hammer them. More broadly, I bet there's a little bit of panic at Premier League HQ going forward. It's not good for the brand if all their supposedly amazing teams are knackered in spring but that's what the money has now done to the league, PSG and Barca can take it easy most weeks beating Metz and Elche 3-0 while Man City are being given a real game by Brentford/Wolves/Fulham. They'll be concerned about City, Spurs and Chelsea this season, but us, no. Think they'd rather we (and Villa) just didn't qualify, as the big names are better for the product and keeping, global non-legacy fans happy. Edited March 19 by Turnbull2000 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 It was gutting in the moment, but I'm OK with it now. I'd have liked to have gone further in the competition, obviously, but now I'm excited to see us unshackled after the international break. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danh1 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 Had a hell on earth journey home. Flight to Manchester landed in Leeds, instead of letting us off the made us sit for nearly 2 hours at Leeds before then going to Manchester. Luckily made the train and get home at 1:07am instead of 9pm. Great trip, great first half, great city. Was gutting to see us like that second half but I’m over it. Into these Mackem cunts Sunday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) 1 hour ago, Fenham Mag said: Liverpool 7–0 Manchester United Manchester United 2–8 Arsenal Chelsea 8–0 Aston Villa Brazil 1–7 Germany Barcelona 2–8 Bayern Munich All within the last 10–15 years. Big teams get battered sometimes, it happens. One heavy defeat doesn’t define a club or cause lasting damage. in relation to an earlier arguement every one of those was embarrassing to the losing side was it not? Hardly anybody, I'm certainly not, is going after manager, players, club - just argueing embarrassment is a legitimate response Getting beat 6-2 off Man United was embarrassing under Sir Bobby, being embarrassed doesn't mean you want the manager, players and regime out. Edited March 19 by Wolfcastle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 May sound weird but I'd take the way we went out any day of the week compared to being 2-0 up after the first leg and losing 3-0 in the second, or even being one goal up at half time then losing the second half by 2 goals. They turned on the style for 30 mins last night, we got docked by a very very good attacking team. It happens Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfcastle Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) 1 hour ago, magorific said: Man City finished 10th in the first full season under Abu Dhabi control - one place lower than they did with the former owners, having spent more in two transfer windows than all other Premier League clubs combined. I’d say THAT was embarrassing. But it didn’t seem to matter, “superclub”-wise. Being able to offer players and clubs any amount of money they wanted was a slight factor in that. Edited March 19 by Wolfcastle Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Wolfcastle said: in relation to an earlier arguement every one of those was embarrassing to the losing side was it not? Hardly anybody, I'm certainly not, is going after manager, players, club - just argueing embarrassment is a legitimate response Getting beat 6-2 off Man United was embarrassing under Sir Bobby, being embarrassed doesn't mean you want the manager, players and regime out. I agree, it’s an embarrassing scoreline, thankfully I do not care one jot what other fans think of us to be honest. What I was arguing is that it’s not as damaging as being made out, it’s not going to make a player sit and think ‘hmm they got beat off Barca 7-2, I don’t think I’ll sign for them’, similarly they’ll not take, in isolation, our fantastic performances against Barca at home and PSG away when making such decisions. Edited March 19 by Fenham Mag Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nucasol Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Against better judgment I lasted 3 minutes of the True Faith post match podcast. Embarrassing by them, some of the entitlement man, grim that these are our public mouthpieces. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The College Dropout Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 https://x.com/fathallimo/status/2034758630470258914?s=46 ‘we were awful defensively’ There was a lot of top play from Barca. And the tactical approach was high risk. Burn on Yamal with half the pitch behind him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 10 hours ago, Fenham Mag said: Manchester United 2–8 Arsenal Oi. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fenham Mag Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 16 minutes ago, Froggy said: Oi. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Froggy Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 That 8-2 was one of the best days of my life. Ashley Young pearlers. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gola Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Didn't expect anything before the game so wasn't too bothered that we lost. Just sad it was by 7 ffs. We move on though. Good end to the season, some new signings in the summer and who knows what can happen next year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 1 hour ago, Nucasol said: Against better judgment I lasted 3 minutes of the True Faith post match podcast. Embarrassing by them, some of the entitlement man, grim that these are our public mouthpieces. Saw a Reddit thread about it but no way I’m listening myself. Never listen after any kind of negative result. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattoon Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 I tend to agree, don't care what anyone else thinks about what happened, maybe embarrassing is the wrong word I used, more gutting that we took it that far only to watch it all get flushed in 20 minutes of madness. As for the clubs/managers/players status, no one will remember this in a years time, or when we get back in the CL and dish out a thrashing of our own, football is very short term, recency bias. Everyone will have forgotten about it by the time the international break is over, and as for players looking to make a move in the summer, all they care about is how much they're going to get paid and the ones who move for sporting endeavor will think they're good enough to improve us and prevent that from happening again. It's not as deep as the spiral is taking you guys. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geordie_once_removed Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 I was far more annoyed at drawing Man City away in the FA Cup then watching the customary loss by 2 goals as I felt we had a real chance of winning that this year. The Champions League is fun, but not something I get worked up about provided you get past the group stage and so get that extra money. Because that's what football is all about these days right. Lovely, lovely money 🤑 🤑 🤑 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Maximin Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 (edited) We were always going to lose against that insanely good side, even at 2-2 on the stroke of HT. Don’t blame Howe at all for going for it and I’m proud of how well we did for 3/4 of the tie. It’s not really an issue people getting annoyed at how it fell apart though. There was some dreadful defending for the goals and ultimately despite being so good for most of the tie, a thrashing is a thrashing and people naturally get pissed off watching capitulations like that. It’s just how emotions work. We move on though. Edited March 20 by St. Maximin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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