Newmarket wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 12:09 pm
palerider wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:50 am
This. Although I don't agree with all of your list.
Should we scrape just enough to stay up, what then next season ?
No Rice, who was magnificent yesterday, and the dwarf would still maintain faith in McDullard. And the whole dreary cycle starts again.
Agreed my friend. Defensive brain farts being our undoing yet again yesterday.
It’s been said that it’s lack of goals that have been a problem this season but for a manager that apparently prides himself on safety first risk averse defensive football, his defensive recruitment and defensive team selections has been fucking dire .
Johnson yesterday instead of Kehrer and our best and only pacy centre back , Nathan , in the centre instead of the slow arthritic looking Ogbonna, and their goal yesterday may never have happened.
The whole defensive shitshow was , however , a collection of what ifs .
What if the referee had noticed Antonio being wrestled to the ground by a Newcastle player ?
What if Paqueta had managed to control the loose ball ?
What if Flapianski had took his time and rolled the goal kick out to a defender to play it out from the back instead of quickly hoofing the goal kick to half way making it a 50/50 midfield tussle in the first place ?
And don’t get me started on the comedy of errors that led to the disallowed goal immediately prior to it .
Overall I thought we were the better team once we went behind but once again isolated defensive errors and the manky Scot’s cunts safety first substitutions respecting the point cost us .
We should have won .
There are four scenarios awaiting us at the end of the season Tim.
1) We stay up and there's a complete overhaul. New manager and an inventive re-think to drag us into the 21st century.
2) We go down and the same. A la Burnley if you will.
3) We stay up and fuck all changes. McDullard stays and it's SSDD.
4) We go down and fuck all changes. The dwarf says 'If I had to pick a man to take us back up.....etc etc etc.....
Number one would be nice, number two acceptable in my view. I don't go along with the idea that relegation would be the death knell and we'd be doomed to sail the seas of oblivion like the Flying Dutchman for eternity. I for one would maybe even buy a season ticket, the first time ever as long as they were reasonably priced. A new owner would be a bonus but I doubt that will happen. With number one it might.
And it would get me out of the house more to drink shit lager out of a plastic glass on a canal.
As long as it isn't 3 or 4. Or, God forbid, a 5 or 6 involving some cunt like Steve Bruce.
Fuck that.