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If anyone is on Stratford platform 6 at 6:49pm-ish and you see train 104 heading to Hainault via Newbury Park that'll be me.
I was surprised to see that in fact we are only 3 points behind 7th and actually 5 points from 18th, so closer to the top where we want to be than from the bottom where we don't want to be.
We are also currently above Spurs in the league...so yeah all doom and gloom, lets sack the manager, the players are all rubbish, next season we are going to be in the championship and all that...
I’d like to have a rant at sully but he has done his part and kept quiet and not meddled - even when he was not keen on giving Wilshere a long contract.
If you watched today’s game you’d be or should be disgusted at the gutless clueless display we watched for about 70 minutes. Newcastle, who’d score once in their last six games should have been at least 5-0 up at half time.
Something is badly wrong at the club if they go into game after game showing no real desire to impose themselves.
There are currently a few teams below us but I’d be willing to bet few playing worse than us.
my point is, if we our performances are so diabolical that we need to look at getting rid of our manager or people talking about relegation then we should be a lot lower in the league, we are not.
We are closer to 7th than we are 18th, which means that regardless of individual performances at the moment we aren't actually as bad as everyone is making out.
We haven't gone into game after game showing no real desire, if we had, we would be a lot lower than we are. That's my point.
I have said it for a long time and it is why I don’t post very often. It doesn't matter who is in charge or what players we bring in to the club . Nothing ever changes regarding long term performance or attitude at the club . We win occasionally and look like we might improve at times but on the whole season after season the attitude of the players and performance of the team in most games is rubbish. We lose to poor sides and have no real backbone in the side . We have no leader/captain of any quality on the pitch or off it so on the whole we are rudderless. Pellegrini has done nothing for this club and we are now performing terribly again as a side.
Something is badly wrong at this club but it has been like it for years now.
I admit I never wanted Pelle, NEVER, I still don't, but I do support him while he is here, He sadly though does not inspire me at all, and it seems like at the moment he has the same effect on our players.
You would have only needed to watch the last games to understand how bad we have played & with the table so close I feel that YES we will be looking down the table rather than up it, but if you feel good, fair play, we sadly all don't share your view.
Sound familiar. The same words spoken by someone at the club after every game.
1. Just how bad must David Martin be
2. When will Nathan Holland get a bit of a run in the first team
The reason I don’t want Pelle to be sacked right now is that we’d end up with a Moyes or Allardyce stop gap, IMO, which will set us back with the style of play Pelle has at least laid the foundations for.
I’d swap Pelle for Benitez tonight, though, if that were possible. And god, how I wish we’d gone for Rodgers when he was still at Celtic.
2. Under Pellegrini, I suspect never. I mean, the U23s, in particular Holland, Scully, Kemp and Powell, have been in great form. Yes, as Grey pointed out, they're playing 2nd tier football, but honestly, what harm can it do to give them some time. The first team are under-performing, so why not give them a chance? But Pellegrini seems to favour the senior pros, even though to a man they're not doing enough.
And this makes a mockery of the claim (by several players this season) that we have two quality players in each position. I mean, that's demonstrably untrue. Roberto, Cresswell, Zabaleta, Sanchez and Ajeti are not, IMO, good enough for the Premier League. It really feels like this is a party line being towed.
I don't think switching manager will solve the issue but i do think Pellegrini's time maybe coming to an end if we slip into the bottom 3 come the Southampton game, i think it will be curtains for him. Its unfortunate that he was building a nice team but has being let down by a combination of poor performances from players and his own tactical nous to not change tactics. He threw on 2 subs at half time which fair play to him for making the call, but it was literally bodies being thrown on with zero instruction and to do the same thing that happened in the first half.
I said it at the Palace game and i say it again now, he needs to go to a Diamond formation with 2 up top. Haller needs a partner, perhaps Yarmelenko ? perhaps Anderson ? either way this 4-3-3 variation is getting us consistently battered regardless of personnel on the pitch.
He's not doing too badly for an inexperienced manager.
I also think a younger keeper next summer with the view to succeeding Fabianski is a priority. We need to spend some money on an up & coming keeper, or bring Trott onto the bench.
If he isn't good enough to play now we might as well cancel his contract. I think Roberto is our worst signing for a long time, I think. The only saves he makes are quick reactions to shots taken from near him.
The team performance was all too pedestrian. There was no quick passing in the Leicester, Liverpool Chelsea, Man City mode. We get to the half way mark and then pass back and sideways which gives the other teams to get bodies behind the ball. There are few, if any, penetrating passes and it is all too predictable. At this rate, the team would struggle and would become a relegation candidate. Today, a team with a killer instinct would have easily scored 6 or 7 against us. Can Pellgerini change anything? He went to China for a good reason and may be has passed his best.
We can't continue with Roberto or Zabaleta. The defence today was shambles, Why has Ogbonna been dropped? As I keep saying there was no one on the bench who could come on and change the game. Give some of the reserves a chance.
No goalkeeper.