raylucker 0 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Bad bad match last night. I think the problem is on the Rafa. He cant see that Oscar is so tired, I thought subtitution is needed last night. All I can say is "RAFA OUT!" IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 the point is not if RDM was an average manager or a world class manager... the point was, did he work for chelsea? and the answer for me will always be YES.he was not given a proper chance and was sacked at the first sight of a slump. u cant sack a manager for 8 bad matches which were 2 against united, 2 against shakhtar, i against juve , i against pool and away games to swansea and west brom both of whom were playing good at that moment.RDM dont deserve the sack at that point and i am shocked that rafa hasnt got sacked at this point.Thats the thing..what your getting isnt always better which is true in this case!Heck we were bad but least we could hold a lead pretty well! And United was dodgy anyway...we lost to Swansea again afters and drew twice against them so aint done better there.If you can sack a manager for that run why the hell are we clinging onto Rafa?!We drew to Brentford for christ sake and that wasnt easy!No disrespect to them but that should've been a simpleish game but no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 Oh goody. Spurs won against West Brom. Only 1 point ahead of them now. 4pts and 5pts clear of Everton and Arsenal respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Oh yay! Mind the bloody gap! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santiago. 1,500 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Oh goody. Spurs won against West Brom. Only 1 point ahead of them now. 4pts and 5pts clear of Everton and Arsenal respectively. That season once more. Where in the beginning, we were wondering if we can hold the 5 point lead on the Manchester Clubs to the title, now wondering if we manage to not fuck it up and stay in the top 4. Only this time, there is no Champions League to save our arses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laylabelle 9,535 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 That season once more. Where in the beginning, we were wondering if we can hold the 5 point lead on the Manchester Clubs to the title, now wondering if we manage to not fuck it up and stay in the top 4. Only this time, there is no Champions League to save our arses. Glad we're out the Champs League we cant beat QPR for christ sake....we nearly made it 7 point gap then all went wrong against Man U Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted February 3, 2013 Author Share Posted February 3, 2013 That season once more. Where in the beginning, we were wondering if we can hold the 5 point lead on the Manchester Clubs to the title, now wondering if we manage to not fuck it up and stay in the top 4. Only this time, there is no Champions League to save our arses. We are in that period again desperately hoping for the other teams to drop points because of our own failure. Has happened too often in recent times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Santiago. 1,500 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Like I stated, this team is no where near ready to become champions. Deserve fuck allWeak mentality, not living up to their prices, playing as individuals, and to top it off, they are playing for a manager they don't understand and the fans despise. A recipe for disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mak 4,459 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Poor performance. Even when we were 2-1 up, I had no confidence at all and by the FT whistle, I wasn't even angry. I just accept it now.Newcastle's second just seemed to sum up the team at the moment, mistakes everywhere; Torres gives the ball away, JT does a Luiz impersonation and Cech palms it to Sissoko. Edit: Also, Newcastle fans are the biggest bunch of ungrateful scum in the league. Fair enough, boo Ba, get it our of your systems or whatever makes you feel better; but booing him when he's legitimately injured after receiving a boot to the face? When he's clearly bleeding profusely?They wouldn't even have a season to save if it wasn't for Ba. Half the players they signed wouldn't have came to a team rock bottom of the league. Scumbags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,571 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stingray 9,441 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 I cannot help but think players pick up things that are unsaid. Even the old guard. Our team can play, but it's in the head stuff isn't computng anymore. And I can relate to it. Whe you thin of it, it is quite simple! Suppose you are all a talented bunch of players. Some new and talented with a lot to prove and some older with a pedigree that just got a CL title attached to it. In comes a transition year in which you start to feel something is wrong or strange. We buy a LOT of youngsters and we seem to loan out even more. No matter how thin our squad gets, we keep stalling very talented guys elsewhere to get experience (think Chalobah, Courtois, Lukaku, KDB, Josh, Piazon). Some of the older ones get loaned out to (Essien) or sold (Meireles), maybe bexause in the long run they can gives us nothing extra anymore in the eyes of our board. All this only makes sense if this is a very deliberate strategic choice of our board. But what decision? Well, Let's do the best we can with the old guard (in the process we don't disappoint our fans too much), we buy some real young hot shots designed for greatness because we would simply miss out on them otherwise (Oscar, Hazard). We also decide to play our failing 50 m striker till he at least is worth some values for money when we sell him again. We get all our prospects in teams where they pick up the experience they need (like planting seeds everywhere - in business this is a sure and guaranteed wa to be able to harvest in a very insecure environment. Salespeople call this 'filling your pipeline'). Then we wait patiently, confident we will get a CL place and next year when we get rid of Lampard, JT and all those other oldies (except Cech - but we will replace shitty Turnbull and qhilarious with a hot new star on the firmament Courtois). During the season, we keep RDM aboard - perhaps waiting for Pep in the year to come. Suddenly we see our performances (CL especially) stutter a little and our board panicks. We sack RDM because our entire strategy stands or falls with a CL place (remember FFP is coming up)Enter a manager - though hated - with a pedigree. One of the few or maybe the only ne that was available at the time. Result: a team void of direction. Too thin, in some areas too unexperienced (we depend on Mata who joined last year, Hazard and Oscar - both u22 players even though they do a great job considering) Result: a team that is now in danger of sliding away from a CL spot. Why else have we only bought BA. Did the oard think this would be just enough to get us that number 4 spot after all? Now everything is gong downhill a bit, a slippery slope we don't seem to be able to get out of and Rafa is left with nothing. No new players, no Charisma, no leadership, no fan support and .... If my analyses is correct: no board support since the last couple of matches. Ergo: what happened this season so far: we overplayed our hand. Bluffed a little too hard and hoped for he best. Unfortunatley that's when Murphy (the guy from the law, you know) came along. And now we are here ..... and there is only one thing left to do. Buckle up and bite the bullet. Maybe JT comes along as a player manager or Eddie even -just for the psychological effect! We will have to sit this year out and NOT forget our team like our board see's to have done a bit by playing high stakes with them. After the CL win, they actually deserved much better 'Nough said. Ps! Sorry for the typos. Frantically writing on ipad is hell :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnkelDal 27 Posted February 3, 2013 Share Posted February 3, 2013 2 beautiful goals that meant nothing This was a painful match Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidator 5,176 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Were you there bro?unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rmpr 8,977 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 unfortunately.You have no idea how I envy you... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liquidator 5,176 Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 You have no idea how I envy you...the only good thing about the day was that me and my friends were walking to the ground and there was a really small dog barking at us. One of my friends who was drunk shouted at it 'You want a fight? I could drop kick you over your own fucking house!' and he got a really dirty look from the dogs owner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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