I think that everyone overlooks the main problem at our Club at the moment. While everyone wants to discuss whether it's Brendan's fault or the players there is one point that nobody seems to wants to discuss.
That point in question, Colin f**king Pascoe! He is basically Brendan's bi*ch and only has a job here because his lad is courting Brenadan's daughter and he wants to keep him close. Jobs for the f**king boys so to speak.
Week after week i see the same defensive shambles and nothing changes, nothing improves. I can't remember which game i was watching the other week but this incident of which i speak happened during a substitution. I can't remember which player came off, i think it was Balotelli and Lambert was coming on. Pascoe picked up this A4 folder file and started flicking through it, trying to find a formation diagram to relay an instruction to Lambert. By the time the useless c**t had found the diagram after flicking through it like a complete fuckwit, Lambert had already gone onto the pitch. I wanted to laugh but i was so angry at how unprofessional it looked i wanted to stick my fist through the telly and smash his jaw in.
Time after time i have raised the question on this forum, asking what it is that he actually does, yet nobody can seem to answer it. Anybody? I would really like to f**king know.
Last Season our defence was an absolute f**king shambles but the contribution of Sturridge and Suarez towards our goal output sort of masked those inadequacies. When we were scoring for fun it didn't seem such an issue to some, but it absolutely was a major issue. We conceded 50 goals in the League last Season, more than City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Everton, United, Southampton and Crystal Palace, yet we finished second. Quite astonishing really, it kind of puts the contribution of Sturridge and Suarez into perspective.
It seems that people harp on about the Gerrard slip and the Palace capitulation as being the turning points of our Season but they weren't. It was a catalogue of defensive errors, week after week after week that cost us the League. What have we done as a Club to address this problem?, absolutely f**k all.
I look at Flanagan, Manquillo, Lovren, Skrtel, Sakho, Moreno, Enrique etc. and i see top quality defenders, so where is the problem? There is no f**ker there to organise them properly. They are not being drilled correctly and that lack of leadership in training is showing on the pitch.
This Season, with goals drying up, the same recurring mistakes from last Season are having a greater impact. The magnitude has increased dramatically due to our inability to offset these mistakes by alleviating the pressure at the business end of the pitch.
Brendan has got to bite the bullet on this one and accept he needs extra help with the defence. If he wants to keep an eye on Pascoe then fine, keep him on as something else but as an assistant in that dugout, he is completely and utterly out of his depth. I want to see an assistant barking orders, not flicking through a folder looking for drawings of Subbuteo players.
We cannot go on like this, i've gone for a Liverpool win tonight but if we play like we did at QPR then i fear for us, i really do. I cannot believe we have regressed this far in a few months. I never ever envisaged this, i thought we'd kick on from last Season.
Unless things change in the staffing department then i fear for our hopes of European qualification.
Come on Redmen. Snap out of it.
Logged
