Had a similar thread about SG. Now it's Hendo.
While Hendo is not in the same league as SG, he's the captain of the club right now, as was SG when his thread was in full flow.
WHY is it that we find fault, pick at and constantly critisise guys who are mainstays, is beyond me.
He's not perfect, no doubt, but he has qualities that have made him captain, and England captain.
Even in games where he plays well, people critise - so tbh can't take them seriously when he doesn't.
Would people not be more inclined to start a 'We need to talk about why Jürgen plays Hendo..' thread?
After all, he's the one who has stuck by Hendo and retains him as captain these last years.
If Hendo's not up to it, the manager should be the one to do something about it, no?
Yesterday tbh I would've subbed off Hendo. Not because he was playing 'badly' per se, he was just playing the way he always does.
BUT in a game against bus parkers, we need more impetus, pace, desire to get the ball forward, and QUICKLY.
And we play against bus parkers a lot these day.
But AGAIN, Jürgen decided to take off our attacking 3 and replace them (though late with the changes, again). Leave Hendo/Gini/Can on.
And we got worse if anything, apart from AOC who had some decent runs.
Why not take off Hendo (or Can), leave Coutinho on? Made f**k all sense to me.
But hey, let's talk about Hendo..
He's not SG, he's not got the same attacking flair.
He is though good in front of goal, but he's played almost between the CBs for so long now, he seems to have lost that knack.
Why is he playing so deep? Is he doing it against Jurgens wishes? Doubt it.
We have bigger problems than Hendo, or any single player. Natter away about him all you like.
But we need to find a plan f**king A, not B, against the bus parkers with the players we HAVE right now.
Conte won a title with Victor f**king Moses playing regularly!?! What a job the Italian did last season.
Think part of the reason the match thread was so quiet yest is people are getting worn down watching the same game over and over and over again.
For me tho, rather than start picking on individual players, we need to look at why more and more teams are deciding to rock up and play that way against us.
And that's without going round in circles about whether we should sign an out and out striker, a GK, better quality in defense (forget yest, next time we ship stupid goals, we'll be back bemoaning them yet again), etc
Hendo is not perfect, but imho we have far bigger fish to fry.
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