Know it was a sh*t performance but to be writing off Roy at THIS STAGE, I dunno. It's bad blood running over from last year, or ridiculous expectations or God knows what. We need to get over that -- and get behind Roy!! I'd have gone for Phil Thompson, but when Roy was chosen thought he might be able to unify the players and steady the ship. And he may yet, but he needs to be given more time. It's possible he might not be able to sort it out - in which case we may need to look at things again. But unless we're relegation candidates, should we do anything other than give him a full season ? I'd be willing to give him the full season and a decent crack. We've:
a new coach
new backroom staff
some players moved on
new players in
it's just not realistic to think we can be in the top4 after 5 or 6 games IMO. Be nice to be playing better, sure, but we played sh*t ALL last season too remember.
On the game itself, surprised at the reaction Johnson is getting. He wasn't great, but neither were a load of guys. Poulsen and Lucas are now a toss up, neither quite good enough. Meireles needs to grow some balls and move into the center. Think he might have the ability but he needs to get more involved. He's certainly not going to do it on the wing.
Someone mentioned it already, I was really surprised at SG running past Torres after goal no.2. Somethings gone on there, not sure what. But at least SG is chipping in, I think Torres can do alot more, even considering the service to him is not what it might be. Hope they can kiss and make up.
Kuyt is just back from a layoff too, so will be a bit rusty. Was surprised he started actually.
And agree with what people are saying, why do we only start playing when fighting to get back level !?!? Roy, that's your dept mate.
And last, just on taking chances - apart from Kuty, Torres and SG were the F**k are our goals going to come from. We NEED some of the others to F***ing chip in. Cole, Meireles, Agger - christ almighty. And how did Agger miss that chance from 4 yards, dead center of goal. You can guarantee if that was Utd, the jammi fuckers would've nicked it. Plenty of teams out there not playing well but nicking games - unfortunately we're not even doing that at the moment though.
Roll on Blackpool. They're in for a stompin surely