Match Reaction - Dortmund

[Letters]

Maybe not, but we lost the tie, even though we won the game we still went out and IMO that's a negative end not a positive one and this after losing to Spurs.

No-one seriously expected us to progress even before the first leg, after the first leg result we were as good as out and I won't deny that probably had some influence on our result there. We were able to play with no pressure, Bayern may have taken their eye off the ball a bit and we gave them a real fright.

And yes, we went out and that's a negative. But the result on the night was exceptional and clearly gave the players a much needed shot in the arm. We didn't lose another game after that last season, P10 W8 D2 L0. I don't believe we'd have gone on that run had we not got that result away at Bayern. And yes, we scraped through some of those games and while there was an element of luck here and there you don't go on that sort of run by luck alone.

No game can be seen in isolation, neither should be any season - you don't start with a complete new set of players, each season builds on the last. You could see after the Newcastle game what CL qualification meant to the players - they weren't celebrating 4th place, they were celebrating what it meant. And there's no way we'd have signed Özil had we been playing in the Europa League. It's all linked.

I vaguely agree that we shouldn't put too much emphasis on that one result but it certainly wasn't meaningless.

[Letters]

Ozim, there is no point arguing the toss with with these chaps, they can go on talking in circles far longer than you can. What is anybody's point arguing that we were great against Bayern whence lost the tie. It was the same B.S. when we beat Milan in Milan. WE LOST THE BLOODY TIE.!!
There is no glory in losing. It reminds me of the joke the Scots like to make about how they were the true World Champs because they were the 1st team to beat England after 1966. The only difference is that the Scots know it's a joke. Some however on GW strut about on the web saying how brilliant we actually are.
The only truth is that it is only on the pages of GW that such arguments can be made. I dare any of these Muppets to go on any public forum or in the midst of other fans and make such puerile arguments.
We haven't won anything yet. We haven't won the CL in 17 attempts. This loss may be a blimp, but I see no reason to be making any vainglorious pronouncements on our prospects. The reason we have beenknocked out of the 16 round these last few seasons is that we always come second in the group. 2nd place e will inevitably mean meeting Barca or Real or Bayern et al. We needed to get a draw at worst.
It was a bad result , and we have not yet proved we are a great team yet.

You've spent most of that post completely misrepresenting everyone's views and then arguing against things people haven't said.

Well done you.

[Globalgunner]

You actually think whatever you say really means something. It doesn't

[Syn]

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You meaningless meanie. Go back to your cave.

[Xhaka Can’t]

You actually think whatever you say really means something. It doesn't

[Letters]

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You meaningless meanie. Go back to your cave.

But it's cold in there

[Munchies]

But it's cold in there

[LDG]

Yes and as I've explained many times now there's a good reason for that, when we win there's barely any debate and much less posting, you post your opinion on a player and the performance and that's pretty much it, noone questions it, noone discusses it it's all pretty mundane, the reason I post more when we lose is that people like you pick up on my posts and reply to them thus prompting a response from me and so on. There are points to discuss and that are disagreed on, which is rarely the case when we win I'm a WUM.

[Özim]

[LDG]

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