Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
No I don’t think I’m an expert with a deep understanding of the game, in fact in everything I’m saying is trying to get across the opposite. I’m an ordinary sort of chap when it comes to football, my understanding of the intricacies is pretty superficial. Unlike people here I never even played for a pub side or for the school team.

My issue with you is that not that I think I understand more about the game than you. It’s that with football as with everything else in life you are trapped in a way of thinking “it must be this way and no other way”, even if it leads you to absurd conclusions if it fits the narrative you want to project, anything goes.


We do play a certain system, and as a result we bought in players to compliment that system. You can change things at the drop of a hat if you’re having a Sunday kick about in the park but not when you’re up against fellow millionaire professionals who are drilled till their blue in the face to deal with what you can throw at them.

Managers win by having the best players and are more peripheral to a teams success than at any time in history. If that coach/manager doesn’t have the players he needs available to them, a mid match rethink in style is about as helpful as pissing off a cliff face on a windy day in Cleethorpes
Total bullshit mate. Your MO, create the argument for somebody then knock it down with a resigned sigh. I've said we need to mix things up, not do everything one way as you are pretending is my argument. Yeah, these are multimillionaire professionals but you're the one claiming they can't play a long ball and can't trap a ball. Overpaid then? Total clear out and get some players in from Newcastle or Forest or Brentford or Fulham? They all seem to be able to move the ball up the pitch at a decent pace.