TimzRFudz
Well-Known Member
The specifics of today are being done to death in other threads. However like SDF and a few others I'm more interested in the bigger picture now. For avoidance of doubt, I believe that we have the correct manager in place.
However, I'm confused as to what we're trying to do this season. If we have decided to chuck some money at it, smelled blood (and I think we all did in the first half of the season) and tried to go for it this year then the loans, the short-termism stuff I can sort of understand.
If the plan was to gut out the squad from last season, rebuild and develop a side not just capable of nicking a title off of the filth to appease those shitting the bed about the 10IAR crap but of being competitive for the next two or three years then we're making an arse of it.
Today we were dished up piss poor football and were lucky to get away with a 0-0 against a shite team. Grinding out 1-0s will be acceptable to me and I guess many others if we win the league this year. But that looks gone now. Instead we're watching substandard football, indulging guys like Davis and Defoe, developing Worrall who will be fucking off back to Forest whilst our own CB sits on his arse, and so on.
I'm starting to worry about what sort of vision we actually have for Gerrard's tenure. We're almost 1 season into his 4 year contract. Yes we are healthier on and off the pitch than we were a year ago. But we seem incapable of putting together a string of consistent performances. When one player has an off day then the finger points at that player. When a whole team regularly has off days the fingers start to point elsewhere. And come the summer we will still need major surgery, and indeed we can probably already face up to losing Davis, Defoe, Kent, Worrall, Coulibally and probably Morelos. That's a lot of shirts needing filled. I worry about where we're heading. There have been too many nights like tonight to view them as blips any more.
However, I'm confused as to what we're trying to do this season. If we have decided to chuck some money at it, smelled blood (and I think we all did in the first half of the season) and tried to go for it this year then the loans, the short-termism stuff I can sort of understand.
If the plan was to gut out the squad from last season, rebuild and develop a side not just capable of nicking a title off of the filth to appease those shitting the bed about the 10IAR crap but of being competitive for the next two or three years then we're making an arse of it.
Today we were dished up piss poor football and were lucky to get away with a 0-0 against a shite team. Grinding out 1-0s will be acceptable to me and I guess many others if we win the league this year. But that looks gone now. Instead we're watching substandard football, indulging guys like Davis and Defoe, developing Worrall who will be fucking off back to Forest whilst our own CB sits on his arse, and so on.
I'm starting to worry about what sort of vision we actually have for Gerrard's tenure. We're almost 1 season into his 4 year contract. Yes we are healthier on and off the pitch than we were a year ago. But we seem incapable of putting together a string of consistent performances. When one player has an off day then the finger points at that player. When a whole team regularly has off days the fingers start to point elsewhere. And come the summer we will still need major surgery, and indeed we can probably already face up to losing Davis, Defoe, Kent, Worrall, Coulibally and probably Morelos. That's a lot of shirts needing filled. I worry about where we're heading. There have been too many nights like tonight to view them as blips any more.
