I take it this is your first season watching football.That really sounds snidey Chris.
Quote from: kipeye on March 31, 2011, 05:40:57 PMI take it this is your first season watching football.That really sounds snidey Chris.It was meant to, such daft claims deserve having the piss taken out of them.We had one of the best defences in the whole league last season and yet he reckons that neither are good enough to play in the premier league. If he'd said not top 4 quality then it would have been difficult to argue but that just makes no sense.
Let them show they are together on the pitch and fight for each other and don't give in let's all of us the staff,players, and fans stick together unite and i reckon we can get out of this but we must all pull in the same direction.
In my mind he's been far too comfortable, thinking he has the backing of the board, money to spend and no real set target other than to get through the season. I hate the phrase 'transitional season', we should have been looking to win games whilst fixing the problems as we went along, not the other way around.
Quote from: Mark Kelly on March 31, 2011, 04:41:29 PM In my mind he's been far too comfortable, thinking he has the backing of the board, money to spend and no real set target other than to get through the season. I hate the phrase 'transitional season', we should have been looking to win games whilst fixing the problems as we went along, not the other way around. Exactly how I see it Mark.He came in, probably assessed that the squad was set fair for mid table at absolute worst and thought he could coast this season regardless. Start thinking about medium>longterm, paying little heed to short term concerns.Think it was MON himself who -when rubbishing talk of 5 year plans- said most top flight managers are only ever 5 defeats on the bounce away from the sack. Thinking about it, it's pretty accurate. Fergie and Holloway aside, I'm not sure there would be too many others insulated from it. At the very least, they would face plenty of speculation about their future should the above occur.Even someone like Wenger probably wouldn't be insulated from that kind of talk. In some circles, it would be offered as conclusive proof that he was losing his touch.Houllier hasn't actually lost 5 on the bounce, it's true. But in a cut throat business where results are paramount, you really can't afford to drift.Would we be having these type of threads if we'd got at least the point we deserved away to Tottenham and all three that we deserved against Fulham and Man U in quick succession? 'It's OK, the wins will eventually come, ' was the accepted wisdom at the time. But keep on thinking that way and fail to kill of sides when you've had the opportunity and you eventually run out of games, as we are now seeing.
So we stay up this season winning our last eight and go onto win the treble next.You won't back him then?
we are doomed and deservedly so. fans moaned about MON, complained about 6th, moscow , style of play, favourites etc etcwe'd never had it so good at least not since BFR and Saunders.Look at us now?Fickle- not halfA lot of our "fans" are dispassionate arrogant and deluded.UTV
Houllier is not a man-manager as such, I think he ideally likes to distance himself from the players, in fact he's probably more of a co-ordinator than a day in, day out, manager mixing it up with the players.