Quote from: ktvillan on April 10, 2021, 05:23:55 PM6 home defeats on the bounce and desperately need to turn it round? Players going through a rough patch and not scored for aeons? Fear not, the ever obliging Aston Villa are your ideal next opponents, pants down, bent double, gaping hole, fully lubed, written invitation. Liverpool looked pretty ordinary by their standards and we chucked that away. Two points pissed away at Newcastle in injury time, and another one here. Smith has to take the blame, Davis should have come on ahead of either Barkley or AEG. In fact he should have started. Defence is their weak point, two inexperienced CBs, Alexander Arnold struggling defensively, and Alison out of form. Stupid not to go at them. And if that Cash incident with Kane was a penalty then so was TAA going through Trez. But then Villa don’t get those do they.Do you really have to come out with that sort of homophobic nonsense?
6 home defeats on the bounce and desperately need to turn it round? Players going through a rough patch and not scored for aeons? Fear not, the ever obliging Aston Villa are your ideal next opponents, pants down, bent double, gaping hole, fully lubed, written invitation. Liverpool looked pretty ordinary by their standards and we chucked that away. Two points pissed away at Newcastle in injury time, and another one here. Smith has to take the blame, Davis should have come on ahead of either Barkley or AEG. In fact he should have started. Defence is their weak point, two inexperienced CBs, Alexander Arnold struggling defensively, and Alison out of form. Stupid not to go at them. And if that Cash incident with Kane was a penalty then so was TAA going through Trez. But then Villa don’t get those do they.
DS has said that he wanted to get Barkley on as he can change a game. What player has he been watching over the last month or so? Only thing he changed was to contribute to us losing by being so lazy. Really wouldn’t mind if he never played for us ever again.
Quote from: Skerra on April 10, 2021, 07:47:05 PMDS has said that he wanted to get Barkley on as he can change a game. What player has he been watching over the last month or so? Only thing he changed was to contribute to us losing by being so lazy. Really wouldn’t mind if he never played for us ever again.I was surprised to see Barkley come on first as Smith didn't give him a minute against Fulham when we were chasing it. I think it's been clear for some time that Barkley won't be kept on next season. If ever there was a case for finishing up a loan early, this is it.
Quote from: brontebilly on April 10, 2021, 07:53:13 PMQuote from: Skerra on April 10, 2021, 07:47:05 PMDS has said that he wanted to get Barkley on as he can change a game. What player has he been watching over the last month or so? Only thing he changed was to contribute to us losing by being so lazy. Really wouldn’t mind if he never played for us ever again.I was surprised to see Barkley come on first as Smith didn't give him a minute against Fulham when we were chasing it. I think it's been clear for some time that Barkley won't be kept on next season. If ever there was a case for finishing up a loan early, this is it.it was an awfull decision, he got every sub wrong.
Quote from: ChicagoLion on April 10, 2021, 07:58:16 PMQuote from: brontebilly on April 10, 2021, 07:53:13 PMQuote from: Skerra on April 10, 2021, 07:47:05 PMDS has said that he wanted to get Barkley on as he can change a game. What player has he been watching over the last month or so? Only thing he changed was to contribute to us losing by being so lazy. Really wouldn’t mind if he never played for us ever again.I was surprised to see Barkley come on first as Smith didn't give him a minute against Fulham when we were chasing it. I think it's been clear for some time that Barkley won't be kept on next season. If ever there was a case for finishing up a loan early, this is it.it was an awfull decision, he got every sub wrong.And last week he got every sub right So on average, over the two games, he did ok
Just before they scored the winner , I thought we might sneak a winner . They gave the ball away cheaply two or three times , but we couldn't capitalise on it. Frustrated , but I think we got lucky with the VAR chalked off goal.
Change the game? I wouldn’t trust Barkley to change the channel on my telly.
In my book Smith lost us that game today with his safety first idea of going to Liverpool not to lose Every one knows how poor their centre halfs were in the week against Real Instead of giving Ollie some help and putting pressure on them by playing Davis he stayed to his one and only way of playing and Liverpool had as easy a afternoon as they could only of dreamed of I could not believe it when he brought Barkley on instead of Davies Hopefully the rumours in the week that Purslow wants a bigger name and better manager to take the club on to bigger and better things are true because the run we have had since Christmas is just not good enough and i think Smith has shown in that time he has probably took us as far as he can