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Adel is guilty. He failed to win the match single handed. He tried some skills which didn't come off. That's the problem with players like him. Show-boater. Not a team player. Its his fault we let in a goal because he lost the ball in the opposition team's penalty area. Take him off. Bring on Clarke - boy, there's a player who will turn a game. Watford must have been bricking it when he came on in place of Tabs. To quote that great sage who I have just had the pleasure of listening to on the TV replay tonight: "QPR looked much better organised when Clarke came on for Taraabt."
And in that one sentence it struck me that this is precisely why English football is so crap. And I'm afraid tonight I have to include Warnock in that (I fully accept he was brave to take the decision to bring in Adel and give him so much scope). But why all the negativity about Adel? OK, so he wasn't on song tonight, but he isn't going to be every week. Corporal Mackie hasn't done anything much for three months but he is never taken off because he is such a good honest toiler (albeit always about thirty feet away from the action - even for his knock down that led to our goal it clealry hit him by accident), but Adel fails for one game to score a couple of screamers from 30 yards and the crowd get on his back, the commentators love to do him down and instead praise the dreary mediocrities who aren't fit to lace Tab's boots. Do we go to football and support Queens Park Rangers to see a Clarke, or an Adel?
Surely the problem with Rangers is not Tabs - its that we don't have anyone else of his skill IN ADDITION. Skill wise we are pretty well a one man team. Two if you include Walker. Three if Buz is fit. Three and a half if you are being generous to Smith. Yes a team needs balance and I actually thought Hill had a good game - at least he looked as if he cared and he fought for every ball. But we need more quality. Tonight, I fear, we got found out quite a bit. Blame it on a bad day at the office if you like but I suspect there will be more days at the office like this if we don't bring in a couple of players who are not quite so predictable.
BTW, thought with Faurlin and Derry utterly anonynmous tonight surely we should have brought on Rowlands. If he is so out of favour as not to bring him on when the stage was made for him, what is the point of having him on the subs bench? And why persist with all the long balls when they clearly aren't working?
OK, rant over. I'll be nicer in the morning. :angry:
And in that one sentence it struck me that this is precisely why English football is so crap. And I'm afraid tonight I have to include Warnock in that (I fully accept he was brave to take the decision to bring in Adel and give him so much scope). But why all the negativity about Adel? OK, so he wasn't on song tonight, but he isn't going to be every week. Corporal Mackie hasn't done anything much for three months but he is never taken off because he is such a good honest toiler (albeit always about thirty feet away from the action - even for his knock down that led to our goal it clealry hit him by accident), but Adel fails for one game to score a couple of screamers from 30 yards and the crowd get on his back, the commentators love to do him down and instead praise the dreary mediocrities who aren't fit to lace Tab's boots. Do we go to football and support Queens Park Rangers to see a Clarke, or an Adel?
Surely the problem with Rangers is not Tabs - its that we don't have anyone else of his skill IN ADDITION. Skill wise we are pretty well a one man team. Two if you include Walker. Three if Buz is fit. Three and a half if you are being generous to Smith. Yes a team needs balance and I actually thought Hill had a good game - at least he looked as if he cared and he fought for every ball. But we need more quality. Tonight, I fear, we got found out quite a bit. Blame it on a bad day at the office if you like but I suspect there will be more days at the office like this if we don't bring in a couple of players who are not quite so predictable.
BTW, thought with Faurlin and Derry utterly anonynmous tonight surely we should have brought on Rowlands. If he is so out of favour as not to bring him on when the stage was made for him, what is the point of having him on the subs bench? And why persist with all the long balls when they clearly aren't working?
OK, rant over. I'll be nicer in the morning. :angry:
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