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...Zamora and Johnson had had an injury free season?
...Cisse and Diakite had picked up where he left off last season?
...Nelsen had stayed with us?
...Park and Hoilett had been as good as we all expected?
...Faurlin had been able to rediscover his pre-injury form?
I could go on but I think some of the criticism of the board and our managers is unfair. Unless my memory's going, most of us were excited to have the above players on board and IF they had produced what we all (quite reasonably) expected we wouldn't be heading back to the Championship.
I have been truly shocked by Park's performances and Bosingwa's arrogance so I'll leave them out of this but imagine if we had been able to field the following team on a regular basis from the start of August.
Cesar
Onouha Nelsen Hill Fabio
Hoilett Diakite Faurlin Taarabt
Zamora Johnson
Subs: Green, Traore, Derry, Granero, SWP, Mackie, Cisse
I'm tempted to put in Samba for Hill but this team is based on who we had in August. If you think back to then we would have expected that team to perform and the four in midfield looked especially good. As it is, three of them have not performed as expected and the players brought into their positions are too slow (Derry), too erratic (SWP) and just too random (Mbia). Granero still looks class in my opinion but he hasn't adapted to the PL yet.
It is clear that we are going down but I think a lot of people have lost perspective. Things looked good back in August and while we all knew we were a centre back light there was no reason to expect the disaster that has ensued. On papers the signings of Park and Bosingwa also looked good but we were wrong there.
I still think we are in far better shape with TF at the helm than with Flavio & Co and I am confident he will have learned lessons from this season - the main one being to create stability and not to panic buy players we cannot afford!
You R'ssss!!!!!!
...Cisse and Diakite had picked up where he left off last season?
...Nelsen had stayed with us?
...Park and Hoilett had been as good as we all expected?
...Faurlin had been able to rediscover his pre-injury form?
I could go on but I think some of the criticism of the board and our managers is unfair. Unless my memory's going, most of us were excited to have the above players on board and IF they had produced what we all (quite reasonably) expected we wouldn't be heading back to the Championship.
I have been truly shocked by Park's performances and Bosingwa's arrogance so I'll leave them out of this but imagine if we had been able to field the following team on a regular basis from the start of August.
Cesar
Onouha Nelsen Hill Fabio
Hoilett Diakite Faurlin Taarabt
Zamora Johnson
Subs: Green, Traore, Derry, Granero, SWP, Mackie, Cisse
I'm tempted to put in Samba for Hill but this team is based on who we had in August. If you think back to then we would have expected that team to perform and the four in midfield looked especially good. As it is, three of them have not performed as expected and the players brought into their positions are too slow (Derry), too erratic (SWP) and just too random (Mbia). Granero still looks class in my opinion but he hasn't adapted to the PL yet.
It is clear that we are going down but I think a lot of people have lost perspective. Things looked good back in August and while we all knew we were a centre back light there was no reason to expect the disaster that has ensued. On papers the signings of Park and Bosingwa also looked good but we were wrong there.
I still think we are in far better shape with TF at the helm than with Flavio & Co and I am confident he will have learned lessons from this season - the main one being to create stability and not to panic buy players we cannot afford!
You R'ssss!!!!!!
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