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Are we bollocks soft. Anyone remember the battle of the bridge? Not so soft in that one... We just played Into their hands today. We should have sat back & countered the fuck out of them. As Kane was clearly not 100%, we should have put Son in the team to assist with pace. Let them have possession in areas where they could do little damage.
I’m still fuming at the performance today because it was not what we have grown used to seeing under Poch, but I don’t think it gives us the “soft” label.
Their first goal was a clusterfuck of refereeing stupidity & rocked us. Until then, they’d not had a shot on target. Then they score soon after with their second shot on target. That one looked marginal offside as well-although if it had been us scoring it, I would have been livid if offside had been given, so will give them that one, even though Lloris could perhaps have done a little more?
And they are still below us in the table. Fuck them.
I’m still fuming at the performance today because it was not what we have grown used to seeing under Poch, but I don’t think it gives us the “soft” label.
Their first goal was a clusterfuck of refereeing stupidity & rocked us. Until then, they’d not had a shot on target. Then they score soon after with their second shot on target. That one looked marginal offside as well-although if it had been us scoring it, I would have been livid if offside had been given, so will give them that one, even though Lloris could perhaps have done a little more?
And they are still below us in the table. Fuck them.
The overreaction from both sides after yesterday is ridiculous. We're still above Woolwich, having played them United, Chelsea and Liverpool.
Meanwhile our next 5 fixtures in the League are West Brom, Leicester, Watford, Stoke and Brighton. Followed by a tough fixture v. City, which is then followed by Burnley, Soton (twice), West Ham, Swansea and Everton.
A conservative estimate would say we take 28-30 of those 36 points with say a loss to City/1 other or a loss to City and a few unexpected draws as the Prem always throws up. Odds are, come our tough period where we play United, Liverpool and Woolwich consecutively, we'll be in the distance of both Liverpool and Woolwich.
With City having the title wrapped up already, consolidating top 4 is now our target with a deep run in the CL and F.A. Cup and our forthcoming fixtures are relatively forgiving.
They may have won the battle (for the first time in 4 years) but the war is still well and truly in our favour. The hysteria after yesterday is laughable.
EDIT - One other thing, Chelsea took 4 of a possible 15 points away to the top 6 and won the title last season. But, you know, narrative.
Meanwhile our next 5 fixtures in the League are West Brom, Leicester, Watford, Stoke and Brighton. Followed by a tough fixture v. City, which is then followed by Burnley, Soton (twice), West Ham, Swansea and Everton.
A conservative estimate would say we take 28-30 of those 36 points with say a loss to City/1 other or a loss to City and a few unexpected draws as the Prem always throws up. Odds are, come our tough period where we play United, Liverpool and Woolwich consecutively, we'll be in the distance of both Liverpool and Woolwich.
With City having the title wrapped up already, consolidating top 4 is now our target with a deep run in the CL and F.A. Cup and our forthcoming fixtures are relatively forgiving.
They may have won the battle (for the first time in 4 years) but the war is still well and truly in our favour. The hysteria after yesterday is laughable.
EDIT - One other thing, Chelsea took 4 of a possible 15 points away to the top 6 and won the title last season. But, you know, narrative.
Define soft, because it means something different to everyone.
Do we allow bad teams to scrap results from us, generally, ala Liverpool? Recently, no.
Do we fold against big competition, regularly, home, away, League, Europe? Recently, no.
Do we let physical teams push us around? Subjective, but I would say recently, not often. We don’t have the most physical forward and attacking midfield outside of Kane, but who does? Our spine is strong when healthy.
I think we are reading a bit too much into one bad result away.
Do we allow bad teams to scrap results from us, generally, ala Liverpool? Recently, no.
Do we fold against big competition, regularly, home, away, League, Europe? Recently, no.
Do we let physical teams push us around? Subjective, but I would say recently, not often. We don’t have the most physical forward and attacking midfield outside of Kane, but who does? Our spine is strong when healthy.
I think we are reading a bit too much into one bad result away.
Yeah sadly as the team gets better the fans get worse, I bet some city genuine fans enjoyed being in division 2 in 1999 on the way back up having a laugh together at maine road, now surrounded with plastics and tourists
Paxton 2004, losing to someone I cant remember who, I loved coming up with a pisstake Atouba song having a right giggle in the crowd with a load of other real fans, what you would give for that mentality to be back
Although Poch bought our club back for the fans, it has bought with it some massively inflated expectations
Don't you come in here with that sensible shit.
When Toby, Verts, Wanyama, Dembele and Sissoko are all fit at the same time, I would say no. I would agree that Eriksen, Dele and Son tend to avoid challenges but most of our players are ready to battle hard. Aside from those already mentioned, Dier, Rose, Lamela and Kane are all also regularly getting stuck in!
Yes, when I think of this City squad, the first thing I think of is “brave”.
I don’t think “look at all the talent they bought”, or their attacking options, or their depth, or a keeper that wasn’t just a homeless guy they threw a tacky shirt on.
Nope - brave.
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Simply, no. Stupid idea, stupid thread, stupid question.
Yep. Should have got a few sent off. That would have helped.
Not sure which one would be best??????????????????????????
So you think capitulating a two goal lead isn't soft because we nearly broke Hazards legs?
Would the West Ham game the other week not have been soft if we did some reckless slide tackles while throwing the game away and kicked off at the end?
You got a different idea of soft to me. I couldn't care less how many knee high challenges we make in a game, if we don't have a winning mentality to back it up it means fuck all
You know what's worse than losing to Woolwich.....hipster Spurs fans being all zen about it
Makes me vomit. Go and enjoy your rainbows and unicorns mate while lapping up how well aaaaaarrd we are.
Makes me vomit. Go and enjoy your rainbows and unicorns mate while lapping up how well aaaaaarrd we are.
No.I think people are looking for an excuse for an awful performance.
Yes, i know we had injuries,but it was still a bad day at the office.
Yes, i know we had injuries,but it was still a bad day at the office.
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We are not soft and haven’t been since Poch got a grip
Having injuries, unfit players out there and an incompetent referee against a side playing out of their skins in their cup final isn’t being soft
We had chances to win it anyway, Son, Eriksen, Harry etc
It was a clusterfuck on the day and sadly they capitalised
That’s all
Having injuries, unfit players out there and an incompetent referee against a side playing out of their skins in their cup final isn’t being soft
We had chances to win it anyway, Son, Eriksen, Harry etc
It was a clusterfuck on the day and sadly they capitalised
That’s all