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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.
Simply, no. Stupid idea, stupid thread, stupid question.
This is wrong on so many levels
Mensa, you know what it’s like. A club is only as good as its fans.
Agree, for how hard it is to accept. They were faster today to every ball. All their players were up for it. The Officials also had a good game, for them.
Yes move on. It feels like someones died but we live to fight another day COYS.
Fuck off, and please stop starting a new thread whenever a thought pops into your oversized head.
I'm self quoting to clarify that I don't think we are soft. But any perceived softness is because of the factors I mentioned above IMO.
Wanyama, Dier, Sissoko, Aurier, Dele, Vertonghen.
We definitely aren’t ‘too soft’. We have a right royal bunch of cockney bastard barrell of monkey urchin psycho aggro mother pleasing low-lifes to keep up our end of the bargain.
We definitely aren’t ‘too soft’. We have a right royal bunch of cockney bastard barrell of monkey urchin psycho aggro mother pleasing low-lifes to keep up our end of the bargain.
Earlier this week we were above Chelsea, level with Utd and 4pts ahead of Woolwich and Liverpool. Oh and we wasn't 11pts off City.
The point is reasonable, even though I disagree with it mainly
Woolwich, Utd and West Ham we have shown a soft side in recent weeks.
Do you disagree with that?
It's all very well having the staff, but it fucks me off seeing Eriksen die for the Denmark cause and pussy out of Spurs 50-50s
We didn't bottle it. We were just off the pace. We didnt do much wrong. You could feel, what little energy we had get drained each time the ref made an incorrect call. If the ref stamped out from the start the fouls that was stoping us building momentum, it may have been differant. He took ages to show a yellow. Messed up on the gials. Yes you create your own luck but yesterday was just one of tham days. We can only come back stronger and be up for the fight. Yes
I haven't said we bottled anything, I've said we shown a weak or soft mentality in those games.
I stand by my opening post, that we feel we can beat teams because of our reputation and they will allow us to play full whack in our own time.
It doesn't work like that, and instead of going up a gear when teams are in our face, the likes of Eriksen decide it's time to go into ankle/face preservation mode, Dele decides he wants to win free kicks instead of creating, Kane becomes a big cumbersome toad and that's basically our chances of winning the game well and truely fucked.
The application is missing in these games.
Not sure how anyone can say otherwise.....you might not call it soft, I don't care, call it what you want, just call it something. Happy clapping gets us nowhere and I hope Poch learns to get players to deal it sooner rather than later.
"we shown a weak or soft mentality in those games". No we don't?
We wasn't on our game-end off . Collectively, every player was off line. Poch got it wrong. It was one of them days when it just doesn't happen. Well done to the scum for taking fall advantage of us being below par. We wasn't outplayed or showed signs of weakness. It happens, thats football.
No other team is winning those games.
Chelsea won one last season, and finished miles clear.
So losing 3-2 to West Ham wasn't a weak mentality in the second half when we capitulated after they got one back?
Going to Old Trafford and making Smalling look like Maldini because we are too timid is not a weakness?
I suppose our top 6 away record has zero bearing on our weaknesses?
In your element this week
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.