I am as big a happy-clapping AVB fan as anyone but I am really starting to get a little tired of the way things are going.
I agree. I've been saying it increasingly as the season goes on. It's not easy to identify early in the season, but the pattern of problems is now showing more clearly. We clearly have a problem with the following:-
1) The lone striker formation. It's suited to neither Soldado or Defoe as the service is not coming in for either. Adebayor is now a million miles away from match fit and confident. Either AVB starts to experiment more or it's more of the same. Unfortunately I fear that his experiment came in this game, for the few minutes it lasted, and now he'll retreat back to more of the same.
2) We don't seem to have a core team. I'm all for rotation, but I find AVB's rigidity in the high line and loan striker formation curiously at odds with his determination to mix the side up pretty much every game. As a result I think it is taking the side longer to bed in.
3) AVB still seems to have a distinct problem with the timing of substitutions and Plan B in general.
But having said all that, I really tire of the same trolls coming out and lapping it up with relish. Turds like sammy pretend that they give nothing but constructive criticism. Like hell they do. You can just see people like him actually enjoying us losing just so they can gloat. It's sickening. Wanting a team to lose for your own righteousness? Awful stuff. Should be ashamed to be fans.
What was so much better under Redknapp? Sure the football was nicer to watch, but do people forget that huge run of lost games, when we went from title winning form to blowing a 13 point lead over the scum to finish in fifth? Is that better than the few losses AVB has had so far this year? Again, same in the year that we lost out CL position to Chelsea. If it weren't for some stupid losses under Redknapp we wouldn't have lost out to the scum that year either. Short memories. So I get tired of all the comparisons and the pathetic bitching, especially from one particularly individual who just can't let the past go.
The way I see it, we have some problems that need fixing. AVB either knows how to do it or he doesn't. If the latter then Levy will get rid. We know that already. Bringing Redknapp back wouldn't be the answer, so what's the point of hanging on to the past just to try and win sad internet arguments?
*sigh*
