Genuinely feels like some people have amnesia when it comes to Rose and just remember him from 2016.
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Genuinely feels like some people have amnesia when it comes to Rose and just remember him from 2016.
The common phenomena of casting Ndombele as a game-changer before he's actually established himself as one worries me....
Fair enough, but he’s the only midfielder we have that can see a decent forward pass so. . .
Not my intention to hold you to task over it; I just thinking it's an unfortunate position to find ourselves in...
If we'd have started the season off with a little more cohesion (i.e. Eriksen, Vert, Dele), Ndombele and GLC could have enjoyed a little more time to bed in without the pressure of making a difference straight off the bat.
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Clusterfuck of a defense that has allowed 4 goals in 3 games including 2 @ City?
No one is calling our D a clusterfuck if attacking players did their job yesterday and scored at least 3 goals
They may have earned a more forgiving appraisal as the goal conceded wouldn't have mattered, but whilst the D had their moments against City, no department is covering itself with glory right now.
The D is certainly not a force to be reckoned with like it used to be. We've been all over the place and against two relegation fodder teams.
Of course not, but everyone is feeling better about the team if we do Newcastle 4-1 yesterday.
You take the point from City and run.
Now, we're looking at tables like this...
Brutal!
(....Aye; that's the irony here. 7 points would have been a sweet start to the season and we could have carried on laughing at Ole without inner conflict.)
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Agreed, but like my post above, if the attack shows up and we win 4-1 like we should have, everyone is feeling much better.
We're saying our D is leaky and needs to tighten up which to be honest you feel fine about because this foursome hasn't had a lot of playing time together.
Our slow starts and awful attacking football are making other aspects of the squad worse than they are.
The real issue is we continue to struggle against teams that park the bus. The number of teams that will probably park the bus against us is probably 15. Of those 15 teams, 10-12 are squads we should be beating with ease.
Imagine another toothless performance and then us flogging off Eriksen for 40M the next day. 
You're not wrong about the offense. But letting two goals in by teams that have 10 men behind the ball is damn near inexcusable. Those 2 goals we let in by City should have been 4 or 5.
I stand by my clusterfuck statement.
Weird isn't it.
Because if you do take a table from a specific date, in this case 15 games ago, its focused on once we lose to Newcastle.
Yet if we beat Newcastle, no on cares, no one bats an eyelid yet the table would still make grim reading.
You're only as good as your last game. We could have smashed Newcastle 7-0 yesterday and someone would just be waiting to criticise the moment we lost our next game.
I just see it as a sign of how far we've come.
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I mean it doesn't really matter how many City should've had. They're City. Probably the most all around talented team in the world. You can't expect to suffocate their attack for 90 mins.
Did we play well that match? Absolutely not, but found away to only concede 2 goals at home while finding a way to score 2 of our own.
Like you said regarding the City, we take the point and run.
No It's not weird, we have been talking about our poor form since last season, the excuse was CL distractions. But we still not playing well. No body would have cared about the table if we were playing well in the first 3 matches, even if we had lost to city but beaten newcastle and on 6 points. This would have meant we have turned the corner but we haven't and this is a continuation from last season.
Play well and lose happens but play poorly and loose attracts criticism.