by bigmick » Fri Oct 05, 2007 9:20 pm
There's no question that the media influences opinion Sabes. I hope that throughout all of the debate visa vis rotation I've tried to remain broadly sensible, accomodating to the other peoples point of view etc but unfortunately, we don't get the same accomodation from many of the pro's.
Disloyalty/fickleness. This is the first resort of those that seek to diminish their opponent in a discussion. You can't disagree with the manager bacause it's disloyal. You're a bandwagon jumper, a glory hunter, you love Steven Gerrard.
Tabloid reader. If you disagree with Rafa, you believe every word in the tabloids and every word on the footie shows. You didn't come to the conclusions you came to by yourself because you are a numpty. Andy Gray, all those ex players and managers, Ferguson, Wenger, Mourinho, everybody in fact who disagrees is also wrong. Rafa though, is right.
It's because you don't go to the games.
Rotation, regardless of how many changes you make, regardless of who those rotated people are, and regardless of who you are playing against has absolutely no effect whatsoever, nil, nado, zip, none on the fluency of the passing and movement of the team.
67 changes to the team in twelve matches is perfectly fair and reasonable. Over egging it a bit? Nah.
International breaks tire our players out and they need rest. As none of us spend time on the training pitch at Melwood, any observations visa vis rest periods are completey non sensical to make, and instantly render the commenter a numpty.
All non rotationers want to play the same eleven players every week. Just like we did in the old days. Most people who beleive Rafa over rotates the team are in fact over 83 years of age.
We won the Champions League because of rotation. Infact all the good performances over the last three years are becasue the players have been fresh, leaping around like Gazelles. The bad performances however, were nothing whatsoever to do with rotation. Obviously.
Those who oppose rotation also opposed zonal marking. Therefore they have been proven wrong once and are clueless.
Having an idea of how good you think the team is in relation to the other teams in the league, and an idea of where you hope to finish at the end of the season is ridiculous. You should just see what happens.
Each time you sign a couple of players, it's not until the end of the following season that the signing can be judged success or failure. As long as the manager signs a couple fo players per season, he should be given a job for life.
Last season, 21 points behind the Champions was a fair reflection on how good we are. Infact, rotation helped us get there. Also, it helped us put out the Champions of Spain and England on the way to the Champions league final. We beat both teams because we were so much fresher, sprinting around and mentaly sharp. When Chelsea were palpably the stronger, fitter team in extra time at Anfield though, and when ilan outran us in the final, that was not a failure of the rotation system. It was just one of those things.
I'm all for people not rowing with each other but really, it is hard to take some arguments seriously sometimes.
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