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[simolonge]

Sick as a chip. Rafa got it wrong, 2 points lost today and we were lucky it wasn't 3 points lost. REALLY P!SSED OFF

Me to, he fecked up again.

Resting players 4 games in unbeleievable.

No offence mate, but what do you do as a job ?

Seriously, Rafa Benitez is an excellent manager and knows this league, his players and fitness and coaching better than only one or two people in the league, so I think he knows what he is doing and whats best for the team.

well 21 points off the top last season pretty much p*sses on that thought mate.

rafa is a good manager but to say he knows this league better than most is wrong, he is still learning this league and still making mistakes in it

I said only one or two people in this league know it better then him.

I stand by that point.

We where never going to win the league today, and maintaining an unbeaten run is very important.

Previous seasons we have lost too many games to early.

If we can keep the losses column down to zeron until mid end November or even better December then I think we have a good chance.

[Wilhelmsson]

if this was our best team, i would say a point won, but its not, so 2 points lost

This is an awfully strange philosophy, how does it work?

[112-1077774096]

The same people who over reacted after a couple of wins are now beoaning a draw.

Fickle ?

how do you define fickle, people are praising a stronger selection when we win and and criticising a weaker selection when we lose.

thats not fickle. we had people using this word last season without really understanding what it means

[woof woof !]

The same people who over reacted after a couple of wins are now beoaning a draw.

Fickle ?

fickle ?

Where the f'uck have you been ?

what a k'unt 

[fivecups]

1. We are first due to goal difference and with a game in hand. Season is not over you miserable gits.

2. Rotation is automatically at fault when we don't win, but when we win it's hailed as a brilliant move and our strength in depth is praised.

Get a f#cking grip the lot of you. Man Utd couldn't beat Pompey with a full strength side at Upton Park this season or last season.

Arsenal couldn't do it either, and only Chelsea have beaten them there in recent years out of the top four.

AB - that was a poor performance today. The players didn't seem to know what each other were doing. Im think that team selection and over-rotation were the problems.

[oakton]

too many long balls, we've stopped using our widemen when torres, gerrard and babel came on.  We've just kick the ball long to our strikers, didn't work last year, it's not gonna work now.

[The_Rock]

Also...think Kuyt should have started this game.

[oakton]

Sissoko needs to stay on his feet, he goes to the ground too often!

[AB's Red Army]

1. We are first due to goal difference and with a game in hand. Season is not over you miserable gits.

2. Rotation is automatically at fault when we don't win, but when we win it's hailed as a brilliant move and our strength in depth is praised.

Get a f#cking grip the lot of you. Man Utd couldn't beat Pompey with a full strength side at Upton Park this season or last season.

Arsenal couldn't do it either, and only Chelsea have beaten them there in recent years out of the top four.

AB - that was a poor performance today. The players didn't seem to know what each other were doing. Im think that team selection and over-rotation were the problems.

Never said that it was a good performance mate. All I'm saying is that I'm sick and tired of the rotation bullocks when we don't win.

It's fine and dandy when we win, it's hypocritical. Choose one side or don't say at all imo.

The team that was put out there could had gotten a win, and perhaps should had with Voronin hitting the bar and missing a sitter late on.

We played a similar side against Sunderland and won. I didn't hear any complaints regarding rotation then, even though it wasn't the best performance.

Also...think Kuyt should have started this game.

He picked up an injury for Holland.

[fivecups]

too many long balls, we've stopped using our widemen when torres, gerrard and babel came on.  We've just kick the ball long to our strikers, didn't work last year, it's not gonna work now.

I agree with that - long ball football is seriously unattractive.

[Emerald Red]

The same people who over reacted after a couple of wins are now beoaning a draw.

Fickle ?

NO!

We won those games because Rafa made the right decisions then. He played mostly a full strength team with proper wide support. Today he just messed it up, and if you read back, people point this out (including myself) before a ball was kicked. Nothing fickle about it. Rafa was guilty today of something that most fans have been moaning about since his first season: wholesale changes from an on form team. makes NO sense whatsoever. International games, CL, etc etc should not be a factor. The league is everything.

[maguskwt]

i don't understand rafa's recent habit of subbing penant

[112-1077774096]

Typical over-reaction from certain quarters...

Yes we were poor. That happens to teams you know - it's not a new thing exclusive to Rafa Benitez.

"So and so should have started..." - are these ramblings coming from the same people who were banging on about our rotation now being "class for class"?

Hmmm.... We got a point today, at a venue where the reigning champs got a point. At a venue where we lost last season.

Now - grow up and stop spitting out the dummy, dummies.

probably aimed at me without you reading the whole thread, i said at the start i thought we were strong enough to win this, however with hindsight rafa got the selection wrong, we did swap class with class but today we underperformed, whether thats down to the changes or just an off day who knows.
maybe with torres and gerrard on the result would have been the same, who knows.

but i have read the whole thread and not seen an over reaction from anyone, maybe you think a slight criticism is an over reaction

[simolonge]

And how on earth where we desperate for a goal ? It was not a cup game, so a draw is at least not a defeat.

I’m not sure what Andy has said wrong there, he was speaking sense,

So we where desperate for a goal ?

Jeeze man, some people go over the top.

If it had been the FA Cup final in the last minute and we where 0-1 down we would have been desperate.

If it had been 1989 at Anfield against Arsenal then we would have been desperate for a goal.

If it had been the last game of the season, and we only needed a draw for the titel at 0-1 down, then we would be desperate.

We where not desperate for a goal this afternoon. It would have been nice, but we where not desperate.

[AB's Red Army]

Sissoko needs to stay on his feet, he goes to the ground too often!

He won a hell of a lot of free kicks for us. You can't fault him for that, and it's not his fault that we're at fk's