by bigmick » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:57 pm
Surprise surprise but I think the key is how we approach the season, with the need to establish momnetum early absolutely key. Obviously, as anyone who has read any of my posts over the last couple of years will know, I'm talking about rotation here.
If we approach the season with a desire to find our optimum first-team and largely stick with it until circumstances dictate otherwise ( injuries, players coming off the bench and outperforming those who started, starters losing form, Playing Crouch against teams who like to defend deep, resting the odd player etc etc) then I think we'll go very close to winning the league, infact feck it, I think we'll be champions.
If we on the other hand feck around like we did last season, chopping and changing the team without rhyme or reason until we were too far behind to have a say in matters, we will struggle to finish in the top four as those below us have strengthened.
I've said it a couple of times on here, the first game of the season at Villa will tell all. If we go there with the same type of ridiculous selections as we did at Bramhall Lane last season, and then settle for an extremely fortuitous point at the end, you can forget about the title. If we go there all guns blazing though, going all out for a win for the whole ninety minutes with a sensibly selected team, even if we lose I'll be doing the "you don't lose it on the first game of the season" thing along with everyone else.
Please God, lets hope we have learnt the error of our ways. Chelsea at Home is our next game after the Villa one, draw at Villa Park and lose at Home to Chelsea and we could be five points behind before we've got out of bed. I wonder if Mourinho and Ferguson will mass rotate at the start of the season? Hmmm I think I know the answer to that one.
Please Rafa, give the players a chance and we can win it.
"se e in una bottigla ed e bianco, e latte".