pommpey
THE FUTURE ... AS IT USED TO BE
- Banned
- #1
Wow. Plain to see now that although we are as good as relegated (and for us not to be, three or four other clubs need to be performing as bad as us if not worse, for the rest of the season, so good luck with that hope) but the mission now is 'how humiliating can our very quick return to the Championship actually be?'
Tonight we were typically gutless and toothless and played once again like a plucky (but fundamentally shit) Division One side playing against mighty Everton in the cup. That's a plucky Division One side which has jizzed £130m on some pretty substandard acquisitions.
Again - and I think people are starting to understand now - Wilder starts with his 'traditional, tried and tested' 5-3-2 which looking at a lot of people's 'who's gonna start?' line ups, he's done a job on your heads because everyone picks a 5-3-2 (or a 3-5-2 - although we hardly play 3-5-2 these days anyway) It doesn't work and with the slack handful of disappearing options I am baffled now as to why he or Knill feel it essential to revert to 'first principles' now after a quite simply disastrous season of failure and decline. This also after last week losing (ha, did we actually 'lose' anything, in fact?) Lundstram and then shifting Basham into midfield and being more balanced and combative in the middle of the park. Tonight we went back to what we are good at which is watching the opposition take the ball off us (or just simply surrender possession) and pass it round and through a pretty thin and pointless 'engine room'. Starting with Osborn - Ampadu - Burke was just asking for trouble. Burke can't play in that position and the other two are effectively championship class, so asking them to deal with Davies, Siggurdsson, Iwobi and Holgate (and those outside of them) is fucking stupidity personified. Quickly he then puts our top scorer into RCM, then LCM, then ... ooooh, somewhere in and around there and we still spend a lot of time being a practice/training team to play against for Everton. I am surprised Anchelotti didn't get the cones and bibs out. One decent pass and Didsy is a yard offside and nearly scores, Burke does his best to be just 'a nuisance' (because he's not a goalscorer) and that's it. Did Wilder up the ante in the second half to put pressure on Everton? No. Why should he? They weren't under pressure anyway, despite having some key players absent. All they had to do is what they'd done in the first half and play on our shocking lack of belief and confidence and press us into giving the ball up and put some stress on a heartstoppingly woeful Ramsdale. It's pretty formulaic stuff, and all opposition managers have to do - Dyche and Hodgson will do so, is watch, take notes and beat us. There won't be much in their brief that goes beyond:
1. They are shitting themselves every time they get the ball
2. Cover across and mark space. No one moves about much
3. Their midfield is piss weak and is different every game because of this
4. Their goalkeeper is a fucking bus/lorry/four cars and a school playground disaster
5. Just press. You'll get the ball off them
6. Their front two. Don't bother. They wont get the ball much and if they do, and if its McBurnie, it will hit his head and come to us
So, out of ten
Ramsdale 4/10: We need to get Verrips in. As much as we have spent on him, he's not good enough.
Baldock 5/10: His score is brought down by the play around him because as much as he tried to get up that flank, what can you do when there's fucking nothing moving to pass to or cross to?
Basham 6/10: Get's the higher mark because as ever, he seems to be the only player in red as white with any idea how to get forward, retain possession or be creative. And he's a fucking Centre Back. He needs to be in midfield.
Egan 6/10: Put some good stops and blocks in. Another high mark because again, he's playing two people's roles, covering for a fucking woeful:
Robinson C3/10PO: Yep. Protocol Droid. Robotic, slow, not at the game. What the fuck was he doing in the first half when as soon as that ball aimed at DCL was measured up, he drops 2m goalward to play him on - understandable if you haven't the legs to go up against a nimble attacker - but then completely fucking fucks it up and allows a striker such as he a free shot on goal ... with Ramsdale the only thing to beat? Second half he was just a glaring liability. IN fact, why am I giving him '3'? What did he do to earn that?
Stevens 3/10: He is simply struggling ... and for once in his defence, I think it's because of who is on his right hand flank. Like threepeeo.
Burke 5/10: What the tapdancing fuck is he doing staring RCM? Seen Full Metal Jacket? "Basic Military Journalism? Jeeeezuz H Christ, Joker! You gotta be fucking kidding me! What do you think you are, Micky fucking Spillane? You're not a writer ... you're a killer!" Similarly, Burke isn't a RCM. Bogle could be I suppose. I mean, he scored a fucking goal out of nothing last week from that very fucking position. Burke needs to be doing what he does best ... running about a lot and causing mayhem and missing sitters.
Ampadu 1/10: He's played everywhere now except up front and in goal. And today it showed he can't play CM in a three man midfield. At all, in fact. He's more lightweight than Norwood, and less productive. He was simply not even at the standard of the opposition players around him.
Osborn. 3/10: I like this little feller. But not in the PL. He tries, he really does. But he's not good enough.
McGoldrick 6/10: The only player with any guile and talent to try to take some control over our destiny. And what does Wilder do? Subs him for Norwood!
Brewster 2/10: Poor kid.
McBurnie 1/10: Simply fucking piss. At his usual pub football best, diving and bitching, heading the ball to the opposition and missing the best corner Norwood has put in since Egan's goal v Wolves last season. Waste of money.
Norwood 1/10: Dreadful. Mistake after mistake, outplayed and outclassed.
Mousset No Mark. Not sure he touched the fucking ball. That'll be him injured now until March.
Wilder 0/10: Staring to lose patience with CW. He is not helping himself, or us as a set of supporters of his club. He continues to play this way despite every scrap of evidence suggesting we are simply easy to beat doing so, even by weaker teams. He also needs to take into account that a lot of us have been 'chests out' and strutting our stuff for the past few years, and now a lot of us are glad there's a fucking lockdown of sorts on and we don't have to account for this dogshit to our workmates and colleagues. And - for all of you lot who say 'the team are missing the fans' can you imagine the shit a packed BDTBL would heap onto the narrowing shoulders of the players week after week watching this fucking pisswankcuntshit? You've all been there ... every side of the Lane chorusing boos as we succumb weakly like we did under Weir and Adkins. Right now, it's a blessing BDTBL is empty for them if you ask me. I don't think 90 minutes of supporters lifting the players would make any difference and the chants of 'Wilder out!' would have started by now. Also, where he is concerned, the only two things that are keeping him in his job are:
1. The last few seasons and his affinity as a Blade. Any other manager would have been binned long ago.
2. The shit state of that shower of bellends at S6. Imagine if they were in the upper playoffs/autos or even running away with the Championship at the moment? Imagine how you'd feel as a Blade getting turned over every week, likely relegated breaking all humiliating records and the squealers looking like comfortably replacing us as runaway champions?
Unless he has a fucking good think now and makes the changes - tactically, positionally and strategically - then I feel the ice under his feet is becoming desperately thin. His approach to this season has been shit, his signings have been shit and his dealing with this crisis has matched the Tories calamitous dealings with COVID19. Other teams are in a relegation fight and will fight to the end. The only thing we have to fight is our own dismal, humiliating decline.
And for fucks sake, please, no one entertain any comfort we'd 'come back up straight away'. That seemed vaguely likely when we fell out of the PL with Warnock, but with CW and this lot I don't even think we'd beat a Championship side, including that bunch of fuckers from south Barnsley.
pommpey
Tonight we were typically gutless and toothless and played once again like a plucky (but fundamentally shit) Division One side playing against mighty Everton in the cup. That's a plucky Division One side which has jizzed £130m on some pretty substandard acquisitions.
Again - and I think people are starting to understand now - Wilder starts with his 'traditional, tried and tested' 5-3-2 which looking at a lot of people's 'who's gonna start?' line ups, he's done a job on your heads because everyone picks a 5-3-2 (or a 3-5-2 - although we hardly play 3-5-2 these days anyway) It doesn't work and with the slack handful of disappearing options I am baffled now as to why he or Knill feel it essential to revert to 'first principles' now after a quite simply disastrous season of failure and decline. This also after last week losing (ha, did we actually 'lose' anything, in fact?) Lundstram and then shifting Basham into midfield and being more balanced and combative in the middle of the park. Tonight we went back to what we are good at which is watching the opposition take the ball off us (or just simply surrender possession) and pass it round and through a pretty thin and pointless 'engine room'. Starting with Osborn - Ampadu - Burke was just asking for trouble. Burke can't play in that position and the other two are effectively championship class, so asking them to deal with Davies, Siggurdsson, Iwobi and Holgate (and those outside of them) is fucking stupidity personified. Quickly he then puts our top scorer into RCM, then LCM, then ... ooooh, somewhere in and around there and we still spend a lot of time being a practice/training team to play against for Everton. I am surprised Anchelotti didn't get the cones and bibs out. One decent pass and Didsy is a yard offside and nearly scores, Burke does his best to be just 'a nuisance' (because he's not a goalscorer) and that's it. Did Wilder up the ante in the second half to put pressure on Everton? No. Why should he? They weren't under pressure anyway, despite having some key players absent. All they had to do is what they'd done in the first half and play on our shocking lack of belief and confidence and press us into giving the ball up and put some stress on a heartstoppingly woeful Ramsdale. It's pretty formulaic stuff, and all opposition managers have to do - Dyche and Hodgson will do so, is watch, take notes and beat us. There won't be much in their brief that goes beyond:
1. They are shitting themselves every time they get the ball
2. Cover across and mark space. No one moves about much
3. Their midfield is piss weak and is different every game because of this
4. Their goalkeeper is a fucking bus/lorry/four cars and a school playground disaster
5. Just press. You'll get the ball off them
6. Their front two. Don't bother. They wont get the ball much and if they do, and if its McBurnie, it will hit his head and come to us
So, out of ten
Ramsdale 4/10: We need to get Verrips in. As much as we have spent on him, he's not good enough.
Baldock 5/10: His score is brought down by the play around him because as much as he tried to get up that flank, what can you do when there's fucking nothing moving to pass to or cross to?
Basham 6/10: Get's the higher mark because as ever, he seems to be the only player in red as white with any idea how to get forward, retain possession or be creative. And he's a fucking Centre Back. He needs to be in midfield.
Egan 6/10: Put some good stops and blocks in. Another high mark because again, he's playing two people's roles, covering for a fucking woeful:
Robinson C3/10PO: Yep. Protocol Droid. Robotic, slow, not at the game. What the fuck was he doing in the first half when as soon as that ball aimed at DCL was measured up, he drops 2m goalward to play him on - understandable if you haven't the legs to go up against a nimble attacker - but then completely fucking fucks it up and allows a striker such as he a free shot on goal ... with Ramsdale the only thing to beat? Second half he was just a glaring liability. IN fact, why am I giving him '3'? What did he do to earn that?
Stevens 3/10: He is simply struggling ... and for once in his defence, I think it's because of who is on his right hand flank. Like threepeeo.
Burke 5/10: What the tapdancing fuck is he doing staring RCM? Seen Full Metal Jacket? "Basic Military Journalism? Jeeeezuz H Christ, Joker! You gotta be fucking kidding me! What do you think you are, Micky fucking Spillane? You're not a writer ... you're a killer!" Similarly, Burke isn't a RCM. Bogle could be I suppose. I mean, he scored a fucking goal out of nothing last week from that very fucking position. Burke needs to be doing what he does best ... running about a lot and causing mayhem and missing sitters.
Ampadu 1/10: He's played everywhere now except up front and in goal. And today it showed he can't play CM in a three man midfield. At all, in fact. He's more lightweight than Norwood, and less productive. He was simply not even at the standard of the opposition players around him.
Osborn. 3/10: I like this little feller. But not in the PL. He tries, he really does. But he's not good enough.
McGoldrick 6/10: The only player with any guile and talent to try to take some control over our destiny. And what does Wilder do? Subs him for Norwood!
Brewster 2/10: Poor kid.
McBurnie 1/10: Simply fucking piss. At his usual pub football best, diving and bitching, heading the ball to the opposition and missing the best corner Norwood has put in since Egan's goal v Wolves last season. Waste of money.
Norwood 1/10: Dreadful. Mistake after mistake, outplayed and outclassed.
Mousset No Mark. Not sure he touched the fucking ball. That'll be him injured now until March.
Wilder 0/10: Staring to lose patience with CW. He is not helping himself, or us as a set of supporters of his club. He continues to play this way despite every scrap of evidence suggesting we are simply easy to beat doing so, even by weaker teams. He also needs to take into account that a lot of us have been 'chests out' and strutting our stuff for the past few years, and now a lot of us are glad there's a fucking lockdown of sorts on and we don't have to account for this dogshit to our workmates and colleagues. And - for all of you lot who say 'the team are missing the fans' can you imagine the shit a packed BDTBL would heap onto the narrowing shoulders of the players week after week watching this fucking pisswankcuntshit? You've all been there ... every side of the Lane chorusing boos as we succumb weakly like we did under Weir and Adkins. Right now, it's a blessing BDTBL is empty for them if you ask me. I don't think 90 minutes of supporters lifting the players would make any difference and the chants of 'Wilder out!' would have started by now. Also, where he is concerned, the only two things that are keeping him in his job are:
1. The last few seasons and his affinity as a Blade. Any other manager would have been binned long ago.
2. The shit state of that shower of bellends at S6. Imagine if they were in the upper playoffs/autos or even running away with the Championship at the moment? Imagine how you'd feel as a Blade getting turned over every week, likely relegated breaking all humiliating records and the squealers looking like comfortably replacing us as runaway champions?
Unless he has a fucking good think now and makes the changes - tactically, positionally and strategically - then I feel the ice under his feet is becoming desperately thin. His approach to this season has been shit, his signings have been shit and his dealing with this crisis has matched the Tories calamitous dealings with COVID19. Other teams are in a relegation fight and will fight to the end. The only thing we have to fight is our own dismal, humiliating decline.
And for fucks sake, please, no one entertain any comfort we'd 'come back up straight away'. That seemed vaguely likely when we fell out of the PL with Warnock, but with CW and this lot I don't even think we'd beat a Championship side, including that bunch of fuckers from south Barnsley.
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