The slide begins

[ghostrider]

I think we have more bite to our attack than Rafa seems to, but other than that (and his sometimes horrible substitutional dispositions) I think he's doing the right thing with our team at the moment. We are not good enough to go and play attacking, 'entertaining' football in every match, not even for 20 minutes in some matches.

Seems rational to me that we need to sort out the defence, especially when we have 5mil strikers at our disposal who will - clearly - not score every game.

Sorting out the defence at the cost of everything else for much of a game and then getting beat by the odd goal is still an end product of zero points.

[jacapus]

Sorting out the defence at the cost of everything else for much of a game and then getting beat by the odd goal is still an end product of zero points.

Funny - I thought we has 14 points and are sitting well up the league !!!!!

[ghostrider]

Funny - I thought we has 14 points and are sitting well up the league !!!!!

Yep, it doesn't look too bad does it?
And to think we surrendered to all the teams we all believed we would take points from and got none, through playing ultra negative football for most of those games which could have put us in a healthy position in terms of making a clear fist of banishing relegation fears and giving us a good platform to soldier on with a january injection of quality additions.

Now we have to try and negotiate the bigger teams with Rafa's mindset that I fear will reap us nothing and leave us sitting in that bottom 3 very shortly.
I hope I'm wrong but fear I won't be if Rafa persists in spending too much time on a shut out with toothless efforts offensively.

[Jammy89]

Or the mindset will stand us in good stead and we'll nick points.

Football, all things are possible - don't you love it. . . and hate it

[ghostrider]

Or the mindset will stand us in good stead and we'll nick points.

Football, all things are possible - don't you love it. . . and hate it

I'd love to nick points as long as we get some decent football to watch in the process.

[ashingtoon62]

Funny - I thought we has 14 points and are sitting well up the league !!!!!

Look at the fixtures/games played/games to play before Jan.
Have a look and re-think...