Not bad for Fizzy Players.......

[ghostrider]

Just so I understand your point of view. You admit that Rafa has had a successful career (his record shows it), I mean he won the Champions League and so he has some idea of football, yes?

Of course he's had a reasonably successful career and of course he knows his football but that doesn't mean it's always spot on, which was my grievance earlier on.

You also think that all he had to do in the mid part of the season was send the team forward and we would've won loads more games.

Nope, not at all. I wanted him to play more balanced football to give some entertainment out earlier on because no matter what you say, he didn't do it and continually played dire football for most of the games earlier on.

Don't you think that is a rather simple thing for a manager of his calibre to have missed. I mean,really?

Well he seemed to have missed the fact that playing Joselu and over cautious football was zapping the life out of the players who started to lose form and gusto due to it.
Allowing Kenedy to express himself on loan caused him to also allow others to do likewise. This is the football I expected and demanded as a minimum and now we're producing it because he changed up his errors.

Remembering that he works with the team all through the week, every week, I think your "dire football" argument is naive in the extreme.

It was far from naive, It was was absolute truth as far as my enjoyment went.
If you thought otherwise than that's you. I said what I said and stand by it but I also accept that he's getting it right.

My wanting him sacked was over the top but was borne out of sheer frustration.
If I ever see him do that with the team/squad what he done earlier, I'll crucify him again.
As for now he deserves plaudits and long may it continue.