Quote Originally Posted by klix View Post
Of course it lies with Bielsa, he's the manager picks the players and formation.
You don't go to City playing our way, you just tweak.

Losing by 7 is a disgrace, I just don't get the park the bus comment, straw man's arguement
Pep and klopp adjust and tuchel
You have blind love for bielsa, no issue with that by the way.
But the bloke needs criticism.
Playing Roberts is just bonkers when he would not be played by any other prem team in my view.
Hodgson has just got a tune out of a team that was total and utter pants under tickerboy.
Norwich have a fighting chance now.
They will target leeds as a game they can get 3 points. To concede the amount of goals we have is total shocking.
We now at the moment need to score 3 or 4 to win a game good luck with that without any striker of note
At this stage give me a grinding result and 3 points than a bumming by Everton and Co.
He has tweaked plan A - we played differently against Spurs, West Ham and tried to against Man U.

We just don’t have the players whatever the plan. My point being I would rather lose playing how we do than lose parking the bus. Albeit I don’t like losing to anyone.

The reality is without a fully fit squad we are not good enough to compete.

Having such a thin squad is not down to Bielsa alone and he has spoken openly in his very polite way that of course he would like more players BUT they have to be better than those we have at present. All of which makes sense. We didn’t buy better (bar James) in the summer and left ourselves open to injuries to key players - when that happened we didn’t buy in January - that isn’t Bielsa’s fault.

If you read what Angus Kinnear said in programme notes or interviews back in August, September and more recently January it is clear that was a board strategy.