Where do you start with that? No way of sugar coating it, a stain on the club. I literally couldn't face picking up a metro on the bus this morning, I've had bigger disappointments following Utd, but that has to be the most excruciating and embarrassing. Ok we've had pumpings by some sh1te in the championship and old firm, but not on a European stage for all to see, and 6 goals in about 21 mins? That is complete amateur stuff, we essentially got beat 7-0 in about 65 mins, nobody escapes blame for that.
I think we were probably a decent keeper and defensive midfielder away from a sound beating as opposed to a humiliation. I think we will be ok the season ahead, not many teams would beat Alkmaar at home, my only concern is we might be about to go into season with 2 dodgy keepers, remember the disaster of relegation season, not saying that would happen again, but would seriously undermine our ambitions if that was to be the case. We also need a defensive mid, and if Watt and Fletcher play regular all season that's two guys who are not going to get you a lot of goals and relatively slow.
Truth is you can conjure up ghosts of Barcelona etc... but we have been absolute dire in Europe for three decades now, our record in that time is down there with our record at Parkhead which is equally embarrassing. Alkmaar are better than us by decent margin, to have any slim chance we can't be making it easy for them with the gaps and space and defensive errors we handed them. I wont go too hard on the manager because as said Alkmaar are better player for player, and he doesn't have a defensive midfielder and keeper was poor, but I will say Tam Courts pretty much most games v Celtic and Rangers had us well organised, you could see the team had been coached well and worked on, and that despite virtually having nothing up front, but he still managed to make us competitive in those games, even at Ibrox when he had to throw in a raft of kids with only a week to prepare, he set us up excellently that day, and we kept the ball well and carried a bit of threat.
Like the sentiment of the topic says, when you fall off a bike you have to get back on again, think it might be sticky spell ahead though, and lot of enthusiasm disappeared last night.