A little bit of praise

bluemangroup · January 22, 2015

Carlito said:
Fiddling while Rome burns.

When in Rome.

welshtoffee · January 22, 2015

I am not going to praise him until he completely turns this mess around, simply plan A is not working and he has not got a plan B to turn too !!!

LouReedwalkonthewildside · January 22, 2015

magicjuan said:
we're looking for the magical 40 points

Your not Moyes are you?

magicjuan · January 22, 2015

LouReedwalkonthewildside said:
Your not Moyes are you?

Not on a school night....

streeky · January 22, 2015

WE have the squad when fit to be top 6 but does the management team have the dressing room? we will never know, all we can do is look at performances and surmise .

Dithering Dougie · January 22, 2015

orly said:
He's got one win in 13 competitive games.

If they were the first 13 league games of the season he'd be rightly frog marched out the door.

Things are baaaaaaaaaaaaad.

Moyes didn't get sacked when he had 2 wins in 14 games at the beginning of the 2005-06 season..

tim cahill · January 22, 2015

I suppose we are 4 games unbeaten! (Penalty shoot out doesn't count)

I'd probably have taken that after Hull.

orly · January 22, 2015

Dithering Dougie said:
Moyes didn't get sacked when he had 2 wins in 14 games at the beginning of the 2005-06 season..

fair enough Dougie, if he wins against Palace I will back off

And to be fair, Moyes' squad was far worse than this one - Beattie and Neville ffs

bitter-no-better · January 22, 2015

Hard work, A bit of luck , less individual errors and maybe a couple of new signings and we should be ok. Who knows if we progress in the europa it may inject more confidence in the team in the league.

Khalekan · January 22, 2015

orly said:
fair enough Dougie, if he wins against Palace I will back off

And to be fair, Moyes' squad was far worse than this one - Beattie and Neville ffs

I don't think he bought Beattie until the January window that season.

Moggers · January 22, 2015

tim cahill said:
I suppose we are 4 games unbeaten! (Penalty shoot out doesn't count)

I'd probably have taken that after Hull.

Defo! Trust me, 4 losses on the bounce then 4 draws... Now 4 wins on the bounce!

Jamo Martinez · January 22, 2015

Moggers said:
Defo! Trust me, 4 losses on the bounce then 4 draws... Now 4 wins on the bounce!

That would be ace.

MassBlue · January 22, 2015

blukaku said:
As I said, we are a young team but with a lot of dead wood. If you look at are starting 11, we have Joel, Lukaku, Barkley, Besic, Stones and McCarthy who are all 24 and under (most are 21 and under). Thats over 50% of the team who I think most would still consider as young.
re Tactics, I dont think there is a massive problem with tactics, I think it is a confidence thing. I still think you blame the manager here, as the best managers know how to overcome periods of low confidence but Bobby is a young manager. He will sort it out.

Strange as it might seem, I think we have a mixture of players who are old and fading (Distin being the poster boy example, but add Pienaar, Osman, etc), and players who are a little too young (Barkley is naive, Besic is learning, etc...though all have great potential). What we don't have are 26-29 somethings in the peak of their careers (Mirallas, Coleman,??). The balance of youth and experience that worked for last year is a little out of whack. That's why I'm optimistic for the future, but obviously concerned with what's going on now.
But still pro-Martinez - IMO, you don't sack people until they've built their own team and everyone can see the results (good or bad).

kithnou · January 22, 2015

MassBlue said:
Strange as it might seem, I think we have a mixture of players who are old and fading (Distin being the poster boy example, but add Pienaar, Osman, etc), and players who are a little too young (Barkley is naive, Besic is learning, etc...though all have great potential). What we don't have are 26-29 somethings in the peak of their careers (Mirallas, Coleman,??). The balance of youth and experience that worked for last year is a little out of whack. That's why I'm optimistic for the future, but obviously concerned with what's going on now.
But still pro-Martinez - IMO, you don't sack people until they've built their own team and everyone can see the results (good or bad).

Sums it for most of us...if we can keep those young players.