The binman chronicles
Player Valuation: £80m
We're missing one major fact here, ATV were expecting a bell to be inside the match balls !
That's harsh. Funny, but harsh.
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We're missing one major fact here, ATV were expecting a bell to be inside the match balls !
Just pass it about. Ease off. Don't shoot as much
Teams do this all the time when they have a big lead
Basically do what Germany did against Brazil in 2014
They still scored two more goals in the second half because Brazil were that bad, but they could have scored more than that if they'd wanted to
In your example though, once the game had been won Germany could conserve energy for the final. Smart thing to do.
What we have is the first game for a new manager and the possibility of up to 15 players needing to be culled from the squad. It was in their interests to impress Silva, if they had just knocked it around it would have been like handing in your own redundancy.
Not if he asked them to do it, which you could argue he and the coaching staff should have done
Had I been in his shoes I would have said at half time "Just lay off them lads", but that's just me I guess. I remember getting told that back in the day when I used to play at school and we'd be lucky enough to wallop someone. After a certain point you'd just ease up
Again though, it's not like it's a huge issue or anything, and they were rotten so we could have put the under 17's out there and probably still roasted them, but I get where people are coming from with the criticism and think it has some validity
But then that is surely unfair to the players that have been told to ease back? How would you feel if your direct rival for your position has gone and banged in a first half hat trick? I think that could cause problems in the dressing room right from the off. If you had 10 pre-season games then I think it wouldn't be so bad, but he needs to see which players to keep/off load before playing a settled team in the last few games or at least a half in those games. There isn't a lot of time.
Personally I am happy with the show us everything you have got attitude, least we can't say we will be starting the season undercooked.
Come on mate, he already knows who he wants, let's not pretend smashing X amount of goals past this lot would have the slightest bit of difference
While I'm with you that scoring x amount of goals against them has little meaning (like the free kick was not in the corner so would have been saved in a real game thus not really saying much), however I think yes although you have in your mind who you want that can change after a face to face conversations and certain personalities of players aligning with that individual manager. I think a lot of places are up for grabs and the players are responding accordingly which is the bare minimum you expect.
Not if he asked them to do it, which you could argue he and the coaching staff should have done
Had I been in his shoes I would have said at half time "Just lay off them lads", but that's just me I guess. I remember getting told that back in the day when I used to play at school and we'd be lucky enough to wallop someone. After a certain point you'd just ease up
Again though, it's not like it's a huge issue or anything, and they were rotten so we could have put the under 17's out there and probably still roasted them, but I get where people are coming from with the criticism and think it has some validity
Cant understand why such a big deal is being made about the quality of the opposition that we played in our first pre-season game.
Plenty of premier league teams have started off their pre-season with games against extreme minnows. Liverpool putting 7 passed Chester who play in the 6th division of English football didn't receive any criticism as far as I'm aware - yet Everton playing a game against the team that hosted our training camp is seen as disgraceful and embarassing.
Play Bury now on Wednesday... Liverpool drew with them 0-0 on Saturday, though I'm sure if we batter them we'll be ridiculed again for playing crap teams to 'make us look good'.
Though I suppose it's not as if hypocrisy is a new thing among football fans and pundits.