I think we all love Rafa..

March 12, 2006

but there comes a time when criticism is fair and expected. That time is now.

This f**king nonsense of sticking with Crouch and Morientes is a complete joke. Cisse might be erratic, a whinger, head down, infuriating bloke, but he can score, he can makes runs FORWARD and into SPACE, he can pull defenders around with his MOVEMENT. In short, he a much better option than those other two right now, even if he plays off ones of them. Defenders must *iss themselves at the easy afternoon they get against Crouch and Moro. No movement or pace, ALWAYS back to goal and even their touch is often poor.

I've lost count of the number of times the ball has bounced 20 foot away from Crouch after trying to chest it. The ultimate emabrassment for me (and this happens every game), was halfway through 2nd half today when Gerrard burst forward with the ball towards the edge of the penalty area and flicked it through to, well, through to nothing in the end cos Crouch actually ran TOWARDS him, away from goal. Fecking cringable it is.

I'm sorry Rafa, but whatvers gonna happen in the summer with player sales, you've got to realise we've got a massive problem, not just scoring but actually causing defenders problems. Our midfielders are putting in double the effort to create chances for our strikers cos every pass and chance has to be placed in a sixpence due to their lack of pace and movement.

I won't even go in to the Garcia stuff.

If others don't like this criticism of Rafa, then I'm sorry, but it's just my opinion and think he's making a rod for his own back. I can accept poor performances as every team has them, what I can't accept at the moment is our embarassment in attack when its a problem of our own making and there is a part solution waiting there. We are becoming a laughing stock, and as I say only the doubled efforts of the rest of the team to keep clean sheets and score from midfield is why we are as high in the league as we are. But it could get a whole lot worse in the coming weeks.

Benzo-13 · March 12, 2006

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