the playing mantis wrote: ↑Fri Dec 22, 2023 1:11 am
Retro Gunner wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 6:18 pm
Horrible fucking feeling about this one. Not a shred of confidence at all. We've been flying by the seat of our pants this season, often getting out of trouble with late goals and before anyone tells me that it's a sign of a good side, it's not when you're playing poorly and nicking a late one. Once in a while sure, but you can't keep getting away with that.
Conversely, the scousers are hitting some form and will be really up for this. In my opinion we'll lose, it's just a matter of by how many.
And yet that's how scum have been playing multiplied, all season and you big them up!
I sense a bumming personally.
Mantis mate, I agree with most of what you post, but this hyper sensitive reaction about anything that might be considered "balanced" with regard to the scum, is very odd.
You had a bit of a pop a couple of weeks ago or so, after I positively reviewed some of their players and I couldn't be bothered to respond. Talking honestly about them, as I see it of course, isn't "bigging them up", it's talking sensibly. I fucking detest them and wouldn't only like to see them relegated, but rather to disappear off the face of the earth, but as I'm not 12 years old I'm capable of assessing their staff without chronic bias.
Yep, from what I've seen of Fat Ange, I like the bloke. He comes across as a man's man, no hyperbole, bullshit and touchline histrionics and calm when interviewed. He's also got them playing a lot better than last season, despite losing Kane. I thought they'd be struggling to stay top half after losing him. As I said before, I don't wish Ange any luck at that place, but he comes across to me as a far more likeable character than El Basque.
I rate their two full backs, who you dismissed as dirty or whatever. Take it from me, Ndogie is going to be one to watch, he's raw but looks good and Perro is already a quality back imo. Both get forward well and are tough, not dirty, at the back. Frankly, I'd love a couple of uncompromising full backs to replace our lightweights.
I also said that I'd been impressed by their keeper, a bloke plucked from Empoli, so their Italian scouts seem switched on (Ndogie is Italian too). Still, you reckon he hadn't been tested, despite saying immediately before that that they'd been under the cosh in most games and had nicked lucky wins....well, if they'd been under the cosh, he's clearly been tested. As with the full backs, I'd take their keeper in front of our pair of stumers.
Anyway, not bigging them up, but old enough to look at things sensibly. Out of interest, what did you think of Kane when he was at the scum?
