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Annus Horribilis 2011/2012 .............................
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1882
Milenko Acimovic
Just realised if 'Ribery' had an additional 'B' at the beginning it would spell... Robben & Fulop!
Crawley
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Crawley
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seaside spur
Scott Parker
Some decent responses but as with every other thread we just keep going back to our bad luck and bad refereeing decisions.
Yes, we were down to 10 men against Villa and that was because we had no cover for our full backs and had to play a poor LW at LB. Hopelessly out of his depth in previous games against Blackburn and Bolton (i said he would definitely cost us after the Bolton game and got criticised for it by some) he should have been nowhere the starting line-up.
The appalling January window was the reason why he was playing. We loaned out good pros that could only have filled in at LB (three of the actually) and never replaced them like for like.We should have kept all our squad for the vital and very demanding run-in AND added to the squad, we did neither.
Harry must take responsibility for this.
We ran our players into the ground becuase of our lack of squad depth. Walker, Kaboul,Parker,Bale,Ekotto are all now injured and two and possibly three of those will now miss the Euros.
Chelsea with half a team missing and most of their defence out still managed to put out a team that looked strong on paper in the last few games. Ferreira and Bosingwa might not be great but they are very decent squad players for cover.
I could have made a thread only about our bad luck,it's all true, we got 'foyed' many times, we conceded more late goals than we scored (is that bad luck or bad play?). We had near misses, hit the woodwork often and keepers performed heroics. Is that bad luck or just bad finishing?
Ultimately we did have a lot of bad luck but some was self-induced.
Emirates Marketing Project and Chelsea cleaned up, The goons got CL, So did Cheatski even though they finished 6th and became the first London club to win the CL, on top of all that they denied us a place.
QPR stayed up, i wanted them to get relegated.
West Ham and their inferiority complex are back in the PL via the play offs thanks to a last minute goal.
Even my second/ local team Southend missed out on promotion by one point. An abandoned game due to floodlight failure against Aldershot when leading comfortably mid-way through the second half ultimately cost Southend promotion as the when the game was replayed some months later,Aldershot by this time in red hot form won the game.
Southend then lost in the play-offs to Crewe , a team they had beaten twice in the league!
As the thread title said......a really horrible football year but i don't feel half as tinkled off about it all as i did a couple of days ago.
Yes, we were down to 10 men against Villa and that was because we had no cover for our full backs and had to play a poor LW at LB. Hopelessly out of his depth in previous games against Blackburn and Bolton (i said he would definitely cost us after the Bolton game and got criticised for it by some) he should have been nowhere the starting line-up.
The appalling January window was the reason why he was playing. We loaned out good pros that could only have filled in at LB (three of the actually) and never replaced them like for like.We should have kept all our squad for the vital and very demanding run-in AND added to the squad, we did neither.
Harry must take responsibility for this.
We ran our players into the ground becuase of our lack of squad depth. Walker, Kaboul,Parker,Bale,Ekotto are all now injured and two and possibly three of those will now miss the Euros.
Chelsea with half a team missing and most of their defence out still managed to put out a team that looked strong on paper in the last few games. Ferreira and Bosingwa might not be great but they are very decent squad players for cover.
I could have made a thread only about our bad luck,it's all true, we got 'foyed' many times, we conceded more late goals than we scored (is that bad luck or bad play?). We had near misses, hit the woodwork often and keepers performed heroics. Is that bad luck or just bad finishing?
Ultimately we did have a lot of bad luck but some was self-induced.
Emirates Marketing Project and Chelsea cleaned up, The goons got CL, So did Cheatski even though they finished 6th and became the first London club to win the CL, on top of all that they denied us a place.
QPR stayed up, i wanted them to get relegated.
West Ham and their inferiority complex are back in the PL via the play offs thanks to a last minute goal.
Even my second/ local team Southend missed out on promotion by one point. An abandoned game due to floodlight failure against Aldershot when leading comfortably mid-way through the second half ultimately cost Southend promotion as the when the game was replayed some months later,Aldershot by this time in red hot form won the game.
Southend then lost in the play-offs to Crewe , a team they had beaten twice in the league!
As the thread title said......a really horrible football year but i don't feel half as tinkled off about it all as i did a couple of days ago.
parklane1
Vic Buckingham
edgey-the-yid
Gheorge Popescu
Well they got 3 out of 20 i spose. Was an odd season positions wise tho
1882
Milenko Acimovic
I predicted something very similar too, except I had us above Liverpool like most people.
That's not really relevant though as I've stated in a number of threads. Performance can only be judged in comparison to how everyone else performed. Had the entire first teams of Utd, City, Chelsea and Arsenal gone on strike for the whole season, anything other than winning the league would have been a complete disaster.
Equally, given how brick Chelsea and Arsenal were this season, 4th has to be considered less than good enough. Especially as it doesn't get us our one major goal of the season - qualification for the CL.
Crab.C.Nesbitt
Gheorge Popescu
Crab.C.Nesbitt
Gheorge Popescu
Crab.C.Nesbitt
Gheorge Popescu
Dp
Spur of the moment
Frederic Kanoute
Daylight Robbery!
BrainOfLevy
Michael Carrick
I'm tending to come round to this point of view now.
I think the drop off from the first part of the season compared to the second was completely unacceptable. Arsenal and Chelsea were utter brick this season and despite them having some good players we simply had better ones. We were gifted finishing above Chelsea and Arsenal were trying to gift that to us too. We're also lucky that Liverpool managed to absolutely waste as much money as they did.
Maybe we over-acheived a little in the first half of the season. But 15 points more than the second half? It's just too much. We threw it away. We were performing well, Harry had us going like that, and even in the second half we were dominating the ball, we just lacked the cutting edge IMO because confidence was sapped from all the speculation.
Absolutely head bangingly infuriating how everything seems to have conspired against us.
polski sklep
Moussa Saib
Even if we had a bankroller, other clubs will too, so there still won't be much in it.
I'm genuinely proud and am enjoying the position we're competing at, these past few years.
Spursalot
Jimmy McCormick
What is this?
At first i assumed it might be double post, but why edit it to DP instead of just deleting it?