24-01-2021, 01:25 PM
(24-01-2021, 10:54 AM)Alf Wrote: I actually think yesterday's tanking had some positives, in that both Hughton & the club can't hide away now from the fact that we have signed some utterly dire players, nowhere near the level required for promotion.
unfortunately i wish i could agree Alf, my regret is that if you are resting players, rest them, don't drag them out of bed at 7 am stick them on a coach to Swansea and go through all the pre match, warm ups, preparation and ultimately implicate them in an awful result
i think, even the most optimistic of us had already, long ago concluded that our squad is nowhere near promotion standard
we can't even conclude it was a totally shambolic performance by bomb squad players, i wish we could.
You could argue that a group of generally uninspiring, unfit and makeshift players were still in the game after an hour and Chris Hughton gets no breaks from referees
I haven't really learned anything from yesterday as you couldn't really expect the starting line up to gel and become an exceptional impressive team, every single game for more than a year that we play a changed team we tend to lose, this was a changed team with improvisation and out of position stuff with more than a smattering of total unfamiliarity
I haven't learned anything, if we really want to win a game we have to play our strongest side which we already knew, and Swansea demonstrated the only time to really introduce new players is when you are winning and they come out the blocks flying and have debuts to remember and tell there grand kids about
It wasn't a titanicesque disaster but everyone ended up cold and limping around in life rafts, this probably won't help preparation, confidence or belief going into the next game, i've learned nowt