Spherical Planet
Well-known member
It's not just Europe either, BB. We took a pummeling in the League cup final and managed to get away with it, but no lessons were learned and we got humiliated by the huns a few weeks later.Well said Niall. Much better than I've managed to get across. Lenny's old pals act where he is sticking by his favourites will only lead to cliques and divisions in the dressing room. How must Klimala feel tonight? What message does it send out to him and other fringe players?
And if they weren't match fit - why the hell not give them some decent game time last week when we were cruising against part timers? Instead of giving them a few minutes at the end and only using 3 out of the 5 subs you are allowed.
We have some really good players but constantly play them out of position to shoe-horn them in. It just never works out for us when we stupidly try this trick in big games, yet sure as hell you KNOW we will pull this same stunt yet again in another couple of important matches before the end of the year.
You should try to give yourself the best chance possible for a ravourable outcome - yet again we deliberately set out to make it unnecessarily difficult for ourselves.
I don't think We need hindsight eithet as it was obvious beforehand that this was the wrong gameplan. Even then, there was ample opportunity to correct it but he never even gave it a go! That is not on.
Lenny's biggest successes as a boss came when teams would come onto us and we could counter them. He seems to have no real idea about how to force a game or break teams down. It's all really pedestrian, one-paced and really disjointed.