One word - shambolic.

PS Hilariously enough, that word hasn't been heard of by Google.

Red and Blue Army!

Can anyone remember how we got on in the next few games after that debacle at home to Sunderland (0-4 at half time)? Yes, I know, I'm clutching at straws.

In the post match conference he clearly wasn't at all happy with the 1st half. Also he did make a valid point that we could easily be on 3 points and not 7. Think he was saying that we haven't dominated any game this season, all very nervy. Last season we rarely did as well and with such a small improvement in the squad over the summer quite possibly we will do the same again. Agree with the tactics, as they seem to be one dimensional throughout any match. As a result as others have said 17th or above seems the sole goal. Think we have been winging it most of this PL tenure to be honest, boosting results with managerial changes and a sense of luck with major players. AWB was a bonus and if ManUre had bothered to give Wilf a go and nurtured him he wouldn't be back here now. This has been mixed up with some gutsy players who have given everything that they have but a fair few duffers, some expensive, along the way to negate them. Let's hope we can weather the storm presently and come out with a stronger squad in the future.

Edited by Booted Eagle (15 Sep 2019 12.40pm)

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

So you believe being fouled every time you move the ball forward is Shambolic, What I watched was one team being highly clinical with opportunities and the other being professionally fouled with special treatment to it's star player, the ultimate moment was when Kane actually sat on Zaha and the so called ref allowed play to continue for yet another Spurs attack! ..what was it nineteen fouls and they were the ones actually counted for!! ..probably about another ten or eleven ignored, if one team cannot mount enough good attacking opportunities to worry the oppositions defence and keeper then the result is always going to be about four nil against an attacking force the likes of Spurs have ..we had no chance whatsoever ..remember that FA cup game against Man.U with MR Clatterbang as ref!!

Edited by Tickled pink (15 Sep 2019 1.40pm)

Is it ?

So are you saying that Hodgson has sufficient attacking options available to him and he should be getting more out of them ??

And of course we are trying to get the ball to our best player as often as we can. Any team in a similar position to ours would.

Roy has his limitations but I still defend him because he is not being given the resources to do anything much beyond what he has and is achieving. Which actually is a lot in any case.

I sense increasing frustration on his part because actually it must get
difficult to operate at this level in a financial straighjacket and I’m pretty sure he would not have wanted to go into this season with the likes of Benteke and Wickham as two of his three striking options.

Old, Ungifted and White

Yes and we did get the ball successfully to him didn't we ..only for him to be promptly fouled nine times out of ten, the game came down to clinical finishing after awful positional play from us and brutal treatment being professionally dished out every single time we threatened. Awful positional play has absolutely nothing to do with Hodgson.