Actually it was a deliberate ploy to buy time for Sam Houston and others to raise an army which they did and a few months later routed Santa Ana. The rallying cry of the troops was remember the Alamo.

So not a bad analogy by the end of the year we should have a fit squad "Remember the Bridge lads"

One more point

we came to play in more attacking style than we would have done under Roy Tony or Sam. We got beat by a better side no shame in that. Hopefully PV will take a team in transition to safety mid table and cup run. Building rather revolution but we shall have to hold on to hats for sure.

Wouldn’t it be great to start the first match of a season with your full squad rather than having to wait until the transfer window closes? Those multi million pound clubs start with such an advantage that clubs like us are on the back foot from game one. We had a weaker team out yesterday and the aging squad from the last one with Roy’s tactics would have given Chelsea a better game. Let’s hope we get a couple of 1st team signings in to compete with those we have waiting to start? Andersen from his short cameo looks class and is the only positive I can come up with from the first game of a new season. There were a few of our players that looked out of place in the premiership yesterday :-(

With respect,I assert,yet again that my comment apropos being in a relegation position was tongue-in-cheek.

In terms of the rest of your comments, I believe that I elucidated on HOL that the team was basically the same as last season.I was certainly not expecting any tangible transformation straight away but alas the performance and result was disappointing.
I fully agree with Vieira that the squad is in need of further purchases and I am hopeful we will acquire more in this window.

Finally, I have been an ardent supporter since the 60s and supported the team through thick and thin.

Edited by Willo (15 Aug 2021 9.13am)

No point banging on at Willo.

We were absolute s***e yesterday. Do I expect to beat Chelsea away…no not at all. But I would like us to be competitive and other than Chelsea controlling the game they didn’t do a lot themselves.

If we want to be a top half team then these are the games we can’t sit down and take a whopping in. We should kinda expect to be losing 2-1, 1-0, 3-2. Instead we barely put an attacking move together. That’s what annoys me. It’s not the getting beat. It’s having 1 shot on target in a whole game that really winds me up.

We have some players that are currently not good enough at this level…and while we persist with them I think we may struggle.

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I am among the most optimistic of "glass half full" people, but even I didn't expect anything other than a defeat yesterday. So it wasn't the defeat that bothers me. It was the manner of it. Chelsea didn't have to break sweat, or get out of second gear. It was like a training game against their under 18s for them. We might be playing in a new way, but no-one seemed to know what it was, or show much fight. Playing like that against even the lesser sides in the PL we will get turned over by effort alone.

I know it's early and there were a few reasons to be cheerful among the dross, but there's clearly a long hard season in front of us.

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