There were very few positives that anyone could draw from Saturday; the only one I can think of was that it wasn’t my turn to buy the half-time ale.
JR has a point that we were undoubtedly better in the second half, but it was hardly a stretch to improve on the first half, was it.
Like Tyldesley, I am utterly baffled as to the thought process that resulted in the selection of Gouhouri at left-back and in the absence of an explanation from Roberto I guess we will have to remain baffled.
Also, with a plethora of players capable of playing wide (Maloney, Crusat, even McManaman) why on earth we start with McCarthy out there, I’ll never know. I guess he wasn’t too happy about it either because he looked like he couldn’t be @rsed until he moved inside later but even then he wasn’t much better.
Let’s hope that it was indeed just a one-off because much more of that dn it will be a very long season indeed.
