Season review….

That wasn’t necessarily down to problems with the defence but more a issue regarding the attitude of the team as a whole, which seemed to get better as the season went on.

22 goals were against 2 teams utd and tottenham- take those out of the equation and we look pretty decent!!!

What a deluded reply !!! :? [/quote]

Oh, I don’t know. It’s a standard statistical technique to remove large anomolies from both ends of a sample so i think it’s a fairly valid point.

Are you crazy? Dindane and Van den Borre are shocking to say the least, they just look good in a poor Pompey side (awaits 4-0 and Dindane scored a hattrick response)

Fair play Jamie O’Hara is good, but he’s a centre mid, I don’t think he’d be a good replacement for N’Zogbia if it’s a winger we’re looking for.

I think we need a new…

Back up keeper
Right Back
Centre Back
Right mid (or left depending on whether Charlie stays and where Bobby plans on playing Moses next year)
Attacking centre mid, or the “Gomez role”
Striker

It’s them rose tinted glasses you were on about. :D

If I can I’ll just respond to a few points made in this thread:

“When we have clicked we have been immense, when we haven’t clicked we have been poor” – I’d agree with that statement but with a completely different slant from the original poster. IMO we’ve “clicked” in 6 full games this season (Villa, Chelsea, Burnley, Wolves away, city at home & Liverpool) and 10 phenomenal minutes against Arsenal. In the vast majority of the remaining 31 games played so far we’ve either been below average or downright gash (& I include games in which 3 points have been picked up). So when I hear people saying “Bobby just needs to sort out a bit of consistency” to me its a far bigger problem. trying to improve on playing well in 6 games out of 31 is a far bigger problem than needing to improve consistency

“He will have more of an idea what is needed this time around” – Will he? And on what basis are those types of statements made? IMO our performances deteriorated as the season went on so i fail to see what he was learning. He continued to make the same mistakes over & over again. Its only my opinion but I felt that after the Arsenal game Bobby had 2 big decisions to make i.e. did he bring back Caldwell at the expense of Gohouri & did he persist with Moreno up front & Rodallega on the wing or stick with the players who had finished the Arsenal game so well. Again, only my opinion but I think he made the wrong decision for both of them. Pishes me off even more when the manager states in an interview after the game that “there was nothing we could do, it was West Ham’s day” ??????? :roll:

“But to think we have two of the most exciting young players in the Premier League in McCarthy and Moses” – Can we hand on heart say that Moses is one of the most exciting prospects in the game??? Forget all the clubs who were “allegedly” interested in him. Only ourselves & 3 championship clubs put bids in. So whilst i hope he’s gonna be great I wouldn’t say what a great prospect he is based on who he was linked with coz I think it was a bit of mischief making on behalf of the selling club & agent to entice a bid out of Latics. Secondly, how much game time has Bobby decided to give him?? 10 minutes here & there as a sub, we got a poor performance from him when he started against Bolton & he didn’t rip up trees on saturday neither. By no means am I writing him off but one of the most exciting young players in the league? he aint shown it yet

“We have had games where we have been unlucky and decisions have gone against us” – Swings and roundabouts though coz we’ve also had games in which we’ve been awful & managed to nick points & in which the opposition fans have come away moaning about key decisions going our way

I hope so Griff & I really wish I could see these things that convince some people to say that Bobby is the man for the job, but bar the odd bit here & there I can’t – I hope I’m proved wrong

Being the saddo that I am in my lunch break yesterday I ran through a list of our squad for each position, the players I felt we needed to get rid of coz they aint good enough & the players that will probably be flogged to raise transfer funds & it didn’t make good reading.
i had us needing 2 keepers (Pollit, Stojkovic & Kingson all being released), 1 right back, 2 left backs (Figueroa being sold), 1 centre half (if Gohouri is signed up), 1 right winger, 2 left wingers (N’Zogbia being sold), 2 central midfielders/”in the hole”rs & 3 centre forwards (Scotland being flogged, Moreno released & Rodallega being sold).

Not saying that’ll happen but if Bobby wants to progress the club as opposed to it treading water then that’s what i think needs to happen

Regarding the clear out, I included everybody who I feel over the last season/s isn’t up to the job
I can’t really see the use in keeping the likes of Koumas, Gomez, Scotland, Bouaouzzan (??), De Ridder, Kapo, Amaya, Sinclair, Stojkovic, Kingson & loads of others I can’t remember now who have either had chance after chance to prove themselves & aint up to the job or in their season here have hardly featured or just not looked up to scratch, simply for the sake of making up squad numbers.
These players aren’t good enough & if Bobby wants to progress as he says he does all those who aint good enough need clearing out
On top of that I think unfortunately we’ll also lose Figueroa, N’Zogbia & Rodallega to other clubs

So Bobby either has to have a massive clear out & almost totally rebuild his squad (in which case I think we’re f00ked) or he keeps hold of most of those who make up the numbers & loses 3 of his star players & has to replace them with cheaper versions (in which case I think we’re f00ked)

I’m really looking forward to next season!!!!!!!!

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