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Moyes's Post-Match Interview
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I've listened to David Moyes's post match interview a couple of times now.
I would like guidance, please. Is he delusional, lying or ignorant?
Support the players in public by all means if there is a shred of evidence to support your view. But kindly don't take the paying public for complete fools.
Or have I missed something?
Mike McLean, Posted 07/02/2010 at 04:26:08
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But, after Ferguson and Wenger and perhaps Hodgson, I'm struggling to identify anyone from the Prem who could make a positive difference to our club.
I always thought O'Neill's reputation outweighs his actual ability;
Redknapp as he's aged seems to have improved but there's always the whiff of trouble there,
Ancelloti and Mancini... too early to tell, can't help feeling without the money they'd struggle or would'nt be interested anyway.
Allardyce, Bruce, Pulis, Brown, McCleish, Laws.... all cut of the same Moyes cloth; and Coyle, Zola and Martinez are works in progress.
Any ideas?
Personally I think the problem is what he’s saying before games
I suspect that Benitez spends the week before a derby telling his players they must win at all costs. I think Moyes spends the week before a derby telling his players not to panic its just another game etc. its clear what works. I don’t care what we do next time we play them but I want the team to fight tooth and nail for everything.
there’s a very principled manager who has only finshed outside the top 7 once in eight years and hasnt spent much on players.
He’s also won manager of the year 3 times in eight years.
Reckon he’d be a good candidate to replace Moyes.
Oh hang on ............ it is David Moyes.
Don’t dispute your comments re Moyes just feel the hope of this club is being drained not just by the lack of silverware but his teams style of play.
I think Robert Louis Stephenson said:
"To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive."
Like I said, no chance it will happen though.
Davie has a pressure free haven, which is probably why he is so comfortable bullshitting us.
Read more into that fact that the players were still locked in the dressing room after Sky Sports went off air. I doubt they were having a nice little chat, do you?
Whilst the club is broke, David Moyes is our best option.
Pienaar was finally played in the centre of midfield against Man City and look how well we played. And we had a proper balanced midfield with two orthodox wide men. Because of one poor half against Birmingham, Moyes changes it around again and the performances have sunk again.
The most important goal for us this season was scored by Vaughan when it set up the win against Burnley. At the time, although playing well, we couldn’t find a win from anywhere. When fit Vaughan will run forever and will always knock a goal in. He was the player to bring on against Liverpool. But Moyes has already relegated him to fourth choice.
Only one person to blame for Saturday and that’s the manager, who if he does the right thing, it’s a rarity.
But what was the point in leaving Cahill on if we were going 4-4-2? With NO Coleman or Bily on to try to something new on the flanks, just more pointlessness of a static Capt’ Pip hoofing it to a wall of red.
FUCKING CLUELESS Managment!!!
A decent footballing side would have kept possession, used the extra man and ran Liverpool ragged. Moyes instead resorts to lumping balls through the middle and when he finally tries to change the game, takes off our only forward who can grab a goal and puts on a player who can trap a ball further than I can kick it!
What changed from us having 80% posession when it was 10 v 10 and then losing the plot when we have an extra man? A footballing manager would have urged his players to retain possession and put two players out wide. If you were watching the second half not knowing what had happened earlier, you would never have known we had a man advantage.
The problem with me and I suspect a lot of my fellow supporters is that we get drawn into the hyperbole of the players and the manager. I knew we’d lose when I read the reports from our manager of how we haven’t be closer to them across the park in years. Oh really? They just beat us with a man fewer Dave!
Save the platitudes for after the game when we’ve actually won and are above them in the league please.
You can blame referees, money, Gerrard, whatever. The simple reason we lost on Saturday was that we just weren’t good enough. Again.
The truth of the matter is I cannot recall an RS team that played as poorly as ours did on Saturday. And another thing, I am sick and tired of the whinging on here about how badly we have been treated by fate, the opposition, referees and the media. The derby confirmed that we are as far away from winning a cup as we have been for 20 years.
What is more depressing than Saturdays load of tripe is our manager making excuses for it. Apart from Heitinga, Cahill and Donavon the others deserved to have strips torn off. Why did Moyes attempt to disguise how woeful they were?
1. Was he smoothing the brows of his highly paid and self proclaimed stars.
2. Was he is attempting to bullshit the fans.
3. He was complicit to the dross.
4. Does he truly believes we were ‘unlucky’.
If he really believes that bad luck cost us the game we may as well abandon all hope.
Davey didn’t say we were unlucky - he said he didn’t think we deserved to lose, which - on the grounds that Liverpool created virtually nothing - was a fair point. He then went on to say that we probably didn’t do enough to win it either. But on balance of play a draw would probably have been fair.
Why he is getting criticised for this I am not sure - which part do you all disagree with.
Did Liverpool dominate the game and create numerous chances to score - NO, the goal they scored was from a corner where our defenders went AWOL - Liverpool actually had to do nothing.
Did we do enough - NO - we passed the ball around alot, but couldn’ break down a team that played with every man behind the ball for long periods, and played it very well.
We didn’t have the imagination or variation to work out a way through. This is down to how the players perform on the pitch - too many over ambitious passes giving possession away more than anything else.
There are so many posts on this game now its ridiculous, yet still we get the - ’we were rubbish’ we are negative’ ’we’ll never win anything’ etc etc etc.
It was one game (admittedly against Liverpool who we all want to beat), and shows nothing particularly - certainly no more than was sown when we went to the Emirates and thoroughly deserved all 3 points, or scored 3 times away at Chelsea, yet people ignore these cos they don’t fit your plan.
You need to discuss extensively games that show we are negative and rubbish cos otherwise you’ll have nothing to moan about.
We had a bad day and missed an opportunity for 3 points, get over it, it happens- forutnately not ver often these days as despite what you lot may think - we are actually quite good!
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