So two fit defenders for Saturday? Very clever.

[goldstone]

So after a fair amount of abuse when I started this thread and comments about "how could Gus have expected so many injuries to defenders?", we are now down to four fit defenders again with a midfielder playing RB for most of the game yesterday. (I have to say Lopez actually did the job as well as our recognised full backs).

However, back to my original point, Gus should not have let Elphick, Cook and Hall go, and he should have kept Vincelot as an extremely valuable utility player who can fill in at full back, CB, or midfield and do a very acceptable job in any of those positions.

Another screw-up by Gus.

 

[Acker79]

Another screw-up by Gus.

Not really, more the same (claim of a) screw up, just reiterated.

 

[goldstone]

Not really, more the same (claim of a) screw up, just reiterated.

Fair enough.

 

[RupertsFlan]

Goldstone - how easy do you think life would be if everything was managed with the virtue of hindsight?

do you really believe that Gus would let those players go for no reason? Do you really believe that he is so ludicrously incompetent that you can see something that has not occured to him?

I'm not saying he does not make mistakes. He does. Quite a few in fact. Last night was one of the first times he has rectified something quickly - the article in The Argus today showing that he is beginning to be slightly less of a stubborn mule when it comes to admitting he got something wrong.

The problem I have with your comments - is not that you are making them, because part of it I can agree with.

But this constant use if hindsight when passing judgement is getting really annoying - and actually quite depressing.

Last night for around 30 minutes or so I thought we put in one of the weediest, most disorganised performance I have seen in the last 18 months. CMS was atrocious. Greer's distribution was akin to that of a blind, drunk pensioner.

However sometimes one needs to keep things in context. We aer not in a bad position. We should be 15 points better off. I suspect Gus knows that. I suspect the players know that.

But using every poor pass, poor call from the manager or weedy performance as a stick to smash up and down on the managers heads is a little tiresome.

A couple of weeks ago someone on this board suggested I was a JCL and therefore had no right to pass an opinion as I had no idea what I was talking about. He or she does not know that I have posted as Digweeds Trousers on here for enarly ten years and have missed 21 Albion Games in the last 17 years. My point simply is that this is getting a little silly on here with the same old crap being peddled by the same old posters. I would suggest Withdean Wanderer as an example. It's tiresome reading the inane dribblings of someone who is so obviously now posting as a caricature rather than their actual opiniosn. Anyway I digress.

I am not making the same mistake as him or her - I am not telling you to shut up or stop passing your opinion. I am only asking whether the use of hindsight after the event is actually a fair or constructive way to disagree with the tactics, team selection or personal / team performances that we are watching week in week out.

 

[Springal]

I am sure Elphick, Cook and Hall, would all have rather stayed at Brighton, to wait until early December, for a sniff of a chance !! Some absolute goons on here.