I wonder if this performance changes anyone's mind about the uproar over Silva's selection in the FA Cup loss. This is not to let Marco off the hook - over the last 6 weeks or so, he can't seem to get a tune out of this Fulham squad and that *is* his job. But which is the actual problem - the rotated squad that looked terrible against West Ham, the re-rotated side that he played against Southampton or today's re-re-rotated team?
It hardly seems like there is any combo of players that Marco can field that will play with the focus and intensity needed to beat anyone who isn't somnambulant Spurs. Maybe the FA Cup line-up wasn't an insult to the game but rather one more clumsy attempt to find a team that replicated any of the verve and focus we had earlier in the season.
Honestly I thought for a while that the squad are just exhausted, having had to cover for each other repeatedly across the season, and combine that with Silva hoping a weaker team would be able to get across the line at home against a Championship opponent, an in-form Southampton were able to take advantage and put us out.
We're in a bit of a slump and it's definitely something Marco has needed to address at this stage of the season for a few years now, but we shouldn't forget the way the squad has been stretched this year, which if we'd had the reinforcements we needed in the summer might have been less impactful on our form.
You must be wearing out the pages of your thesaurus finding the words to describe this recent drudgery.
Too cheap to pay-to-watch (can you blame me?), I closed out the match on YouTube on the Forest supporters page where "Wolfie," suffering a horrible cold and equally horrible match, did a commentary complaining mightily about his team's players, at best, as "shite," but his concluding remark said it all, not about Forest, rather, "What was Marco Silva thinking?"
I'm sure "Wolfie" was frustrated too, but at least Forest showed some fight today, and will probably do the same in their next few games. We were a whisker away from defeat, and in the back of my mind is the ugly thought that Marco and team are halfway onto the beach already...
Marco is clearly off and the players know it. Why else would the team spirit have gone off the Cliff edge? Time to plan for next season and sort out those who stay and those who go.
I'd suggest this March is going a lot like last March and the March before that. Silva wasn't leaving then and we had the same spate of "on the beach" stories and kite flying at practice.
Maybe Silva *is* departing, but this March's energy collapse isn't fresh evidence - it's old news.
Yup. This is his blueprint; tune the players up for a fast start to the season, get the points on the board, labour across the finish line. It’s why he so vocal about having new players in for pre-season. This season he tried to rotate more but didn’t work.
I wonder if this performance changes anyone's mind about the uproar over Silva's selection in the FA Cup loss. This is not to let Marco off the hook - over the last 6 weeks or so, he can't seem to get a tune out of this Fulham squad and that *is* his job. But which is the actual problem - the rotated squad that looked terrible against West Ham, the re-rotated side that he played against Southampton or today's re-re-rotated team?
It hardly seems like there is any combo of players that Marco can field that will play with the focus and intensity needed to beat anyone who isn't somnambulant Spurs. Maybe the FA Cup line-up wasn't an insult to the game but rather one more clumsy attempt to find a team that replicated any of the verve and focus we had earlier in the season.
Honestly I thought for a while that the squad are just exhausted, having had to cover for each other repeatedly across the season, and combine that with Silva hoping a weaker team would be able to get across the line at home against a Championship opponent, an in-form Southampton were able to take advantage and put us out.
We're in a bit of a slump and it's definitely something Marco has needed to address at this stage of the season for a few years now, but we shouldn't forget the way the squad has been stretched this year, which if we'd had the reinforcements we needed in the summer might have been less impactful on our form.
You must be wearing out the pages of your thesaurus finding the words to describe this recent drudgery.
Too cheap to pay-to-watch (can you blame me?), I closed out the match on YouTube on the Forest supporters page where "Wolfie," suffering a horrible cold and equally horrible match, did a commentary complaining mightily about his team's players, at best, as "shite," but his concluding remark said it all, not about Forest, rather, "What was Marco Silva thinking?"
Your comment has at least put a smile on my face!
I'm sure "Wolfie" was frustrated too, but at least Forest showed some fight today, and will probably do the same in their next few games. We were a whisker away from defeat, and in the back of my mind is the ugly thought that Marco and team are halfway onto the beach already...
Why was ESR not even named on the bench today?
Marco is clearly off and the players know it. Why else would the team spirit have gone off the Cliff edge? Time to plan for next season and sort out those who stay and those who go.
I'd suggest this March is going a lot like last March and the March before that. Silva wasn't leaving then and we had the same spate of "on the beach" stories and kite flying at practice.
Maybe Silva *is* departing, but this March's energy collapse isn't fresh evidence - it's old news.
Yup. This is his blueprint; tune the players up for a fast start to the season, get the points on the board, labour across the finish line. It’s why he so vocal about having new players in for pre-season. This season he tried to rotate more but didn’t work.
Pathetic clueless lazy and they should give their wages to charity.