The "do they mean us?" thread pt 2

[Koke 7,174]

Burton were 2 divisions below Man City. If we batter Burton 10-0 midweek and Vardy shush the fans we would get criticised for it I'm sure.

[Fox92 11,479]

Disrespectful. Fvck off. It's sport ffs.

[Nalis 5,065]

I said this in another thread but surely taking your foot off the gas is more disrespectful than going for the jugular?

 

Cannavaro said Germany should have eased off against Brazil in the 7-1, fvck that.

[ithuriel 1,093]

If you ease off when you have no need to, you do the entire sport a disservice and you run the risk of your dropping your tempo turning the game in a direction that is not so beneficial to you.

[Corky 12,850]

12 minutes ago, Fox92 said:

Disrespectful. Fvck off. It's sport ffs.

Let's hope people who think this was disrespectful don't go on Youtube to see highlights of Leeds v Southampton in 1972.

 

[davieG 17,067]

The only reason to ease off is if you sub some of your better more at risk players to save them for a vital Euro game coming up.

[urban.spaceman 31,625]

15 hours ago, Happy Fox said:

https://www.grandoldteam.com/forum/threads/next-manager-poll.108276/page-53

 

  

 

14 hours ago, MrsJohnMurphy said:

Probably the ones thinking they could get Simeone

 

[ToeKneeHandCock 109]

Don’t get this disrespect argument. Surely it’s more disrespectful to ease off because you’ve taken pity on a team? 

[Ric Flair 20,310]

The disrespect argument is due to the accusations made against the USA women's team, and why the same isn't being levelled against Leicester. I was oblivious to the supposed criticism back in the summer with the women's World Cup but this is why some are bringing it up. 

[Nalis 5,065]

31 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

 

 

Keiran speaks the truth and with a lot of sense.

 

The responder is either on the wind up or deluded.

[FireFox 1,454]

12 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

The disrespect argument is due to the accusations made against the USA women's team, and why the same isn't being levelled against Leicester. I was oblivious to the supposed criticism back in the summer with the women's World Cup but this is why some are bringing it up. 

Which is a ridiculous compassion. The criticism came from the difference in quality the USWNT had over their opponents, and why, such as simply having a huge pool of players to select from because of the county's population.. or finances/resources for training and preparing. Basically, the players are representing their countries, which have huge differences, differences that are out of the control of that country's footballing organization.

 

Southampton have been in the Premier League 2 seasons longer than us, so their lack of quality and failures are their own as a club. 

 

Idealy, (if there wasn't a record to go for and a golden boot to try to win, then) to "let off" without actually doing so in a disrespectful way, after the first half Rodgers could have made some substitutions; give Hamza and JJ some game time. But we only have 3 subs to make and a game a few days later.

[SouthStandUpperTier 5,450]

32 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

The disrespect argument is due to the accusations made against the USA women's team, and why the same isn't being levelled against Leicester. I was oblivious to the supposed criticism back in the summer with the women's World Cup but this is why some are bringing it up. 

Leicester and Southampton are similar sized clubs, with similar budgets and similar histories. The Thailand Women's team qualified for the World Cup by virtue of beating Timor, Cambodia and Myanmar. They were getting hammered in warm up games by teams that hadn't even qualified for the World Cup. While there may well have been an element of sexism in the criticism the US Women's team got, the two games aren't really comparable.

[Koke 7,174]

18 hours ago, Babylon said:

If that was Liverpool scoring the 9, you think people would be talking about Saints?

 

I agree. If Liverpool had won 9-0 nothing else would have been talked about for 7 straight days. 

[ealingfox 5,547]

Literally like 3 people criticised the USA team a bit and people trying to make a point are acting like it was universal condemnation.

[norwichfox 2,317]

quite honestly, I couldn't give a flying fcuk about women's football.

[Matt 4,735]

This disrespectful point - These are the type of people that don't believe in sports day at school.

 

That everyone should get a prize and that there are no winners and no losers.

[The Year Of The Fox 2,480]

45 minutes ago, norwichfox said:

quite honestly, I couldn't give a flying fcuk about women's football.

Total non event isn’t it

 

I wish people would stop trying to pretend otherwise too

[Leeds Fox 1,521]

32 minutes ago, Matt said:

This disrespectful point - These are the type of people that don't believe in sports day at school.

 

That everyone should get a prize and that there are no winners and no losers.

 

Everyone’s a winner. There are no losers. 

 

Except for Southampton... they’re losers.

[fuchsntf 5,662]

35 minutes ago, Matt said:

This disrespectful point - These are the type of people that don't believe in sports day at school.

 

That everyone should get a prize and that there are no winners and no losers.

This.!!

[Mickyblueeyes 2,499]

What if we did take the foot off the pedal and Saints came out in the second half and got two quick goals and then a third. The result sits at 5-3. Isn’t that disrespectful to the the fans who travelled up to watch us play that they only got one half of effort from the side. It’s a bollocks argument. Southampton lost a man, rightly so. Plenty of teams go ten men down. And don’t lose 9-0. We played extremely well, they didn’t and couldn’t cope. End of.

[Captain... 7,785]

Personally I think we should be praised for our ruthlessness, we were putting the tackles in playing our football the proper way and got our rewards.

 

One striker has played himself into some form getting goals vital for confidence another had cemented himself at the top of the top scorer table, our young midfielders got goals and assists all part of their education.

[tylesta 584]

Why should we take it easier. Gd could work in our favour come the end of the season.

[kristianity77 767]

Surely Southampton were being disrespectful to the game by downing tools when they went one nil down.  They showed absolutely sod all fight for the last 80 minutes.  Where is the respect there for the 25 thousand paying customers at what 35 quid a throw? 

 

We weren't disrespectful at all.  Southampton persisted in playing football in a way that was only going to get them hammered and they didn't really change it, and they certainly never adopted a damage limitation strategy at any point.  All we did was do our job. 

[The Horse's Mouth 2,789]

On 26/10/2019 at 12:54, Yes said:

Love that

 

When you actually think of it since we've come up some of the stories around the club wouldve made a cracking few seasons of dream team 

[Unabomber 11,586]

I think there should be a new rule where for every goal after 5 you score in a game you get an additional half a point. Where would we be now with my new rules? Just missed the chance for an additional half a point v Newcastle but picked up 2 more Friday.