We play in a comp against mostly irrelevant opposition, in the most insufferable conditions planet Earth has to offer effectively ruining our domestic form, on synthetic surfaces in front of fuck all fans, against teams where the quality gap is often so large you get obscene timewasting the SECOND they get the sniff of a draw against the odds - for what? For the prospect of financially breaking even unless we win the entire thing?
And again, I said this months ago before I was salty about tonight, some people here don’t understand why we don’t get behind the Asian comps and we don’t get big crowds (and ostensibly nobody else does either given the empty stadiums across the entire continent) - I’m the opposite and have a lot of trouble understanding the appeal. Like cool, we’ll take your NEOM slave trade oil money so we can break even from participating in the comp, but would it be better to not participate in it in the first place? It’s a legitimate question no-one seems to be asking.
On Talay - never before have I seen a manager destroy our most promising season on paper. He couldn’t have fucked this team up harder if he tried, it’s almost impressive how hard he has fucked it.
And while he and the club are persisting and signing utter goofballs like Popovic and HDM, we aren’t achieving or winning anything. I honestly started getting really nervous the second we handed a kid who has been nothing but shit a 3.5 year contract, which was months ago now, when any casual fan could tell he was a major weak point. And even before then you have stuff like choosing ZDJ over Adamson as an example. And Christ I just remembered we signed Sotirio.
It’s a big, big concern for me personally seeing stuff like the above happen now not once but a few times, while we have actual good quality players like Burgess, Redmayne, and Ouahim on undoubtedly decent coin completely frozen out.
Honestly words can’t really describe the utter contempt I feel for Talay right now, unless we win the GF he needs to go (and even if we do, he should go but you can see why the club might let him stay), rewarding any of this shit with a new contract will make me question the direction of the club and whether I want to bother with it anymore.
If it was a 3.5 year contract up-front in the off-season for the best available domestic player, it would make perfect sense even if it doesn’t work out.
But after having him train with us for six months, struggling whenever he’s on the field, having him deal with potentially chronic injuries, and not being able to trust him to play out from the back to the extent that we have to completely change shape at a key point of the season - the 3.5 years is incomprehensible.
Pretty pissed off with that, and seeing how good Rhyan Grant was when able to.push up front don’t make it any better.
There was a real failure to change things up.by occasionally playing more quickly, and there was also a lack of movement or variety up front to try and tempt the parked bus into needing to move a bit.
Shit tie management against a shit team. The first leg was where this was lost.
That should’ve been a lock them up, keep their crowd quiet and shit house a result out of them game. They were always going to struggle on grass at the SFS.
LCS shockingly terrible and that’s the most disappointing aspect of this result.
Yeah, we played better, but ultimately we were safer than we needed to be - too many instances of Sena or Caceres holding the pass when Klimala or Sega had made decent runs. By the time they played the pass, they were offside.
Not blaming them for the loss, but it was one aspect that hurt us