Comments on: Can We Get Anything from Liverpool?

By: chris

chris — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:31:07 +0000

Everyone CHILL!!!! now listen, yes I to went to anfield and witnessed a shocker! you can talk 4 5 1 4 4 2 3 5 2 10 1 what ever,but at the end of the day the gulf between quality of player was massive,we coudn’t get anywhere near them, in most cases you get what you pay for,you pay 30 mill for a striker you get goals, our striker,lets be honest is a tryer at best.But my real concern is curbs decision to make a very slow and poor fullback captain,its now so obvious thats our weak spot managers are now targeting lucas neil,babel was picked left wing for one reason to roast neil, so lets play faubert instead curbs! put him inside to centre if upsons out,oh and yeah and before I go Iain,when we went 4 4 2 we looked worse!!!midfield just disapeared. I suppose its lennon verses neil then, pack your red bull lucas!!!!!!!

By: Kent

Kent — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:56:48 +0000

WIth you vdm.

This club will not break the top 10 with Curbs as manager. Send him to West Brom.

Now Bilic and Di Canio is a duo that we all could love.

Stop giving Curbs all the breaks and get him out of here.

By: the headmaster

the headmaster — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:07:15 +0000

oh my god – suddenly sunday looks absolutely massive for us. any result akin to the last tqo and i honestly think that curbs will have signed his own p45. probably not now but in the summer . maybe it is already more likely than not given the fans lack of passion for the man himself………..

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:02:04 +0000

Acid test for Curbs was always going be the direction the club took when it wasn’t fighting for survival. As with Charlton, something just seems to ‘go’ when his team know they’re safe. Perhaps his satisfaction at what he perceives as job done gets misread by the players as ‘season over’.

He did make all the right noises when we beat Liverpool about this being the start of the run-in and a push for Europe, but that all looks very hollow now.

We’ve somehow got to find the energy, and crucially, the desire, to get something from the remainder of the season.

By: brooking is still the best

brooking is still the best — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:51:03 +0000

I still think it’s to early to say Curbs has got to go. Bilic would be a good replacement on his international record but who knows how he would be managing a Premiership side?
I think next season is going to be the crunch for Curbs. He wont be able (but will if needed) to use injuries as an excuse and European qualification will be the least that is expected. Talking of the injury situ, who could say that the same three players, Parker, Bellamy, Dyer wont miss large parts of next season as well given their track record?
What we need is a clear out of the many average players we have and to buy quality all over the pitch, starting with a top, top striker and a creative midfield player. Solano is our best in that area and he is 33.
Given how much our rivals have spent (Spuds) and how much sides in the champions league spend, we have spent next to nothing

By: vdm

vdm — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:42:02 +0000

My worst fears have been realised – said when Curbs got the job that his claim to fame was never to get anywhere in the cups and for every season to fizzle out once safe and that’s exactly what’s happening.
There is absolutely no credit in talking about injuries – Bellamy, Dyer and Parker were all very injury prone at Newcastle and the chances of them all appearing in the same team at the same time was never going to happen.
Probably the worst thing though is how we’re playing – plodders is exactly the word! – though it’s not a good idea to keep shipping the manager every 2 years there is a BUT:

There aren’t many fans (like us) who would genuinely prefer to finish 14th being entertained than 7th playing the way we are. The point being that even if Curbs stays and we progress it won’t be playing the football we all want to watch -so on that basis should we all clamour for him to go?

By: Carlos Tabrez

Carlos Tabrez — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:39:34 +0000

There goes our defensive record. It’s good in a way because now CURBISHLEY cant use it as an excuse to say “look how well we’re doing”.

When you go 4-5-1 with the players we have then it’s not a game of footy anymore…it’s a defensive exercise for us… especially with a striker who just doesn’t score that many. We just invite pressure the whole of the 90 minutes with no release.

…and I have to say that BOA MORTE was the only one who looked like he was trying all game. Well done LUIS. People have been critical of him but unjustly because he cares and as fans we should never criticise someone that cares.

And a word about our defensive record….I have to say it was fortunate for the time it lasted. My reason is (and I’ll give two examples) that when Tuncay misses 3 one on ones against you (early season) and when teams miss 4 out 5 penalties against you (when probabilty says they should score), then it is a fortunate record. These are just two examples which could have added 7 goals against us so I never actually believed our defence was as good as the statistics said.

I’m sorry to have to say this but CURBISHLEY is out of his depth. I and many others who said this a long time ago have been criticised but time is telling and it will continue to do so.

But if we beat spurs everyone will forget and thats the problem i’m afraid. “Bored by Curbs” you are completely right. I said months ago on Iains blog that we should get BILIC……this guy will be better than MOURINHO.

JUST IMAGINE BILIC WITH DI CANIO AS NUMBER TWO – MOUTH WATERING!

By: Mill City Irons

Mill City Irons — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:05:26 +0000

I’m not going to call for Curbishley’s head just yet – but him justifying the lack of goals/4-5-1 in the face of the injury situation is getting quite stale. Two dreadful results against two strong sides in under five days, sure the squad is tired. But good christ, after listening to his post-match interview on BBC London and him defending the 4-5-1 by saying “sometimes you’ve got to look at the opposition…and if [we] played it any other way, we’d be overrun.” What do you call 3 goals within the first 25 minutes against Chelski and 1 in under 10 (almost 3) at Anfield? I’ll say overrun. He ends by saying that “it’s just been these last 4 or 5 days that we’ve let ourselves down.” Don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been a little let down throughout February (even when we had to strikers up front against Wigan and Birmingham). Course Curbs would say we’ve got to be “realistic.” Sort it out and C’mon You Irons!

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:54:44 +0000

Great. So are my comments from a few weeks ago so nuts now? Boring futbol and a club who’s record is more based on good fortune than real talent. And some of you wanted to argue that we were at Europe’s door?

Injuries? Yeah, whatever, the injured players were chosen by Curbs–by the way, when has Parker shown a history of health?–and our lack of depth to face the inevitable injury bug (or just to rotate for rest reasons) is also a path of choice by Curbs. The club is flat and “Alan” needs to go manage Preston or Blackpool. The last two weeks are unacceptable for any club in the Premiership, save Derby.

…exactly, I’m pissed (American meaning) about the club’s performance

By: brooking is still the best

brooking is still the best — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:52:46 +0000

Roll on the end of the season. It’s alarming how much like Charlton we are becoming. What’s the odds on us getting Darren Bent in the summer to compleat the tranformation. Curbs, Euroupe your having a girarf.