Kennyb41 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 8:28 am
Exciting game Weasel, it should be what sport lovers want, the Aussies have done it with success for years.
It's only miserable fckers that do the moaning and find summert to moan about, it's just their nature and character, they can't help themselves.
We used to have fantastic exciting football at Elland Rd, but the miserable moaning folk couldn't see it.
They tend to drift through life finding something wrong in something.
Indeed. Too much short termism. If we'd have lost that match then no odubt loads of folk would have been saying how stupid it was to declare etc. However even if we'd lost it would have been part of the process of making us stronger long term, putting ourselves in the situation where we put ourselves under pressure and seeing can we stand up to the pressure and win. If we'd have batted last needed the 340 to win we'd have gone for it and as shown last summer we would likely have gotten it and gone along at 5,6,7 an over. Pakistan were caught in the mindset of not wanting to lose so they tried to bat patiently, they put doubt in their mind and put the pressure on themselves.
Similar to how Bielsa kept making the players play the same way. Did players like Ayling, Cooper, Phillips and others ever really believe they could play like they did under Bielsa before he came? No but he made them play that way, he knew that sometimes we'd get it wrong but by keep doing it we would be stronger. Even in the beatings by the likes of Man City last year he stuck to the principles knowing that as the players got better the results would come, knowing that to really improve we needed to be able to play the way we did against teams like City and do it better and better. Could the younger players he was forced to use due to the injury crisis handle the pressure of a relentless City press. Yes we lost 7-0 but it is part of the learning process.
You change your philosphy, your way of playing and it may make you stronger for 1 match (i.e. could have only lost 5-0 to City) but it weakens you so much long term. You take the positives, the 1 or 2 times we beat the City press, and you do the same thing against a lesser team and you beat their press 8 or 9 times. You don't judge the success of the way you play by how you do against the best team in the world when you have a severely weakened team, you judge it at the end of the process when your players have developed and see how you do against the teams that were around you at the start of the process. At the start of the process we were worse than the likes of Stoke, Derby, Norwich, WBA and countless others. We had far outstripped those teams and whilst we had hit a huge bump due to injuries and a small squad once a few injuries cleared and we learnt the lessons of too small a squad (or a squad with not enough quality in the 18 or so) then the process would have continued with our upward climb.
Sadly short termism won the day, panic set in by the people who should have had more understanding and Orta got dazzled by Jesse Marsch, wearing the emperor's new clothes, and wanted his new toy before some other club snapped him up. We had the short term, trying to survive by the skin of our teeth last season and now, despite having a near full strength team and new recruits, our progress has stalled and will likely go backwards unless we spend, spend, spend.
