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We either fly on momentum or die from a lack of it. There's nothing in between and it's a syndrome that has dogged Marti and many others before him now. So I am starting to think that somehow, over the last 10 years it has somehow become institutionalized here. These extreme fluctuations just get handed down.
Marti is not the problem. Something else in the club keeps on having the wheels taken off it. Not sure what it is. It is either going well or terribly with nothing in between. The biggest problem (which I think any of about 5 managers have encountered here) is that something in the way we train, or more to the point the personnel, are unable to stay fit ands prone to injuries even trying to train. perhaps it would be better if some players were like handled like Ledley King, who famously hardly trained so that he didn't get injured in training. Adel barely trained. Yes he was brilliant but allegedly he only trained sparsely once or twice a week.
Perhaps the problem is that they over train these guys?
I hear the ghost of Kevin Gallen over the past 5 years pleading for us not to buy yet another right back or midfielder and concentrate on strikers for once. But we never seem to realise until situations like this where Marti only has a half fit Lloyd to include. Probably should have started him I guess but he's not an out and out striker.
I looked at the available team sheet and my heart sank to be honest. There was no way to win a game with a team with no senior striker. Hopefully we muddle through a get to 50+ points and stay up (something that we seemed to be so far ahead of a month ago) but hopefully if we do stay up (can't believe I'm even saying that) then for God sake let's actually work on getting a few senior strikers on the books that aren't going to break down every 5 minutes. You need 4 proper strikers and I have to say that if Kelman is doing so well we have to give the guy a chance, but we also need to have a few forwards that have senior experience at this level and concentrate on getting strikers in the building for next season. Staggering that we are 7 games off the end of the season and we only have a half fit Lloyd to actually play up front.
I was dismayed when I saw the team sheet and Frey wasn't even in the squad.
We have a squad with 3 'strikers' out and Lloyd obviously not fit enough to play 90 minutes. It's a pretty bad place to be when you have 2 weeks to prepare and your one senior striker is again out completely.
I am not saying we are in trouble but we are in trouble if we can't get these players back and up and at it.
"Marti will have drilled that into them; the heat will be on the players. Expect instant aggression from kick off."
Or... Marti saying he's disappointed that we didn't start more quickly and it's difficult to get back into the game when you've conceded two quick sloppy goals by kicking the ball in your own net.
This is the point. You never know what QPR is going to turn up. Stoke have had some very late defeats recently and they won't be at their most confident, but we have to turn up determined that half of what we need to maintain Championship football has to be gained at their expense on Saturday. The players going onto that pitch really have to have their heads in gear.
I think the prison sentence is suspended because his wife (who is much braver than he'll ever be) seemed to imply that he's a fantastic human being (despite kicking her in the head). I salute her but it must be a very low bar.
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