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It was pretty much well reported that Poch said no. One of the very things he got spot on.

Compared to the game at Anfield where we were lucky to not ship 8/9, going to Old Trafford and getting battered despite Hojund and Anthony acting as extra defenders for us, our worst ever defeat to Arsenal, parking the bus unsuccessfully at Brammal Lane, holding on for grim death at Luton after being 3 up, getting slapped up at home to Wolves or blowing a 2 goal lead to United at home which we were meekly accepting until Ten Hags stupidity. And if we're going to pretend we have to pick one or the other I'd much prefer "passing it around the back" than seeing Gilchrist on the wing, Mudryk at LCB and Disasi having to cover an island. If you don't believe me, check out our passing network against Arsenal. And before you ask, no Maresca hasn't been good enough since Christmas, but that doesn't make Poch better just like Poch didn't make Lampard better, two things can be true.

It's funny because I've just looked at the standings for those games and we were only two points above Villa which is quire ironic given your reaction to me "bragging" about being 6 ahead of them right now.... If Amorims doing that much then I guess you agree we sometimes have to look deeper than the top line? Same applies to those 32 games, where in them i could name some of the worst tactical performances I've ever seen from Chelsea managers.

He wasn't, as he shown when he did play. No, the wrong move was not ditching both and bringing in someone actually good enough to be our #1.

United basically made a decision based on how their season ended and look what happened to them. And even in the period we "improved" we still had horror shows like Anfield, The Emirates, Brentford, Wolves, the final, Sheffield United.

I basically in that post compared the Sanchez/Petrovic situation to when most were convinced Baba Rahman "couldn't be worse" than the 15/16 version of Ivanovic (Azpi swapping sides if the change was made).

Yes basically comparing Sanchez' level to 15/16 Ivanovic really demonstrates the high esteem I hold him in, lol.

You can absolutely sack someone if the "improvement" is still nowhere near good enough. Avram Grant was on a 5 month unbeaten league run when we fired him, do you think that was a bad call? And yes, if you want to disclaimer his poor start by what he inherited then it's very much fair game to point out he was barely doing better than Potter in the league until we hit a run of wins once our top 4 hopes were gone. Speaking of which, Potter's spell was improving at the end aswell (3 wins out of 5 and unlike Poch one of those was a game that still had a trophy in play) yet no one seems to be arguing we should have kept him.

My "defending" of him was basically he was better than one of the bottom 10 keepers in Europe last season. But even if I was thinking he was genuinely great and didnt want him replaced, I'm not the one here preaching standards so it's pretty moot in this particular case.

Yeah this standards gimmick doesn't work from someone who has repeatedly hyped up Petrovic.

I'd like to think that we wouldn't have kept him had we won that game. We've seen what's happened with the team that made an emotion driven u turn based on winning a cup final.

This the same Emery we're comfortably ahead of and slapped 3-0?

Can you find me what happens just after all those clips cut out?

If you want to disclaimer the bad form then it's only fair to point out that 16 of those points were won after our already slim hopes of actual top 4 were over.

That "logic" works both ways. Take out May and we're 9th.