Just now, Valerie said:

The entire season was an elaborate plot to pull wool over Manu's eyes, so we'll surprise them next week and win the FA Cup!

Fixed it for you, no charge. 

3 minutes ago, enigma said:

Bruce Buck was there. Not that it means much, but he was there ha.

Was Roman there? Wouldn't have thought so. Not sure he is that bothered anymore.

Just read this off the club's website:

Breaking News: Following the club's disappointing defeat to Newcastle F.C, the club have made the immediate decision to do jack sh*t haha f**k you all. 

Seeing the reactions of the Swansea players as they’re relegated makes you remember how much worse things can be (and have been in many of our lifetimes).

That was an embarrassing performance though. I’ve always thought the attitude of people in the workplace reflects the attitude of the management, and that applies to football too. Last time we failed to qualify for the CL it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, so I’m feeling a bit conflicted about it at the moment.

20 minutes ago, Londons Finest said:

No passion, get the foreigners out. More british,minus cahill and barkley....very very poor.

   Yes, let's not wait another second with this!

Thank god I can have a stress free summer after next week. 

11 minutes ago, carrickblue said:

we are 30 points behind City - wow... 

Yeah, losing 10 games will have that kind of effect.

9 minutes ago, just said:

Best post on here IMO. Absolutely spot on.

I won't be making much sense in an hour or so, (as it's time to continue drowning my sorrows), so I wouldn't get use to it.

 

i would drop the lot of em and play the kids in the cup final! 

27 minutes ago, Londons Finest said:

No passion, get the foreigners out. More british,minus cahill and barkley....very very poor.

Lets get more British by getting the British contingent out of our team I like it, have you thought of running for PM 

8 minutes ago, PedroMendez said:

I won't be making much sense in an hour or so, (as it's time to continue drowning my sorrows), so I wouldn't get use to it.

 

We are in safe hands we can’t be this bad for two seasons in a row. Drink to that

Playing 7 defensive players and only having two in there, as well as a rusty Barkley. It's gutless. 

Fair play if we lost 3-0 trying to get forward and creates chances but we didn't even do that. f**king pathetic.

40 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Willian is so damn frustrating. 3 on 3 and he manages to overrun the ball. The guy gets so much praise but he's one of the biggest chokers in the team. He sh*ts himself when he's asked to produce end product.

I’ve been a huge critic of his in the past but also a huge fan of his when he hit his hot streak, even comparing him to Eden when on top form which I still believe. Unfortunately, as you say, his lack of consistency over a season is beyond a joke. I understand players having dips of form but when Willians on form he’s unplayable, the fact we see it so rarely to me says there’s something in his mentality that means he can’t keep it up over a significant period of time.

A pathetic performance to conclude a pathetic season.

5th place is well-deserved. 

What caused this farce is something I'll look into later, but probably Conte is gone unless he can explain his (surprising) tactical stubborness and his favouritism of underpeforming players. 

Anyway, we'll see what happens over the summer. This is still largely the same side that won the 2016-17 PL quite comfortably. You could argue that the title winning PL side was simply a decent side that was tactically coached superbly by Conte, but I think with a few tactical tweaks (even if it means changing formation) and some astute transfers (50/50 on Bakayoko, but he's shown signs of life in a 3-man formation where his flaws are obscured) we could become competitive again. Hopefully the promising Christensen will mature and learn from his mistakes over time. Even the great JT took a little time to mature: at 22 he was not always a starter and arguably did not peak until he was 25. Hopefully Christensen will continue such a journey because he's shown real promise this season, in between the errors. 

Edited May 13, 20188 yr by DaRick

3 minutes ago, EdinburghBlue said:

I’ve been a huge critic of his in the past but also a huge fan of his when he hit his hot streak, even comparing him to Eden when on top form which I still believe. Unfortunately, as you say, his lack of consistency over a season is beyond a joke. I understand players having dips of form but when Willians on form he’s unplayable, the fact we see it so rarely to me says there’s something in his mentality that means he can’t keep it up over a significant period of time.

I agree. I feel it is a mental thing too, because we have all seen that he has the ability. On his day, he is as good as anybody, but those days just don't happen often enough.

35 minutes ago, PedroMendez said:

No I don't he has not covered himself in glory but does that make him the worst manager of the RA era f**k no

We had f*ing Avram Grant 

Yet Avram Grant motivated the players to get us to a CL final. On the other hand Conte appears to have destroyed our players' motivation, a week before the FA Final.

What an embarrassing game. Players and manager should both be ashamed of themselves.

28 minutes ago, bluedave said:

Last time we failed to qualify for the CL it turned out to be a blessing in disguise, so I’m feeling a bit conflicted about it at the moment.

But we at least had the foresight to not qualify for EL either.

Did not watch the game on the idiot box as I kept on switching between the Swansea/stoke and southampton/ man city games.iam still pissed off with starting 11 from the uddersfield game midweek,and when I clocked that bazzoka joe and Barkley were in the first 11 today ,I muttered to me sen WTF.

iam not just pissed off with conte as Iam just as pissed off with how things are run at the club behind him.whoever is the manager of the team should have full say in what players are brought into the club and who is moved out.at the end of the day it’s the manager who gets sacked if results are bad ,not the players or whoever within CFC that brings the players in.

 

also player power within the changing room should be fcuked off ,as all and sundry should only answer to the manager and f he says  jump ‘how high’ is the answer.then if the team is doing sh*te the manager gets the sack.

 

when conte won the prem last season ,that was the chance of laying down solid foundations for this season and seasons beyond,but when conte can not get the players in that he thinks will fit his way of thinking and the club brings in players who they think can fit into. Contes mindset ,then you end with a poor season just like this one.

 

a win in the facup next week over the mancs will only paper over the downfalls from this season and future seasons if a manager don’t have full say on player transfers in or out.

 

now CFC will be dropping back even more and will be looking at champions league qualification next term as a pluss ,as for sure we will be out of the title race .but if we do get a manager in who turns the tide and has a blinding season it will only be a short term stint for sure due to way CFC are run today.

42 minutes ago, WeatherMan said:

But it's not......we have the FA Cup Final next week. I dread to think how that will pan out given this shower

Lol...it's over.

Assuming Conte's going this summer, I would say sack him tomorrow with immediate effect and give Jody Morris the chance to manage the game of his life.

Surely it must be better than a manager that appears to be playing his own mind games with the board and messing about with the players minds.

6 minutes ago, fitz said:

Lol...it's over.

We have a great cup final record and anything can happen on the day, but I’m struggling to see how we’ll win this. I’ve never been so uninspired approaching a final. 

Edited May 13, 20188 yr by Floyd25

Even a dysentery-riddled Man U squad who've stood outside their hotel in the pissing rain in their birthday suits all night, after their hotel has burned down and destroyed all their kit and boots forcing them to play the final in hotel flip-flops and dressing gowns would beat our lot today.

Well then good thing conte took this one seriously with the slim hope of top 4 and did not use any of the kids boy what a big mistake that would have been. We could have been quite embarrassed.

Edited May 13, 20188 yr by axman2526