2021/22 Rafael Benitez

[BlueToff]

I'd HATE to be in a position where an Everton win caused me such unhappiness as I detect from some.

Utterly hate it.

You've taken a wrong turn - and for the worse - when you end up like that.

You're the only poster on here this season that I've seen (not saying others haven't said it, I've just not seen it) say they hope we lose a game, though Dave.

 

[Cow kecks]

Look at the youngsters he's either promoted or brought in.

We are heading AT LAST in the right direction.

We need to gradually get shut of the Koeman / Silva / Ancelotti tat.

The owner surely knows that and is allowing him to get on with it.

You know as well as I do that the youngsters are getting a chance because of covid and injuries that you've been banging on about all season. A full squad and they wouldn't have had a look in. I think Gordon is the only one who would have played but even then his chances would have been limited.

Look at the youngsters he's either promoted or brought in.

We are heading AT LAST in the right direction.

We need to gradually get shut of the Koeman / Silva / Ancelotti tat.

The owner surely knows that and is allowing him to get on with it.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

I made a joke post about wanting him back earlier, but I honestly think Sam was a better manager here.

 

[StuBarlow]

That’s harsh! He’s definitely a has-been.

The champions league was Houllier's team. Spanish league is a farmers league. Koeman has even won stuff there with Valencia

 

[davek]

Benitez out votes have gone up after this - what a surprise

77.3 want him gone now.

Congratulations. You enjoy that. I'll enjoy our win.

 

[billyblue80]

We always start games badly what does that say about how he sets them up and motivates them?

 

[BlueToff]

Wonder if young McCann is a manager to keep an eye on?

No idea to be fair. He outsmarted Benitez at the start and in that instance in the 2nd half tonight, that's for sure. He clearly watched the Brighton game because he set Hull up in exactly the same way as Brighton were set up. And they had us on strings for 20 minutes.

 

[Armaghtoffee]

It's so transparent it's laughable.

There are people here tonight who were desperate to see Hull beat us.

They may have done if the manager's signings hadn't been made.

Benitez won that game for us back in the summer when he signed Gray and Townsend.

I'm hoping we are competitive but lose by the odd goal.

I'd donate the 12 points against Chelsea and City this season to the opposition and hope to take 3/4 points off Liverpool. That way we'd have done our bit to prevent them being in a title race.

They aren't good enough to win the league but that's no reason to encourage them.

 

[sageyefc]

Our play is so laboured and lacking in intensity, these players can sense he’s got half a foot out the door, they play like they’re in limbo

Said this in another thread, the players know it’s just a matter of time, the fans have completely turned, Other than about 5 of them, it’s over

 

[Bluestar]

There's a difference between the real and the hypothetical, you know.

The handballs were real. The refs decisions were wrong. He was so up for an upset, it was influencing his decision making.

 

[Milkman]

It maybe won't, but does it look like things are changing positively under him? You can't seriously say 'yes' to that. Can't just stick with him thinking it's going to magically get better.

No, not at the moment. But I'm willing to be patient because at least he can see that these players are failures and to me that's progress.

It won't get any better playing the formation we did today, but then it wouldn't be any better if we'd started with a 4-3-3 or a 4-4-2 either. There is no Pep out there that will manage us and no Klopp that will turn Andre Gomes into Paul Scholes.

 

[StuBarlow]

It's mad that the more rattled and deluded fat benny gets in his pressers the more rattled and deluded davek gets...

 

[matty1878]

It's mad that the more rattled and deluded fat benny gets in his pressers the more rattled and deluded davek gets...

what he say?

 

[blulouie]

I won't slate him for needing extra-time to beat Hull. We needed ET to beat Rotherham last year.

I will slate him for the awful set up/tactics. That's on him. He has all week to work on these things.

Happen's game after game.
1st 15/20 minutes the players look like theyve never met each other before.

Then Gray and now Gordon totally ignore the tactics and we start to get in the game.

17 times out of 20 games conceding 1st is repetative ignorance.

 

[blulouie]

what he say?

Just fibs