--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "wedmore1960 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Fergie wanted an out and out forward to be held in reserve, > that's why Solskjaer was on the bench and not Scholes. If Forlan was > fit, the choice might have been different. I was a bit concerned that > all those players rated doubtful from injury were started. There may > be a point about Fergie not giving sufficient trust to the > understudies. >
I think there's another important point here, and that's WHY did we not have any strikers other than Solksjaer in reserve? A: Because we chose not to buy any when we had the chance. It's fine saying "the targets we wanted weren't available", but if you need someone, you need someone, and you buy someone. You're not telling me in the whole of the world there wasn't one halfway decent striker we couldn't have brought in? Even if it was only on loan at least we'd have had the option of playing him. Another point no-one seems to have brought up is when we DID (finally) bring Solksjaer on, he stuck him out on the wing!!!! And one of the worlds best wingers was playing full back!!! It's like a joke tactic that you'd do if you could rearrange the opponents team!! Surely the only sensible thing would have been Keane to drop back more into CB, Scholes into MF and Solksjaer up front? That would have left Giggs and Scholes free to push forward and still 2 strikers. How could supposedly brilliant manager(s) not see this? > > > Domestically we could still win the PL, but the smart teams had > > found us out in Europe and so we've changed the way we do things. > > > > And have won..............NOTHING! > > But you have to be patient when you are making fundamental changes. > Remember how long it took Fergie to sort out the club after he first > arrived? But when he first arrived we had a poor team who weren't doing anything. Last season he started with Champions and turned them into a 3rd place team. Why? Ever heard the phrase "if it ain't broke, don't fix it?" > > Is this what it is all about? Sacrifice all and sundry for a spot > >in the record books? (I'll leave that subject well and truly alone!) > > Who said anything about sacrificing all and sundry? Fergie doesn't > want to sacrifice anything I wouldn't imagine and neither do I. I > assume that he wants to get a system that will give flexibility at > home and in Europe. Domestically, Arsenal have stepped up their game > and we've been a little in transition but there are still nine games > to go. The league was sacrificed last year to try to get SAF his European Cup final in Glasgow. Winning the leage should have been the priority (for a record 4th time in a row), but he changed everything to concentrate on Europe. All our best performances this season have come with two strikers up front (Newcastle, Liverpool etc). How long is this "transition" likely to last? We've been at it for almost two whole seasons and are far worse than we were before with better players!! Does anyone else watches Dugarry running rings round people while only playing for Birmingham and wonder why, when we were in desperate need of a stop-gap striker (especially one who could replicate Cantona's role) we didn't both to get him for FREE?? LEB Subscription info WWW http://red11.org/list Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] = subscribe to the list. [EMAIL PROTECTED] = unsubscribe from the list. Post message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
