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You mean Amen right?
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Originally posted by Red_hot View PostYou mean Amen right?
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Didn't recognise ya with your new Avatar!!Originally posted by Red_hot View PostYou mean Amen right?Comment
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arsenal played their second string and so did we, and we weren't that bad, lot more attempts, the difference was our defense messed up and our goalie wasn't ready. rafa played a very strong side on saturday and will play a very strong side next week, and since the league is more important than carling cup, yes finishing in the top 4 is more important than winning the cup. we had two players injured after the cup tie, and this is exactly what he was trying to prevent by not playing his top players. and another thing, our young players need to participate in a real match and what better chance than to play them in the carling cup against arsenal who will also field a simular team...Originally posted by Sir Bob View Post"I have decided to escape, to defy the shogun. Today I will begin walking the road to hell. But you will choose your own path. So, soon you may be seeing heaven. Choose the sword, and you will join me. Choose the ball and you join your mother, in death. You don’t understand my words, but you must choose. So… come boy, choose life or death."
"You would've been happier if you'd chosen to join your mother in her world. " - Ogami Itto
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He makes mistakes Sir Bob, we all do. He admitted it himself. IMO he doesn't have to list them and prostrate himself for our edification.
You have to look at it in the context of the FA Cup as well. Before Saturday he had to judge which competition was more important and play his stronger line-up in one or the other or spread the weaknesses out between the two matches. He played pretty much our strongest available team on Saturday which indicates to me that he rates the FA Cup as the more important (perhaps because we held the trophy, perhaps because he learned from the defeat to Burnley, perhaps because it historically is the more important, possibly all three). Then he rested players for Tuesday, having judged that the team he put out should still be able to get the right result against a weaker Arsenal team.
If he could have known we were going to lose the FA Cup game then obviously he could have left his stronger players (especially up front and in central defence) for Tuesday..
Suppose you have a physicist and a sociologist standing at the side of a field, observing a set of events unfolding on the field. The physicist does [describes] it using the terminology of mass and velocity and frequency of radiation and the rest. And the sociologist does it by describing it as a rugby match.
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Originally posted by Diego View Post
Yes, that´s one way of putting it.
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Hint HintOriginally posted by Eth View PostThe path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers and you will know my name is The Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee. Pulp FictionComment
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****ing Carling Cup, time it was ****ing scrapped. We could do without losing players like Momo for 4 months, and Garcia for 6 over a stupid, meaningless competition like that. Personally, I'd rather have those players fit for the rest of the season than win the ****ing thing.Originally posted by Sir Bob View Post
A big ****ing fuss over nothing. I mean losing Garcia for 6 months is far more damaging than being eliminated from the ****ing Carling CupWhite liquid in a bottle = Milk
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Respect to the RafaDare we believe
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He will lead us to the promised land.Comment
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Um can i just put a fly in the ointment, ( i am a little depressed today) if we lose to Utd, Chelsea and Barce this could really bite Rafa on the arse.08-09 Dirk monitor
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At the end of the day does it matter?Originally posted by Sir Bob View Post
Realistically it's the Carling Cup, the other season when it was the only trophy the mancs one, what do you imediately think, oh well they did well and won a trophy or do you think,bunch of jokers only winning the Carling Cup.
Rafa said himself player like Stevie and Alonso were allready suffering, and he didn't want to jepordise our chances in the league, which I think you'll agree are far more important.
The only player I think Rafa made a mistake with is playing Jerzy instead of Reina, but even then i'm sure he couldn't have imagined Dudek would let in 9 goals over 2 games, this is a pro keeper we're talking about here, who had played in some of the biggest games around.
We've got more important business with the Champions League to concentrate on, which I think half of our supporters seem to have written off allready. Going out of the CC isn't the end of the world, and make no mistake we'll be gunning for Barca come next month.Thomas Hicks SeniorComment
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08-09 Dirk monitor
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