Taking a long break from football

[carrsim]

...Not going to start a thread slating Rafa and his rotation. However, due to a run of bad luck personally and the poor results of late (due to our own doing and not the opposition being great) I've noticed that football is making me even more depressed. The fact that we have a team capable of challenging and we aren't due to our own messing around makes the situation a lot worse

So I've decided to take a break from all things football (watching, following scores on Sky on a Saturday). Hopefully that should result in a more positive outlook

I hope Rafa reads these boards and realises his mistakes also

if you recover and then reappear when we're back on top of the league you'll really get some stick

and IF rafa reads these boards he probably pisses himself

[johnp]

if you recover and then reappear when we're back on top of the league you'll really get some stick

and IF rafa reads these boards he probably pisses himself

Lets hope Rafa doesn't read these boards

[Morph]

Lets hope Rafa doesn't read these boards

or at the very least has a good washing machine

[chrispy]

Don't slate the guy for wanting to take a break FFS!!! I understand how depressing it can get, I survived the Houllier years....just Take a break my friend and come back in a few weeks/months. It may have finally sunk in with Rafa by then that to win the EPL you need to keep your best 'core' players playing week in week week out and chuck the rest on for the Worthless Cup games.

[redblood]

...Not going to start a thread slating Rafa and his rotation. However, due to a run of bad luck personally and the poor results of late (due to our own doing and not the opposition being great) I've noticed that football is making me even more depressed. The fact that we have a team capable of challenging and we aren't due to our own messing around makes the situation a lot worse
So I've decided to take a break from all things football (watching, following scores on Sky on a Saturday). Hopefully that should result in a more positive outlook

I hope Rafa reads these boards and realises his mistakes also

Not meaning to kick a man when he's down etc but that's bull**** we are still unbeaten and doing better than last year and are in 3rd at the moment with a game in hand on the Mancs

[Morph]

Not meaning to kick a man when he's down etc but that's bull**** we are still unbeaten and doing better than last year and are in 3rd at the moment with a game in hand on the Mancs

4th mate, but none the less we have a game in hand over both manc sides which could take us second

[captainfog]

If this is your reaction after playing nine competitive matches unbeaten and only conceding three goals (all penalties) then stay away from the gas cooker when we do lose one...

well said

[Shaggy]

I respect Sarb's wishes and he can do as he pleases, but taking a break? From football? How?

Not possible I'm afraid. Not in my world anyway. Why would anyone want to 'take a break' from supporting his team?

And why now? Unbeaten, no goals conceded from open play, in touching distance of the league leaders.......it's not like the back-end of the Houllier reign, is it?!

Strange.

[redblood]

4th mate, but none the less we have a game in hand over both manc sides which could take us second

Oops yeah ta, I was going to put 'I think' after that.

[CharlieMansonsSquint]

it's not like the back-end of the Houllier reign, is it?!

Indeed.

It was the worst in recent times, honestly thought the club was going to the mattresses.

If anything we should be really enjoying supporting the club now. We're firmly back in the mix for the top prizes again. Yes we still have a way to go, but it's light years ahead of anything we've experienced since Kenny was in charge.

Expectations have been risen to a level which we used to have in the 70's and 80's, and quite right too. We're calling for second rate players to be axed and for Rafa to buck up his ideas. This good, this is healthy.

[Red Chilli]

I respect Sarb's wishes and he can do as he pleases, but taking a break? From football? How?

Not possible I'm afraid. Not in my world anyway. Why would anyone want to 'take a break' from supporting his team?

And why now? Unbeaten, no goals conceded from open play, in touching distance of the league leaders.......it's not like the back-end of the Houllier reign, is it?!

Strange.

Took the words out of my ......keyboard Shaggy

Fair play to Sarb, nowt against him, but football is part of who I am. If there were no transfer market I think I'd just hibernate from May to August
I can't imagine taking a break from football, it's on my mind pretty much all day every day, along with other things.

[REDSCOUSER]

If this is your reaction after playing nine competitive matches unbeaten and only conceding three goals (all penalties) then stay away from the gas cooker when we do lose one...

[sean_lfc]

I think it is quite obvious that Sarb's initial post was more about a seeking of attention than it was a genuine action he was going to go through.

This is highlighted by the following factors:

a) He mentions he was 'not going to start a thread slating Rafa and his rotation' - Why bring it up then? It seems clearly to have been on his mind, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered

b) the subsequent use of 'However' clearly implies that he thinks otherwise

c) 'due to our own doing and not the opposition being great' is a clear opinion of his wanting a response

d) He furthermore predicts that we have a team capable of challenging (which is ample) but then refutes that by saying 'We aren't' which is another indication he is wanting a response/debate and is not merely stating his actions (ie. 'I'm leaving, we're ****, in a bit')

e) He uses the word 'messing around' implying that the players don't give a **** and treat it just another laisser-faire thing the players do in their spare time, which it isn't, they just didn't turn up and perform

and the ultimate BOMBSHELL

f) He mentions 'I hope Rafa reads these boards' is by far the clearest indication of his seeking attention more than anything else, because obviously he wouldn't, it's just sad ****s like ourselves that do; and mentioning 'I hope he realises his mistakes' just rounds off the cry for attention nicely, it's also a sly dig at the manager which is ample, but there is no need for threatening to 'stop supporting us' by coming out with such a toys-chucked-pram statement. It makes him look foolish at best.

You're getting no special treatment Sarb lad, if you don't like it, you wouldn't have felt a need to tell someone. The fact that you did only highlights your wanting to debate by exaggerating your depression and life's demise by our oh-so-disastrous results and needing fellow redmen to give you a cuddle and a creep up the arse, which, given how we all know what this board is like, wouldn't happen.

I think the main reason you wrote this post was to get people to say things like 'Oh don't go, we'll be fine' and you then wanting to go off on another toys-pram rant justifying your depressive mood (which I doubt is the way it's portrayed); it all backfired however.


So there's my psychoanalysis of this whole situation.

[Red Chilli]

So there's my psychoanalysis of this whole situation.

Cheers sean

[Morph]

I think it is quite obvious that Sarb's initial post was more about a seeking of attention than it was a genuine action he was going to go through.

This is highlighted by the following factors:

a) He mentions he was 'not going to start a thread slating Rafa and his rotation' - Why bring it up then? It seems clearly to have been on his mind, otherwise he wouldn't have bothered

b) the subsequent use of 'However' clearly implies that he thinks otherwise

c) 'due to our own doing and not the opposition being great' is a clear opinion of his wanting a response

d) He furthermore predicts that we have a team capable of challenging (which is ample) but then refutes that by saying 'We aren't' which is another indication he is wanting a response/debate and is not merely stating his actions (ie. 'I'm leaving, we're ****, in a bit')

e) He uses the word 'messing around' implying that the players don't give a **** and treat it just another laisser-faire thing the players do in their spare time, which it isn't, they just didn't turn up and perform

and the ultimate BOMBSHELL

f) He mentions 'I hope Rafa reads these boards' is by far the clearest indication of his seeking attention more than anything else, because obviously he wouldn't, it's just sad ****s like ourselves that do; and mentioning 'I hope he realises his mistakes' just rounds off the cry for attention nicely, it's also a sly dig at the manager which is ample, but there is no need for threatening to 'stop supporting us' by coming out with such a toys-chucked-pram statement. It makes him look foolish at best.

You're getting no special treatment Sarb lad, if you don't like it, you wouldn't have felt a need to tell someone. The fact that you did only highlights your wanting to debate by exaggerating your depression and life's demise by our oh-so-disastrous results and needing fellow redmen to give you a cuddle and a creep up the arse, which, given how we all know what this board is like, wouldn't happen.

I think the main reason you wrote this post was to get people to say things like 'Oh don't go, we'll be fine' and you then wanting to go off on another toys-pram rant justifying your depressive mood (which I doubt is the way it's portrayed); it all backfired however.


So there's my psychoanalysis of this whole situation.

very good mate, but i don't know who's head needs looking at more, his for the original post, or you for spending your time writing all that