starmandb wrote:jayramfootball wrote:starmandb wrote:jayramfootball wrote:swipe right wrote:jayramfootball wrote:I see the cult is out in force.
Let's get back to reality.
Excellent game against Benfica and also against Leeds. Good signs.
But, a horrendous season in which he has let us down badly - it's been a stinker for him.
He has gone from consistently terrible to a good game here and there - so progress.
He’s got 13 goals in all competitions this season. He could easily end the season with 20 goals. How would that classify as a horrendous season?
He's got 8 in the league.
Europey league goals are all well and good, but for 350k a week , 8 goals at this stage of the PL season is horrendous for him.
That he has had a very poor season is not in question - I am sure he'd admit it himself.
A forth europey
Still funny
Oh my aching sides when we won the crap winners cup
The Cup Winners Cup was a knockout competition - not some crappy league format against teams that had won nothing to qualify. The Europey League is a tournament for losers.. right to the point where losers that get knocked out of the Cl get a second chance and enter the competition later, lol. It's a joke. In reality, the half-decent teams have an easy few games in a nonsense league format that they simply walk through.
The Cup winners Cup was specific to Cup winners - The only exemptions being where a cup winner in a domestic league had qualified for the European Cup. Two-legged games with away goals meant there was danger in every round of getting knocked out - right from the start. Every round held excitement.
The Europey league gets interesting at the semi-final stage and purely because of the chance of actually going into the CL looms.
The trophy itself is worth less than the League Cup.
I mean we played Molde and Dundalk and it really didn't matter if we had lost one of them - we'd have still qualified.
We played 5 games of knockout ties to win the 93/94 cup winners cup just like we would have to to win the europa league
1st round Danish cup winners Odense ( about vorskla level today)
2nd round Belgian cup winners standard Liège ( about real Sociedad level today)
Quarter final Italian cup winners Torino ( about young boys level today)
Semi final PSG french cup winners ( about schalke level today
Final 3rd placed Parma Italian cup quarter finalists ( about Lazio level today)
We didn’t go( 5 times so far) ooh ain’t it shit
We loved winning a bona fide European trophy that we knew wasn’t the European cup but contained its own kudos
Until the media told us all what was important
Yeah - we played WINNERS of something in every round.
It was also decades ago.
Football had a fraction of the money and smaller clubs could actually compete far more effectively.
Today - even the majority of teams in the CL are complete dross with a few big teams.
The PL remains the only decent competition in Europe - despite the money, the game here has maintained the competitiveness game to game.
The Europey League is the bottom rung of football. There's number 6 for you.
Whether we agree on our opinion of the the Europey League (7) is irrelevant. The point was that scoring goals in the PL is harder and Aubameyang has 8 compared to his 22 last year after receiving a 350k a week contract. Quite why we have to get into who we played in the first round of the Cup Winners Cup in 1994 is baffling.
You just have a bee in your bonnet about being ultra supportive of the team beyond all rational thought. Fine, you do you.
Fact is, though, the team is sh*t, as is the manager. One of the worst collection of coaching staff and players I can remember (and that's many decades).
