Reed-Speak II
I hate to do it to you again Les, but if you will insist upon talking complete gibberish (aka Reed-Speak) then I'm obliged to pick up on it.It can't be easy facing the media after a 5-1 reversal, but there were some more real gems from our 'head coach':
"But we got a lifeline by going in at 2-1 and perhaps what I was going to say at 2-0 changes slightly." (What the hell were you planning to say then Les? Thank goodness Dawson scored that own-goal otherwise it could have been ugly.)
"We lost a bit of discipline; some players tried too hard and were doing things out of character" (Try too hard? As opposed to not trying hard enough I guess? Out of character? if you think Bryan Hughes giving the ball away is 'out of character' then I hate to be the bearer of bad news but....)
"Defenders were getting into forward positions and throwing caution to wind at times." (You're right. The last thing we need at 3-1 down is full-backs bombing forward.)
"Some of the boys were trying to get us back in the game but it left us exposed and we were punished.” (Fine the lot of 'em two weeks wages. Fancy trying to get us back into the game. What were they thinking?)
"We've got to take points from our home games and have a lot of games to play against the teams we are competing with in the bottom half of the table. I've just looked at the points available and the way we do play better at home." (So we need to find the 30 points needed for safety from just 11 home games? Piece of cake.)
Someone put him out of his misery.
posted by New York Addick @ 11:57 PM
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somebody get a gun and put us out of our misery. i agree with you about kinsella great captain and player but a novice. so we now have three novices at the helm which maybe good for the future but we need it desperately now!
think its a bit churlish to have a go at reed and his comments...it wasn't him that bought this dross to Charlton. I don't think it matters what is said to the press after a game like that. and Dowie has already used up the easy words earlier in the season. Give the guy a chance and stop picking on each word he says.
Maybe so, but it doesn't exactly fill you with confidence that he can eloquently explain to the players what he expects from them on the pitch does it? Give me Dowie any day.
I have nearly always enjoyed reading your column in the past (whether or not I agreed with it's sentiments) but, sorry NYCA, you now seem to have rather lost the plot.
Just try reading the whole(and not just the first half) of Reed's comments! You may then appreciate the good sense of what he is saying.
Dowie - better at "eloquently" explaining things to players. Give me strength!
Sorry, have just re-read it and it still doesn't make any sense.
The truth is that under Reed we've played three away games, conceded nine goals and been completely outplayed in each. We hardly sparkled away from home under Dowie but we didn't capitulate in this fashion. Indeed during some of those games (Chelsea, Newcastle, Fulham) we at times looked like a football team rather than this shambles.
I'm sorry I've just seen nothing to suggest that sacking Dowie and replacing him with Reed has done us any favours.
why are you anonymous, anonymous are you really lou reed?
All I know is Carson was shocking, lloyd sam is a winger not a centre forward, we play much better with Kishishev and if I see rommedahl after a game in the car park he's going to get the "Jason Euell treatment"