So Bar Lennon.... today's game destroyed your faith in KK?
I don't like it, but yesterday's game has tipped the balance that way for me. We played similarly bad against Bolton a couple of months ago and he gave them a kick up the arse and they then responded a bit.
The fact that it's happened again is really not a good sign. You really gotta ask the question - why has it happened?
Adam was blatantly pathetic yesterday, but I have to look at Andy Carroll - he was getting a great run of form going and was doing well - since then he's been dropped. It seems everytime a player gets a good run of form going, he gets dropped. This frustrates me to no end. It's the same with Downing, who was on the bench again yesterday.
He made the double change yesterday, putting Gerrard and Carroll on for Bellamy and I think Adam. This resulted in Kuyt playing on the left of midfield - wtf?! He waited another while to bring Downing on, and when he did I thought, fine, Downing will go to the left now and Dirk will switch back to the right, but no - Kuyt stayed on the left and Downing was put onto the right.
The players need to take a great deal of responsibility, but the manager is the one who will ultimately pay the price when things go wrong, and with decision-making like this, it's not unjustified.
The team is frustrating to watch. We don't pass forward enough, and seem to have too many players who are apprehensive and almost look like they're afraid to take a chance with a forward pass around the midfield area. Get them into the final third though, and they've no problems whatsoever putting an aimless ball into an opposition box that has us outnumbered with 2 attackers to 7 defenders.
It's been this same story all season.
