Originally Posted by
Stuttgart88
Lost 4-1 to France. Does that give Kenny a free pass in March? Plucky defeat - helped by a fluke of a goal - to an Argentina side that should have been out of sight.
P4, L2, W1, D1.
I get the general point and agree that there’s evidence of good coaching, organisation and no little amount of hunger and hard work, and that can count for a lot, but that’s been evident in several of our games against better teams. It’s also been absent in our worst performances.
For us though it’s a results business when we’re playing well but not getting results, someone else’s work when we are, lucky when we get an OG after a really ballsy comeback, bad management when we play well but Parrott misses a sitter…
I actually think we’ve better players than Australia more or less across the board. I’d like to see how Australia would do in a League B NL campaign, or a Euro qualifying campaign. I’d guess not much better than us, if at all.
I think Rob Page has been impressive in his spell as Welsh coach yet they stank the place out. And if they were to play Australia tomorrow I wouldn’t bet much on Australia winning.
There’s almost always an Iceland or an Australia we can point to.
But if the point is that spirit, organisation and sound tactics are a necessary but insufficient condition for success then yes, of course I agree.
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