- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,514
I try to veer towards the glass half full approach to defeats.
I accept that we will lose lots of games this season. I don't object to being beaten by a better side.
But I can't deal with sitting in the pouring rain, to watch a team who were utter, utter crap in the first half, come out after 45 minutes and show more desire, passion, drive and urgency to take hold of the game, at our expense.
People can blame the ref for their first goal as we should have had a corner. But we should have cleared the ball.
As for the second goal- frankly I could have run down from the stand, done a lap of the dugouts and still made it to the penalty area before we attempted to get the ball away.
Errors, ok, they happen, but nobody looked like they cared this afternoon. Nobody seemed to have the will to try something to change the direction of the game. Criticise his ability all you like, but at least McCammon showed a tiny bit of fight. The others seemed to sit there waiting for something to happen.
Millwall are pretty rubbish, but they showed what you can do with limited ability as long as you have fight and desire. You could see how much it meant to them at the end.
I couldn't believe it when we got a corner in injury time and the players just stood around idly in the box, waiting for someone else to take it.
I see a lot of people are taking this out on McGhee, but what do you think he told them at half time? "Don't bother, lads, just sit there and expect Millwall to give it to you. It's ok, they don't want it, they'll hand it to you on a plate, so you don't need to make too much effort". Come off it. McGhee has accepted the blame for Luton, but surely some people have got to recognise that the players were complete crap today, and stop instantly blaming McGhee for everything.
Worst performance I've seen for a long time.
Still, things can only get better at Southampton....
I accept that we will lose lots of games this season. I don't object to being beaten by a better side.
But I can't deal with sitting in the pouring rain, to watch a team who were utter, utter crap in the first half, come out after 45 minutes and show more desire, passion, drive and urgency to take hold of the game, at our expense.
People can blame the ref for their first goal as we should have had a corner. But we should have cleared the ball.
As for the second goal- frankly I could have run down from the stand, done a lap of the dugouts and still made it to the penalty area before we attempted to get the ball away.
Errors, ok, they happen, but nobody looked like they cared this afternoon. Nobody seemed to have the will to try something to change the direction of the game. Criticise his ability all you like, but at least McCammon showed a tiny bit of fight. The others seemed to sit there waiting for something to happen.
Millwall are pretty rubbish, but they showed what you can do with limited ability as long as you have fight and desire. You could see how much it meant to them at the end.
I couldn't believe it when we got a corner in injury time and the players just stood around idly in the box, waiting for someone else to take it.
I see a lot of people are taking this out on McGhee, but what do you think he told them at half time? "Don't bother, lads, just sit there and expect Millwall to give it to you. It's ok, they don't want it, they'll hand it to you on a plate, so you don't need to make too much effort". Come off it. McGhee has accepted the blame for Luton, but surely some people have got to recognise that the players were complete crap today, and stop instantly blaming McGhee for everything.
Worst performance I've seen for a long time.
Still, things can only get better at Southampton....
