Have you lost faith in Rafa as manager?

[Vincent Vega]

Sorry to start a new thread on similar lines to those already posted, but I wanted to see what a poll would show. Opinion seems to be divided, but more and more seem to be coming 'round to the idea that our current problems are more to do with the manager and how he is running things than with the appalling owners.

 

So, where do you stand?

[Vincent Vega]

My own opinion and that of all the lads I go the match with is that Rafa should go at the end of this season. Four years down the line and we look only slightly better than the team he inherited. Poor football, no cohesion and baffling tactics tell me that we need a new manager if we are to improve in the next few seasons.

[Gav]

My own opinion and that of all the lads I go the match with is that Rafa should go at the end of this season. Four years down the line and we look only slightly better than the team he inherited. Poor football, no cohesion and baffling tactics tell me that we need a new manager if we are to improve in the next few seasons.

 

 

pretty much sums it all up for me .stick on a helmet though , because someone will call you a cunt for starting the thread and being anti-rafa by post 30

[King Emlyn]

Difficult one VV. I've laways hated his rotation policy ( and he does rotate like no other despite what people proffering stats say) but he is definitely a fine tactician. The major problem for me is that he has quite clearly lost the players and i just don't see any way out for him.

[Gav]

My own opinion and that of all the lads I go the match with is that Rafa should go at the end of this season. Four years down the line and we look only slightly better than the team he inherited. Poor football, no cohesion and baffling tactics tell me that we need a new manager if we are to improve in the next few seasons.

 

 

pretty much sums it all up for me .I bet someone will call you a cunt for starting the thread and being anti-rafa by post 30

[Hooch]

I lost faith months ago mate.

by the way did you sing Mambo number 5??

[Red Mist]

Rafa's had it. Unless he can win us the CL, he won't survive. Ideally I wanted him to hang around for one more season but that would mean more shit signings and more silly selections and tactics, and yet another season of failing to challenge for the league. And I find that unacceptable.

[ratcatcher]

I continue to support Benitez but its conditional now. He must change his absurd rotation policy. He must play his strongest, best team week in, week out until the season ends. He must play only form players.

[Red_Jim83]

I haven't lost faith in him, but it's looking like the players have and that's our problem!

[Jens]

In four years he´s changed the whole squad. Carra, Sami, Riise and Stevie was the only players good enough. How are we supposed to win everything when the players hardly know each other. Taggart and Wenger was given time, Rafa must too be given time. Now get behind the manager, he fucking deseserves it.

[hamstrung]

I haven't lost faith in him as a manager, but I think (for a number of reasons) he's probably not going to turn things around here now.

[Original202]

I have as much faith in him now as I did back in November.

 

I.e None

 

The season can't end soon enough, I just hope we manage to scrape 4th and things don't turn too sour. Benitez has always been popular with everyone as a man, and I hope that continues rather than turning the way it did in Houllier's later days.

[derykw]

I `d lost faith months ago, today changes nothing. He`s lost the players his tactics and selections don`t work. What`s the point in keeping him? He`s gone in the summer anyway.

[Guest PaddyBerger15]

Rafa has still earned the right to more time, more funding and more patience for me.

[WaltonRed]

More time = going even further back

[Juniper]

I don't want to see Rafa go but I don't think he'll be at the club come the start of next season. Don't think there's any way back now. I don't think under him we'll ever seriously challenge for the title. He's had enough seasons to get further up the table.

 

This season in many ways, as we all know, has been shite. Lets just hope he doesn't get all the blame.

 

I hope between now and the end of the season he goes and turns it around by getting us to another final, although the chances of that are very slim.

 

Lets see how the players respond against Inter (bit f*cking late though!)

[Rashid]

The acid test for me was a league chalenge, he hasn't done that. It would be interesting to bring the Minimum requirements thread from ugust back up again...

[Karl_b]

No it wouldn't.

[WeAreTheBest]

Not a yes or no from me, theres a lot of wrong in stuff he's doing but he's not really worked under "normal" circumstances. Haven't really thought about it much anyway, there's no point desperately backing him or howling for his sacking every day as he's gone anyway so it's all irrelevant.

[navbasi]

I haven't lost faith in him, but it's looking like the players have and that's our problem!

 

Agree with that word for word.

[WeAreTheBest]

It would be interesting to bring the Minimum requirements thread from ugust back up again...

 

Then do it if you're that arsed, stop being such a snidey little prick making this same comment every week. If you want to, do it, if not then shut the fuck up.

[Newport]

Not yet, but if things doesn't change over the next few months I might. Rafa has three months to convince me he's still got it.

[MLB]

I would replace him at the end of the season based on how things have gone recently. He's a good man and a good manager, but the only way he can turn things around now is with an unlikely run of excellent results between now and the end of the season.

[Gav]

Not yet, but if things doesn't change over the next few months I might. Rafa has three months to convince me he's still got it.

 

IT Being ?????

[odris]

Partly to blame are the people who marched to keep him at the club.