A sensible approach to our current lack of winning.
Since Gerrard played twice for England and Steve McLaren was granted the Keys to Manchester. and London for doing the other clubs a favour, our main player, has been poor.
But to argue that rotation is responsible for our current predicament is nonsense and over simplistic. Yes it might frustrate us that different teams are played each week, but today's side v Spurs had played together as a team before. AND as highly skilled and paid footballers who spend all week training together, they do know eachother very well. There were few times today when misunderstanding was the cause of lost balls and so on.
Spurs scored twice with route one balls, and the defence needs to be examined. But Gerrard had a very poor game AGAIN and when he does, so do we as a whole; as much as we might not like to be labelled a one man team.
I wish I could say it was merely rotation that was causing our problems, an easy solution, a quick-fx and a stick to beat the manager with. But no, the players look jaded, and are not playing up to their promise.
The first half, we played lovely football at times and perhaps were guilty at least once of trying to walk the ball in, but if we'd won then we wouldn't be complaining at all about the team.
I think its time we ignored the anti-rotationists and realised that there is something else going on. It may be as simple as players not playing well. that's certainly true. But why? I don't know.
But I do know the team today have played together before, all know eachother and made very few mistakes. We were poor but that wasn't the reason why.
