Kuyt

[coldox]

For all his effort, Kuty is having a dreadful season - why is Rafa playing him?

[DazzlaJ]

  coldox said:

For all his effort, Kuty is having a dreadful season - why is Rafa playing him?

 

'cos he is good looking

[Hassony]

he has scored 5 goals so far, so its not that dreadful

 

the problem today is that he shold have started with crouch rather than on his own

[Guest SpiritualWarrier]

  coldox said:

For all his effort, Kuty is having a dreadful season - why is Rafa playing him?

 

Because under Rotation it was his turn to play the full 90 minutes regardless of form. He will not start on Tuesday but will on Saturday. Voronin will start on Tuesday, and Crouch will be on the bench for both games because for some reason unknown to others Rafa has got a huge big personal problem with Crouch because out of all the players Crouch is not getting a fair crack of the whip.

[Chas]

Rafa and Crouch are not seeing eye to eye

[mathewbet1]

If Rafa is playin a lone striker then crouch should on current form get the nod, i agree crouch seems to been snubbed by rafa this season. Kuyt can get away with the hard work ethic, with no end product when he plays alongside the world class striker that is fernando torres. But on his own Kuyt is proving to be lookig like a 1st division player. If Rafa persists with a blinkered approach to the stiker situation i think it will ultimately loose hime the confidence of the fans, then who knows. I think is blantely obvious our two best strikers at the club are

 

torres

crouch

either or kuyt / voronin

 

in that order ( apologigies ryan babel who could do a job i belive playing just behind crouch)

[Elisha_Scott]

Kuyt today was so bad it was embarrassing. The one where he was played in down the right, then ran it in to the box and just let Friedel pick it up, he then just pointed at Friedel, I was cringing for him.

[surf]

  Chas said:

Rafa and Crouch are not seeing eye to eye

 

more like chin to forehead

[Guest SpiritualWarrier]

  Elisha_Scott said:

Kuyt today was so bad it was embarrassing. The one where he was played in down the right, then ran it in to the box and just let Friedel pick it up, he then just pointed at Friedel, I was cringing for him.

 

Yeh, nasty Brad wouldn't let him score.

[Chili Palmer]

  Elisha_Scott said:

Kuyt today was so bad it was embarrassing. The one where he was played in down the right, then ran it in to the box and just let Friedel pick it up, he then just pointed at Friedel, I was cringing for him.

 

That was bad from Kuyt, but your mate made a shocking run, didn't help him one bit.

[McBain]

I was making up dutch swear words and shouting them at the screen

 

Krontenrukkerjong!!

[Chili Palmer]

  Mcbain said:

I was making up dutch swear words and shouting them at the screen

 

Krontenrukkerjong!!

 

krontenrukkerjonj to you sir, krontenrukkerjonj to you...

[Leroy]

Rafa`s keeping face as it was his first big (in his eye`s) signing, the guy is not just good enough and yes he is an embarresment. We need to get a top coach in to work with Rafa ASAP before it all falls apart, he`s taking full

responsability over everything & it wont work.

[hideNseek]

  Elisha_Scott said:

Kuyt today was so bad it was embarrassing. The one where he was played in down the right, then ran it in to the box and just let Friedel pick it up, he then just pointed at Friedel, I was cringing for him.

Was that the one where Gerrard helped him f*** up or was that later?

[floyd the barber]

ive been a supporter of kuyt.......but after today, i might`ve had enough

[George Costanza]

  Elisha_Scott said:

Kuyt today was so bad it was embarrassing. The one where he was played in down the right, then ran it in to the box and just let Friedel pick it up, he then just pointed at Friedel, I was cringing for him.

 

 

Gerrard didn't exactly help him. Not necessarily his fault since he's not a forward but between him and bale one should have pulled off to the pen spot and the other gone to the far post.

 

Kuyt was very poor today but he simply isn'ty a lone striker and likewise Gerrard isn't a link player/support stiker. Stevie looked far better when he dropped deeper when Crouch came on.

 

I can't really criticise Kuyt too miuch because he gives it his all but at some point we need just that bit of extra quality rather than a hard worker

[Guest SpiritualWarrier]

  George Costanza said:

I can't really criticise Kuyt too miuch because he gives it his all but at some point we need just that bit of extra quality rather than a hard worker

 

Not something I want if that's all they can offer.

 

At least with Cisse he had pace and more a goal threat.

[psl]

He was really awful today.

[George Costanza]

  SpiritualWarrier said:

Not something I want if that's all they can offer.

 

At least with Cisse he had pace and more a goal threat.

 

what were you saying 2 weeks agon after the derby i wonder

 

IMO he's a good squad player but we need better for our strongest XI

[Guest SpiritualWarrier]

  George Costanza said:

what were you saying 2 weeks agon after the derby i wonder

 

IMO he's a good squad player but we need better for our strongest XI

 

He scored two pens, big wow.

[coldox]

he wasnt much good that day either, unless you are giving points for trying to kill Neville, and he tried his best to miss the second peno as the keeper got a hand to it...

[Elisha_Scott]

  Kieran said:

That was bad from Kuyt, but your mate made a shocking run, didn't help him one bit.

 

Shocking run? You mean the run to the near post ages after Kuyt should haver put the ball across the box for him to score?

Poor decision making by Kuyt, simple as that.

[Cheesecake]

that sequence of play had 'simple tap in' from Gerrard written all over it, Kuyt could have taken a couple of touches and rolled it across - GOAL. What happened next was a f*** up of Ronny Rozethal v Villa proportions.

[Elisha_Scott]

  DPD1973 said:

that sequence of play had 'simple tap in' from Gerrard written all over it, Kuyt could have taken a couple of touches and rolled it across - GOAL. What happened next was a f*** up of Ronny Rozethal v Villa proportions.

 

As the ball broke to him down the right hi first touch was dreadful taking him to the byline and cutting down his options, he then just couldn't make a decision, maybe down to confidence, maybe ability. Either way, it was embarrassing.

[Cam]

As Hansen pointed out, Kuyt had a couple of opportunities to cross it for Gerrard. He made a big feck-up.

 

But Gerrard's run was just as embarrassing. WTF was he going to do - take it off his foot? Tackle him?

 

Kuyt was devastating in Holland. Was he told immediately by Rafa to stay out of the box? Get him in there and have a proper strike partner alongside him at all times. Today's formation was more like 4-6-0. Rafa's occasional insistence on using him as a right-winger is mental - but it's Rafa that needs looking at for that, not Kuyt.