Seen a bit of the national response from our game yesterday, and I am a bit surprised at the amount of flak the players are getting. Yes the pot has boiled over with ''Slot Out" and there is more than enough of that, but I did not think the players would be getting raked over the coals like I have seen even though I wholeheartedly agree.
Some of the player regression has been flat out shocking, and you might also put some of that on Slot, but at the end of the day as a player you still have to turn up and play and play well, and too many guys have not this year. Just to name a few: Virgil, Konate, Mac Allister, Salah and Gakpo have all regressed and been different levels of crap at time this year. That's five of a starting eleven that are so far off it it's hard to put into words. And it's not just general performances that are not up to the standards they have set, it's massive massive missed chances or mistakes that lead directly to goals against.
I still believe our failures this year are organizational from top to bottom more than anything, including Slot. But the players deserve their fair share of grief as well for what's gone on because the individual performances just have not been good enough this year.