They're not the whole story though, that's my frustration.
You're not alone, believe me, but you can't just discount mitigating factors.
People who have said results aren't good enough aren't stupid and think we ought to be able to cope with the injuries and be in better form currently.
I think I've covered this with the examples I gave. When you lose key players, then lose squad replacements to injury as well, you will struggle to cope. Add in the inexperience of those left and it goes quite a way to explaining our current form. In addition to that, you also have very young and inexperienced players filling in those key voids.
They aren't good enough I'll agree, but I'm not so blinkered that I'll ignore all the factors contributing to that, as I went through before.
But it's a fact of life in the PL when you're playing in Europe as well, as others pointed out - moneybags City deal with rashes of injuries.
Do they? That 12 game winless streak says otherwise, and they haven't anywhere near the amount of injuries to key players that we've had. Chuck in the fact that their replacements are virtually all full internationals, and it undoes your statement.
Aside the saying goes - make hay while the sun shines. When we're healthy we can't draw Leicester at home, lose to Palace and Ipswich, get tonked away to Fulham and beaten at home by Wolves like last year.
Like I said, the injuries aren't the whole picture. I rarely let a result make me angry, but that Ipswich game had me fuming. Leicester was down to utter profligacy in front of goal, whilst against Palace we were awful as well.
All matches where we were healthy (and just a handful of examples, there's many more). You can't lose those points when you're healthy because you're going to have matches where you're short handed or short of rest.
I can't disagree there. Although I do disagree that there are "many more."
I've touched on our inconsistency before, it's part and parcel of building a young squad. City were inconsistent when Pep arrived, Liverpool inconsistent when Klopp arrived, Woolwich when Captain Black arrived. It happens when a new manager is instilling his ethos into a team, we're not unique in that.
But we haven't made hay while the sun shone. Aside from the first 10 matches of his tenure, our "best" run has merely been baseline adequate for our aims as a club (and against a very easy stretch of fixtures). The rest has been underperforming to varying degrees, with the odd good result thrown in.
Agreed, but that doesn't mean you throw the baby out with the bath water. The fact of the matter is that the inconsistency has been exacerbated exponentially by the injury issues.
Edit: Anyway, that's Ange and not Lange. And I'm pleased Ange finally showed some cynicism with the Liverpool 1st leg and put getting a result ahead of style. There's no one on this forum who would be happier to be wrong than me.
That's fair enough.
Don't get me wrong, I fully understand the frustrations, and even share many of them. However, as I've posted previously, I've followed AP's career since Brisbane, where I was one of the youth coaches at Queensland Lions. I have faith he'll turn it around. If you don't then no worries, you're fully entitled to feel that way.
My abiding belief though, is that we'll revisit this down the line, with you and others happy that the club kept faith with him as well.
