Blowing hot and cold cost us the Premiership

To play at Kaizer Chiefs for more than 3 seasons and still have "areas of improvement" doesn't cut it for me. Mandla Masango has been playing top flight for too long and honestly as a Chiefs die-hard disciple I'm tired of watching him missing/squandering at least 3 clear cut chance per match.

The Mamelodi Sundowns match was a clear indication of such and when I said it before the match my friend who was watching with me disagreed until we counted after the match the 3 clear-cut chances he squandered including the miss. Now how does one forgive that??? I'm tired of making excuses for South African players. They need to lift their game and take their careers seriously.

Next it's Josta Dladla, what did Dladla do on the day that warrants his praises except for giving the ball away cheaply and missing clear-cut chances. Were at point were we're playing a "cup finals" to win the league. Next thing we'll be saying the coach must be axed and forgetting the players who caused us this harm. Dladla was completely off form and keeping him in the game past half time still puzzles me.

I hardly even saw him in the opposition half past the 60th minute but yet we still had Elias Pelembe scoring from our left wing where he and Jimmy Tau were nowhere to be found.

This match was a "must win" for us and to substitute Sthembiso Ngcobo didn't make sense for me if we needed to go on an all out attack. I would have rather asked Punch Masenamela to stay up to the halfway line and relinquished the attacking duties to Siphiwe “Shabba” Tshabalala so he can whip the crosses in for Ngcobo and the loose balls to be picked up by Knowledge Musona.

Poor Musona had to go up to the half way line to collect the ball on the day and eventually got frustrated and almost injured the Sundowns goalie out of desperation. I don't even want to speak about Reneilwe “Yeye” Letsholonyane who hardly made a telling pass to our front line. He spent the night defending too deep and that's where I would have rather let Tinashe Nengomasha do the defensive duties assisting the centre backs.

I can live with our debutants' mistake on Mphela since he's a new recruit and is still trying to get accustomed to playing top flight against solid oppositions. For Christ’s sake that boy still has 3 solid years of being in the Chiefs' Black and Gold but overall apart from him error he did well.

I cannot for the life of me forgive Dladla and Masango whom I've completely lost patience with. I'm tired of him blowing hot and cold for this long playing top flight football. No ways!!!! Like one great player said "playing for Chiefs is not like playing for any other team" Here we demand results and we can only accept the best and these boys have failed.

I remember how even in the junior ranks at Chiefs every match you played was a make or break. Failing which you'd find yourself training with no game time.

These boys must learn. The one way to get a player to up his game is letting him watch from the stands - FINISH AND KLAAR! Alex Ferguson did it with Wayne Rooney, Capello did it with David Beckham, Dunga did it with Ronaldinho, Mike Ntombela did it with Mooketsi (The Kets) Sere and there's nothing stopping these guys from them suffering the same fate.

That Thomas 'Rambo' Sweswe is also skating on thin ice. I'm tired of him doing a difficult job easy and an easy job difficult. His last pass is always going to the opposition. He should watch Lucas Radebe's old tapes on what a defender does after winning the ball or better still watch Barcelona play!

Yes - every team will tell you it's not easy to play against Chiefs due to the psychological advantage they get through their fans, but Baroka FC showed them that when you give little respect to your opposition you get results.

I'm not budging - these boys better start learning. You can't miss more than 10 chances in a season and not do anything about it.

By Mooketsi Sere