Chrysalis

After thinking about it, I cant argue with your point. Honestly cant, you are right, there is players that get picked out, and yeah you do sometimes wonder what people want. Whilst I dont currently rate Daka, I most certainly hope he proves me wrong and starts banging in goals for us.

Is it a case of unreasonable expectations, expecting a 2.8 PPG and complete dominance of this league when we dont even have a proper goal scoring striker, and started the season with a squad devoid of confidence after 2 relegations in 3 seasons. I dont think he has done enough to make me think he is great, but I think he is doing ok so far. 3rd is pretty good considering the state of the club and squad.

I like how you have written your post. I know FT has got used to immaculate looking football is what makes you a winning team, but it is exactly what you said in this post, scoring lots of goals. Cov are by far the best team in the league right now and its an excellent result the 0-0 with them.

He came close yesterday, he somehow came out with the ball, and fed a beauty of a pass to one of our players in the box, nothing Monga can do at that point if it isnt a goal.

I think every LCFC fan fan is in that camp. Hope and opinion are different things.

Fatawa is now good and capable enough that you just pick him every game, unless he is too injured to play. The type of player when you playing shit will just score out of nowhere. He has developed very well, I remember saying Mavididi was better during their first season here, now Fatawa is light years ahead.

Not really taken part in this thread, and I havent really even commented much on the manager in match threads either, other that I think he seems good at HT team talks. I will say the same as I did when supporting Cooper, its too early to say he isnt up to the job. I am even saying this as a fan who doesnt like possession being over done, and playing out the back with the opposition in your face, luckily the team seems to have a degree of freedom under Marti, it feels a lot less rigid compared to when we had Enzo. So my take is I have no issue with him at the moment, we keep on going.

Ok now I am thinking I understand now, so basically the team plays better as a unit with Daka on the pitch vs the alternatives, I can accept that, especially after a 3-1 win. Also I did like his sprint forward to try and get that crossbar rebound.

Yeah I am not sure why hes getting a lot of positive feedback, for me he isnt good enough, and is poor at holding the ball up. Ayew seems to be much more useful but gets criticised every time he plays. I am either missing something obvious or its the old FT praise our favourites, bash our scapegoat. However the effort is there, which is something and we dont have an obvious number 9 at the moment anyway. Fully agree on the saving vs kicking thing, The majority have brought into the play out the back mentality and forgotten the basics of the game.

They will be fine, but not top 6. The good manager they brought back in is turning a tanker.

RIP, liked him as our owner, proper football fan.

I like Faes in he tries hard to not be beaten, but he does seem a bit wild in these moments as well. I agree if he didnt make the challenge he would be getting moaned at just the same for letting the player beat him. Most high profile retired defenders do state its better to do what you can to block if you feel if you dont there is a shot on goal. There is never an assurance a penalty will be given, and quite often it isnt.

Felt he had a poor game, but then forgot it all when he appeared out of nowhere for that acrobatic header after the crossbar challenge.

Two more wonder goals, individual brilliance out of nowhere for our lead, as we were poor to be 2-1 ahead, but then finally Swansea caved and from that point forward we seemed comfortable.

Laurel and Hardy running the show now, I really want him gone so much.

They both an issue really, it says a lot that the owner isnt plugging a cashflow of a meagre 19m. As well as we dont have a handle on management in general.

Link?

Bad news the regulator wont be intervening on one the biggest problems in sport at the moment which is PSR/FFP and sporting sanctions. Thank you for the post.

Next CEO will be appointed by new owner.

I know we lost, but this is a big improvement over last season, with a downgraded squad. We actually had some bite and spent a lot of time in the opponents half.

Winks did attempt forward passes, but almost all of them didnt make it, were intercepted. He isnt that type of player. KDH we had for that last time we were down here, but he is gone now.

Cant find any clips or VOD for this.

I can see it coming, the same when I warned everyone around the time of the FA cup win, our loans against future income and wages were a problem.

Rudkin masterclass of a squad, left us with no decent CF, Ayew seems more suited as a 10 than a 9. Daka not good enough.

Can see the Vesty Ricardo Winks triangle back in force on this game, those 3 players trusting each other, on one occasion Ricardo wouldnt let the ball go until Winks jogged back to receive it again. We played well 2nd half, but need to get more ruthless in front of goal. Interesting Cov got Monzo as sponsor. Proving there is decent sponsors out there.