cityfanlee23

It's amazing how much better we are when we ignore the managers calls to slow the game down Dominant, credit to Enzo for only seemingly telling us to calm down early on, since we scored we have been far more aggressive and direct and we've been unplayable for Norwich. Could have been 5-6 today. And we were EXCITING. Do this for the rest of the season and I might believe properly again.

Hope so oh... you meant

KDH would give him a run for his money

Enzo

One reason. One reason only.

Amazing how much better we are when we press with intensity as a team and drive the ball forward as opposed to mindlessly passing it sideways for 50+ passes every phase, who'd of thought. At this point we basically just need to Ignore Enzo.

Daka needs to be subbed a month ago.

Probably a penalty, but would be quite a harsh one I think, the ball was going at his stomach. Harsh but could easily be given.

It really is mindblowing that Enzo can look at this and think “I’m going to do the exact same thing next week” and half this forum applaud him for it and say the fans are the problem….

I would say if Wednesday go down and we don’t get promoted I’d 100% take Danny Röhl, he’s done a phenomenal job at Wednesday with a league 1 squad and a board in meltdown. The turn around there is far exceeding what it looks like on paper.

Not gonna lie I’d actually take him over the current trajectory. I genuinely believe he would come in for the final games and get them running through brick walls. We need a bounce, for weeks I’ve been saying we will finish 2nd and believing Enzo will pull something out, or the players would pull something out, but that faith is gone now. The future of the club lies on promotion essentially, so it’s a huge risk to get rid but it’s also a huge risk to keep doing the same thing. Pearson would get this lot fighting. I don’t think he should be a permanent choice though.

Right but realistically he doesn’t *need* to sign anyone to get this team promoted when we were 14 points clear of 3rd. He just needs to do the basics and stop trying to turn players like Choudhury into Beckenbauer. He's trying to turn pigs ears into silk purses with this current system. Just go back to basics and play to the teams strengths and we don’t really need to sign anyone. Obviously wish we could have strengthened but when it fell through you change the system to adapt. He refuses.

It’s a difficult one because we need to sign a manager who has the capacity to grow with the club should they get us promoted, which means signing a manager who could promote us and keep us up, that isn’t cheap. And then if we sign that manager and we don’t go up, we are financially screwed. I think right now *IF* the board pulled the trigger (they won’t) it needs to be someone who can fire them up for the final games. We would need a “firefighter” style manager to get us over the line essentially then regroup and look forward in the summer. Someone to come in, kick everyone up the arse, explain to them that they are playing for the badge and every single passionate fan out there and make them run through brick walls. The problem is I genuinely don’t know who’s available that could do that job. Big Nige on a short term deal with an agreement that it won’t be extended?

Please don’t take this as me making a suggestion because I’m not. But I even think Warnock would be able to come in and get this lot fired up for the final 8 games. “You’ve gotta f’in die to get 3 points”

It’s definitely not just a manager problem, but the managers job is to make the best of the situation he has, which requires flexibility. Short in midfield but have amazing flanks like Ricardo and Mavididi? Overlap. Simplistic example but you get the point, it everything is going wrong, and the manager still refuses to change he’s going to get a large part of the blame. Unfortunately players can’t be signed until summer, the board aren’t going anywhere just yet, all we can do is talk about player performances and manager performances.

Statistically if they had come in 2-3 games earlier they probably would have kept us up based on PPM. The margins were just too fine thanks to the board.

The really sad part is, I actually think Dean Smith would have got this lot up. And I was not happy with him at all by the last game.

This goes both ways, go back and watch our matches this season and see the sheer amount of goal scoring chances our opponents have absolutely wasted on us. In most games we gift opponents 2-3 big chances, luckily for us they often miss. It balances out in my opinion, if we started finishing our chances, and our opponents did too, it would net to 0 and we would still be in the exact same place.

Every single week that Enzo refuses to change, he is actively putting his ego and his system over the future of this club (if it fails). I haven’t been sold since day 1, on a few occasions he’s almost turned me, but even when we were 14 points clear of 3rd it seemed obvious to me that even if we did trounce the league and go up, our system is way too rigid and would be near impossible to be successful with in the top flight without monster levels of investment. Now I just think he’s very naive, it really was crazy how cult like the fanbase got over him, talking about how he’s going to the top of the game, going to take over at Man City, going to the top 6, we are lucky to have him etc. No doubt he’s done some real good things here, the speed at which he turned the ship around and brought real positivity to the club and fanbase for a long period cannot be ignored, but I just don’t have faith in a manager who lacks even basic pragmatism in his approach.

Do agree on that at the start of the season that partnership was solid, but can't really see why he's still not being given a run, Faes and Vesty keep making a lot of mistakes as of late so would be good to give them something to think about, personally I think our defensive record flattered to deceive for a good 3 months now, we tend to gift attacks to opponents quite a lot but haven't been punished due to poor finishing. Hope he gets his chance!

We really do need coady in the 11 more than ever, Faes is making multiple huge errors that almost lead to goals on the weekly, Coady has come in and done his job and has put in some decent performances and immediately been dropped. Considering our financial situation spending upto 10m when you include addons and wages on a player that barely gets into the team seems a bit of a stupid move. If he’s not favoured for the system then why buy him? If he’s here more as an experienced head we could have got plenty of players much cheaper than that. Frustratingly enough he would likely be one of the first names on the team sheets in a more conventional system.

It was a Joke. According to many on here if you want us to have a plan B it means you want the ball lumped up field to a target man all game.

Even if we had the means to do so look who would be in charge of doing it 😂 I’m still waiting for Ward to get an extension!

Get out of here you route 1 merchant I have a gut feeling we will scrape up through the automatics, but if we fail it's very simple, Enzo has gambled quite literally the future of the club on his "system" and would be unforgivable. 14 points blown and still nothing changes. I think we have the quality to drag us through.

So what you’re saying is he will get sacked over the break and the new manager will come in and give them a boost and we lose 3-0?