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Defending at championship level and prem level are totally different. He needed this season (and now next season too) before stepping up to the prem. Your point above re Faes and Vestegaard equally applies to Nelson. Suspect that Nelson would have been at fault for a number of goals if he’d been part of our back 4 this season.

I’m all for digging out the club, but you can’t call a player who hasn’t played a premiership game our “best centre back”

Took me a good couple of reads to register that you weren’t talking about Jose Mourinho.

Decent result tbh.

I’ve just turned it off. We offer nothing - so pathetic.

I don’t think these managers exist anymore outside of maybe Pep and Klopp. They work as part of a bigger team (DOF, Recruitment etc) and so the manager generally doesn’t have the sway that Pearson had. I take the point though - we need someone who has a clear set of principles and standards and has the character / personality to enforce it.

Terrible footballer but to have him playing as a second striker is setting him up to fail. His only asset is his pace (when running in straight line - any change of direction and he falls over) so you’ve gotta just get him playing on the shoulder of the last defender. We’ve got a rubbish team but the tactics are baffling at times.

Exactly the same. It was just so obvious.

Laszco and Bori pushing for the Hungarian spot but Martin Fulop probably nicks it.

Appreciate you’ve tried to make this about the squad, but it still comes back to Rudkin. The issue you’ve highlighted is about our bloated squad - this has come about as a result of us recruiting terribly for years, not being able to shift poor players on high wages and have therefore not having had the financial headroom to invest.

Going through the motions. Showing up pretending to play football without ever looking like we have a plan or a chance of nicking a result. Any decent players we seemed to have had have gone backwards and our poor ones have gotten worse. Might never score again.

Faes ffs. Just when we’ve got the penned in for once and actually pushing he fails to make a 5 yard pass.

Winks and Facu have both been poor since coming on

Vestegaard running straight past Ruud there.

This is so bad. Theres literally nothing to hang onto or hope for. What makes it worse is that the guy doing my driveway is a West Ham fans. Gonna piss in his tea.

Outrageous people are criticising Mads

Time to go. I’ve given him a pass because he inherited a shit squad and wasn’t backed in January but he’s just doing the same things over again and expecting a different outcome.

Potentially. I wasn’t dissecting the goals, I was commenting on VKs part in them. His part in second goal looked poor though (regardless of whether the cross should have been stopped). It would have been an easy interception if he’d got back 10 yards deeper.

Not seen the article but I imagine the first was for not closing down the cross. I made this point to my brother a couple of weeks ago (immediately before we conceded from a cross) - we seem to let so many balls come into the box without making enough of an effort to stop them at source. The second one was annoying as he clearly saw Merino and either didn’t believe Nwaneri would find him or he was too tired to get back in position.

Do we really think a different manager gets a different result there? The players are still playing for him and it’s no surprise we’ve looked more solid since Ndidi has come back in. We just lack quality - admittedly he does need to find a way to get Facu into the team (in place of BDR would be the obvious answer).

3-5-2

This still gets us playoffs with a few additions needed. That assumes Soumare, Ndidi, Winks, Vardy, Faes, VK all go. Jakub Coulibaly Vestegaard Okoli / Nelson JJ Skipp *New CM* Fatawu Bilal Mavididi *New ST* Subs: Iverson Hamza Thomas Reid Alves Ayew

Tbf, it’s pretty much all we’ve tried up until now.

I’ve been Ruud “in” on the basis that he hasn’t been backed, but I’ve now gone “out”. - It’s criminal to still be playing Faes and Vestegaard when we keep seeing the same mistakes over and over again - It’s baffling to see us play the same formation each week when we’re constantly so open through the middle - The changes today (or lack of) meant we went down with a whimper

Doing himself no favours by not making any subs. Can understand him sending them out with a rocket up them with the message “you got us in this mess, you get us out of it”. But after 5mins of no difference, you’ve got to ring the changes. Either that or he’s sending a message to Rudkin.