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Think Reid has shown pretty good leadership of late as has Skipp, apart from that it is depressingly scarce and no true Morgan/Huth style leader. Think Nelson would do best next to one, he doesn’t seem the commanding type

Want to start by clarifying that I do not think Marti has been good, but I do think we could cut a little bit of slack. Went into today without an out and out midfielder on the bench, makes it hard to make changes and James was clearly shattered. Really unsure why it wasn’t Ricardo/Aluko straight away. Really buzzing Daka is off to AFCON. Think the first two 3-0’s were some of the willy pullers on the pitch, think today was tiredness in large parts although he was wayyyy too negative. Derby we don’t really have any excuses for

Think we have completely ran out of steam mate

How is Daka so completely technically shite, I do not get it

Think the squad is just knackered, we desperately need 2/3 in January

Think this will happen at some point, Ricky will come on for Ayew/Fatawu/Mav

Sorry but he is very clearly knackered, unless we fancy Ipswich at home with Skipp and one of Reid/Hamza/Winks/Soumare

Think he’s been the best player on the pitch so far, deserved that goal. Also a reminder why you leave Fatawu on even off form

James looks absolutely shattered

Yeah?

Stol, Him, Nelson, Monga,Page and Fatawu is a cracking spine for the future, just need to sign around them and hope we don’t lose them

Nice gesture but I can’t help but agree with this^. Feels like a massive PR move albeit should still be praised, if it wasn’t, as was said above it would’ve been on the kits when they were blank. As a side note, if the youngsters can wear this sponsor, is there any scope for us leaving it on the younger players kits for the year. Obviously different to the main but so is the blank kit?

I could give a good few examples of recent patterns of purchases, going back 2/3 years which I think we are now seeing the product of- Ivanovic at Millwall, Heggebo at West Brom, Irankunda at Watford, Vipotnik at Swansea all having massive impacts, and you have prem teams letting better players leave as more money arrives, such as Crama, and have better players at worse teams, as an example, two of Ipswich most impactful attackers last time we went up are now at Wrexham and Portsmouth. And the relegated clubs have done way better business, and two of the promoted sides are immediately as rich as anyone in the lower prem- last time it was Oxford, Plymouth and Ipswich(Charlton as the other are lower mid table and clearly better than Plymouth or Oxford were). Check my posts, last time we were here I said it was crap because it was. I think you are more willing to bash the league to further undermine what a crap year we have had which is unnecessary as both can be true, we should still be doing better than we are

Nelson was off the back of a League 2 loan the enzo year, Nick Pope went from Bury to Charlton to Newcastle, Stolarczyk was Hartlepool, Mings went from non league to starting for Ipswich, others too. It is rare because of the standard drop but if a player(JJ, Braybrooke) is the best player on the pitch every week all you know for certain is that they are at least worth playing a division below, and with both of them, the way they play wouldn’t be massively affected by the leap in my opinion, Braybrooke was always whether he could physically compete which he is showing he can, Joseph we will wait and see but he has all the tools

This all over. In the two years since we were last here the recruitment is so so much better, so many examples of that in the summer, so much more creativity. Teams are realising the best value is in Scandinavia/Eastern Europe and there has been a crazy influx, the league is so much better than it was

Think the Winks rumour indicates his agent or the club are shopping him actively, seeing as the article specifically says it could lead to a move. Out of them all him and Faes are the two I can see happening in January

Begovic Choudhury Nelson(if injured Skipp) Souttar(if injured Skipp or Vestegaard) Thomas Skipp(if at CB Winks) James Fatawu Monga Mavididi Reid

Having said that, Joseph is now proven in men’s senior footy whilst Aluko is not, would not be mad at Joseph being recalled and loaning Aluko somewhere, think it would massively benefit him

To be fair I did not take into account Aluko int hat statement, moreso the other useless lot

If his form keeps up I see no reason not to bring him into the first team fold, did similar with McAteer and Nelson straight out of L2 a couple years ago, and it really couldn’t be better timing for him considering the absolute state of our full backs, if he can stay fit (Ricardo) and not be outright stupid (the rest of them) he’s instantly our best full back

Don’t disagree with any of what you have said but tbf Silko Thomas is also from the academy

Why would he be involved at all at 16(?) if he was off? Swear people said the same of Evans not being involved then he signed a contract and was still not involved, maybe he is just 16 as raw as ****

Willing to admit I was one of them; I really did think the players and money in the squad is way too much for a relegation scrap and I still do, but this feels eerily similar to the prem season 3 years back when this all started. Sleepwalking towards it again

If we can name more than 5 clear cut chances we have created via good build up play I will happily backtrack. We have no attacking gameplan whatsoever. With Enzo we had midfielders underlapping and making spaces, which sometimes left us open but led to a lot of goals. We are playing enzo ball without any of the risk, which is essentially nothing keep ball at that point, this is a bad squad but it is a playoff side at worst and should not be in 14th in Mid November. We are behind John Eustace’s Derby, we are behind Nathan Jones’ Charlton, behind Stoker with Robins, behind Milwall with Rowett, behind Watford who sacked their manager. Would you take any of the above managers, and would you take performance that caused Watford to sack a manager

Loss or draw with 3 SoT