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If we can have him for part of Friday and none of Monday I think we would be better off than a 30/60 split, if we can’t beat Wednesday with any midfield combo we will be done for at any rate

If we don’t go down he will stay, being the best player on a mid table championship team will get him a better move the he’ll get off the back of this year, he wouldn’t be a starter in the prem and at his age he needs to be starting. If we don’t go up it’ll be a top championship team or promoted side that’ll get him

The 4-1 loss to Brighton after we won the league in 13-14 comes to mind, it will be a massive deal for them as it was for us, maybe even moreso considering their recent history, really do need Ipswich at minimum to keep up with them

Don’t think the comparison points wise is worth anything. Different games with different form, confidence and players will throw up different results. At the end with Marti we were absolutely hopeless and that is what Rowatt has had to fix, two clean sheets after none since late summer (?) and a ridiculous run of form. Marti took over a newly relegated side who probably expected to go straight back up, and with a chunk of pre season, if he didn’t do better it would be astonishing comparing the two circumstances

He should be starting over Ayew but should never be anywhere near penalties. Would like to see Mukasa given 30 up front if we get ahead against Wednesday or Preston and see if he can do a job there, especially with Ramsey due back

I’d do Vestegaard and Nelson vs Wednesday where we would expect to have most of the ball, other two for every other match barring injury or Okoli being brain dead again

Can’t state how much I loved when he just bulldozed Louza early doors to win that header, can’t remember the last city defender who was doing that. Really does change the way we get attacked when the attackers are scared of the big brute centre back, big problem we have had this year is how nice and easy it has been to play against us. Think Okoli and Lascelles are probably good to be our first choice from here on out, not the best on the ball but big and strong and do not lose their aerial duels which is massive in this league

And the cross that Daka should’ve scored. By no means a Bobby Reid fan but he is not as bad as you are making out especially compared to what we currently have. Mavididi spent that game repeatedly hitting the ball into the man in front of hims shins, don’t really see how that helps either. Both are pretty crap and Monga is 16, I’d go Mavididi but Reid starting instead will not be the reason we lose(if we do)

Yeah we know but what was his match rating

He was very decent and Okoli looked a lot happier for having him in there- should Lascelles and one of the other two, if Souttar comes back then that 4 will do, wouldn’t be furious if we built around that 4 as our cb group for next season and bled Kevon Gray or Wilson-Brown as our spare. Wouldn’t want Vestegaard in with Lascelles as we would just be constantly turned around

Can’t see pretty much anything but this, only things could be Ayew for Daka and Winks for Mukasa(as a pair of changes) or Choudhury for Ricky P

Tbf with Saturday we were off the back of a win and a clean sheet for the first time in almost a year, would’ve been odd to choose the next game to change our pairing at the back. This week makes the most sense for him to be starting

Think it’s moreso better players improve a team but a good player surrounded by negativity and nervous players is more likely to underachieve. Jack Clarke was the best winger in the league, as was Philogene, neither have torn up trees at Ipswich which is higher pressure than their previous clubs

Okoli, Nelson and Daka may be the mentally slowest so a proper win win there

Think it’s got to the point of pure apathy tbh, do agree that we need to give it both barrels but during the 90 I understand the need to just distract yourself rather than have that disgusting shit pushed into your face

Haha have not had the chance to read through other reactions and assumed he would be given a bit of a free pass, my bad, not trying to pile on and do believe he has a good future but just tragic today

Throw it out there, Nelson is a massive reason we lost today, was awful

Think Richards is out of contract, wouldn’t be shocked if the loan was to get a proper look at him before potentially bringing him in rather than for him to play much this season

Winks was good when he came on. Him and Mukasa off the bench killed the game off, having actual on the ball quality for the last twenty or so minutes made a massive difference. If you can’t see what Winks brings to the table you are blinkered by how much of a prat he has been

Think we are going to be a lot better away than at home for the rest of the season, Rowatt sets up very defensively and our home crowd (rightfully) is on edge constantly especially when we don’t have the ball which I do think bleeds onto the pitch. Gonna be very tricky for us to stay up, next three you’d want 5-7 points realistically and I just do not see it

Wrote a paragraph but actually cba, we are shite, relegated and going out of business

way we defend under Rowatt we would just end up trapped in- he is crap but Daka has been challenging for headers and running in behind in a way I don’t think anyone else in our squad can, and you have to play to the system even if it means leaving out talented starters. I could see Mukasa moving out to the left and drifting inside, against Boro at time we had a staggered 3-3 in attack, Mukasa and Mavididi up with Daka and slightly to the left as the 3, and then Reid kind of dropped in to rm to form the 3 in the middle. We could do that and have Mukasa/James drop off and have the other up with Fatawu and Daka, but you’d lose a winger

His issues wouldn’t show up on those stats because he just makes random brain farts every week, aside from that he is a very decent player for this level- his ball playing is poor, so is Nelson in the air and Vestegaard at generally moving, all three can be forgivable if they function in a winning team which they all can, I truly believe

Needs to improve aerially, he misjudges a lot of headers and heads them sideways and backwards which brings pressure onto us, also noticed two occasions where he ran into the back of another of our players and one of the two came away limping- needs to be more assertive. Having said that he is a top talent

Beg them to let him come back next year on another loan if we survive, unless he gets prem attention it could be done