Babylon

If someone wants to leave early then it's their business, really don't see the bother unless they are stood at the top of the stairs blocking the view of those who sit down there.

"Tactically clueless" and wins a league with one of the biggest points totals ever seen. It's certainly not his strong point, but to suggest he's clueless about anything with what he's done here is laughable.

What a crock of shit.

It's a pointless argument anyway as it's impossible to be right or wrong as we'll never know. But Pearson won two leagues and kept us up when people said he wasn't capable of many of those things, so it doesn't surprise me so many want to write him off as they always did. They all played their part and that should be the end of it.

Was thinking that myself yesterday, the fact we've got a few decent players gets us out of the shit. We aren't really functioning as a team still.

Which is what I said?

That front three has lots of goals in it, problem is it just feels a little forced in this current formation. A 4312 or a 3412 seem the obvious answers, but I just think he's going to continue to force it into his preferred formation and that's going to leave holes.

I honestly can't take people seriously who continue to blame Morgan. Without him against Wolves and Huddersfield we could and should have conceded a couple of goals at least. He's been no more at fault than Maguire and less so than Ricardo for our defensive issues. Evans has hardly covered himself in glory either, partially at fault for the goal Saturday and him and Maguire got split wide open for the huge miss.

@Mark I'm sure it's been discussed before but is there a dislike / thumbs down option?

Was is his achilles that he'd had problems with before, because he was meant to be a bit injury plagued.

No he needed dropping for pretty much costing us a goal every game he plays. He needs to learn the defensive side of it pretty quickly in this league.

Yep just watched it again and it was definitely his man. Evans should do better but if Ghezzal marks him properly it doesn't happen.

It felt like we were trying to do that too often though. A mixture of the two would be nice. Far too often the front three were within about 10m of each other and we are trying to thread balls into them when surrounded by double the amount of oppo players and we'd just lose the ball. You need the width to stretch them to make those passes easier. Biggest concern for me was the fact we don't have a CM who can dictate a game or who takes responsibility. They just get it and lay it off for someone else to do the hard work and that's a worry. Neither of them are prodding or probing them with passes, creating chances or controlling the centre of the park.

You are talking about people who say it's about results and not performances if we play well and lose... until we get a result and then it's about performances.

Amartey's man was in the back post. The person Evans was stood next to scored?