HarryTheGenie

How long has this now been going? What measurable improvements have come on the back of it? To me, it is simply a box ticking exercise for them to railroad awful ideas across.

Sean Dyche would be night and day better than him! He is exactly what we have needed since Enzo departed. A motivator, organiser, builds a team who are really good at the basics and adaptable. He would improve this squad 10-fold within a month.

Just mad to think we were playing a competitive game at the same time England were playing.

He looks absolutely bereft of any confidence whatsoever. Like a strong breeze would blow him over.

Until a manager addresses the long standing fundamental issue of not having any urgency, a severe lack of fitness and a complete lack of desire to stop and block crosses and shots or win second balls they will always fail here. Once that issue is addressed and sorted. The style can follow. At this point I would rather us run our spuds off and be awful. Watching this bunch think they are too good to graft is wearing very very thin.

You give him too much credit. There is a sole decision maker in the organisation, it is the Chairman. His Chief Football Officer has brown nosed his way into influence and is now the perfect secretary passing up decisons and handing down tasks and is also the perfect s**t shelter and deflector for Aiyawatt and his incompetence.

To the tune of Grease (is the word) by Frankie Valli Since Vardy left we had scoring pain Rudkin & Top don't understand it's a crying shame Ayew and Daka weren't good enough We need a fighter now we've signed the real deal Riis is the word is the word that you heard When he scores gets us dreaming Riis its his time, in the place, hes in motion He's scoring goals got us dreaming!

When in Rome, we are playing schoolboys to be fair....

about as useful as a fart in a p155pot!

Goal wasnt his fault but didnt stop him gesticulating about whose fault it actually was. Bin.

Madness we have Jake Evans out on loan and this guy is getting minutes.

That is just how the world deals with everything these days! Everything is polarised. No room for nuance.

I imagine that was because, in 12-18 months time he will be worth double or treble that. His asset value being £10m on the books is probably the only one that is correct!

Luke Thomas blowing like a tank engine

Alves needs a boot change, slipping all over the shop.

Solving this issue is the easiest way to improve results short term. It has been a problem for years. Since Brendan was manager. The only one who tried to address it was Steve Cooper, shock the players didn't like him and turned on him. They were clearly scared of hard work. The Seagrave 5 star wellness retreat shouldn't be an issue, it should be an asset. However with weak minded players and poor instruction it makes the issue even bigger than it is. I thought Martin was sorting this issue, in pre-season they looked more 'at it' but in every competitive game we have been absolutely miles off the levels required. Any team that turns up semi-organised, prepared to run and with a single ounce of desire will beat us currently. Get them running hard, instill desire and hard work as the bare minimum and drop anyone who isn't there. At this point a team of under 15s prepared to run and graft would be better than watching this bunch of overpaid prima donna's loaf around for a single game. Take Oxford's 2nd yesterday. The captain is in a poor starting position, jogs back and gives up long before the ball is in the net. The left back also jogs back and provides no assistance to the only one grafting, who was Luke Thomas. For all his faults, he is the only one who has any desire to try and win a ball and actually defend. If we can improve fitness levels to be on a par with competitors then the ability wins the day and we will win more than we lose. Simple adage. Hard work beats ability when ability doesn't work hard.

Who? The ones who have all left were a huge part of the problem!

This is shockingly bad.

This thread needs to be quiet for a while... boys been alrite at CB.

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That is him cementing his place on the bench for the season.

Aluko currently our best CB. Luke Thomas probably 2nd.... Good performance, lot of heart. We must never see Skipp or Okoli ever again.

No one can slate him for tonight. Done a steady job and made Souttar and Okoli look even worse.

In this system whoever is in his position has to basically be a rugby scrum half, always offering for a pass, recycle quickly and setting the tempo of the entire side. It is essentially the most important position in the system. The batteries in the watch. I have defended Skipp, the price tag is not his fault and was inflated due to the Maddison sale, PSR fiddling. But truth be told, if we signed him for £10-15m it would of been too much. His ONLY saving grace last season was the effort he showed. Yesterday he looked like he was 2 stone overweight, hungover and not anywhere near fit. I hope the manager either roasts him back to the effort and speed required, or finds a place on the bench or out of the club as soon as possible. It is absolutely criminal that these players who were with us in the Premier League, and Skipp when we signed him was an established Premier League midfielder, struggle in League One. I know its one game and I hope he pulls it around. The only thing that hides a lack of talent is effort and if he isn't putting in 110% every week. He should quickly find himself on the bench. I just hope someone silly enough stumps up an acceptable fee so we can rid ourselves of another in a long list of failed multi-million pound signings.

Absolutely criminal at any level doing that for their goal.