Gamble92

It's actually more I told you so from me. Although I wouldn't actually say I told you so. I feel like every single bob decision this club have made in the last few years I seem to have called and they haven't. Disgrace.

Do you feel like we are any less exposed playing the way we do when we lose the ball? For the amount we are actually risking it less despite the term risk and reward being used so much. Poor teams have picked the ball up off us and been 3 on 3 often. A high tempo game with players of our calibre would have scored shedloads of goals and for the mistakes we'd make I'm guessing we'd be far too in front to care. This philosophy seems to cancel out more risk and work on the theory with less ball poor teams are far less likely to score and we will of course inevitably bundle a couple in. Been far too many nights like to tonight where that isn't the case. This isn't a decent squad being made into a great one by tactics, it's a great one (for this level) being made into a decent one by tactical naivety.

What does Top even know about football?

Can you imagine a win tonight puts us 4 ahead of Leeds with game in and and chance for it to be 7 before they play Saturday. We just never ever make it that easy do we?

There's so many of Pep's bad influences on him. Amazing resources and depth yet he goes out his way to be hard done by. Puts 2 goalkeepers on the bench for weeks, then isn't using subs or not playing new signings. It's just spiteful, arrogant and not doing himself any favours whatsoever. I don't see who is employing him if he doesn't get us up.

It took a lot to make me laugh after tonight's display but this managed a small chortle

They'd have probably done a better job on commentary

Anyone else sat in the dark

It's more then wins we've managed to turn into draws and even losses that would be what we will look back at.

In the 94th minute Faes and Vestegaard did 4 passes with each other. It's more a heavily reliant wing play approach with wingers who have about 2 settings. Fatawu is the only one who looks remotely like beating his man out the two at the moment. Most games it's not even having a striker on the pitch.

More superb man management from Enzo. Didn't give Daka a minute early on and then because of his persistence he comes in and proved he was more than good enough to have been involved. Now same with Cannon. Bizarre decision after bizarre decision and in the season where it matters more then ever.

There is so much I can pick out of this philosophy that I have seen no signs of this season. When we need a goal against a poor side, and I mean absolutely below our level, we absolutely rely on one of our players doing something special to scrape wins. It's happened time and time again. Then this idea that when we play teams out standard we wait for them to come to us and play round them. Again absolutely not happened and our record against those teams is laughable. I honestly think Lampard or Gerrard would have got us up by now. That's how much I think this squad is above this level. Absolute disgrace.

Even then we were talking about how slow it was but not to worry because of that elusive other few gears we have.

Who knows what players we have with this squad could have done if they weren't man managed in literally the worst imaginable way all season.

Mad that he's even convinced people we have a squad with no options. The ones defending him are probably the ones who let Rodgers stay as long as they did with their passive nothingness as he led us into oblivion.

You've been here before

Amazing some of the rumours that were being shouted on here and he's accepted a couple of Sketchers

Thank you. Felt like I was going mad for bringing this up. @Chelmofox you usually talk sense but I'm not having you on this one.

Id rather be us than them. Even our "demise" isn't as bad as their best moments in 30 years. Plus they have to wake up knowing they're from Coventry.

Would you use him once after his displays against Sunderland and Bournemouth and then talk about pace when you're playing Vesty? I get what you're saying but none of them are too slow to play at home against teams who are sat deep. Then to blame tiredness as well. It's straight out the Pep handbook of having the best resources and still pretending the whole worlds against you.

He's an Enzo signing! He knows how quick he is! We have had a huge issue in recent weeks with him not only sticking by a select 12/13 but running then into the ground by giving them all 90 minutes. He's not managing Rotherham. He's managing to make it look like he's the worst treated manager in football. I would accept it if he'd come in last minute but I'm sick of the excuses. This week we announce these losses and we can add Enzo signings to the waste because he's signed them and realised they're slow? It's infuriating to me.

Fancy a job alongside Rudkin? You'd fit in well.

So now he's saying Doyle and Coady aren't quick so that's why they Rent playing as much. Jesus Christ we might recruit in alignment with our coaches tactics one day. How much must Coady be on and he's not being picked because of a flaw we knew he had when we signed him. Beggars belief.

Always said it, we were every bit as bad under Vichai. This proves it. The main difference was some brilliant people at recruitment level and Nigel/Shakey. If we don't get out the Championship that season we won it, then a couple of years later we'd have -12 and they'd probably have done a runner. Wasn't there a Dispatches documentary that featured our owners in undercover videos before they bought us, along with Birmingham's, where they were basically being taught to gamble £30m and risk getting up to the Premier League? Things worked out for us and they were hailed the best owners in the land. Although they were also the most hated pre Vichai's death for what they did to Ranieri. That's also forgotten about in the narrative now.

Plus the clauses will all be that they go back up to original amount of we return 😂 Arghhhhh