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One mistake doesnt nullify the other. If Winks keeps pace with Swift he doesnt have the option to cut inside like he did. It's just not good enough to jog back like that, Soumare would get pelters for doing the same.

He was neck and neck with Swift at the start of the counter attack for Portsmouth's goal. By the time Swift receives the ball at the edge of the box Winks is 15 metres behind him jogging back. Winks gets a free ride from our fan base but he is incredibly lazy.

It doesnt matter how good you are on the ball as a centreback if you cant win headers, lunge in to tackles with no hope of winning the ball leaving your teammates stranded, consistently lose your man on crosses etc. It's every week, multiple times a game that he makes a mistake leading to a goal or a goalscoring chance for the opposition. As someone else said he is the Danny Ward of centrebacks, like Coady he wouldnt last 5 games at the likes of Wrexham so why is he starting for us.

Monga was at his worst today but his worst is the same as an average performance from Reid and Ayew. Personally im going to keep the faith as he's still the best option on the left wing that we have. Remember even Mahrez used to be slated for going missing in games, we need to persist with Monga for those moments of magic that we know he can produce. It's just the nature of flair wingers not named Messi that theyre going to have off games.

He was excellent for a spell after his goal, which was a very good finish. Hopefully he can kick on for us. One of the few bright sparks that game despite fading in the second half like everyone else.

The internet, sarcasm and a bit of autism on my part dont mix well.

Let's be real R9 playing backwards would be a better option than Carranza. Playing normally he would score 60+ in this league.

You can accept a patchy run of form if we were building for the future and playing our academy talents but he's chosen to bank on the short term and play the senior players instead. If Cifuentes is going to gun for promotion at all costs and leave our academy players out in the cold frankly the short term results have to be better than what we are seeing.

The list of things that bournemouth do well that our club dont is 10 pages long sadly.

Not the championship but remember in the summer some of our fans thought it was realistic to get Kroupi Jr on loan? Far too good for this league.

Don't think his body is particularly fragile, just that there's been quite a few tackles on him so far this season that could have had him out for weeks or months. Not much he can do when the opposition are hacking him down out of frustration every game and the refs arent protecting him. I actually think he would be safer in the men's game, the refs are more willing to give out cards and stop silly challenges from happening.

3-3 now Feels like it happens like clockwork every time we sub Aluko off that our defence falls apart.

I saw this the other day, yes Faes is one of the more progressive defenders in the championship but the question is whether it creates more goals than his inconsistent defending results in us conceding. I'm not sure it does.

Have a look at the Wout Faes thread in March - April 2024 at the end of the last championship season. We were all calling for Faes to be dropped because of his mistakes at championship level, which were costing us points every week. For those of us that remember the last time Faes was starting in the championship for us we know that playing at a lower level doesnt stop him having those brain farts, it just means the opposition capitalise on them less. Even this season in his limited starts he's had a number of brain farts. Ben Nelson when he was fit last season transformed one of the worst defences in the championship in Oxford United into one of the best. Oxford fans described him as calm, composed and very rarely made mistakes. That is the kind of defender we need at the heart of our defence, we didnt see that player against Huddersfield but it's in our best interests to integrate him and get him back to that level rather than persist with Faes who we all know is incredibly error prone, which will never change.

On the flipside I thought everything was going to fall apart under Rodgers in 20/21 after the how the previous season ended but we managed to get another good season and an FA cup before the wheels truly started falling off.

Not me who brought up goals and assists. Sol thewall Bamba was saying that Monga's goals and assists dropped off after moving to the first team and i was just showing that so far his output is similar to when he was in the u21s. Obviously he has a lot more to his game than just goals.

He's on 0.51 G+A per 90 in the championship. Not much difference. Evans was on 0.82 G+A per 90 last season in PL2 and is on 0.67 per 90 this season after a slow start to the season for him.

Well yeah but you dont get promoted to the first team based on your performances at u18 level you get promoted by performing at u21 level where he was performing well but not necessarily scoring or assisting regularly.

Monga wasnt scoring and assisting for fun in the u21s, he was promoted because of his ability, not his end product. He is contributing similarly in the championship as he was in u21 level, a goal or assist every 170 minutes in the championship compared to every 140 minutes in PL2. I would be very confident in Evans scoring that chance Carranza had against Swansea. Even though Carranza is playing at a higher level the way he took that chance seemed very unnatural whereas Evans is a natural goalscorer. That kind of instinct doesnt change because of the opposition theyre playing against.

Make or break for the club not for Evans. Evans will do fine elsewhere but why would he want to sign a contract here when the manager doesnt rate him or the academy in general. Evans will be looking at the way we have handled Nelson, who has been around the first team since 16, played well for us in the championship when given a chance, had a successful loan spell at this level yet has been left to rot. He will also be looking at Page who was lured in with first team starts only to be sent back to the u21s when we got him tied down on a new contract. He is only 17 but he's still better than Carranza , the message is clear to the academy players that the senior players will always take priority irrespective of ability.

No chance, Nelson isnt getting gametime after a successful loan at championship level. Baybrooke and Cartwright are 2 loans and half a season on the bench away from getting minutes for us.

We've been here before. The club will ask for some ridiculous transfer fee to sell him, Roma wont want to pay, he will be here until his contract runs out and we get nothing for him. The John Rudkin way.

Was Aluko involved in the u20s game?

https://streamain.com/CZHUFWy64CBz5TH/watch Choudhury just scored a free kick.

We would say the same about Vestergaard, Faes and Okoli (and Coady when he was around) ahead of Nelson, Bobby Reid and Ayew ahead of Page and Thomas, Kristiansen, Choudhury ahead of Aluko. We're not going to be giving any first team opportunities to academy players any time soon.