Chelmofox

There has been a massive change defensively. A jarring change when you consider what was happening before and what we saw from Southampton in the PL. McCarthy going long early in the game, throwing quickly outward rather than short to a defender. I don’t trust him though. I would imagine he doesn’t like this and will slowly try and tweak it back to what he wants.

Stays like this then our win draw loss is 4-3-3. Which is ironic as our formation isnt anymore.

Guess the time of O’Horas own goal.

So footballers dont age? Footballers can adapt to any system? Chaplin has to earn his spot, not be handed it, and currently he is behind the likes of Page, Braybrook and Doyle (wherever is is most suited for Chaplin to play). Not being handed starts is part of that, he needs to be rotation and prove he is up to it, because so far he hasn't.

Hate this. When to the Doncaster game expecting to lose and taking the pi55 out of the team for the first 20 mins (whilst we struggled). Then we largely dominated and i was happy to win. Now i give a sh1t again. And am nervous about this game.

Whilst I agree, we haven’t shown form like that in a long long time.

Bearing in mind some of it is based around non cooperation, surely all Man City needed to do was provide that evidence?

If Chaplin is in the squad Reid has to be dropped. Bristric should be backup striker and we have better options elsewhere.

Sunderland finding that second album a little more difficult.

Ironically, Stoke was the last time we won 3pm Saturday game at home. Maybe we are turning a corner

I disagree actually. There was one moment where Lundstram was winging after Riis shot but I thought the pass was harder than the shot. I watch this team pass it around the box endlessly looking for the perfect goal. I’m happy for my striker to rate himself and go for goal, rather than pass sideways. If he keeps this up he will convert more.

Or could be that the club are taking control of the situation a little bit more?

I dont trust Russell Martin. Confidence will go to his head and revert back to the original plan. Think he will treat this as a free hit for that.

Think he's made 5 big mistakes that led to goals: Terrible pass against Barnsley - intercepted then goal Terrible pass against Fulham u21 Stubbing toe in the ground goal 2 Peterborough Own goal, goal 3 paterborough Own goal today Gonna have to get his sh1t together and fast.

Why drop Braybrook - he was excellent?

Was supposed to be a cheat code at this level. Been off i know but about as anonymous as you can get and looked a fraction the player Braybrook is. Hope he can get back whatever it is he had, but not seeing anything close to it yet.

Okoli was turd.

Wtf has Okoli done to get picked?

I would normally joke Liverpool Away, but i cant even do that anymore.

He doesnt have PL experience. Rudkins probably never heard of him. They love Brussell. Aint happening.

It does make a difference. When going for a back 3 he also wouldnt play such a high line. He's used it to save his ass in the past. Wouldnt put it past him doing it, getting a result, then some stabilty, then going back to a back 4 and getting pumped again.

Should we just embed ChatGPT into the forum.

Do we think he will go 3 at that back like in the Peterborough 2nd half? Or was that just to try and limit them to 3 goals?

Really shocks me people see it this way. The system totally exposes any mistake, and its inconcevable that you go 90 minutes without making one. Our defenders make more passes the the entire opposition, meaning each pass has to be perfect. Our backline play a horrific high line but without pace intensity (coached this way), meaning the opposition either sit tight and wait for the appropriate pass to press (Barnsley goal), or you go long to either wing and expose the space (goals 1 and 2 for Peterborough). We have CB's (Okoli) attacking in the opponents box and the whole team getting caught out on transition, and before you know it we are 2 on 2 in our own half. Our players are knackered because they have to work 3 times as hard as the oppostion to get nowhere (we make 10 passes out the back to give the ball back to the goalkeeper, whilst being pressed, and also allowing the opposition to get back into a perfect defensive position). Martin is completely defensively inept. Every team he has managed has the same issues. Defenders arent defenders, they are ball playing specialists who need to make 4x as many passes as they should, need to compress the opposition on the half way and need to pelt back at speed just to cover the space thats easy to expose. The actual defending part is secondary. Peterborough spend the whole warmup pinging balls to each wing. They knew EXACTLY what do do. I cant believe no-one in our management team saw this and thought that maybe playing Aluko so far up the pitch was a mistake. After 2 or 3 warning signed before the goal, i cannot believe that the manager didnt see what was happening and tweaked it. When we went 1-0 down, i cant believe the the manager is waving the back line crazily high up the pitch again, leading to the 2nd goal.

Probably worried that more performances like that and he’ll end up getting signed by us.