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Criminally underused this season. Should’ve started near enough every game he was available for.

It’s also 30 years since we had this away shirt… (listed as green/navy)

Burnley in the Championship were higher pressing than they/Everton were in the Premier League, and Rohl goes deeper and more direct against sides that are better than his Sheffield Wednesday team in the Championship.

Danny Rohl’s style of football in the Championship is the same as Dyche’s.

Gonna guess the away kit is light blue/dark blue half and half like we had years ago?

Later launch = more kit sales in July onwards? (i.e. 25/26 financial year)

Club must have hopes he can be a late bloomer. He lost roughly 2 years or so with his injury so development wise he’s probably back where someone at 19 would be.

I could have sworn Braybrooke made his debut about 3 years ago in the cup?

Jack McGlynn if Bilal goes.

How is there a world where Liverpool are bidding £113m for a player and we aren’t allowed to give Vardy a new contract

The further we get away from that season the more it becomes harder to think that it actually happened

But coaches it a lot worse and without many effective attacking patterns of play. Once Latte Lath left they became blunt in attack and he couldn’t work out ways to get them to score enough goals - the old tactic was get the ball into the box by almost any means after building out from the back and he’d put it away.

I’m convinced from some of these suggestions that people haven’t actually watched any of Middlesbrough, Southampton or Sheffield Wednesday in the last 2 years. Absolutely baffles me who the popular choices are on here.

With a 6 points deduction I’d still be expecting top 4. Ideally top 2, depends how good Southampton, Ipswich and Sheffield United are next season.

The complete opposite, in fact. I watched lots of Southampton under Martin and his style suits the current squad down to the ground in the Championship (the Premier League a completely different matter, but we need to get promoted first). We don't have a squad for direct football, and we aren't going to be playing on the counter away at Pompey and Oxford. They'll be sitting deep trying to get us to break them down. Same as those in favour of Rohl have never watched Sheffield Wednesday play under him. They see a young German manager and think exciting gegenpressing football, which couldn't be further from the truth. They've set up with 5 at the back, or two banks of 4, and lumped it up to a big man with Windass and Gassama running off of him for 90% of the season. It's been effective for them but it's not what we need (and not for several million £s, either.)

Why? There’s loads of managers out of work that won’t cost us multiple millions of pounds whilst playing a system that doesn’t suit our squad. I’d rather have a ‘lesser’ manager in the eyes of many that suits our side more.

Fatawu on the left and Bobby Reid on the right whipping balls into Ayew and Carlton Morris

I have no idea what any redeeming features Rohl has tactically that suit our squad. He’s been coaching a side to be hard to beat and play on the break, when we have a side that is going to be one of the most technically gifted and strongest in the league - teams are going to play the complete opposite against us as to how they set up against Sheffield Wednesday during his time there.

That’s an awful use of our squad in an 11. Ricardo and Thomas aren’t flying wing-backs, Fatawu and Mavididi are wingers, not wide 10s that you usually play in a 3-4-2-1, and Skipp and Winks don’t have the legs to be a double pivot in a 3-4-2-1 system.

I reckon we’ll by sticking with Ruud now. Disappointed Martin has gone Rangers, was excited to see what he could do with our young players.

Diallo to be banished to RWB for eternity. What a waste of his talent.

Yep, he's only DoF by name. He's more of a general manager off the pitch. Sacking Rudkin wouldn't solve anything, employing people with a football strategy around him while he can be allowed to focus on the good things he does with the day-to-day running at Seagrave and the academy would be better. Maresca told Top this and he hasn't done anything about it.

Martin would play the youth and get us playing good football, a lot of people would convert very quickly and find him likeable. However, some people will always just have a dislike for him because either they have been told not to like him, or their opinion on him is set in stone and will never change.

His decision making in his last season was stupid (Ward and Amartey) but he didn’t just become a bad coach overnight. If the board had our house in order and we had a proper summer backing him in 2022 then we’d still be mid-table Premier League now.

I think some people forget the market has regressed. The days of us getting £70/80m for our players are long gone. El Khannouss’ market value is probably about the same as it was 12 months ago, and with the need to comply with PSR etc., I doubt we’ll stand in his way if we get an offer at around that price.