DJ Barry Hammond

Mods - can we amend the username to include “(NITK)” for a week as punishment?

I don’t know? Who would play on the right - Skipp? But then where is Fawatu? And what’s further confusing - I can’t work out what the formation is / who’s playing where if it’s a back 4 with Okoli at right back.

There we go!

I think the Mick McCarthy meme is appropriate at this moment…

Marti out - can’t be scoring goals like that.

This would be one way to further the downward spiral within the club. Rate these players or not, you can’t exile several high profile players within a squad without creating a massive fallout in terms of squad harmony and seriously damaging your clubs reputation in the transfer market. There is also an irony in you highlighting Daka as one of the players to be exiled, given it’s very arguable that he should retain his starting spot on Saturday when considering the alternative options we have at our disposal and how they have faired in the striker position.

Our attacking play is far too formulaic and as a result, predictable. Marti needs to embrace a little more ‘chaos’ football theory!

Yeah, today was a game for swapping your wingers for at least 20 minutes so they were attacking with their favoured foot on the outside. When your opponent is playing 3 centre halves with wingbacks, you need to try and stretch them across the pitch, otherwise it becomes very easy for the defence to double up and close up the space in the middle.

As correct as this assessment is… it’s quite disappointing that this the case.

I’m not sure how the pair would do in a properly contested midfield. This game scenario is very, very different to the ones we had last season.

Bit of both.

How did he fair tonight? Missed the game because of work (might have been a blessing), but saw he came on at halftime.

I’m not sold on the idea of both of them playing together… like many I see suggesting. Maybe at times - but my gut tells me it’s one of them alongside Soumare that will be Marti’s preference.

Early kickoff’s suck - games generally lack the rhythm and intensity of games at 15:00 or 19:45.

Not created much inside the box though… all from range.

Think he’d be better from deeper in the midfield.

Ex Celtic manager… are they copying us?

It’s a bold strategy Cotton… let’s see if it pays off for ‘em? (I figured the start of a permanent thread in the main forum to discuss the local clubs, whatever league they may be in, would be handy.)

He didn’t look ready for first team football, especially at Championship level, during pre-season; looked very raw and ‘young’ (for reference he’s 20, but he looked younger than that in stature).

Sideshow Wout’s here for the season.

For me it was the number of posters that continued to put him in their suggested 11’s last season, despite it being pretty obvious early on he wasn’t up to much.

That would be Souttar!

Wanted to beat @moore_94 to this one why he’s distracted by other things 😉

Ok, time to start thinking ahead now…

10 because Faes is still here!