funkyrobot

You need to give one of them a run of games. Daka has had his chance(s), Ayew has had his chance, now it should be Carrenza given extended time to try and build partnerships. It isn’t looking good for the lad but there’s no realistic alternative until January.

Let me think. No striker, no full backs, no number 10, no strength in depth, players who don’t want to be here, no money to spend, a manager that can’t motivate players, an impending points deduction… The answer is YES!!

You said ‘Skipp is a better player than Soumare.’ He isn’t.

Skipp is the latest player to drastically improve his reputation by not actually playing. The lad has been useless in a LCFC shirt. Soumare is not the answer in midfield but unfortunately Skipp is definitely not the answer in midfield. Therein lies the problem. We have Winks and James and that’s literally it for senior midfielders that can put in a shift.

Deserves criticism today BUT he got into position to have 3 good chances in the box - one of which he definitely should’ve scored. Most of our lot don’t even look like scoring except from 30 yard ‘worldies.’ If he can take a positive from today it’s that!

That was 100% going in

Genuinely can’t see what we can do with this one. Yeh bring in Aluko and Nelson but realistically it’s a big ask for them to come in and change the mentality of the squad. It looked to me like James was feeling his knee before he went off. We know Skipp and Soumare are simply not good enough. We know similarly this is true of our centre forwards. Hamza can’t be trusted to cover at right back or midfield. It’s also becoming increasingly obvious that Cifuentes hasn’t got the management ability to polish a turd (though tbf to him I’m not sure many could manage this lot.) Boro losing 3-0 will be a shock to their fans but they shouldn’t worry as Dr Leicester are seeing them next.

Enzo preferred playing a centre half in Doyle or a right back in Justin over those pair. Personally yeh I’d play Aluko. Not sure Choudhury would be any better tbh.

Enzo bomb squaded VK and Thomas as soon as he joined. Now they are our only senior options. We are league one standard in that position.

Page is in Qatar playing in the u17 World Cup.

Unfortunately there was a relatively easy fix. You got to your wallet, open the season ticket, click the three dots and then pull down on the ticket and it updated. I’m raging at the club for employing a helpful steward who cruelly ensured that I didn’t miss a second of that shit show.

Nope didn’t work

Anyone ever had the situation where iPhone season ticket hasn’t updated? Mine still says Portsmouth

Real shame. Was looking to be one of our key players. Unfortunately we all know hamstrings are par for the course with major ACL injuries. Cifuentes tried to manage his minutes, and he probably played more minutes against Hull than expected due to the terrible start but we are in a mess now. If he sticks with a 10 then I’d go for Ayew in that role with Carrenza in the 9 role. The other option is he reverts to Enzo’s single pivot 6 and two number 8’s with James in the KDH role and one of Hamza or Soumare as the more destructive Ndidi style 8. As for Rambo, if the strain is bad, his time here could well be over 😔

Thomas has statistically one of the worst tackling records in The Championship this season, he literally barely makes a tackle. On top of that his defensive mistakes led directly to conceding a goal and a penalty in the last match alone. Terrible positioning for one of the goals conceded against Hull too.

When you say Thomas steady I assume you mean Silko Thomas? Luke has been anything but steady. He’s currently our worse player.

Hamza as 1st choice centre mid and Daka up front. Wow.

We haven’t actually been able to use any parachute payments to buy players though due to PSR. I think when you look at the squad decreasing in quality since the summer Enzo joined, now you factor in the complete lack of a striker (a fundamentally key role) or capable left back (all of the teams you’ve listed are better in these positions) and an imbalanced squad in general and then consider long term form and momentum, it’s not a stretch to see we are below the clubs you’ve listed and we are probably closer to 10th in quality than we are 1st .

It’s very unfair to compare how we are performing this season with how we were performing under Enzo 2 years ago. The reality is Cifuentes’ squad is significantly weaker than Enzo’s. No finances to refresh the squad. Vardy, KDH, Ndidi, Akgun, Doyle, Praet, Iheanacho, Casadei, Justin (playing as a left back) are all better than their replacements. On top of that you have senior players 2 years older and having experienced a second relegation. This squad is the weakest it’s been in probably the last 15 years.

Surely it’s pretty obvious that there won’t be much guilt or regret of those who have not renewed their season ticket whilst the team isn’t playing well. If we were flying high and playing great football then this thread would barely have any comments. When the team eventually start playing well again people will want to come back. 🤷🏻‍♂️ I still enjoy going even if it’s just to have a good old collective moan with other fans about the state of our attack/left back options/referees etc etc😂

In just interested in the football. What problems with consistency has Vestergaard had in The Championship? He’s been consistently good in this division under 2 managers. Deal in facts. Vestergaard is proven to be more than capable at this level. Vestergaard has been our best defender this season. I’ve not mentioned Daka and Thomas at any point btw.

Last time I looked Cifuentes played Monga, James, Ramsey and Fatawu from the start, all definitely well within the ‘young player’ category. He also brought Silko Thomas off the bench. Are you seriously saying he should be sacked for not having two extra inexperienced 17 year olds on the bench??

Not good enough for Boro - Gerrimin!

Carranza needs to be given a run of games. With our lack of options he shown enough for me to be given an extended opportunity before people can fairly start writing him off. Start him for the next 5/6 games.

Because in Austria he had an absolute beast in Haaland playing alongside him!