funkyrobot

Well the only young lad that could get a chance would be Page there’s not ‘lads’ that could cover that role. It’s a big ask for a 17 year old.

Skipp hides from the ball.

Who would you play when James is unavailable or being rested? Page is very inexperienced and very young and didn’t look ready in his two games. Skipp is worse than Soumare. Cifuentes has had to deal with a weakened squad. Enzo had Ndidi, with multiple back up options. Including Praet and Casadei.

Hes better than Skipp for starters!

Harry Winks is currently our best midfielder.

He has to rotate the squad. Most teams in The Championship have made significant changes to their teams and we have to protect Ramsey and Ricardo due to injury issues and James because of his international duty and the work he has to put in in midfield. That’s why they had limited minutes. He has real issues in key positions is the problem and the fact we couldn’t buy this season is not this manager’s fault. Enzo rotated but with much better squad options than Cifuentes has got. Currently he’s got no centre forwards (hopefully Carrenza will improve) and only one quality fullback across right and left in Ricardo.

You need centre forwards making intelligent moves to create chances. Ayew is good on the ball but not a centre forward. Carrenza looks slow or unfit or both. Daka shouldn’t even be considered as an option.

Still miles better than Patson Daka

James is obviously tired, the manager managing the time of two knackered key players in him and Rambo. Quite what Cifuentes is expected to magic up with centre forward options of Daka, Ayew or Carrenza I don’t know. The only other centre forward options are u21’s with no league experience. Without goals you don’t win games.

Sounds like a good plan 😂

So watch it back then. The club might be able to send you a video. If you don’t want to then you’ll have to take my word for it. Or not. Whatever you prefer to do mate.

Find a video of it and watch it if you’re that bothered mate. I’ve moved on, I didn’t appreciate the staunch defence the lad would get on here!

Presumably Ramsey not ready to play a full match after Saturday. Ayew is the only fit option to give Monga a break wide. James is the best alternative as the next back up number 10, Soumare is the best back up to the position James has had to vacate. Hence Soumare starts. Unless you’d prefer Skipp? 😬

Fair play, you’ve certainly provided a spirited (and slightly smug) defence of the ref. I thought he was poor. You liked him. I thought his warm up was a bit preening and indicated it might mean he likes to be the centre of attention. You don’t agree. Let’s move on.

Due to the way he kicks the ball, which is pretty much always a backward curved hook with the inside of his left boot, he would’ve had to had his body facing the steward I’ve circled to get that shot on target. Never known another footballer with such a strange technique.

Ipswich have a stronger squad. Coventry and Boro aren’t that different to us and have a better mentality having not had a season of being absolutely battered in the prem week in week out. They also have better strikers, as do most of the division which means we are going to struggle to win games without that threat up front.

Reid has tweaked his hamstring

I think there’s plenty of sides with a better centre forward and a better back up centre forward which is absolutely key to scoring goals. I also think there’s a better left back and better back up left back in lots of teams. After that we aren’t significantly better than the other teams around us. This squad is significantly weaker than Enzo’s from 2 years ago.

I agree that Thomas is one of the more limited fullbacks in The Championship. I don’t think it’s delusional to state that. Two failed loans at Boro and Sheff U back that view up tbh.

I judged him over the 90 minutes. He worked hard.

Underserved bias influenced bile? That’s a bit heavy mate wow - are you the ref’s mate? I’m didn’t say refs can’t warm up, that’s you making that up for likes. What I did say was the warm up was extreme and a bit preening. It worried me that it looked like a ref in the warm up who wants to be front and centre and he proved to be that in the game. Fussy and inconsistent, he certainly didn’t help the spectacle.

Winks is definitely not the problem in this team. It might’ve not been his best game but for me he was working hard, even when it went to 💩 in the second half. There was a real drop off with James and Rambo 2nd half, both knackered for different reasons and the arrival of Hamza and a quickly crocked BDCR meant he had a thankless task at the base of the box that Cifuentes likes to build play with.

Bobby Reid has tweaked his hamstring. Not convinced he’s an effective winger anyway. Doesn’t have pace or obvious dribbling ability. Hopefully Mavididi is fit!

Ayew has scored!

Great pass the end but before then he was having all sorts of trouble. He’s slightly lower priority purely because he’s only ever going to be a back up to Ricardo. If Riccy gets injured or when he’s rested (Tuesday?😬) playing Hamza and Thomas as our fullbacks is a real weakness in our team.