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True tho. It would be difficult to create a Yuki Abe LCFC highlights reel because there weren’t many highlights.

I don’t remember too much love for Yuki Abe tbh. Hard working maybe but little else came from him in midfield. About as effective as Oliver Skipp.

I think we are going to have to accept ‘Od Ed’s’ here for the season. With that in mind he needs game time - the QPR match is the perfect time to give him start.

No he’s a blue nose brum fan

Our current first 11 has no Fatawu and no Buonanotte. He’d be a better option than Ayew who usually starts and a better alternative to Vardy than Daka. He’d challenge Bilal for the central number 10 role.

Perez wasn’t useless, he was constantly played out of position by Rodgers. He’d walk into our team now.

Except Danny Ward

The lack of quality in the squad is in part down to Cooper though. He wanted premier league experience, he wanted BDCR, Ayew, Skipp. There’s absolutely no way that those players would be with us if Enzo was still here or if Ruud joined in the summer. There’s no way Ward would’ve been our back up keeper except he was promoted to the position by his fellow Welshman. There’s no way we would’ve denied Ricardo game time despite Justin being awful from the very beginning ensuring he sat on his arse during a lot of preseason and early season, probably contributing to his hamstring problem. There’s no way anyone else would’ve mismanaged Fatawu so badly other than Cooper before his injury. Cooper’s influence is all over this squad sadly.

Ok yeh JJ you keep doing what you do bud. Responsible for a large amount of goals conceded and not even trusted ahead of Hamza at right back in The Championship but apparently undroppable for him now.

The question should’ve been. Q. Which player have we already got that would allow us to take Justin out of the 1st team? A. Hamza

Nah - it’ll be BDCR, Ayew (as always) and Skipp

£25 is cheap for 3 tickets tbf, even if it involves watching JJ assisting a QPR goal or 2.

You must be in a posh seat if it’s costing u £25 for the QPR match! Cost me £10!

Ayew definitely has to take some responsibility for Villa’s 2nd goal. The goal was probably 70% down to JJ with a stupid pass having spurned endless options to clear or pass (even Ayew had told him to clear it,) BUT Ayew should’ve received that pass, instead he tried an obvious and lazy dummy, trying to let the ball cross his path rather than moving towards the ball, allowing the Villa player who was further away from the ball to steal in ahead of him. Poor from both players.

Let’s be honest, he was error prone at Everton and in and out of the team. Not particularly an improvement on the 4 we currently have so I’m not disappointed by not being in for Godfrey though I do share the concern that we are going to leave it late. Again.

The point was you putting out a concern over JJ reading online abuse whilst simultaneously calling his form hideous is somewhat contradictory. The fact is, you are correct about his form (and incorrect about Hamza not being able to play in the fullback role.)

Tbf you’ve just described his form as hideous so if he reads that it’s not going to help his state of mind! The fact is he needs a rest from the 1st team. His mistakes have been critical and have undoubtedly cost us points. Hamza playing out of position is not going to be any worse than Justin playing in his natural position whilst he is in this ‘hideous’ form. Keeping him in the first team when he’s in this cycle of form is not helping him. RVN giving him a rest (and he CAN swap with Hamza) will help him far more than people not posting criticism on this or any other forum for fear of JJ doom scrolling through here. It’s up to RVN and his coaching staff to do the right thing - they’ve done it with Ward, they HAVE to do it with JJ if we are to have any chance of survival. It’s as critical as that.

Personally I don’t think it’s Mavididi that’s particularly the problem. He’s getting assists, creating opportunities that should’ve been assists (e.g Daka v Liverpool and Vardy v Man City.) He’s scoring goals too. The issue is that there’s not an alternative option. Most teams above us and around us have multiple options on both wings, they can rotate in and out of selection and bring alternatives off the bench. We have 1 specialist left winger in our whole squad. With Fatawu injured and concerns over McAteer’s fitness and ability he’s really our only real specialist wing option either side. A winger (preferably one who can do a job either side) is a must, just to take the burden off Mavididi a bit.

My frustration with RVN is his reluctance to use Hamza over Justin and his preference for Ayew over Buonanotte. Sticking with JJ is remarkable considering his key role in goals against us in all of the last 4 games - never mind the whole season. The guy is being targeted because he is clearly one of our weakest links. I know Ayew created the goal but his press and back tracking starts off only ok and quickly drops off to the point that he pretty much stops doing it. He was as culpable for the goal as JJ and ultimately Buonanotte is a better all round footballer. Ayew is a great sub and his ability to win free kicks is fine when we are trying to shut down a game but winning freekicks in our own half and in the middle of the pitch, that invariably end up with putting the ball back towards our goal (as the players pretty much always do) isn’t helping us one bit. Unfortunately RVN has got it in his head that he can only play ElK or Buonanotte whereas they are intelligent enough to play together. ElK suffered today because he didn’t have Buonanotte to work with. Play them both Ruud ffs.

It’ll be the 10th Jan but the new signing won’t be able to play until after our home games against Palace on the 15th and Fulham on the 18th due to carrying a ‘slight’ injury. Their first game for us will eventually be 1st Feb away at Everton as the injury has taken longer than expected to recover from. The player will then get an early straight red card and 3 match ban for reacting to shithousery from Tarkowski and/or Ashley Young.

And spent very well 👀

I just watched the 2nd half of the Ipswich match and all the best chances in that second half went to Ipswich. Chelsea had all the posssesion but did nothing, their shots were blocked at source. Enzo put out a weaker team and it backfired. They could’ve played for another hour and wouldn’t’ve scored. Ipswich also shithoused and bullied and Chelsea fell for it. Horrible team to watch win but they showed fight that until Man City we’ve not seen an abundance of.

Winks was better than a 6.

Yeh I think it’s the genuine attempt part that means GK’s will usually get away with a yellow when it comes to DOGSO.

No. If it’s DOGSO in the area then it’s a yellow card