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Hopefully RVN has seen enough to realise Ward is not the answer even in the short term whilst Stolarcyck is injured. He needs to play Iversen if Mads is out. Yes I know Iversen can’t kick a ball but he actually makes saves outside of his standing up silhouette. Ward rarely saves anything other than those within his standup silhouette. He gets away with it because he makes save-able shots look impossible to save.

Wardy is on 70k isn’t he?

Just watched Conrad pull off a great save at Nomads in a 2-1 win. I’d still have him in ahead of Ward every day of the week.

Has anyone thought about Buonanotte?

I can’t see any of the big 6 after Ferguson. An ok goal record (13 goals in 60 games) and his frequent visits to the physio is why he can’t cement a place at Brighton never mind one of the big 6. His market is the mid to low end of the Premier League table id suggest.

Ferguson hasn’t done much for a long time now. Absolutely bottled a shot against us and wasn’t much of a threat.

Ayew looked half arsed in the warm up and played like a Sunday morning parks footballer. Definitely not a winger who will/can sprint down the wing to attack and definitely not a winger who wants/can track back. As soon as he went off Mavididi changed Lamptey’s input into the game. The marauding full back suddenly became a panicked defender.

Tbf when the queues are going down the steps it does obstruct the views for the rest of us who stay until the end.

I thought McAteer struggled against his fullback. Wasn’t surprised when he was hooked off early in the second half. He was better than Ayew is about the only compliment I can give him. He needs to believe more in his pace, strength and ability.

Still can’t believe Dawson dropped him v Brentford.

Great chaotic stuff from Daka. Worked his socks off and scored a great goal. Hopefully RVN will work some magic on him.

Fair play to him. I’m not convinced he’s ideal in a back 4 but I thought he did well today. Easily his best performance in a LCFC shirt

Coady can’t play in a back 4. Never really has in his career. Started as a midfielder but became a specialist back 3 centre back under Nuno at Wolves. He became a bench player as soon as Wolves started to move away for a time from 3 at the back. Moved to Everton on loan and by the end of a relegation threatened season had lost his place in a poor team as new boss Dyche preferred a back 4. He’s not had a run of games since he was dropped by Everton in January 2022 and that’s included a season in The Championship with us. For all of his flaws, Faes is better than Coady in a back 4 which should tell us all we need to know about the absolute state of our defence.

Feeling much more confident with the new driver of the optimistic bus

Daka also can’t hold the ball up, has a terrible touch and isn’t a good finisher. He’s quick but not lightning quick and he’s on a much bigger wage tbf

You can’t play Coady in a back 4, I’d argue he struggles in a back 5 these days. Okoli is injured. It will have to be Faes alongside Vesty despite the shocking lack of effort in the 3 games purely because there’s no one better available. Hopefully RVN will put a rocket up him. I agree with everything else.

Yeh true. I guess I’m just looking at the initial loan of Cannon away from the club, and then bringing Edouard in is very high on the newly created ‘Dawson scale of stupid decisions™️.’ It’s clear from even our conversation that there’s not that much between Daka and Cannon (I’d argue TC has more potential than Patson) and TC is miles better than Edouard. I reckon RVN would work some magic on Cannon as he’s got the striking ability already.

The eye test backs me up. Cannon just looks like a better footballer than Daka. Control, passing, ball striking, movement off the ball. Daka has superior pace but what’s the point if he doesn’t/can’t do anything with that pace.

Cannon is better than Daka and Edouard.

At times there was a similar lack of collective effort against Man U and Chelsea. Heads have gone. RVN needs to work some absolute magic