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Buonanotte starting but so does Vestergaard and Reid

Funny how we supposedly start Ayew and Reid because of “Defensive Work”, when both Buonanotte and Mavididi have been statistically better

QF at the Welsh, now SF at the World Open, Joe O’Connor has been in magnificent form recently.

That’s what you get when your manager wants a pair of pensioners and Oli Skipp for £25 million

Briefly mentioned him last season because he was delivering some excellent creative numbers, has continued that trend into this season too. Pavel Sulc of Viktoria Plzen would be high up on my list too, like Fruk, he’s continued to post some excellent creative numbers like he did last season.

You can also say you need the right players to play a possession heavy style in the Prem. We built the first foundation on that last season, but we messed it all up by appointing a manager who wanted to deviate away from it. Is a possession heavy style sustainable for a newly promoted club though, recent history suggests that it might not be. You can either go down the possession route, counter pressing route or the defensive grit it out route. Recent history suggests that you need some grit about you, if you want to stay in the Premier League as a newly promoted team. I’d happily take a hybrid style, but do we have the players who can roll their sleeves up and give us that bit of grit, we definitely aren’t seeing that right now. Is RVN even that guy in a managerial sense, he may not have the right personnel, but all I see is a manager who is just adamant with one formation, with a style that I thought concentrated on fast progressive football, to what is looking like a confusing mess, very much like Cooper. I don’t want a Dyche type either, especially not long term, but what type of manager possesses the best solution for us. Personally give me an Iraola type over a possession heavy or park the bus type manager any day.

Martin would indeed be an unpopular appointment, but I just fear they’ll go down the dominate possession route again, just because it worked so well last time. Who ticks that box…Russell Martin

What is the perfect ingredient though to stay up nowadays? We have seen teams go the possession route and fail, unfortunately it seems our board are also keen on that type of philosophy. Just look at some of the teams that have stayed up in recent memory. Sheff Utd(That good season under Wilder), Fulham, Brentford, Bournemouth, Forest. You either have to get recruitment absolutely spot on, for instance the signing of Palhinha made a massive difference to Fulham, or you have to be horrible to play against and grit it out, Brentford did that perfectly well when they first came up and have built on it. Our squad though imo lacks that grit, we’re too nice to play against, while to top things off our recruitment has been shite. We need to be horrible to play against, I want to see a team that presses and plays with energy, but I just can’t see the board going for someone with that type of style. We’ll probably go down the possession heavy route again and just go back to being a yo-yo club.

As a fan I’d happily forget about this season, but will the board want to operate in such manner, I guess we’ll have to wait and see, but we’re in Dean Smith type territory again. You either go down that same route again, or you sack RVN and just give it Barry-Murphy until the end of the season. But what’s the long term vision at this club? We get relegated and turn to another possession heavy manager like Russell Martin just because it worked last time? I fear that we’ll just become a yo-yo club again, or end up like Norwich and Watford are currently.

Inherited a poor squad and got thrown under a bus with a lack of recruitment in January, but at the end of the day… We can’t defend We can’t score One dimensional formation Obsessed with starting Ayew and Reid Those four things are the perfect recipe for the sack. With the situation we find ourselves in, Ruud just isn’t equipped for that kind of situation. We need a defensive organiser, we need someone who can make us difficult to beat. What we need is a Dyche type, but you just don’t want a Dyche type for the longer term.

Nothing will beat 07/08 for me, but in terms of an unlikeable squad, this current one is definitely in my top 3 over my lifetime.

Do that live on your next stream

He’s inherited a shit squad, but I’m officially Ruud out tonight. And I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s reached the point where I’d take Dyche.

I’m past anger, I just laughed when those three goals went in. Same old, same old. This club makes me feel nothing.

Getting linked to players based in Scandinavia. In terms of striker talents in Denmark, I’d rank him 2nd right now behind Kvistgaarden.

All the crap she already gets, now she’s got to deal with shit like this

3rd title of the season for Selby, don’t think he was at his complete best this week, but plenty of encouraging signs with The Crucible on the horizon.

We need to capitalise on some Danish talent again like we did with Hermansen

You should know by now mate what to expect from the Welsh Open, the last four winners have been Jordan Brown, Joe Perry, Rob Milkins and Gary Wilson

Still not willing to jump on the out brigade because elements of the squad he’s inherited just fvcking suck. But in terms of formation and tactics it’s been very one dimensional so far. While persisting with Ayew and Reid as our first choice wingers is madness. If we go down, I wouldn’t particularly want him as manager for the Championship, but knowing our board, they’ll probably turn to Russell Martin instead

I’ll concentrate on a positive today… Woyo Coulibaly 13/14 successful passes 3 tackles(2nd most of Leicester players) 3/4 duels won 3/4 ground duels won Thought his 1 vs 1 defending especially was very decent.

Coulibaly’s 1 vs 1 defending has been superb.

No way he wrote that, he is far too busy playing Polo with the likes of L’Oréal, Garnier and Head & Shoulders.

Will no doubt jinx him, but Joe O’Connor has looked very good this week, excellent display of scoring in his last two matches.