Fabrice29

Probably. But given I’ve asked this question a few times to people now and the only response I’ve had is THB or Edward’s and that would effectively change nothing about our play, I’m going to suggest it’s a mute point. I suspect we’ll get this at some stage as I got the impression Jelert is back soon, but I’m not convinced it’ll suddenly improve our current 5/7 win rate. I’m much more interested in seeing different player attributes on the pitch than seeing the same ones in a slightly different place on the pitch. That’ll makes us noticeably different.

I think you’re right in the sense he’s made a choice to prioritise an extra man in possession at the back over command of the box. Not that I think McCarthy is that much of an improvement really tbh but I really don’t think facing a team with the goal scoring prowess of Coventry is the time to start stripping out defenders and changing our approach completely. I would say that closing down the out ball in midfield is easier said than done. Even Saturday the penalty comes from the recycling of possession and it’s not like teams aren’t trying to stop it from the start and the goals we’ve scored is just luck. We definitely need variation to our play but without the personnel I’m not sure what else we can do. I don’t think changing the formation magically changes our way of playing, you’d still need to play into the feet of our front line.

We’ve won 5 of our last 7 mate. I want the norm, not the different results. Yes plan B’s sound wonderful and we obviously need to improve in that area but given we have probably the smallest front line in the league we’re not suddenly going to go long and suggesting we should change what’s working seems crazy to me. We would need the personnel to do something different firstly and it all sounds dreamy to seamlessly switch up a way of playing from game to game and half to half but given we’ve just come from 2 wins in 13 I really think that we shouldn’t be taking for granted our current form and start suddenly bemoaning when we’re under some pressure in games. That’s the league we are in, it’s famously competitive and unless you’re a well drilled team at taking the sting out of teams, we’re going to have to suffer and just learn to get better at that rather than seeing us lose the odd game and perform badly for a half and start demanding the manager just conjures up a new tactical plan that solves everything immediately, especially with the same players.

Until we have a fit right back, I’m not sure what people expect. Also, taking out a CB is fine but unless you are replacing him with someone just as tall you’re making us weaker at set pieces, as well as having less people to defend crosses in open play. You’ll need a right back and probably Charles back first.

Yeah sure but if you really think Saturday is the time to try something new you’re a mad man. If winning games of football isn’t enough for you then yes, he’ll be sacked soon no doubt.

None of this is ‘wisdom’. It’s pointing out he’s been rubbish.

Sorry but this is nonsense. He’s ran around bumping into people and giving away fouls. That’s all he’s done so far. I’m not against giving him time to get better, and I suspect he will with sharpen up but we don’t need to pretend he’s been more effective when he’s quite clearly be rubbish every time he’s come on. Wouldn’t mind him actually getting a foot on the ball when he comes on at some stage.

We sacked our GK coach at the same time as Still fwiw and the u21’s guy has stepped up.

The reason he’s being picked is because he’s miles better with his feet and I would hazard a guess that Tonda, like each manger before him values that extra man in possession over two pretty hapless shot stoppers to begin with. The build up to the penalty award yesterday being a perfect example. We should absolutely be in for a keeper and I think even Spors was hinting at that in his interview but we don’t need to go around making up some conspiracy about why he’s being picked. It’s obvious and nothing to do with pathway or any other bollocks like that.

Who are you playing right back and which of the front guys are you dropping to do this? Not sure why everyone wants to change things up when we’ve just started winning games. Stick to what we’ve done well and back ourselves to do what we do well. Trying something new against top of the league seems a perfect recipe for mistakes and being exposed.

And yet they needed us to miss a penalty (which we got because of the easily dealt with build up play) and score a handball goal to beat us. Yeah 5 wins in 7, we’re one of the most form teams in the league and we’re playing top of the table. Ditch it all and try something new makes most sense.

Good for you. Again though, you wouldn’t be saying we had their number if we had won because of a handball goal and a missed penalty. So you were overreacting after 10 minutes and now.

Little reminder of why we lost that 1. 1.07

I’d check McCarthy’s history against Norwich if I were you

I really think if we won a game because of a handball and the opponents missing a penalty you wouldn’t be claiming our manager had sussed theirs out.