Fabrice29

I don’t disagree but being fairly confident he’s a lot better than his stats show and his stats actually showing it are two different things.

For someone who went off to do hoovering and visit a garden centre after 65 minutes, you posted quite a bit in the match thread during it 😂

He’s played for two clubs already this season so can’t play for a third. No club is doing this in January. Agree on the keeper and physical presence in attack. Also would add a proper defender.

Plenty of dribblers in this league over the years. The ones that get noticed are the ones who put up goals and assists towards the top of the charts. Eg Summerville. And Summerville is a good barometer of the step up too. He really needs to work on his finishing firstly, because that’s the level he’ll need to be at to get noticed and get us promoted.

Went off injured in his last appearance for us.

Okay do people just deliberately forget the success we are having? Because it's all well and good making jibes about us conceding goals from our tactics and concluding things like "act of the matter is that we do not have the required quality in defence to do it consistently/effectively." but the evidence clearly suggests we do because we're scoring more goals than we concede and we're winning more games than we lose under this guy? Which is literally what he was appointed to do. So yes, we are conceding goals and chances. That's the game. There's not a team in the league that doesn't. Yes we've lost a couple of games. That's the game. There's not a team in the league that doesn't. The trick is to win more than you lose and win more than others and under this manager, this managers tactics, we're pretty much doing that also? Can we continue doing it? Who knows. Big set of games coming up over a busy period and yes there will be some further tactical challenges to overcome but wetting the bed before it happens, and during a successful period, just seems like deliberately being miserable to me. But then again, it's led by people who insist they didn't enjoy us being successful in this league last time so it's hardly surprising. People just love to moan.

Its almost as if the pissing around at the back is designed to create the space further up the field for us to move forward and with pace. Like it always has been.

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.