Disco Stu

Is Onuachu on the bench?

Our back line is all over the place. Bednarek is going to play someone on-side.

Not many good ones. https://www.streameast.soccer/fixture/Arsenal-vs-Southampton "Player 3" seems to be the best one. Hasn't cut out yet!

Russell Martin just will not learn.

Still nobody on the edge of our box when defending a corner.

Interestingly, Danny Rohl made some comments regarding Shea Charles' fitness when he first arrived at Wednesday after a full pre-season with us.

Carlo Ancelotti, Pep Guardiola and then Unai Emery are the worlds best football coaches. Emery has completely transformed that club. Whether they can sustain their success long term, beyond the Emery years, remains to be seen but they've had a remarkable couple of years.

True. Still an infinitely better manager than Russell Martin though.

Yes he speaks English. I was rather hoping he'd take the England job.

Recently signed a new contract with a £5m sell-out clause (plus another £5m for his backroom staff). Given we'll have to spend a small fortune just to sack Martin because we stupidly gave him a new contract, I don't think Rohl is likely unfortunately.

He would do better with this squad solely for the fact he knows how to organise a defense. ABK would be straight back in the fray and Ugochukwu strikes me as his sort of signing. I don't think he would be interested in the job either but we would be the tamest fanbase he'd ever of had to contend with.

To be at least competitive you need to keep a disciplined shape and hold a defensive line. Russell doesn't know how to coach that so I'll go 5-0 Arsenal.

I'm afraid we can't Russell.

Feel sorry for the away fans today. Somewhere within tonights performance and the cancelled train there's a "train wreck" joke that I'm not able to formulate.

It would be interesting to get a general forum consensus 6 games in.

Game lost in the first 30 minutes. Unforgivable. We look so poorly coached.

True but I can just about forgive a lack of ability. You don't need a technically gifted team to coach a team to operate an effective press. Same goes for keeping a disciplined shape and holding a defensive line.

Our pressing is shit.

For weeks now I've felt we needed to play a front 2. Archer and BBD or another combination of our shit strikers. We don't have a proper CF thanks to negligent recruitment (not including Onuachu as we refuse to play him for some reason). Honestly think this squad best suits 4-4-2 and a counter attacking style. We have pace in this team but we don't utilise it. We're slow and ponderous. We put our own defence under pressure for no benefit. We don't use the transition at all. Win the ball, pass it back. It's a shit flawed game plan that is being exposed time and time again.

Fucking hell Saints. I can't watch this 😂 Russell is finished.

You'd hope so but he's got his charity game at St. Mary's mid October. Makes things a little more complex.

We simply can't defend.

Which is why we need 2 up top.

He'll do anything to keep Onuachu from playing CF.

Looking forward to ABK joining the fray. Surely a matter of time.