Teddeer

Call me greedy but I'd snatch your hand off for one nil.

It's like a bunch of weak midgets playing against athletic giants

Didn't take long. That's Ralph's game plan out the window.

Both Leeds and Burnley should win today so the expected loss at Chelsea will likely see us in the bottom three as we head into the international break.

Judging by the pictures from training we think playing rock, scissors, paper is the way forward. Hope it works and presumably the coaches think it is more productive than practising pass and move, playing between the lines, defending and shooting 🙂

What, you mean tear up Ralph's play book? Sacrilege.

We've done ok at Chelsea recently but I think Lukaku will make a huge difference in this weekend's game. When they had Drogba leading the line they often put us to the sword and I think we'll struggle similarly to contain Lukaku. If they didn't have him I'd fancy us for at least a draw but he's a striker that usually does well against us.

You can add Theo to the list of our players who clearly have no football brain. It's worrying how we manage to amass so many squad players who don't have that little bit of smartness that sets apart the good performers from the less than average ones. Unfortunately it appears to be not something you can teach and you've either got it or you haven't.

It tells us just how feebly inadequate his replacements are and clearly the club have not done enough to sign an adequate player to fill in for Armstrong who picks up quite a few knocks.

It seems highly probable that we will not add to our goals scored tally this weekend.

We may be creating a few chances but from what I've seen not many of them are the result of the sort of classy moves that lead to clear cut opportunities. It's all a bit 'make it up as you go along' or 'hope for the best' football. Good sides play between the lines to create space, we don't.

Maybe that's why we create the square root of diddly squat then.

Why not try KWP in front of Tino? He is capable of taking players on and getting good delivery into the box so it is not beyond the realms of possibility that he could do a job on the right of midfield and form an exciting partnership with Tino.

The bottom line is that we need to win some matches to stay up. I don't believe Ralph is brave enough to go for wins, he is more inclined to set us up to keep things tight and hope we nick a result. One win is obviously worth 3 points whereas our mentality seems to be that we are happy to scrape the odd point here and there. We have to be braver and far more adventurous or this trend of draws and losses will continue. I get that Ralph is nervous because of the two 9 nils but he has to forget those and get us playing to win matches. This timid approach is killing us and making us dreadful to watch whilst not getting the wins that would see us climb the table. Unfortunately, I think Ralph is too set in his little world of tactics which clearly are not working.

It's obviously written in his play book.

We weren't toothless up front we were clueless in midfield.

It's clearly not in the play book Ralph wrote. If it's not in there you can't do it. No deviation allowed.

It's even more worrying when you look at the names of the 4 sides we've managed to beat.

The forwards have precious little to work with because there is a serious lack of quality in midfield.

Should have been stronger and given as good as he got.

Is Jiminez even that strong? He's no Lukaku that's for sure. Bednarek shouldn't be getting bullied by him.

Don't underestimate the quality of Brentford's players. Every time I watch them they look to have decent options all over the pitch. They are far more than just energy, determination and enthusiasm.

Think there is more to his absence than an injury. I suspect we received an offer for him, he wanted to go but wasn't allowed to. Now we have this long term injury smoke screen with nobody willing to tell us what the problem is.

Not sure about that - maybe Norwich are but don't think there are worst teams than us apart from them.

Monumental cock up by Bednarek to gift them the goal - very weak attempt to stop their goalscorer. We have zero creativity in midfield and are so negative even at home that Romeu often switches to centre half. JWP's free kicks are ordinary which makes him a waste of a shirt. Add in that our forwards are not good enough at this level and that's a perfect recipe for a season of struggle relying on there being 3 worst sides than us. Not sure what Tella has done to be out in the wilderness. Very poor today after a battling point last week.