coalman

He's got all the ingredients of a classic Sport Republic signing. Hasn't been able to get in any team recently. Possible attitude problems and a loan player we can bench for the season after social media fanfare in the grand tradition of Gronbaek. And, while we're all hoping he's the real deal let's not forget we brought in George Long as 3rd keeper. Someone who at no point in their career who would be able to pressure Baz or McCarthy for the starting spot.

And in the universe you're from where goalkeeper performance is determined by points per game you may be onto something. However in this universe....

That's a strategy, not a plan. A plan includes the mechanisms to determine whether it's working over a variety of time horizons. All along they've said "it's a long term plan" without ever saying what success looks like at 6 months, a year etc. Which is about the same as saying "fuck off and stop questioning us".

He played 8 times all season. Admittedly that did include the playoffs. The thing which really coincided with our form increasing was Stephens getting injured. That was at the start of our record unbeaten run. The Stephens came back and we nearly blew our shot at the playoffs.

Another backup keeper that can't get in his loan side? Sign him up. That's a proper SR find.

Millwall worked out how to neutralise us pretty comfortably last time. Will be a good test of whether Eckert can adapt.

I really don't have faith in them 😉. Nor do I disagree with you. I'd rather have my cover further up the pitch though. Playing three centre backs doesn't appear to make us harder to score against.

People who have a ten year plan are usually just trying to distract you from the fact they have no one year plan.

That's got the potential of there being a lot of noise before we fail to pay the asking price then sign George Long on a permanent and extend Baz / McCarthy.

No it doesn't. But at least we'd be playing football further away from our goal and might stop more crosses from coming in.

Playing three mediocre centre backs isn't a replacement for two competent ones. And leaves us woefully light in midfield. Net result we get overrun and peppered with crosses. Which our centre backs aren't good with. Extra bonus is it's easy to shut down our out ball.

We don't have a manager problem. We have a culture problem.

Why would we want to get a few "always"?

I really like the idea of forcing the reserve keeper on for ten minutes. I also think that VAR should step in if players go down holding their face when clearly nothing came near it. Automatic red card. Anyone crowding the referee gets an automatic yellow unless they are the captain. With keepers taking goal kicks there should be a countdown clock the same as when they pick the ball up. 90% of the bullshit would stop overnight if FIFA grew a pair. Instead of wasting their time sucking up to Trump with the Bellend D'Or award.

I'd say that it would make more sense for THB to be in the box full time given that setup. Saw him stop, decide not to cross and go back so many times. Manning was also superfluous most of the time given Scienza's excellence down the left. Archer and Armstrong are never winning headers against that number of defenders.