Greedyfly

Was he actually there?

The absolutely galling thing, for both Still and for us as fans, is we're doing nothing different to what we did for the last 6 weeks. I'll take it for sure but I get the whole false dawn feeling.

FFS!

I said this on the match thread in midweek - But Still FREQUENTLY played the 3 at the back at Lens - in fact almost always so no idea where his love for 4231 came from because he barely ever played it. Thus it was a WS thing; not a SR thing for anyone believing otherwise. But Eckert needs to drop it - its an awful watch especially at home to Wednesday.

I wouldn't put him on the tills at Tesco's

This last 7 mins or so has been comedy both on here and in the game. Fucking Baz again. I'm convinced now he's still on Pompey's books.

But apart from that what have the Romans done for us. Jokes aside he's still better than Bazunu. I don't even understand how he's a goalkeeper at this level let alone for us.

I actually forgot he was on the pitch

Baz will you get back in goal please FFS!

Love him. The rest meh.

We've managed to somehow get worse after half time 🤣

Phew, no changes. Thank fuck. Didn't want any excitement messing up my Wednesday evening.

Awful crap. Fucking manager looks scared of the team as well. Definitely do not give him the fucking job.

No I'll give you that and oddly enough he looks much more effective. Go figure hey. Buuuuuut the other 4 are still playing in the back with a big fucking hole behind him

No lol

I wasn't sure until I basically looked at his Lens team again and he played 3_5_2 there as well. So not sure where he got the idea that 4_2_3_1 was his favourite haven't basically never played it

Ah I see what you mean. Yeah agreed. I still think it's dumb as fuck buying that talent for a wing position and persevering with this but yeah. If you are gonna play like that make sure you're blowing out of your arsehole by 70 mins and 2 up

But he's not which is the problem with him playing that position in the first place. He needs to be further up the field. I think it's generally an issue with Azaz as well, we aren't utilising them properly

Sacked

And yet he's our best defender so far. Grim.

I asked earlier in this thread if we played this formation under Martin and during the Prem season. We did not. It appears as though that's just conspiracy nonsense and this is Still's doing. Having also checked Still's preferred formation under Lens, he did more often than not, set up the same way we have almost all season. It's Still this. But SR have been a fucking fuck up from start to finish too.

Can someone remind me, because I've mostly blocked out last season, did we play 5 at the back in the prem or under a Martin in the championship? Because I'm starting to think the conspiracy theorists might actually be right.

Yeah no sorry don't agree. Open goals x2 vs Swansea (albeit at a awkward level for one of them - Archer), 2 x 1 on 1s vs Bristol, another 2 vs Blackburn???? I could agree if you said "they're not good for our shit strikers" but they were very good chances. Downs vs Hull? Downs vs Derby (was it Derby or Norwich I can't remember). I mean what else do you want them to be if these weren't good chances?

So just AA then and even he has a few years in his legs Vs last time. Archer is utter toss and will never score 11 goals, and Downs looked great in a single cameo in preseason and ass ever since. Stewart was our only real hope for a decent striker and alas he's made of straw. I never want to hear anyone suggest Archer as a reasonable answer to this mare ever again. Yes. It's quite literally putting away the chances as evidenced by the fact that we create more good chances than anyone other than Coventry and yet have scored less than most of the league. We're shit at the back, sure. But we'd reduce the pressure and risk there if we just scored more of our big chances.

Still doing a stretch for that Pedro Mendes challenge. Legend.