captainchris

Professor Smart Ass 😂

Even if we signed a decent centre forward and he played well Ralph would definitely drop him next game! That team he picked last night was totally bizarre and it’s not the first time, it’s actually nearly every time! Ralph is pig headed and it’s hurting us.

Ralph - Continues with absolute ridiculous team selections. Cries out for investment, gets it and plays the usual non existent players he’s had for years. Doesn’t keep selecting players that play well in certain positions and has favourites !!! He is basically shit! Hopefully this ownership will ship him out … It’s just more and more of the same ….

100% correct. JWP was looking a little off the pace … Perhaps because we now have several players who are a step up now.

Would be in a best ever 11 without doubt. Very intelligent footballer and very skilful.

Yes but the whole issue with both systems is we have to many players to far advanced leaving two at the back or even three slow central defenders. Either way it’s Ralph’s coaching which is at fault and not the systems as such. Ralph just doesn’t seem to give the players enough instruction and hence they look bewildered most of the time. The problem is Ralph and not systems ..

This defeatist attitude starts at the top with Semmens! He is responsible for this rank unacceptable attitude of we are fortunate to even grace the league let alone win any games. Both Semmens and Ralph are constantly making excuses for poor performance and it isn’t good enough if you want to be successful, both should be feeling the heat from what I presumed were ambitious new owners….

Very accurate and been happening for his whole tenure.

It is not only the tactics, non existent coaching and player selections it is Ralph’s lack of positive language. All we get now is ‘it will be tough’ Tottenham, West Ham or whoever are superior to us, the lack of a winning mentality from Ralph is not acceptable… Ralph is not motivating and nor are his bosses in the club. There is in fact a losing mentality and Ralph is on board with the culture and uses it regularly to hide his own inadequacy and promote a total lack of expectation.

Ralph ! TWO UP FRONT and also no full backs at all or cover or closing down defensively or zonal marking or playing Bednarek will not work. Now wake up or ship out. On second thoughts, three plus years of pressing the repeat button isn’t going to change is it…

Let’s concentrate on conceding less goals first… 4222 did not serve us well at all last season.

Mostly it’s a 2 2 6 in actual fact….

Lol, you obviously don’t watch our games… Oh well …. 🤷‍♂️

What we ‘need’ is a change of formation and rapid. We are always outnumbered in midfield and Ralph seems blind to it…

This fella looks good but wouldn’t fit into Ralph’s square pass/back pass tactics unfortunately… Mind you Ralph is an excellent coach apparently and would soon bring him into line as he has done with many players now!

Or actually it was Ralph’s set up ? In which case he is culpable. It is hard to understand how Ralph would have had no bearing at all on the personnel and methods of the coaching set up for the first team. If that was the case then Siemens should go; if not then Ralph has to take responsibility and he should go too. Sacking three coaches and letting the people they served under off is just a little bit odd. Scapegoats or what………. It’s like a naval frigate goes on the rocks and they make an able seaman walk the plank for it….

Conspiracy? You have vivid imagination….

Lack of mention for RH is significant like or not …

You are concerned about being overrun in midfield but want two up front ! Made me laugh 😊

Eh ?

Why is it that most fans on here want to play the same formation as Ralph most often plays? If we don’t flood the midfield like most other teams do we will not control the game, will not protect the back four/two and will continue to lose possession too easily. Yes our players are not world class but we have to give them a chance. Our two up front, plus our wing backs and others too far advanced is causing us too much pain, we spend most games chasing the ball and wearing ourselves out for nothing. Last night was actually a welcome change in some respects though we executed the idea poorly with a mess of personnel selection and no pushing up at all. The concept of keeping things a lot tighter is a direction we have to travel in for Ralph’s normal 2 2 6 formation is a waste of time and will get us relegated. We are not good enough to play two up front !

It is excruciating to watch these - not long throw ins…. Our coaches don’t even seem capable of teaching how to execute a real long throw in . It’s disturbing how inept we have become even with this simple ‘tactic’ What planet are our executive management on to continue to accept this amateur pub league coaching…..

Not a Ralph fan at all but slinging two strikers on is how we played all year - CRAP! Two strikers is NOT the answer. Coaching, organisation and energy are however. Ralph’s teams do not benefit from any of those. We must concentrate on keeping the ball and controlling games, two up front will NOT cut that! It leaves us too light in midfield.

One up front 4-5-1

And why is Liverpool different to the rest of the country? There is also an awful lot of wealth in Liverpool too. Yes I have been there lots of times. Liverpool is not a special case.