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How will he help get better results from this squad?

Then you don't count bear boy. Name noted tho.

Can one of the idiots who have voted for change please name a replacement. Thanks.

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Who?

Er, we can't take loans.

So, who di you do you bring in? How does someone get better results with this squad?

No idea, but I'm doubtful that NA is to blame. Its very unlikely that he had the final say on any proposed deal, and had any input on the commercial aspect of any deal.

I can't believe there's a thread on this. Of course we don't sack him. Stability is what we need. We drew today. We lost our 2nd choice rb early in the game and had our star man out. The manager had a limited pack to shuffle and we didn't lose the game. For anyone voting yes, who could bring in? How would they do better with the squad we have? Madness.

To start a game, RL every day. That's not the issue though, its whether the sub was wrong and cost us three points. There's a difference of opinion on here. My personal view is that JR offered more in the 2nd half, that RL was off the pace, that we needs someone to drop even deeper, and that Guly for RL was the correct choice.

agreed!

The point is that he didn't look like scoring this afternoon, and his work rate seemed to drop. We needed fresh legs and somebody to get on the ball a bit more.

what's Jr starting games on the left, in front of a lb (in a 433 or 451) got to do with Mayuka coming on as a sub, whilst 1-0 up, in front of a struggling out of position rb in a 442? That's like comparing an apple to a sausage roll.

Generally I agree, play a defensive midfielder ahead of an attacking fb. Today Yoshida was struggling hence the need for protection. I agree we had no attacking threat down the right but rather that than an exposed out of position lb.

So Mayuka isn't a striker? Yoshida didn't need cover?

Different opinions etc.

It's not conjecture though. Mayuka is a striker and Yoshida was having a mare. He needed a minder, not Mayuka.

Er, my post was in reply to one that started with a moan about taking off our best players! I said that they weren't our best players You said you didn't agree with me.

Mayuka drifts into the inside right position. How would that have offered protection to Yoshida? I have no doubt that we would be screaming at NA for tactical suicide ir he put Mayuka out there today. Damned if you do or don't! Chappers has played many, many times for us out wide in a Marsden esque role.

Yep, he's a forward. We needed a right sided midfielder with the discipline to hold his position. Yoshida, on a yellow, with Riise and another running at him = goals and/or a red card.

You said that you couldn't agree with a post in which I took issue with someone saying that we took off our best players.

Mayuka on the right would have been a square peg in a round hole and left Yoshida horribly exposed. He needed protection more than we needed ab attacking outlet down that side. The tactic of shoring up that side was a given imo.

So you think that Punch and Ricky were our best players? I agree that AL left Fox exposed but at the time Punch went off he thought he was marginally worse than AL. On the last point, the subs didn't lead to us going 2-1 down. Chappers tightened up the right and Guly helped us in the middle and up front leading to us getting back into the game.

I agree about lallana. The goals today were partly attributable to lallana. He isn't a natural winger so tends to drift infield. I thought he was marginally better than punch today (up to the point he went off). The problem is who would you have replaced him with?

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