StrangelyBrown

Now this is the Redmond we've been waiting for!!

Surely Redmond should now realise that playing the ball forward is a good thing???

With premier League football being a game of fine margins I'm convinced that all of our problems boil down to the players being completely knackered and some key decisions going against us at exactly the wrong time. Our high intensity game needs players to be at peak fitness and mentally sharp which is being hampered by not having enough good players to rotate, a loss of confidence in officiating and a packed schedule. Where Ralph is letting us down is in his complete failure to recognise this and sticking to his guns in the vain hope that we will ride this out. IMO the solution was staring us in the face when we played Chelsea - let the opposition have the ball, defend well and look to nick a goal on the break. Building some confidence by grinding out some results would have helped us reset. Instead we've gone back to the lacklustre possession based football that relies on sustained high energy that we simply don't have. What's worse is this isn't unique. The only side who are successfully managing to keep up the energy levels required to play a high intensity press without changing tactics are poor brave Leeds (who in my opinion will get found out next season when the world realises there isn't anything special about them).

Ralph should get sacked for this. There are no excuses.

How do we think that not creating any chances is going to result in turning this around. This is fucking appauling football. No urgency, no quality, no character, ...

FFS bednarek and vestergaard need to take a long hard look at themselves for that one. Piss poor defending

I don't know what happened to McCarthy post covid but he seems to have stopped saving the ball which was the big reason I used to prefer him to Forster. Forster organising the defence makes a big difference IMO. Also having someone who can play a good long ball straight up to the forwards makes a heck of a difference in contrast to the relentless dithering slow build up from the back that has characterised McCarthy in 2021. I'd rather have a better keeper than either of them, but right now Forster deserves his place.

Well done saints. Something at last to build on! Work to be done though, but hopefully we'll put a bit of run together (ignoring city). Some real positives in the second half. Forster gives us a bit of quick decision making at the back which was sadly missing with McCarthy. Stuey gets better and better. Kwp definitely improves us. Diallo much better in the second half. Minamino looked much better on the other side when he switched. Thought the ref was decent today even if you could argue that he should have sent a couple of their players off.

Minamino looks like he has literally no understanding of his position. Really underwhelming performance. Diallo looks like an accident waiting to happen. Adams literally has no confidence. So what is hassenhutl going to do I wonder??? It better not be Redmond on for Tella!

Now that's what I call a strong starting lineup! I've got a much better feeling about this. COYS!!!

I've defended Redmond in the past, but that performance redefined shit for me. Ings was also abysmal again - just playing for himself. I'm just not sure who we play instead of him? Positives were Forster, Tella (who has to start next time), JWP, Djenepo and for once us growing into the game in the second half. We keep coming up against sides who do the darker side (diving, niggling fouls, etc) so much better than us (Everton, poor brave Leeds, Wolves, Leicester) - although I hate saying so it's time to become a bit more nasty and to take more opportunities to win freekicks - we're far too honest at the moment.

Strictly speaking according to the daft new laws that was denial of a clear goal scoring chance by not playing the ball - a pen and a red card. But to be fair those should never be given as they are a joke. Although Che may have been offside...

IMO it's because our game is entirely reliant on energy and everyone following a highly detailed game plan. Less time between games means less detail and time to practice. Less time means less recovery. Unfortunately as soon as our players have to think for themselves and we have to deviate from the game plan (i.e. when someone gets sent off) we go to pieces.

That was incredibly disappointing. We had more than enough of the game to lead at half time, but what is more disappointing is how easily we gave up the game once we were losing. Surely we need to go back to the approach we took against Chelsea? Let the opposition have a bit more of the ball and play a counter attacking game. It's easy to get bogged down in the relentless "bad luck" we've had with decisions, but we were masters of our own downfall today. What on earth is wrong with Ings - looks like hes going through the motions?

Anyone who tells me that there isn't an agenda against us needs to look at the some total of decisions that have gone our way and those that have gone against us. Since that iffy penalty against Brighton I swear we haven't had one borderline decision go for us. If there was no cheating at least one would go our way...

Its got 0-0 written all over it!

IMO he needs a break - he'll either continue to perform poorly or will break down completely. I'm not saying don't play him at all - just bring him on fresh against tiring legs and manage him through the next couple of weeks.

Couldn't disagree more. Ings wasn't at the races at all yesterday (and has been slowly going backwards) - he looks like he needs a rest (either that or his head is somewhere else). Let him come off the bench to score a 90th minute winner. Redmond had a good game yesterday - set up the first nearly set up another and did the running for both him and Ings. I'd start with Che and Redmond up top and grind leeds down before giving Danny 30 mins to do what he does best.

Ings really has been shite today

As bad as jankewitz's challenge imo - not in control at all and studs up. The rule book is very very clear

Amazing pass from Redmond and a great piece of composure! Hopefully that will give us some confidence.

From what I've seen we seem to have 2 game plans, one where we accept we're not having the ball and press but play cautiously and hit the opposition on the break. The other is very similar but we dominate possession and the focus is more on the ball than against it.

It pains me to say this, but against Chelsea I think we should go back to playing the majority of the game against the ball and hitting them on the break rather than the dominate the hell out of possession until we run out of steam approach that hasn't been working since the backs the wall performance against Liverpool. It would be ugly, but we need to try and keep a clean sheet, build some confidence in defence and then look to push on once we've picked up a point or two. For me it is more about approach than formation or personnel.

McCarthy isn't very good at the moment so persisting with him rather than giving someone who hasn't proven one way or other a chance seems like a brilliant way of carrying in being crap.

God i hate wolves cheating dirty cunts. So much diving - time for referees to apply the rules of the game and actually book players for simulation.