DrunkenSaint

Aribo wants to go, Dibling wants to stay, id say if our owner shows some balls, we should keep him and try and keep Fernandes for one season and try and build a team like we once did. Selling and rebuilding isnt working, keeping a team together is the key to success, then staying in the prem will get him more money over time.

you do know most teams have gone to 3 at the back now, especially in the pressing style that he uses. He wants at least 1 CB to be aggressive when his team has the ball meaning he'll press into a midfield position to allow others to press high. He also wants his wingbacks to press high, so its more like 2 at the back when we have the ball, nothing wrong with that at all.

Maybe he will get Enter Sandman playing when the two teams come out to fire us all up, that would be great!

For me it has to be Rohl. I've always liked the high pressing style that Poch brought to us, you don't need "super stars" for it to work unlike the possession based system that Martin tried to make work, you just need super fit players that can just keep running and the knowledge to press in groups and rotate positions when needed. Unlike Ralph, he likes to use a number of formations, 4231 and 343 being his go to ones but he likes to switch it up depending on his opposition (plan b,c etc) which i think is great. He just has that Poch effect aura about him and im pretty sure if we go down, he would know the players he would like to keep to make it work in the championship. He's made Charles a bloody good player for them, something Martin couldn't do so who knows, he may even make some of our players into something good as well. We would need a new cdm as he likes to use 2, so that's at least one player that we would need to get in the window unless we have a recall option on Charles or we have a hidden gem in the academy?

We can only hope Villa don't turn up

That would be fine with me if they play a good style of football like the high press. The Bournemouth manager was pretty unknown and they play a good pressing style of football. I do wonder why we didnt keep following up by getting in high pressing managers, we bought it to the premier league when Poch came to us, Koeman played the pressing style slightly different and Ralph brought it back after a few disasters, that style of football is becoming pretty popular over in Germany. It's certainly a better style than the style we currently play now. Maybe there is a hidden gem abroad that would be willing to rebuild a team in the Championship, Leeds managed to get Bielsa so why not.

ive said this a thousand times, we probably had the best championship squad last season before he came in and he almost screwed that up with a horrendous style that never suited our players, we were promoted due to a few individual players that were just too good for that league.

agree, we have been lucky today

we have been very very lucky

yet another last minute loan signing that we didnt really need and yes he's pretty crap. We should of used Sam Amo instead and got him experience instead of giving experience to other clubs players.

He almost F@@ked that up as well when having probably the best squad in the league, yes we had a very good championship squad already in place and we still do and thats the problem.

Go all out for Potter and hope he can turn a bunch of championship players into something that is better than what Martin can muster up then let him have a massive say who to bring in next season like he did at Brighton.

Add Aribo and Armstrong to that list as well, Dibling and Fernandes for me needs to be starting every game.

This would be my midfield and im surprised that those 3 didnt start on Saturday. Having Downes in the squad would mean we have options, can always go 4231 and play both against teams that will probably attack us (top 6 teams) or attacking 433 when teams are more likely sit back playing for a draw or lucky breaks, meaning either Charles or Downes will drop to the bench.

Been saying this for a very long time, got to go back to the 4231 formation and get 2 real Dm's in there, Smallbone isnt a cdm he's a box-box, Acm type. Charles is a DM get him playing there and get someone else in playing alongside him. As it stands we have no protective shield for the defence, same as last season, until we get that sorted out, we wont get back to the premiership anytime soon.