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Post by nott1 on Mar 20, 2024 8:41:26 GMT
Back 5. Should of signed a perm number 1. There no leader at the back. Piss poor full backs mainly lb. All of our cbs are poor. Rose could make a squad player just. Should of?
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Post by crazyhoss on Mar 20, 2024 8:55:49 GMT
1. The worst collective grouping of central defenders I have ever seen at Stoke. Ever. 2. No fullbacks worthy of the name 3. Dysfunctional midfield. Burger is covering over the cracks. 4. Non-existent goal threat.
None of that will be a revelation to anyone (apart from the recruitment team presumably) but I suspect it will be number 4 that finally does for us. If our twin strikers O.Goal and D.Flection go on a barren run we are fucked.
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Post by beats88 on Mar 20, 2024 9:11:54 GMT
The main issue we have is attitude...we have an infectious attitude & commitment disease running through the club and we have done for years. We have a clear out and aim to kill off the disease but unfortunately for us, there is always a little bit of the infection left that spreads to the new signings. Then it's rinse and repeat over numerous squads. Add into that, that we don't appear to be doing our homework on players and it's a recipe for disaster.
I am not nor have ever been one calling for a TP return, but him and his team used to get the full back story of every player they signed, spoke to every manager they had ever played for and did thorough research before a signing was made. Maybe it's just me but I just don't think that's happening now. Every player regardless of ability would run through a brick wall for him. Half the players we have now hardly manage a running pace, never mind through a brick wall.
Oh and yeh, the recruitment as a whole has been awful. I know it's easy being an armchair manager and people will point out that the defensive record wasn't too bad, but it was glaringly obvious we needed a dominant CB and a LB as a minimum in January. Then don't get me started on the summer.
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Post by cheadlepotter on Mar 20, 2024 9:23:03 GMT
Football intelligence (lack of) is our biggest weakness. Too many so-called experienced players making the same bad decisions on and off the ball week in week out. Braindead challenges like little nudges in the back when I'm literally shouting 2 seconds before "don't foul him, DO NOT foul him", simple offsides when the attacker has the whole of the pitch to look across, defenders pushing up except one rogue players who drops back instead, crosses from the by line where the player doesn't even lift his head up to see what's in front of him. I could go on...... And not just that part of the lack of footballing intelligence. Many of our players, Hoever being the biggest example, need extremely simple instructions. Asking him to be an inverted full back is madness, though maybe not quite as mad as asking our defensive line to be near the half way line. On top of that the big problem we have is the manager and the amount of formations and variations of them he’s trying. It’s not pre-season.
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Post by yellowsnowman on Mar 20, 2024 12:36:41 GMT
Back 5. Should of signed a perm number 1. There no leader at the back. Piss poor full backs mainly lb. All of our cbs are poor. Rose could make a squad player just. Should of? Yep lol
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Post by bertiestan on Mar 20, 2024 12:41:10 GMT
The main issue we have is attitude...we have an infectious attitude & commitment disease running through the club and we have done for years. We have a clear out and aim to kill off the disease but unfortunately for us, there is always a little bit of the infection left that spreads to the new signings. Then it's rinse and repeat over numerous squads. Add into that, that we don't appear to be doing our homework on players and it's a recipe for disaster. I am not nor have ever been one calling for a TP return, but him and his team used to get the full back story of every player they signed, spoke to every manager they had ever played for and did thorough research before a signing was made. Maybe it's just me but I just don't think that's happening now. Every player regardless of ability would run through a brick wall for him. Half the players we have now hardly manage a running pace, never mind through a brick wall. Oh and yeh, the recruitment as a whole has been awful. I know it's easy being an armchair manager and people will point out that the defensive record wasn't too bad, but it was glaringly obvious we needed a dominant CB and a LB as a minimum in January. Then don't get me started on the summer. Can’t argue with any of that beats🔴⚪️
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Post by mamathestriker on Mar 20, 2024 13:46:39 GMT
The main issue we have is attitude...we have an infectious attitude & commitment disease running through the club and we have done for years. We have a clear out and aim to kill off the disease but unfortunately for us, there is always a little bit of the infection left that spreads to the new signings. Then it's rinse and repeat over numerous squads. Add into that, that we don't appear to be doing our homework on players and it's a recipe for disaster. I am not nor have ever been one calling for a TP return, but him and his team used to get the full back story of every player they signed, spoke to every manager they had ever played for and did thorough research before a signing was made. Maybe it's just me but I just don't think that's happening now. Every player regardless of ability would run through a brick wall for him. Half the players we have now hardly manage a running pace, never mind through a brick wall. Oh and yeh, the recruitment as a whole has been awful. I know it's easy being an armchair manager and people will point out that the defensive record wasn't too bad, but it was glaringly obvious we needed a dominant CB and a LB as a minimum in January. Then don't get me started on the summer. Can’t argue with any of that beats🔴⚪️ I actually think the disease has been evident since Hughes' final 18 months. It does seem to coincide with Jon Coates taking on more of a hands on role.
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Post by baconburger on Mar 20, 2024 15:56:17 GMT
Main problem is the lack of goals and anyone who doesn't think it's the main problem. If the team was capable of scoring 4 goals we would have won against Norwich. Alternatively if the team was capable of keeping a clean sheet it would have needed to have been capable of scoring one goal to have won against Norwich. Our problem is the defence AND the attack. You solve the problem by sorting out both. You start by sorting out your defence. That's just an out of date old saying from a different era where you got time to build incrementally. In this day and age you need to get your team scoring goals first and foremost because you can still do pretty well if you can score goals even if you're quite poor defensively, see the league table but you definitely won't do pretty well if you can't score goals. Start by sorting the defence and you're likely to have been sacked before you've even completed your first priority.
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Post by professorplump on Mar 20, 2024 16:13:09 GMT
It's arguable as to whether the defence is more of a problem than the attack. Both are a concern and to be honest the midfield isn't that great either. However I think our single biggest weakness is that we are mentally fragile. Once we go a goal down. heads drop, shoulders droop and we might as well start the car and head home, because the likelihood of us getting an equaliser is almost non existent. I think this is also why when we concede a goal, we often concede another shortly after. On the occasions wen we score first, we look a completely different team. I don't know if we employ a Sports Psychologist but if so, we need to get a better one.
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