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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 22:06:12 GMT
Here fucking here! 👏 We’re rapidly approaching 10 years since relegation and people are still sucking the Coates’ off, saying we should be grateful. It’s absolutely mind blowing how backwards a lot of our fans are. 10 years? We’ve sleepwalked through the last 6, before we know it, it’ll be ten.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 22:04:20 GMT
It all comes down to the owners mate there's nowt else to it and it's not a mystery. There is no clearly defined club vision set by the owners, they don't recruit to that vision and they don't have a clue on how to run a modern football club. They let every new manager dictate the direction of the club and give them the keys to the kingdom which is why we've gone through 2-3 squads of players and not made any progress as we have no foundations to build upon because every new manager gets to rip out the foundations and put their own in so every time it goes wrong which it seems to always do we have to start from scratch again. Here fucking here! 👏 We’re rapidly approaching 10 years since relegation and people are still sucking the Coates’ off, saying we should be grateful. It’s absolutely mind blowing how backwards a lot of our fans are.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 21:46:47 GMT
Bollocks. He’s got a right weird cult following. Stop making things up. Seems to me like you’re spoiling for a row which doesn’t exist. No one rates him on here. He definitely does, there’s a right love in for Bonham on Twitter often.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 21:41:24 GMT
Who kicked it back to their player for the first goal? Bae. Him and DJ turn their backs, head down walking back in the box. Why the fuck has neither stood on the ball. AN’s dig at Bae I see in his presser but DJ is just as much to blame too.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 21:21:55 GMT
Just sack him tonight, the writing is on the wall.
He’s showing absolutely no signs of turning this around, so why waste any more time, games or points.
fuck him off and get the next dour British useless cunt in.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 14:44:16 GMT
Half the problems with this obsession with a LF/RF combo at centre half is the fucking abomination that is the current trend all managers have of the wanky short goal kick - for it to work you need players either side to receive it and be comfortable on dealing with the ball As it is, we persevere with it, its passed to Wilmot who either twats it left footed out of play (as not his strong foot), or he short passes it back to Travers/Rose/McNally, if its Rose he completely panics and passes back to Wilmot....however its setup, somebody ends up smashing it out of play or straight to the oppo midfield, who cant believe the space they have as our CDMs are absent - either coming short but not showing or wandered out wide, and our AM is up with the forward in no mans land but nobody can win the ball I absolutely DETEST the short goal kick - its fine occasionally as a variation, but this mantra that its the only way to play, to retain possession, recycle the ball whatever is dross to watch - mainly because those that are good at it (ie Manc Blue), turn that into a rapid attack within 4 passes - we however end up making a meal out of most of them and panic / lose the ball / kick it aimlessly. While we are at it, we also are cowards on the ball - even the times we break forward and see space, players today are almost brainwashed not to take a risk (ie beat their man and cross it), its too easy to slow it down, look backwards, play an easy pass back 35 yards - its boring. Give me crosses flying in, headers everywhere, second ball scrambles, borderline fouls every single day. Watch the next game either on TV or live - every single THROW IN we get nobody looks forward ONCE - its an automatic thing to pick it up and throw it back to the centre half/full back and the game slows - even from the edge of the opponents half! Free kicks are the same - whats that? A free kick midway in the opposition half? Do we a) fill the box and put in a scorcher of a cross, or b) pass it backwards short, defender panics, passes to keeper. Twats it long. Attack over. For all of Pulis faults (there were many), he would hate this shit - give me 442 / 4231 with 2 wingers all day, balls played quickly out wide, taking a man on, byline, crosses. Even the novel idea of playing people on their favoured side so they can cross first time - as soon as Campbell gets the ball he stops to a halt and has to cut inside (loses it generally) There. Thats the moan. Agree with all that . As for throw-ins , throwing it back to your own centre back / centre mid, defies all logic. If you throw the ball ,forward and down the line ( say a foot inside the line) , everything is in your favour. If a Stoke shirt lands on it they flick it forward and inside to stoke shirts running in support of the Stoke player landing on the ball . If a Stoke shirt lands on the ball, then the opposition have real problems. Even if the opposition get on the ball , they get on it being pressed and pressured and a lot nearer to their own goal than when the throw in was won . Worst case scenario, the opposition land on the throw in , there is little they can do , under pressure from a stoke player when they land on a ball flying down the line, than head it out and concede another throw in. Throwing the ball backwards and into the centre of the pitch, just reverses having everything in your favour. AND means you are in trouble ( from your own throw in !) If the opposition get to the ball first . Just throw the ball down the line! If you go back through the last 3/4 years I reckon we’ve conceded at least 10 if not probably a lot more goals, that start with our own throw in. I even called it at Sheff Utd away last season, I turned to the blokes next to me and said, they’ll score here just as we went the throw the ball in. They laughed at me, 20 seconds later as the grins were wiped off their faces, I laughed and said told you 😂
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 10:01:03 GMT
What also makes me smile is that if it was suggested on here that the training ground wasn’t good enough and fit for purpose, could you imagine the response? Yet speak to anyone and they will tell you it’s ok/good but not a patch on many others. That can't be right! Every new player interview states, as well as being a big club, that the training ground is the main thing that attracted them to the project They all said they were enticed by the promise of front foot, attacking football. We’re yet to see that. It’s almost like those interviews are nothing more than sound bytes to get the fans onside
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 9:41:43 GMT
Hopefully they build an extra large treatment room
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 27, 2023 0:14:38 GMT
Vidigal definitely was a Dublin signing. More so than most, perhaps. I imagine that the process goes something like this: AN: I need a player that can do this. JD: Here’s three to pick from, this one is my favourite. AN: let’s go with that, then. that’s how i imagine it , AN and Jared have a long meeting discussing all the positions he wants filling and the type of player and attributes to fill that role , Jared does is best to get the players AN wants and sign all that he can , then AN as a breakdown and plays them how the fuck he wants Don’t forget signing a 33yr old injury prone left back and letting two others leave without replacements
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 26, 2023 23:34:53 GMT
They can all be shit though. MON, zero real experience of club management at a decent level, did well in keeping us up using needs must then got his own ideas involved and it fell apart. Rowett, he's a solid Champ manager if you don't have too much ambition of promotion and spent a shit ton of money on solid if unspectacular Champ players. Jones, Luton is starting to seem a one off where it all fell into place for him. Maybe there's nothing toxic or whatever laying underneath and they are just a bit crap, it wouldn't be the first time a club constantly hires poor managers. Absolutely. The bloke in charge of hiring them is the real issue here. Just because the family own the club doesn’t mean one of them has to be chairman does it. It’s time we really put them under pressure to make the correct changes. They need to remove JC from his post and using their unlimited resources n sourcing the best possible candidate to take charge of this football club. They need to provide the money and little else.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 26, 2023 23:31:04 GMT
The season isn’t even two months old and already we’re decimated by injuries.
Every season is the same, is it time we looked at the pitches at CW & Bet365, do we bring in a witch doctor or are we just plain unlucky?
The 3 previous seasons have seen us decimated by injuries to key players at key times and this one seems to be going the same way.
Something isn’t right.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 26, 2023 16:38:08 GMT
If he can work out what the fuck happened in March and replicate it he’s sorted. But he can’t. I genuinely don't get why he hasn't tried to do that. It looked like that was the plan and now he seems to have just dumped it because of the Stevens situation. What is it about managers that they just refuse to use what had made them successful here? Rowett got Derby into the play-offs with Vydra as a number 10 - laughed off the idea of playing with one here. Jones raved on about the diamond, signed basically nobody who could play it, then ditched it for something even worse. O'Neil worked wonders at NI with a 4-3-3, worked wonders when he first arrived with a 4-2-3-1, became obsessed with a back three system that rarely if ever looked as good as either. Neil is doing the same now too. It's like the fucking Shining or something. I know that the board won’t instruct the manager on how to set up but something, somewhere must be inherently wrong with how the club is run or directed, as to make every single manager lose the plot in the same manner. Is it the pressure from the board? Is it the patience of the fans that’s wearing extremely thin after years of shite? Something’s amiss for the same mistakes to keep happening regardless of who the manager is, unless they’re all just shit🤣
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 26, 2023 15:05:15 GMT
Chopping and changing and pissing about with a back 3 isn’t helping them. Just play one of the right backs at left back and try and get some consistency. He’s over complicating things when he really doesn’t have to. I'm not as against the back three as a lot of others are, but I agree he needs to at least stick to one or the other for the time being. If we’d kept Tymon and signed Davies or Humphrey’s I wouldn’t have been dead against it either but we didn’t. This squad is built for 433 or 4231, nothing else.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 26, 2023 14:41:23 GMT
We’ve lost Stevens and the whole place has become a circus. He’s lost the plot. That hasn't been why its gone the way it has, the CBs aren't performing, losing Stevens hasn't been the big problem and if the CBs had been playing close to well enough it wouldn't have made much of a difference. Chopping and changing and pissing about with a back 3 isn’t helping them. Just play one of the right backs at left back and try and get some consistency. He’s over complicating things when he really doesn’t have to.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 26, 2023 14:36:39 GMT
He's being so weird about the left sided centre back thing. Is it even that much of a big deal? Shawcross and Huth were both right footed and I think most other partnerships I've seen are right footed (think Ferdinand/Vidic and Terry/Cahill or whoever). I know it's nice from a balance perspective but it's hardly where the team collapses. Where it gets made worse is when you employ a three where the left sided centre back has to use their left foot more often than not. We got promoted and stayed up with two right footed centre halves and Griff at left back He’s talking out his fucking arse
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 26, 2023 14:27:50 GMT
Sorry duck, just not buying this. Hull signed 17 and let 10 go. They’re 4th. That overlooks the facts. 7 of the Hull starting team on Sunday were there last season. Only 4 of our team were and only 7 out of our squad of 20 played last season. And likely 5 of our best XI didn’t start and two more were injured in the first half. If Travers Hoever Wilmott Rose/McNally Stevens Pearson Burger Haks/Bae Campbell Wesley/Maaee Vidigal Doesn’t deliver then I have no argument but Sunday tells us nothing about this team We’ve lost Stevens and the whole place has become a circus. He’s lost the plot.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 25, 2023 22:28:24 GMT
If the manager had settled on a 433 or 4231 formation, and stuck to it it wouldn’t and shouldn’t take professional footballers 10-12 games to gel. I wouldn’t expect that at grassroots level, never mind players earning thousands a week. Most of them will have played every formation possible in their careers and would quickly get used to a system. Loads of different partnerships to form though, it's not just about playing the system is it, it takes time to understand how your team mates play and move, what foot they want the ball on, wether they'll cut inside or go outside, come short or pull off the back, ball to feet or in front etc His downfall in my view will be his reluctance to stick to a formation well 17 new players get used to playing with each other Sorry duck, just not buying this. Hull signed 17 and let 10 go. They’re 4th.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 25, 2023 22:08:22 GMT
Scott Parker scares the life out of me.
Could imagine the board would have a right hard on for the two promotions in his CV and the premier league experience.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 25, 2023 13:07:23 GMT
It looks very much that Alex neil is failing like the previous managers since relegation. The question is were do we go from here do we start again or except our fate which looks very much like league 1 on Sundays showing. The team looked completely rudderless & Hull did not really break sweat to claim 3 points. I was convinced AN was the man to turn our fortunes around but after that showing Sunday its obvious he is failing in all departments. He’s done for me, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s damage limitation between now and Leicester before he’s removed going in to the international break. He’s simply lost the plot. If he ever had it in the first place.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 25, 2023 12:56:16 GMT
Has a player looked more lazy and disinterested since the Brian Little days?
Possibly Tom Ince.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 25, 2023 12:17:42 GMT
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 25, 2023 12:00:06 GMT
www.transfermarkt.co.uk/trainer/verfuegbaretrainer/statistikLooking at transfermarkt's unemployed list.......Smith, Wilder, Parker, Hassenhuttl, Gracia, Marsch, Sanchez Flores, Van Bronckhorst Maybe we'd have a slim chance of getting Corberan (supposedly £2m release clause) if he fancied departing that unstable mess, but unlikely? John Terry always gets a mention. As does Rooney, despite his record. Lampard has used up all his lives. There don't seem to be any L1/L2 candidates who are banging the door down at the moment So that really leaves foreign in-work candidates. Dunno which leagues are potential target-rich environments for us? Switzerland? Belgium? Portugal? Holland? German Div 2? France Div 2? Scandinavia? Would imagine that's a bit of a minefield unless you know what you're doing..... and we have no track record of knowing what we're doing. Schumacher at Plymouth could be a shout. Sure someone on here is good friends with him too?
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 25, 2023 11:55:45 GMT
My top 3 last year after MON’s departure were:
Carrick McKenna Maresca
Maresca and Carrick would’ve definitely been getable at the time, McKenna seems like he wants to see Ipswich through though.
This time around I’m not sure who is out there, it’s time now to go and get a Pep protege though or look further afield to Germany etc.
Hopefully Jared’s black book contains a list of managers who play a pressing 433 and won’t fall in to the 3-5-2 trap.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 24, 2023 20:40:47 GMT
He won’t be getting sacked. Not this year. A poor game today, he’ll sort it out. 18 wins from 53 games in charge. He’s not sorting shit out mate.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 24, 2023 19:53:34 GMT
When the tide turns this much in terms of supporter unrest, it never turns around.
He’ll be gone before the clocks go back.
Just pray to god Wilder goes back Sheff before Neil goes.
Fuck knows what dour British manager they turn to next unless Jared has some serious input and has a manager up his sleeve I don’t hold my breath it will be anyone inspiring.
Probably Dean Smith.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 24, 2023 15:50:16 GMT
We’ve only conceded 9 goals in 7 games, for context Ipswich in 2nd have conceded 10 & Norwich in sixth have conceded 16. The defence is not the issue, the fact we’ve scored 7 goals in 7 games is the issue considering 4 of those were against Rotherham. I read this comment when I woke up this morning. Agreed with it and liked it. After watching Rose, Mcnally and Wilmot today I've changed my mind. Same mate😂
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 24, 2023 0:01:43 GMT
We’ve only conceded 9 goals in 7 games, for context Ipswich in 2nd have conceded 10 & Norwich in sixth have conceded 16.
The defence is not the issue, the fact we’ve scored 7 goals in 7 games is the issue considering 4 of those were against Rotherham.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 21, 2023 21:54:43 GMT
There was some dodgy stuff going on with his agents. Believe there were multiple people involved but he was in the process of getting rid and taking on a new agent. At which point we believed the deal would be signed.
That was the last I heard so it must’ve gone wrong somewhere, sounds like it was all very murky though.
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 21, 2023 13:04:45 GMT
Unfortunately I think it's pretty clear Dwight Gayle is as good as done, at least at this club, I'm not even sure he's interested anymore, he's earned his fortune and scored his goals, he looks like he's winding down to retirement At this point Di Margio Wright Philips has to be a better option from the bench than Gayle, the bits I saw of him in a Stoke shirt he looked decent. Wesley just doesn't look the part, he's just too immobile and doesn't use his size to batter defenders, he reminds me of the BFG, maybe he just doesn't suit English football. Lowe has to be worth an appearance if that's what we're going to get from Wesley. Wesley's performances kind of highlights further the actual player scfc had in Sidibe, he really was a handful if not best gifted technically. Send Wes back if possible January and stick a cheeky £2m bid in for that Bruno Petkovic from Zagreb and offer to double his wages before others join the clamour in summer to get him on a free, he looks a hell of a player We signed Wesley on a one year permanent deal
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Post by LGH87 on Sept 20, 2023 17:52:37 GMT
7 games in and we’re square peg FC already.
Why does every manager we have fall in to this way of thinking.
It’s fucking wank
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