Fabrice29

I’m well aware why we aren’t in the PL thanks lads 😂

Pretty sure Eckert last week spoke about the group currently having core players who spend significant time at the club and then players who come here with 2 years in mind. Pretty sure the club will stand firm on Leo/Jander etc for this year. Will be a next season issue.

Vibes, links and being seen to be busy, especially when it suits online fan bases. That’s the way to judge success. Not having a relatively settled side, getting the main parts of that side signed up early in the window, signing the cover your chairman specifically told everyone is the only real hole in the side and then waiting patiently to react to any outgoings, which you’ve also sign posted clearly to all your fans. That’s far too sensible approach.

Just lost our first game in 20 plus we could well have been in the PL right now. But aside from that.

I suspect the Watford player didn’t take the piss out of THB’s stammer which is probably why the reaction was different.

No I didn’t try and tell you that. Nor did I make any conclusions about how effective he or the team are based on his position. I am trying to point out how hysterical people are acting over a slight change in player position though. Given a) you seem to think Watford wiping Scienza out at every opportunity in the first 20 minutes was not ‘something for them to think about’ and b) the actual thing that affected the game you have just glossed over with ‘yeh, but’.

The two players on a booking were due to Scienza playing inside. So moving him outside would literally have been making it easier for them.

Statistically he did some of those things, probably better than you're remembering. But I agree things haven't come off for him so far. But it's two games and this whole "I expected him to be someone else, so I'm annoyed" narrative is ridiculous.

What do you want him to do? Literally just play the same way as Azaz and sit there like a good boy when Azaz is fit? Or is he allowed to have his own attributes and contribute to the team when Azaz is fit too?

He is though. He just happens to have some different qualities and the flexibility to play elsewhere as well. He’s his own player in his own right but is quite obviously still the player people perceived him to be before his first two games.

Think you need the West Ham cup match for those tactics, not this one.

MLG's timing defending SaintsExtra is incredible to be fair

Very funny how Jack Stephens booting the ball into the path of an on rushing attacker can massively sway peoples opinions

He looked decent enough IMO. Touch, agility, movement and picking up spaces you'd want but yes things didn't come off and he doesn't play like Azaz so people don't trust it. He's only just started, no need for overreaction.

Not that effective given we went 21 games unbeaten until yesterday