Fabrice29

We scored lots of goals under Russy hun xxx

You could cut it out of the clip if you wanted to ignore it yes. Which many do when it works how it's intended but they are the quickest to bring it up when it doesn't. But for "two consecutive bold between the line passes" or as the post above says "the correct way of playing out of the back" to actually happen space needs to be there to play into. That needs to be manipulated by dragging players out of position with movement and also with initial passes that don't do that. So yes, you can cut it out of the clip if you like but it doesn't mean it didn't happen. Now guess what, like everything in football it's not going to work every time and other teams will work on stopping that. There will continue to be frustrating times when passes are short, players make bad decisions, or the opposition are going to read it and get there first. That will also happen in other parts of the pitch as well. We'll also do it really well at times but a player in midfield or up front will lose it and it'll never get commented on. We'll also do it and the striker will miss a sitter but again, it will never get commented on. People will continue to shout loudest when it doesn't work and attempt to cut it out of the clip when it does. That's the game. But to be clear, it's not just a coincidence that our best performance for a while comes when a manager actively encourages it through selection and coaching and it all starts with a back 4 who are trusted to do it, presumably because the last time they were actively encouraged to do it through selection and coaching in this league it resulted in goals and results.

Bloody playing out the back when we have a lead etc.

Think he'd be cursing the finishing today and against Swansea for example.

3 at the back and the players like him oh no!

It’ll be even more tin pot when the same people say stuff like ‘focus on your own team’ when he inevitably makes a comment afterwards.

Ignore the posts then you muppet. Or something.

😳 You still leaving a laughing emoji on every single post btw?

We’re 5-1 up. There’s plenty enough to enjoy. That’s the point 🤣

Oh I really don’t do it at every opportunity. There’s so many I make a choice to ignore. I’m big like that.

The continuous Nathan Jones taunts and songs come across really tin pot btw

Hello manager who the players like and coaches patterns of play through the simplicity of passing the ball to each other.

Via the Nations League I believe, rather than the actual qualifiers.

Let’s be real, he didn’t have the players to immediately play the physical direct football he wanted to but was sold a long term project. By the time we’d recruited some to help him he’d lost the fan base and the owners shit the bed, just as they have continued to do so since once the fanbase turns.

Won’t be available until after March at the very earliest. Still have a chance of the World Cup

That headline/opening paragraph has done him dirty there. The question he was asked was clearly loaded (classic Blackmore) about senior players deliberately getting Still sacked and the answers turned into ‘players not to blame’ without the context of the question.

He played a lot of young players if that’s insightful.

Weird little thread this. Wildly speculating about a kids mental health and career choices. Even wilder when you consider his career choice currently sees him being part of a PL squad at the age of 19. Not convinced Moyes is right for him but give it a few months / year and I suspect he’ll be under a manager better for him and coming into his own like any normal 20 old footballer. All in a league above us, where he supposedly should have stayed.

Don’t necessarily disagree but an outsider will just say ‘won the last two since your ownership decided to get rid of the manager didn’t you? Feels like a good thing?’

This is exactly the issue with the ‘experience’ arguement. People make it subjective and start randomly picking the bits they trust and feel good about. Hindsight can also be a wonderful subjective thing too.

Contrary to popular belief we’ve had quite a lot of experienced players and managers under SR. Only Selles and Rusk actually are similar manager wise. Jones, Martin and Still all had ample managerial experience but were just younger so people didn’t trust it and Juric also had plenty of experience. Player wise also we’ve got plenty of experienced crap but again, because it’s crap it hasn’t worked out and again people much prefer to focus on the young/inexperienced signings instead.

I think I said recently I wouldn’t be choosing to keep him on necessarily. I’m not leaning that way. I’m just pointing out that’s it’s nice to have won a couple of games, the idea we’ve played two crap teams so it doesn’t count doesn’t really stack up either and maybe let the bed wetting wait until there’s something worth wetting the bed over. Not many inspiring names about though IMO and I’m always in favour of appointing someone promising and someone the players like over someone ‘experienced/proven themselves incapable of managing a club to any decent degree elsewhere’

If we had appointed an actual real life manager and failed the acid test would we have to sack them?

Yeah don’t really understand the fascination with beefing up the midfield when we have plenty of options in there. Fitness issues in there are an issue though. Plus it’s lovely PR play from the club with him and OR signing, so I suspect that’s behind any motivation to do it. Think it smacks of playing to the crowd which Solak especially is keen to do.

Rather than big long winded conspiracies analysing every action and non action of one man have we considered that our strikers weren’t very good for quite large chunks of the season, neither was our keeper or goalkeeper and suddenly against QPR and Sheff Wednesday we were a bit more efficient at both ends of the pitch and absolutely none of it is some finite confirmation that either Will Still or TE are brilliant or terrible?