Fabrice29

"Dylan often plays with the 21s and we do need three keepers on training at times, so just for numbers I think we'll look to bring someone in," said Still. "I think it would be tricky or we'd be putting pressure on people that we don't need to put pressure on yet if we didn't, just in terms of numbers. "But we need to get the profile and the person right, and that person needs to come in and actually help the other two keepers and not create chaos. "So we're just assessing the situation and trying to get the right person in." If you want an actual answer it's quite easy to find fwiw.

Play 5 at the back and Armstrong up front on his own. Not a bad idea.

We are playing a completely different way to the Championship last time. Not sure it's fair to say we are so far away in terms of quality for that season. Think most would take Fernandes and Charles over Aribo and Smallbone for example and you need to give Downs a season or two before comparing his figures to Adams. But because we're playing a completely different style then different qualities are needed. Armstrong is nullified playing this way, Adams gone and our third top scorer (Smallbone) is injured/not rated. We need to recruit for this manager. We are absolutely desperate for players who have a drive to get into the box and be a presence. Crossing the ball to a tiny striker with tiny attacking wide players joining them is not viable. Buy a 10 and buy wide players who are a presence in the box.

In fairness, he did that in the play off final and people thought we should have played that way more.

He's not useless but he's not playing in a team set up to suit him anymore. Not entirely sure why we are so insistent on winging crosses into the smallest striker in the league who is flanked by a kid and the smallest winger in the league and backed up by a attacking midfielder who also is pretty small.

Daft old thread this. Can we stop putting the results of every single match on the manager please ffs

It's not about formations for me. It's about player characteristics. Neither Fernandes, Downes or Charles have shown in their career they are midfielders who are suited to being in the box so asking Fernandes specifically to play off the striker doesn't suit his best attributes. If you want all 3 to play then yes you'll have to change the formation and bring a defender out but just doing that when there's no conceivable player in the squad that is going to score goals from midfield seems silly.

The only midfielders in our squad with goals to their name are presumably very high on supporters wish lists to leave (Aribo and Smallbone). So just sticking another man in the middle when they aren't very productive isn't the answer. Get a midfielder who actually gets into the box and is comfortable doing it would be a really good start and moving Fernandes back to a controlling midfield role would also really help.

The idea that suddenly become more creative and efficient just through a change of formation is silly fwiw. Started with 1 player with more than 7 goals in a league season to their name I think so okay, you stick another striker on and make that 2, that's still not enough.

That's on the players who didn't pass to him then. Not Downs.

Interesting that Still was quite content to discuss signing Kabore even though this signing was already wrapped up. Maybe Bree off too.

Well thats out of the blue.

Signing Romeu when we have 3 of the best CM's in the league in our squad and are currently playing the best one of them out of position because of a crying need for creative midfielders seems like a really dumb idea.

There wasn’t many more productive teenagers in the PL last season. That’ll be why might think he’s worth the risk. And the more important question is why we would sell someone who could be very useful in a promotion campaign for less than 40m.

Yeah man. On a completely separate note and totally not related to weird behaviour has anyone laughed at one of your ‘he’ll cook’ jokes yet? 😘

No idea. Just like I’ve no idea if he knows about the times you said we wouldn’t be promoted under him. Fingers crossed he doesn’t for both eh?

Our superior squad is again, rewriting history considering it's made up of a team that finished behind Leicester and Leeds the year before, RM's mates and a bunch of players that fans would like to see the back off this season in an ideal world. Changed my mind. I really dont think you're the person on this forum to call out drivel btw "The great Chris wilder achieved more either side of that season"

Pretty sure I said 87 goals not points. Edit: Also your point about Chris Wilder I'm pretty sure isn't true. He failed to get Sheffield United promoted last year so thats not achieving more and nor was in he charge of the Sheffield United side that got promoted before we did. Think he was struggling with Boro that year from memory. I'm disputing that our football was tedious and going nowhere. It wasn't. Yes, we conceded far too many but I quite enjoyed watching us attack and score goals and I think people are trying to convince themselves it was boring.

I'm going to say this again and it'll be my final words, if you think scoring 87 goals in this league is tedious football and "pretty patterns going nowhere" then that's fine but this season could potentially really piss you off. Only Leeds got more than that last season. The 2nd top scorers last year scored 71. Only Burnley scored 87 the season prior. People can not rate RM but once again, if you're convincing yourself our last season in this league was tedious then you're just rewriting history. Fingers crossed we piss all over everything that team did this season though.

Fair play for doing the work so he didn’t have to. I feel like if I was being smug and smary about RM and was waiting for the exact minute they’d scored I’d might have mentioned it to be fair but I am quite humble so maybe not.

I don’t remember your comment but you keep changing it until you find it then let me know 👍

Their first league goal was against Dundee on the 9th apparently and I made 1 post that day in the Wrexham thread, so, that’s not true. And the only posts I’ve made in here about RM and Saints. But anyway, now we’re into the realms of assuming I’m Lucy Pinder/Another family member and/or just making up stuff about when and what I’m posting I think I’ll let the people who are doing minute by minute reports on Rangers matches because they are losing judging someone for posting when they scored a goal, that didn’t happen.

On the basis that about 3 posts ago you were convinced I had some deep connection with the guy and that was wrong I’m going to just patronise you again on this one if that’s alright? Fella.

I’ve defended his work at Saints because I was tagged into the thread during what seemed to be a 3 page minute by minute report on a Rangers game. Haven’t commented on any of his games over the past weeks.

I couldn’t give one toss about the job he’s doing there.