Fabrice29

You don't have to watch you know. Or keep commenting on it. You didn't even enjoy it when we won games, mainly because your silly matter of fact opinions were being proven wrong. I'd walk away.

I agree it was a better squad but this place isn't ready for the bring back Smallbone chat.

Yes, Birmingham.

I’m just a club PR man, nothing to worry about. Either that or I watched the game and saw him pull up more than once with my own eyes.

Are we not stopping this narrative yet given the goals and points that squad/manager had in this league? It’s not comparable.

Scienza is evidently injured though. Happened when he came on Birmingham and given he was subbed off Thursday I would be a little surprised to see him tomorrow.

You okay bro? Get lost in the bubbles?

Stick to washing up fella.

No. But I don’t think it was when it switched in the promotion season either.

My recollection of this season is that switching to Bazunu coincided with an increase in form.

All costs except the actual cost it took to buy Ramsdale. Are conspiracy theories really this dumb now?

So did I speak out about him or do I never criticise the managers however bad they do? Make your mind up you wally. If someone can point me in the direction of how having 4 managers in 2025 and still pretty much having the same spine of the team is going to bring about drastic change, I’ll happily start jumping on board a manager change train, but given I think our problems lie elsewhere and the only manager who has actually got some results is the one who has the benefit of new players settled into the side, I’ll probably continue to leave it for now if that’s okay with you?

That’s not actually true. What I don’t do is wet the bed about managers all the time, despite being on our 4th one this year (and only this one is actually having any sign of actually improving anything).

You don’t think he’ll need to better his 3 goals and 3 assists record to get a move? Especially at the price we’ll charge a year into his contract?

I suspect that the reason he’s subbed off and can’t start 4 games in a row are the same.

Well given all 3 of those have played numerous seasons in this country and over this period and all 3 have different fitness profiles, I’m going to suggest that’s not the case. Stephens does get rotated anyway.

For anyone still pretending they don’t understand rotation it’s been obvious all season.

Weird brag. Anyway, it’s not fans who buy players. Most clubs in the league above us will care for resale value. He can’t go there until the summer and until he puts up numbers to justify he’ll ‘do a job now’ we won’t need to worry about that.

He was the least effective sub to be fair and it’s obviously not for no reason.

You got any names or nah? The results we’ve achieved since he started holds up against anyone in this league right now.

Yes but it’s not exactly needed is it? It’s painfully obvious why and anyone pretending they don’t know it is pretending. Would expect Jander to miss out at some stage too.

This is all lovely written on a forum but in reality all it does it get worked out quickly and easier. All you’re doing is reducing our two best dribblers to small parts of the pitch on the wings, asking Manning to curb his natural instincts and best traits of overlapping and expecting a very inconsistent Azaz to conduct all our creative play. Like now, it’ll be great whilst it works and bad when it doesn’t. That’s fine, that’s the game, that’s tactics in general but we’re hampered by only having these bits to play with and that’ll always be the case until we’re not. Also not convinced that without Charles we have the physicality and confidence to play two in midfield that has to both run the game and protect a back four.

Just to add to my post above. Ipswich have 3 ‘target men’ or whatever you want to call it. They played 2 today and 1 in Hirst who I assume is injured. 3 players who through sheer energy, pace, strength and guile can turn bad balls info good ones, win a free kick through holding the play up, or turn a defender and turn play around. We have zero fit/available. It reduce pressure in an instant and they all are a threat from crosses in the box, good and bad ones. For all of Armstrong and Archers endeavours they are limited in that and in the main they need good service and our whole attack needs to be precise and ruthless for it to be effective. That’s the difference, and no change in formation changes those facts, we’ll end up nullified by our own player limitations eventually whatever formation or manager. That’s why it should be top of the list of recruitment in January, especially as the two players in the squad who supposedly should be playing that role are unreliable.

We attack like that anyway and it gets nullified by other teams because we have little other options. It's no surprise to me that the first time we've actually been able to bring on different player traits on we've got a reaction out of them tonight. You cant just stretch play as an instruction. You need to create space to stretch into and teams actively are trying to counter that against us. So it's on us to come up with something different but we don't have other player types to do that. That is obviously on recruitment. I really find it mad people think the media team putting out a fancy graphic of us lining up in a 4231 would suddenly mean that front four become different players, it would still be playing in the same parts of the pitch, still be relying on precise interplay and dribbling and crucially it would still lack any kind of physical threat in the box or able to hold up play elsewhere.

Are you able to provide examples of available experienced managers who could have returned the points/record that Eckert has in his 11 games so far?