Fabrice29

It wasn’t thought was it? I’d explain it again but you probably won’t have time to read it because of your life.

It’s not as ridiculous as a comment as women can enjoy St Mary’s as a ‘good day out’ once in a while or should earn it on ‘merit’. As if the team being set up by the club itself isn’t merit enough.

I explained earlier why potentially from a business point of view the club might prefer St Mary’s than ground sharing with someone and you didn’t respond. There was a fans forum for both the men and women’s team earlier this season that you could have posed these questions at if you really fancied figuring out the reasoning, did you not go?

The club being seen to ‘level up’ as you put it is perfectly reasonable isn’t it? That’s a perfectly normal take that doesn’t need to be caveated with a standard of football dig. Shall we do that for the mens matches too? Pick and choose when it might be a good day out.

I don’t think there’s any point in trying to implement money making ideas around the ground in the form of bars/shops and a climbing wall or whatever it is in the future if you turn away opportunities for people to spend time at the venue. No idea what the over heads of it all are but I suspect even if they are losing money today they are hoping that young people enjoying their time at the ground will encourage them to do so more in the future.

Has anyone told the fella to stop typing whilst he's on a live stream yet?

Okay and we've just signed a guy to presumably be that something else. We do not have a lack of options in there.

Everyone is a risk, except for the players you've specifically thought of but the club have ignored. Those are dead certs.

Name 3 pairs better than them on paper. Again, if they cant operate as a pair (Which I personally dont believe), thats on coaching.

Called him out then promptly stuck him back in the team about 2 weeks later until he was sacked for making anything but "hard nosed"

Think you'd struggle to find a better two than Charles and Downes in the league. We've also just signed Jander to play in there. We absolutely do not need another central midfielder unless Smallbone, Aribo and Matsuki are leaving. If you cant control games the way you want to with those options in this league then thats on coaching, not formation or personnel. Anyway, a change of formation doesn't rely on a new CM. We'll end up playing 4231 but only once the wide player we've signed is available.

We're playing Charles, Downes and an attacking midfielder now (Fernandes and now Azaz). So you are adding someone in the middle (this mystery player who can harry and tackle). Are you playing a diamond and therefore no wide players? I'm genuinely intrigued by what people mean when they say "change formation" and "add someone in the middle" because all I see is suggestions we should be playing 4231 which coincidently would leave us with a midfield of Charles, Downes and an attacking midfielder again.

I’m not entirely sure what your point is here? But yeah, we’ve signed some of the best Championship players just this week, along with having a few already, and yeah going up via the play offs would be good 👍

Love the idea of us spending £20 million on Sargent to get promoted only then for the same people begging for him this year to be demanding another striker who can do it at PL level next year and not grasping the concept of a budget. Also Kieffer fucking Moore 🤣

1 season and 4 league games at a push. Not years. But okay so what drastic 1 player swap gets a drastic improvement do you think? You take out one of the CB’s and stick in who and where that suddenly makes everything better?

Apart from that time he left West Ham to join us permanently ffs 🤣 There’s some pretty odd takes on here about a player who we consistently miss when he doesn’t play and has signed for the club on two occasions despite presumably having other offers. All because a manger with broken English dropped him for a week or two before sticking him back in. Also as for the ‘Irons’ stuff, I’m pretty sure he was being taunted by both Blackmore and the fans at the time about binning off his boyhood club when he was under contract and not entirely sure what was going to happen. Our manager was in a press conference yesterday saying he loves West Ham also. These people are human.

I don’t think it’s an injustice ffs 🤣

Fixed.

Nobody interested in this guys poor start at Atalanta? Poor Ivan.

We're currently playing 3 CB's and have two on the bench and supposedly want to end up playing even less CB's so no we're not lacking a CB. Nor are we lacking CM's, we've signed one who couldn't play today and also have two others who for fitness/transfer reasons we haven't usedyet so unless they both leave we're fine there too. 4 strikers and playing only one up front too. So really cant agree with you here at all. Time to get the best out of the plethora of options we have rather than thinking everything is solved with more transfers, different formations, new managers.

It's absolutely not a controversial thing to say but the little I know of his previous teams is they are not known for any particular attributes (I emphasise the little I know part though). I think his whole thing is to keep teams in the game and get enough quality at the top end to go and win it and that kind of approach is going to lead to games looking a bit like they have done imo and I'm not convinced thats going to change. It's why David Moyes teams quickly get despised by fans the moment the results dry up. I think he'd quite like it if we stopped giving frustrating goals away though, that would help results, which is exactly what he has been asked to be judged on. Anyway, it's August still and anyone wetting the bed (not you) needs to get a life

What do you think that looks like or is going to look like when we're at it? I could be wrong but I'm not sure any of his previous clubs would say they had a particular style or look under him? I think you're hoping to see something he's not promised to show you tbh.

That's exactly what "adaptable" and "not wedded to one system" looks like though? Those were the buzz words people craved so much but the result of those cravings was always going to be "yet to see a Will Still team" the moment we stopped winning. Trick is, and always has been, stop believing that changing formations and managers are the number 1 and 2 reasons for football results.

Rumour on twitter is Fernandes was at West Ham without the clubs permission yesterday. Anyway, another interesting post from the first page.