danjosaint

I'm in 2 minds here, my daughter is only 11 and plays, probably in the best girls u12 grassroot side around, qualifying for nationals at St George's park and Lilleshall, beating academy teams on the way, only losing out 1v0 to Linfield ladies, the top Irish academy side around. Now seeing some of these girls at these ages the standard WILL improve, they are superb but yes against the boys equivalent they will be lacking the power/strength but can match them with technical ability. Now we watch every sort of football and she at 11 will sit there and shake her head at some of the womens decision making/final passes/shooting/goalkeeping, yes some of it as Dman says is really poor including the officials but it will get better and more competitive but it won't hit the heights of the men, so if you don't like it, don't watch it, simples, if you accept it for what it is its quite an enjoyable watch

Not if he didn't want to go there

Mmm, what I've seen from their European journey I wasn't that impressed with him, if we were to take a Rangers player I'd rather Calvin Bassey, yes I know he plays diff position but looks far more premier league standard

What about lewington the wotsit from mk dons must if played under his dad at some point

As above he's not the right person to improve us, that will show this coming season if board are to feeble to address it

Not sure about Dennis but I'd definitely take Cornet

And sits there playing candy crush on his ipad while Ralph stands and stares at the shambles in front of him wondering why his playbook isnt working

Which I don't think he has

5 at a push from me, it's not even the 2x 9v0s it's all the games like West brom, Leeds where we could've and should've let in 6, the Chelsea game would've been 10 if they didn't take there foot of pedal, the games we've fell apart, such a fragile mentality and that stems from Ralph, he's so reactive that a game is gone before he realises, I'm sorry but being good in front of camera doesn't wash anymore

Yet another player Ralph has bought down a level, will be cracking player under different manager

Brandon Williams looked awful last season and if we're targeting players like Neco Williams then God help us for a long hard season, I would've had more faith if they binned Ralph

Sounds about right

Think id rather Niakhate than Caleta carr although Niakhate is also a lefty, fair play to forest if they get him

I think he could thrive massively under a better manager like Pep or Klopp, at the moment he does what Ralph wants , keeps the ball, recycles and keeps moving left to right and gets labelled as boring on here, that's from me as well, bar pace he has all the attributes to be an outstanding box to box midfielder and would be a credit to a top team

Showed how overated Phillips is as well, really dreadful, had a part in 3 of the goals and was always a yard to late

Lemina v chelsea

Ralph will soon batter any talent out of our future signings

No problem with this as he is supposed to be superb but as a few have said to counter that we need a proper leader/talker/experience as a cb, doesn't have to be an old has been just a 26-29yr old with a bit about him

The same Nunez a few people on here wanted before he went to Benfica

Bellingham and Rice are not average players, I also don't get what formation we were playing at the end, Stones Maguire , Walker, Trippier and I think Bellingham right back, so a right back at Lb, a box to box cm playing rb, although Reese James on bench, Sterlling doing absolutely f*** all, Southgate really is so tactically inept

But he has no pace

Ralph Southgate at its finest, dreadful slow sideways shit with unbalanced crap formation with his special chosen few, blinded by the fact some are just crap

Should've signed Thomas delaney for £8m when he was available

Tell that to all the people that lose there jobs

Or on the flip side you could say he cost us 2 wins with his negativity