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We had quite a nice settled team before the sulamana injury,, alcaraz as false 9 Pace from sula and arma but this team selection deviated away quite fad from that ., with arribo and adams ., would have preffered to keep it as similar as possible with just Fraser or edozie filling in the injury .. dont know the total stats for this but games that adams starts we don’t seem to be winning

More likely to be Charles maybe ? not sure I’d say he’s been great ., but smallbone is pretty key to how we play

No Stuart Armstrong or alcaraz ?? Think stuey is maybe our most important player at the moment creativity wise .. I’d go with midfield and attack of smallbone downes stuey Fraser alcaraz arma personally

I’m not really comparing him to Niemi rather just pointing out that if we had a keeper like that we wouldn’t be letting in this amount of soft goals .. as far as experience thing if I had my way we wouldn’t keep trying to be clever with kids in goal anyway .. we end up getting punished whilst they are on their learning curve and if he reaches a great standard .he will probably bugger off to a big club anyway .. and I doubt we would even make a big profit as keepers are not usually hugely expensive. Just doesn’t seem worth it to me

It’s a bit of both tbh .. which is why this thread is always so busy .. he gets a crap ton of excuses and people defending him too .. just in recent weeks he got done by that by Rotherham goal, the cross that ended up a goal and now this .. would things like these keep happening with Niemi in goal ?

It’s not just about making the odd good save though .. or being good with his feet .. he’s just not very trustworthy .. he does let in a lot of weak looking goals. Surprised the amount of praise he gets on here ..he’s not what I’d call a safe pair of hands

Not acceptable is a little harsh really.. really we are just paying for that blip at the start of the season when we lost 4 our current form is still superb 12 matches unbeaten the top 4 are being amazingly consistent it feels a bit like what have we got to do to catch up atm .. as long as we in this consistent run of form it’s hard to be mad at them

I quote David in Sweden’s post above which explains it well “ Think you may be a trifle hard on AA ...(CB Fry) there is a lot of difference between playing for 80-90 minutes and wasting chances that come, and the opportunity to even having a chance to score. As an example last season. Adam Armstrong was automatic starter during Ralph's shorter term as a manager and started 11 times in the first 15 games albeit on left wing, (but did score the winning goal v. Chelsea), whereas Che Adams was always the main striker but seldom scored so often. The two subsequent managers disregarded Armstrong as a starting option and he was used as sub. on just 15 games during those remaining games. Closer study showed that around half of those were in the closing 10 minutes and several even in "added time" - not many chances there , and occasionally he had no goal chances at all. There has been an internal debate on here about the effectiveness of Che Adams as a lone striker and even when they both played in the same start side, as it was Che who had (and frequently missed) the most chances, and this was no favour to Armstrong who got less opportunities.”

Ah right. So do you think che adams is a better premiership striker whilst arma can only do well in the championship then ? im not sure I buy this actually just cos idiots like Ralph and selles thought so doesn’t make it true.. we saw week in week out what che was.a shitty finisher with some decent ish hold up play.but we never really got to see a Adam Armstrong that got a good run in the team and got his confidence up .. just his pressing,pace,and finishing should see some goal threat imo

Yeah agree Martin should take some credit, he’s been the only one to really put full trust in Arma and had the balls to change the pecking order and drop che .. it’s good vision by Martin to see things the previous managers didn’t

I still think there’s a good chance he could cut it a prem level. As I said a while ago he never really got a decent run in the prem . In and out of the side .. lost out to broja early on and the manager always preferred che .. makas a ton of difference if the manager fully believes in you, he’s not perfect but he’s rapid enough ,closes down like a train and is a decent finisher

He’s really found his mojo again It’s great to see not only is he finishing well his speed of closing down is rapid and causes defenders nightmares .. makes you wonder why he didn’t get more run under Ralph as it’s such a ideal attribute for pressing . bit of a lesson to those who like to criticise our squad players who haven’t had huge runs in the team .. arribo also looked terrific yesterday

Personally him being injured is a huge huge blow .. his pace really gives the opposition something to think about, makes their fullbacks scared to attack.. him being in the team has coincided with our great run of form . Gutted he’s out

Think sulamana has pretty much better attributes then tella with everything apart from finishing.. but tella is a 20 goal a season guy in the championship .. still think sulamana has more potential though

This, seems crazy to see complaints about Martin right now after a long unbeaten run like this .. and after having to endure the likes of Ralph and selles picking dross like elyounoussi and such for off the ball crap russ’s Team selections seem flawless .. Happy with him and if we continue like this we can grind down the top two

Don’t know why I bother expecting this anymore but I really hope we pretty much put our foot down and shut up shop in January ..we have a decent shot of going up and it would be super annoying to just let decent players leave in the middle of a promotion chase

Totally agree, everyone was saying how shit arma was too before russ gave him a consistent run and Mara has had even less chances he showed some flashes of being decent Also gotta factor in we where totally shit last season

His skill set could actually work quite well in a russ team. He’s technically very good, creative and also think he has a eye for an incisive through ball.. In a team that keeps possession should really suit him

Think arribo has done reasonably well in a couple of his sub appearances.. he’s created chances in small amounts of game time .... it always bugs me the grief the bench/squad players get .. it’s very hard for them to come in for 10-15 minutes and impact a match Fraser is a rare exception.

Without trying to nitpick I just wonder why you would put him above Lavia as our best signing for many years ? lavia was under half the price and proved it at premiership level

It’s probably a lot to do with physicality that holds jwp back .. he doesn’t have the powerful physique of a lot of top top midfielders .. yet also doesn’t have skillset of a Maddison or grealish etc who could play much more advanced.. in a way he was very very fortunate that we seemed to persist and persist with him .. he didn’t really start giving us anything unti Ralph was in charge

I’m talking about why do people care if he gets picked for England now .. he deserted us as soon as we dropped.. I fully understand the reasoning but any love towards him is now gone for me

Who cares anyway .. he wanted out he’s gone..not sure why people want to see him rewarded for leaving the sinking ship

We have taken 14 points out of a possible 18 in the last 6 games.. can’t really argue with that form. Also the Preston game we rested sulamana, Alcaraz stuey etc ..I think the line up with those in deserves to continue after such a good run of form don’t you ? no need to rush Ross back in that form

Feel pretty relaxed about the Stewart situation at the moment.. we are playing well and winning most games.. at the moment it’s harsh to drop anyone to accommodate him.. in a way it’s set up perfectly to ease him in slowly and not be pressured into trying to rush him back .