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Gotta be in the running for Player of the season this year imo. Our most creative player by far, like Ralph says our best carrier, he does a better job running wth the ball and beating players then our actual wingers. like Redmond, Moussa etc even though Armstrong is as much as a cm back in his Celtic days.. he’s been superb this season

That home shirt is a thing of beauty, love it 🔥

Don’t want to be a hater but in a way I hope this performance vs a championship side doesn’t cement his place in the team for ages now. im more interested in the likes of tella and minamino getting game time for us, tella could be our rising star and maybe we will take mina at end of season if he impresses.. Redmond was starting to lose his place and has been shockingly bad for ages so I don’t really want him blocking the players who may improve us in the future now. well done yesterday but I think over a long time he’s not good enough and we need someone else on Armstrong level

Redmond should be nicknamed the graveyard as all our attacks are dead once they reach him

Absolutely.. this ball recycling slow patient approach is driving me absolutely mad when we are behind., it’s clear to a blind man it’s not working we are not creating anything through the patient play it hasn’t worked all season so why are we still doing it.. Everyone keeps making excuses for Ralph and it’s not him, he’s amazing but the players are not good enough etc. but Ralph has to take responsibility for this slow ball recycling play we are doing that isn’t working. If for example Redmond kept doing this and Ralph didn’t like it he would be told not to keep doing it or dropped. And it’s not just him it’s a tactic used by the majority of the team. This is completely on Ralph not the standard of the players you get them doing what you want them to do.. if your tactics are not working when behind with pass back round the defence try be direct, take long shots,1-2s, long balls anything.. would just be nice to see he’s actually recognising when something’s not working.

Something changed this season. Last season we did not do this patient ball recycling so much.. i remember reading a article on how he had tweaked our play to now do this earlier in on the season when it was working well with jannik playing nice passes out of defence. this is imo our biggest problem atm keep the ball pass back recycle it create jack shit,, only Armstrong looks like he wants to try drive forward with the ball or has the intelligence to create.. why is Ralph persisting with this stupid patient football especially when we are behind, last kick of the game the other day a Redmond pass back says it all.. if it isn’t working for 15-20 games why keep doing it.. try be more direct or something surely? i thought the rh plan was to win the ball and transition fast on the break we are seeing none of that anymore!

I wouldn’t be against giving Lampard a crack, intelligent guy with a super high IQ, has always been super hard working and committed in his playing career. And highly respected. he seems in a simular position now as what Hoddle was when we took him as manager. This would be a good move for him to get his career back on track after chelsea which probably had a lot to do with trying to gel so many new signings at the same time did well enough last season and at derby think there is still a good manager here

And to make it worse it’s been the same thing, every single effing game slow tedious backpassing.. after having a abysmal run and this never ever working in about 20 games already! Here we are doing the same thing!every performance is like a carbon copy of the shit that didn’t work the week before... would it hurt try something new. But you just know with Ralph next week will be exactly the same

Still i think this is going beyond the squad now. Our tactics are shite.. every game get behind then spend whole time chasing a game passing sideways and backwards.. no urgency create nothing.. if Ralph isn’t telling them do this who is? You can tell we are done with 30 mins left today and it’s more down to this useless approach then how bad are players are individually ..

Armstrong looking like our main man these days.. che having quite a good game too and also I like dialo’s mobility ..minamino looks ok in patches does look to have some brain and composure in comparison to Redmond.. but minamino does tend to drift out out of games and become invisible at times.. tella also quiet so far hope he can step up in second half

Ralph needs to go I think, all parts of our game look broken at the minute. Boring pass back football that creates hardly any chances, poor defensively poor tactics and player choices.. sure we have suffered a lot of bad luck through injuries, but he’s still making weird team selections which 95 percent of people can see are not great , like continuing to play Redmond over better options up front or on the wing bednarek at right back over djenepo or even Stephens who has at least more experience there.. so the man is not helping himself really. but this is a guy who preferred long to gabbiadini and Redmond over boufal so there has always been signs of madness majority of the season we have struggle to really create goals from open play ings has been great for us but he can’t score from no service and if it wasn’t for him or jwp setpieces we have nothing really .. all these people saying we play great football under Ralph I’m not really seeing it.

I’d say Ralph has to carry the can for poor mentality and makeup throughout the squad, he’s choosing the 4222 formation and the way we play and has been here long enough to ask for players needed to use this style or try something else He’s made some decisions like freezing out and selling gabbiadini and preferring the high work rate types like long I would argue boufal is also a lot more capable of creating then the likes of djenepo and Redmond also. But here we are. I like Ralph as much as the next man but it’s his team his players and his tactics now and is down to him to make us hard to beat

I think we do have quite a lot of good players in our team we are maybe a couple of players short of being a good side (for Ralph’s formation anyway which is debatable at the moment if it’s a good formation or plan anyway) but imo to play this 4222 we really do need a couple of very decent creative attacking players to play in the ten roles Armstrong is decent but Redmond and djenepo are rarely creating anything and then the strikers get little service..+ jwp and romeau don’t really have the pace to get up the pitch and create too much either.. but overall the team really shouldn’t be this weak we have some decentish cbs.. fullbacks are fine especially kwp cm jwp romeau and diallo are fine for us and ings is top drawer up front. So maybe a decent partner for ings and more creativity at number ten is needed but I’m not totally buying that our team/ players are a awful bunch and no one could do better with them ?

Hmmm I think Adams for the useless Redmond and maybe Forster deserved a crack at the first team now

It still annoys me that Redmond kept boufal from having a decent run in the team.. never rated Redmond he’s always been utter rubbish if you ask me- brain dead player who suffers huge concentration losses switches off and gets confused and loses the ball or makes bad decisions and has zero end product.. whilst boufal was hugely talented could beat players for fun and had all the technique in the world it actually might have worked out if we had a manager who put his arm round him and believed in him but instead we he prefers league one Redmond

This tbh 19 year old starts acting billy big balls and wondering why he’s not in side over players like jwp romeau and diallo. Then gets a oppurtunity and goes and does this and we end up with a 9-0 hammering .. perfectly understandable why people are pissed

King is actually more of a winger/number ten isn’t he?? so saying his goal record is a bad as longs probably not true. could probably cover us at both number ten and striker partnering ings though so may not be a terrible idea especially if Theo is out for a while

Tricky situation now even if we do rate him. not a lot of point making room for him if he’s not gonna stay or sign new contract anyway? need to sort something out if we see him as the next big thing

We need to try and go back to being a counter attack team that wins the ball and breaks fast( bar set pieces) it’s the only way we score.. we can not break dowh teams who have time to organise

This I’ve always like jwp’s full back displays had zaha in his pocket.. Grealish would take valery apart jwp to do a job on him

Damn I was hoping we would be in for him.. upgrade in Redmond and djenepo imo.. has decent pace and ability could turn into a real player

Wanting a 20 m release clause is a joke.on ability he should be worth around 80m would think we would get more then that release clause now or in the summer

We struggle a lot when a team has the lead or is very organised, we seem to lack any guile to create chances against an organised side second half was another example of this.. I do think there was some positive signs from lndulu tonight .. should probably be ahead of Shane and tella now.. looks to have decent attributes and looked quite sharp tonight

Very strange as he seems to be another romeau/diallo type holding mf looks quite good but it’s gonna be hard enough to fit diallo into the side at present so seems we are already strong in this area

Great result and nobody better to beat them the scousers, first half I thought we were total class. But gotta say the second we were very very negative and couldn’t hold the ball at all. Seemed to take to long and were playing in fear and it was inviting wave after wave of Liverpool posession.. walker peters Stephens and bednarek all were great though. Diallo too in the first half