Holmes_and_Watson

Depth

Quality of goals, quantity of possession. The best of both. 🙂

He's heard that there's an up and coming manager, who instead of being welded to a system, "loses his nut" when his team concedes. Apparently, this front footed aggressive manager plays to TP's strengths, and could be considered by SR. 🙂

Scotland just equalised against Bedders rattled Poland.

Photos are back...

While, it's not my favourite, I've seen merit in Martin's control of games. The control of games to increase the effectiveness of our attacks has looked really good. It's looked as though we controlled the risks in how we played. There's also been times when that possession has led to plenty of chances. With a weaker squad than most, there's an argument that playing in a similar way to them will just lead to defeat. Martin's system, like Ralph's and Poch's looks to get more out of the players, using something a bit different ( complete with giant flaws when they don't work) As pointed out, it does have to show a chance of actually working in the PL though. Changes to come. Martin did say "how" when it came to putting in new players. We might get something different. Still within Plan A, of course.

I'm sure I saw Bruno Fernandes in there, getting in some over-reacting practice.

I thought Edozie was trying different things this season, and was developing. Massive caveat that the end product wasn't there. Also, someone posted on the end product of SAA. Gio terms it impact, and Dibling can be added to that too. Sam's overall game has improved. If he can keep that work going and get that end product (I'd argue our system isn't massive helper in some respects there, but far from being the only reason) then he'll hopefully do really well for us later on.

And that formation might be that of our opponents. 1 line of 5 hugging one touchline, and 1 line of 6 on the other. Obviously, we'd have to pass our way through the large central gap, so maybe 2-0 to us? 🙂

Considering I'm often late to inevitable outcomes here (Davis in the PL, Jones' chances, Ripley as a good signing) it's been fine. A bit of courtesy, empathy and respect seems to work out fine. Oh, and a little timing after a rubbish result helps. Plenty of critical posts in this thread. A lot of good points, whether I agree or not. Plenty of supportive posts too with good points, whether I agree with all of them. "that's" isn't that long a word. 🙂

Well, that's Martin's plan B leaked to our opponents.

After this length of time, have you tried contacting the Ministry of Defence? No wait, that's naval...

Surely, we can use something else to keep the Marcus' plaque balanced all season, other than Cornet's head?

Last season I thought Ipswich were the best attacking side. I thought Leicester had the most talent. But for control of games, it was us. There were ups and downs (and Downes), not least some slumps and the end of season switch when Baz got injured. Martin's belief is that we'll win enough games using his system. He's looking to get that possession linked with moving opponents, quick movement and transition and lots of chances. He said early on that there may be some thumping in there. But he's often said there's no plan B, just variations on Plan A. Which is what we've had. Martin's not going to change that. It's what his career is built on. We're a stepping stone as his previous clubs have been. No doubt the Kompany appointment strengthens his resolve to trust his approach. But then, we had the Ralph playbook, and Selles counter, so they aren't alone in sticking to their guns. There are arguments on whether it was the individual talent that got us over that line. But when it worked, it was impressive. And I say impressive having liked, and preferred, things like RalphBall, PochBall and the systems of attack by previous managers. We've all seen the issues with RussBall not working. Further, in games where we could have finished teams off, our possession allows resets. Martin sees the possession stats, the chances we do create, and the errors preventing his system operating across a game. His comments in the past show he shares a lot of the frustrations we do. But frustration hasn't resulted in resolution. We see the same issues as last season. That's a worrying sign that there are serious issues with it, after this length of time. And we've the perspective of seeing managers leading us to relegation, with narrowly losing, error generating tactics. So I share a lot of the reservations with a number of posts. As a club, we seem to have our fair share of egos thinking they are geniuses. But there is a system there that does draw team in, passes at pace and looks really good and controlled. We've moved to a dysfunctional version of it again, which is what Martin has to sort out. Again. We've strengthened, and we'll see what changes Martin brings to the next games.

Because they trusted their amazing transfer wisdom, dreaming of cashing in, rather than the reality of a player they already had, and had made a decision on.

Sometimes I Martin out think that the possession based posts on we're doomed SaintsWeb are written by a give it time cheap AI.

Sandy

Finally. A focal point for our attack. Can't wait for this signing in January.

I thought "resigned to fate" came with supporting the club. I don't think you have to wait for matches. 🙂

He was almost gone, before someone noticed the sale value on a FM site. https://fminside.net/players/3-fm-23/29244869-kamaldeen-sulemana

Trapped under the cat, listening to Monday Night Club. Over an hour of in depth analysis, that can be summarised as winning=good team and losing team=bad team.

There's been at least one occasion, where someone internally was given away as a source, as posted on here. On other occasions, the information has seemed to be just the sort of thing to annoy a club. But often, the information could have come from a number of sources. For the club to take steps to source it, would be counter productive. Other than a certain contract being left on a table, I don't think any of it has been part of a NDA, or on that level of confidentiality. The CoT helps to add a layer of cover to the impact of the information, while protecting sources. I guess that's why it's been effective for this long.

Good for all parties currently, to see them move. Ideally a few others can go out on loan to get some game time. Edozie for example and one of Bree, Manning Larios.

Yup. A system switched to 5 at the back, keeper who may not be as good at short passing, missing midfield not there to receive passes, switched fullbacks who aren't providing passing angles, no focal point dropping back to collect through balls, better opponents. An increase in players getting caught out can't be a surprise.

The Branfoot Years: The Netflix counter to all those aspirational club following shows. Like watching a marathon session of kitchen sink dramas, watch the life being sucked out of a club. B&W (90 mins, but will seem like years) "The switch to a Yorkshire mining town, for extra grimness, is to be applauded." - The Guardian "Still more exciting football, than under Puel."- The Times.