Dman

Yep, the personal abuse towards jones, in the stands, on social media and on here was an absolute disgrace. I really hate the idiots that follow our club. Jones was on a hiding to nothing from the get go, we, the fans didn’t want him. Mostly because he wasn’t a trendy name and Luton aren’t a trendy club. That being said, he was manager of the season in the championship last year, if he came with a Spanish name and had coached under Pep most would have been delighted. Personally, I was kinda on the fence, but leaned more towards the out camp, especially after the Brighton and Forest games which were some of the worst football I think I’ve seen. I feared he was out of his depth and tbh, didn’t think it was a great appointment. I’m still not sure it was, but he’s done enough to warrant the end of the season now, for me. My major concern is his management style, whist improving, doesn’t seem to suit our transfer strategy of young kids from a city style of play. Although, Lavia seems to have adapted pretty well, so perhaps that concern is nonsense. Personally, I think anyone who came in after Ralph had a difficult job. We have the fundamentals of being a decent PL squad, but we simply make too many individual mistakes and seem to lack any confidence. Like it or not, the rot (lack of confidence) started with Ralph a long time ago and it will be deeply imbedded in the squad. It seems that as a squad we are learning and adapting to Jones style, I think a large portion of the early poor performances were not understanding his system, which obviously isn’t a great reflection on him / his coaching - but seemingly, something has changed and we seem to have gone back to basics a little. Inthink we’ll still go down under Jones, I think we would have under 90% of the managers we could have appointed, but I’m starting to like what he brings to the table. Aggression, fight & desire.

I don’t disagree, FWIW. But today he had a thankless task. I think he actually done okay today. I can see why he starts

That’s a shame, he’s a good player. Used wrong under previous managers there.

As @egg and I were saying. First half we was effectively playing as a wing back. Unfortunately, some are so blinded by their opinion of him, they wouldn’t see that and just brandished him as shit.

A player I wouldn’t mind us taking a look at, to see if we can pinch on loan or a reasonable deal, is Scott Mctominay. Would provide vital cover for Lavia in the deeper midfield role (not his best position though), but would be a real solid option in the “8” next to lavia. Would add physicality and ability to drive forward, which diallo doesn’t do consistently enough for me. Onana today absolutely bossed the midfield, especially in the first half, we need someone with a bit of physicality in there.

Okay, I’ll rephrase, he’s currently shit for this level. Nowhere near good enough. Lucky we didn’t concede a second from his pathetic attempt to come and collect the ball. Absolutely no better than McCarthy and significantly worse than Forster.

At fault or not, He’s still shit.

I was referring to the comment around the players having a word with him. But to be honest, I don’t think fans singing “your football is shit” would have gone completely unnoticed. In fact it wasn’t as he referred to it. 6 of 1 half a dozen of the other I suspect.

The players, especially JWP pushing Jones towards the fans at the end. Ive no doubt the squad are behind him. Like him or not, think he’s out of his depth or not, he’s taken criticism onboard and has changed. We’ve improved as a result. For that reason, I’m Jones in. I still don’t think he’s the man to keep us up, but I don’t know if anyone could to be honest. We make too many mistakes in both boxes.

Get the fuck in. Great result and gritty, dogged display. More of this please saints.

A draw is as bad as a loss at this point. a win here, other than the 3 points, will be huge for moral

Huge 10 mins here. Have we learned anything? Probably not, but we season defining 10 mins.

Yep. We’d be 2/3-1 if they had a league 1 keeper in the sticks.

Sorry but Bazanu is no where near the level required for a premier league team.

Given you’re so clearly itk on tactical instructions, I can’t wait for your details overview of how we’re going to set up next week 👍

Wolves won’t go down. I’m looking at Leeds, forest & Bournemouth results. I suspect along with us, will be the bottom 4 come end of season.

Yes, because Jones isn’t known for playing a back 5 is he. Absolutely never plays it….

Moi playing noticeably higher as well…. Almost like we said, he was playing as a WB first half

Great start, let’s stick it to them now

What a pointless comment. Unless you’re sat on the bench, no one knows what he’s been instructed to do.

You’re missing the point, from 15/20 mins in he hasn’t been playing as part of the 3. I’m sure a heat map, if anyone can obtain one, would show that.

He’s man marking Mykalenko who’s playing really high. agree to disagree, but I think We can probably all agree that we need to get our wingers higher up the pitch this half. As it happens I would bring him off for the Croatian lad, but I’d also hook Edozie and Adams whilst I’m at it

Agreed. Pretty even half where a mistake seem to cost us, as usual. We could, maybe should, be ahead based on the chances. Pickford been the busier of the 2 keepers.

Correct, but half way through the first half it changed. Coincidently our best chance came from when Moi was playing higher, with a deflected shot which on another day lands on Adams head. Blame Moi as much as you want, something has changed, he’s now playing a hybrid wing back role (not very well granted, but that’s not his position), but this is on the manager.

Moi being played out of position, this is more of a back 5 than 433, hes that deep. anyone watching could easily tell that.