James

He was terrible but if we were going to play 3-5-2 we shouldn’t have bothered buying him.

Christ.

He was woeful the Championship last time, folks just had short memories as he was unexpectedly less crap in the PL.

Would be suicide but wouldn’t put it past our ownership.

It’s the manager’s job to get them performing. The vast majority weren’t playing last season, they are broken by how crap we’ve been this season. That’s on the manager. Why does he persist with this ridiculous formation?!

I don’t get how this always happens. He should be a proven player in this league but looks barely a footballer. Doesn’t help that he’s always played out of position.

Whatever Still is building i don't want to see it. Going down playing like this and with this setup. Sorry that it hasn't worked but he has to go.

Precisely. We signed two of the most productive players in this league last season and neither of them can get in the team because our manager chooses to play a formation that requires both of them to play out of position. Will Still said that he wanted to play 4-2-3-1, we bought players suited to that system and he ditched it after one poor performance at Hull. It’s not all his fault, of course it isn’t, but we should be doing considerably better than we are. The fact we aren’t is primarily on the manager.

Carrick would be better than Still IMO. He has shown the ability to get a tune out of Azaz and Archer. Is he inspiring longer term? not really but he’s better than Still. No chance SR appoint him though, too mainstream. Wouldn’t touch Gerrard as you say.

The fact that Capt’n Jack came on and we conceded twice tells you all you need to know. He’s a player that goes missing in the big spots. How he is captain and how he was rewarded with a new contract after his behaviour and performance in the PL I will never know.

McCarthy is crap but he’s still miles better than Bazunu which says it all. They’d have equalised far sooner today if Baz was in the net as he wouldn’t have made the earlier saves. Complete and utter failure of recruitment.

Agree with you. We will end up with that Eric Ramsay bloke from the MLS. This season is a write off, just got to hope we don’t go down again like Luton. What an utter shambles.

Agreed. See a lot of this but there is literally zero evidence of any form of quality coaching. Every time he puts 11 players on the pitch it looks like random blokes they’ve gotten together for a kick about.

It’s utterly bizarre that we spent most of our budget on those two because Still claimed he wanted to play 4-2-3-1 only to try it once and then play 3-5-2 incessantly afterwards.

It’s getting better and better, just stick with it.

Still out. Managing like he’s actually playing FM. Clueless.

If we win he’s still clueless. A crap win against a team that doesn’t ever win at home can’t paper over the cracks.

God knows what you have based that on.

It was absolutely predictable sadly. Doesn’t help that we don’t use him in a way that plays to his strengths, despite our tactical genius manager gibbering for the first 4 weeks of the season about how he needed players like Azaz for his “preferred system”.

Surely those defending Still can’t argue this isn’t on him? This is abysmal.

Not putting Aribo on the bench (assuming he isn’t ill) seems very stubborn.

Can’t even finish the chances his play is meant to create.

And let’s be honest, given SR record, we can hardly look forward to the potential January striker signing with any degree of confidence…

I think this lets the board off too lightly. We might be missing a striker but of course there is a manager that could get this squad into the playoffs. There are managers who would kill for some of the players we’ve got.

Nothing to do with the manager? He said publicly he wanted players to play a 4-2-3-1, the board duly signed those players and yet, after one bad performance at Hull, is dead set on sticking with a formation that can’t fit the players we spent most of our budget on. Will Still has no idea how or who he wants to play, he is just throwing shit at a wall and hoping some of it sticks. He is out of his depth.