Galway saint

Constant chopping and changing with no method to it He seems to have no idea of his best team whereas to most it’s pretty obvious Baz ( least shit) KWP JB THB Bree Downes Aribo Stu Frazer Adams AArmstrong

he’s an average coach

why can’t we afford to sack him ?

I’d play stephens in goal if he has to play

RM can either produce a seat of the pants game ( huddersfield, birmingham, ipswich) or a dull turgid game ( huddersfield away, blackburn away). he seems incapable of consistently delivering a team that controls and wins games. the last time we achieved that was WBA.

Think he will say we needed to be braver on the ball

despite losing to Ipswich twice i feel we could win that not sure we could beat leeds or leicester

No one to hold the ball up and good to see Baz still there

Our recruitment from City has been poor, with the exception of Lavia. None of those players have proven to be good championship players and they were bought for the PL. Suppose we have to reserve judgment on Larios as he hasn’t played in the championship

He was initially a winger back in his Shamrock youth days, transitioning into a keeper later into his development. quote above from a 2022 article think this explains a lot and why he doesn’t really have the necessary goalkeeping attributes; in substance he’s an average outfield player who now plays in goal maybe we try him on the wing for the rest of the season and see how he goes. might be more effective than edozie

Just listened to adam and joe going home and heard the RM interview from Monday wasn’t enamoured with his comments about KWP and there are no ‘superstars’ in the team - well at this level he is a superstar and has given us a year of his career and 100 % effort when a lot of others would have sulked and forced a move.

That’s not an encouraging video

we aren’t good enough without the ball. whether that’s the players or the coaching I don’t know but all season the midfield balance hasn’t felt right and I think that’s as much the formation as anything. I know he’s not great on the ball but we have tended to look more compact when charles has played. as for the stephen’s libero role wtf is that about

I think we will see a change on Saturday albeit given Lumley is said to be the worst QPR keeper in recent years it might be short lived… Didnt get Baz get dropped at a similar stage of the season last year for being shit ? the other thing i really don’t get is when people say Baz has potential or will be at his peak in six years or so. I’ve seen nothing since he joined us to suggest he will be a top level keeper. he doesn’t seem to have any of the attributes of a top level keeper but maybe someone who doesn’t make saves is the future of goalkeeping; a sort of anti-goalkeeper.

so our no 1 is saints worst keeper in years/decades and our no 2 is QPRs worst keeper in years - fucking great ! you could lot make it up. we should get rid of whoever is in charge of recruitment…

I’d like to think Fraser will stay but maybe that depends on RM’s future ? Would I take another season of RM if we could keep fraser ? Tough one….

This thread is now 41 pages for a single player which of itself shows how long the debate has been running. It’s all been said before but I feel after Monday we will a see a change in goal on Saturday. We have to stop shipping goals at the current rate and Baz isn’t up to it so with automatic promotion gone I think they will try and bed in Lumley ready for the playoffs. If he can drop KWP then he can drop Baz.

he’s ok if it’s close to him ( the save at preston was a good one) because he can rely on his reflexes but anything low to his left is a real problem. it’s been like that for a while now and doesn’t seem to be getting any better really. the position he took for the first was also odd as he seems to be crouching down rather than extending his frame.

we’ve conceded 22 goals in the last ten games, if my maths is correct - that’s pretty abysmal and we need to address that if we want to go up. should also have kept fraser on today as he is so effective and gets us up the pitch at pace forgot we spent £10million on Edozie until the commentator reminded me. Along with Charles, Larios, Bazunu that’s some business Man City did.

That’s unusual to single him out. The second was as bad in my view. Can’t make my mind up for the first. You shouldn’t be beaten from there from that angle unless its a wonder strike. Not sure it was but will give him the benefit of the doubt. Think the club need to honest with itself that this isn’t working and it’s hasn’t worked for the best part of nearly two seasons now. The rest of the regular season should be used to bed in Lumley and get him used to the way Martin wants to play ahead of the play offs. There is no point agonising over the defence and working on defensive drills when any half decent shot is going in. I accept the defence is at fault for the third and one of them should have blocked it but if I was a defender in that team I’d be looking at my keeper and saying he needs to do better when i’ve ran my legs off for 97 minutes and we’re down to ten men. If we can play that well and still lose that’s crushing for any side and we need to replace him as with a decent keeper we would have won that

I thought we played well and were the better side. The subs again made us weaker but with a decent keeper we win that game. Id like to see Lumley given a go for a few games going into the play offs as at the moment it feels like any half decent shot is a goal.

how can we be so in control of a match and then up hanging on with ten men

yes he should have saved the second will have another look at the first you have very low expectations of what a keeper should be doing at this level

totally dominant and very good but only one goal up should be two as we shouldn’t have conceded that

brilliant football