Saint Garrett

Apparently we'd rather play a RB and LB and a CB at RB than play players in their proper positions...

I think you're being incredibly harsh... Personally I think he was a great success here. You look at the shitshow he inherited after Pellegrino and Hughes, and he did a fantastic job. He galvanised a lost fan base and created a real bond in the club. Ultimately, for whatever reason, it went stale at the end, but that's the same with most managers. Personally, If I look at the bigger picture, I don't think he could have done much more with the resources he had. Yes he had a few shockers, and they were unacceptable, but he created a very brave side who defensively was a bit all over the place, but normally recovered from it. He was let down by the board this summer, and I think we would have been fine if we'd signed a striker in the summer. I'd love to know how many of the players signed in the summer were his choice. (none probably). I also wonder how much influence the board had on him this summer, regarding systems etc.

WTGOR, It is also up to him to influence the game, and although I agree with you, we are really struggling to create chances under Jones, we also need to have strikers that can be involved in creating chances. You can't just wait for the perfect assist all the time.

Would seem bonkers to leave Staplewood tbh. I was lucky enough to have a tour last year, and despite part of it being a bit dated (sports science moves incredibly quickly), they were planning on putting in a new high performance gym, with all the latest technology involved, no idea where they are with this atm. It's still an amazing facility, and is perfect for us IMO. The only downside is the location if players want to live in London/suburbs and commute daily

Yup - we are a club that, in recent years, has been able to appoint Pochettino, Koeman and Hasenhuttl. Regardless of the risk, we would still have been a decent option in November. We weren't bottom until Jones took charge.

You can only carry a striker like Adams if you're playing 2 up top like we did under Ralph, or if you have goalscoring wingers / midfielders. Similar to Firmino at Liverpool, he didn't score many at all, but Mane and Salah were banging them in every week. Before anyone jumps on that, I'm not saying we can possibly buy players like Mane and Salah but we could have certainly been in the market for other similar players. Orsic doesn't look like a goal threat so far, I know it's early, but he looked pretty ineffective on Saturday, Adam Armstrong might nick 1 or 2 between now and the end of the season. So basically we're relying on the odd worldy (Djenepo vs City) or we're relying on JWP to stick a free kick in every week. So we either bring in another striker to play alongside Adams and play a 4-2-2-2/4-4-2 type system. Or we sign a goalscoring wide player or two, and hope we can keep some clean sheets and nick the odd goal. Or we bring in a replacement for Adams who can score goals. Whats the chances we do none of the above!?

Yup, he looks a shadow of the player he did under Ralph unfortunately.

Oh, not based on info unfortunately. Not been told much at all recently. Probably cos I stick it on here! 😂 I just think we need at least 2 to stand a chance of staying up, and probably a different manager!

“We tried really hard but…” I do expect at least 2 in that will go straight into our first team. We’ll see if that actually happens or not.

Do you actually believe this?! The style football is worse, and i don’t know the stats but it feels like we are creating less chances. Football is more sluggish and feels like we don’t really have a plan going forward. Defence still cannot buy a clean sheet, and Jones has played against Lincoln and Blackpool at home. Midfield looks better than the last few games under Ralph because Lavia is fit again. That’s pretty much it. For me, we’d have got more points in the league games under Ralph than Jones, but obviously you’ll never know. For me, to justify sacking Ralph we had to find someone to do his job better, and personally, I feel like we have failed with that so far. Especially when he was basically given a pre season over the WC months.

Clubs done a huge amount of work since we got back up, but generally this is the knock on affect of us getting promoted 10 years ago. A lot of these kids would have been recruited once we got back into the premier league…we couldn’t attract them when we were in the lower leagues.

But we nearly conceded twice at 0-1 in the last 5 minutes so what’s he saying?

Bloke is a pub manager, try hard, effort, run around…etc PASHUNNN!!! Tactically awful, and needs to go.

4 posts, all about how poor the ticket sales are for a cup semi final at the opposite end of the country, that we’re expecting to lose, and probably not ever score. Plus it will cost a few hundred quid each. I think anything over 2,000 is a fantastic effort tbh.

Caicedo at Brighton has just posted this on instagram…got to feel a bit sorry for them really, they’ve been pillaged. But there is no deal accepted yet, and guessing he’s trying to force a move…. Modern football for you…

Lyanco and Sali at the back tomorrow then. I wonder how close ABK is to being fit again.

With Ings injured and Scamacca injured, and their league position, there is no chance theyd have sold to another prem club right now IMO.

Was he ever going? Not sure I've seen 1 link to him leaving. He isn't going anywhere.

Like the look of this bloke. Has he actually ever been linked, or just a fans dream?

Wright Payne . Lancashire . Pambou . Meghoma Doyle . Turner . Bragg . Amo-Ameyaw Pearce . Ballard Subs: Hall, Armitage, Andrews, Dibling. No JJ Morgan in the squad...Dibling on the bench...possibly involved tomorrow?

I’m really looking forward to it, last time I went up there Ayoze Perez scored a hat trick and we were shit. I would LOVE IT if we could go there and do a job on them, after some of the crap I’ve read over the last few days.

Signing a striker in the summer, and I don’t think Ralph would have lost his job. 1 big fuck up was not signing a striker in the summer, the next big fuck up was not having one on the 1st Jan, now it feels it’s too much too late having lost all the games we have under Jones.

Not someone to get you excited, a reserve RB who is teachers pet of a manager most fans don’t want. But welcome anyway. I fear we may well have accepted relegation already.

Cant see them letting him leave now Ings is injured. Scamacca is also injured atm

Scored 3 league goals in 2022. He's not the answer IMO.