Saint_clark

You literally have no idea how we would be doing now if we'd kept Still. None of us do. I'm willing to bet though that had we kept working on it, we'd have improved steadily and been in a better position than we are now - lest we forget that there were many games where we cut through teams and created dozens of chances but were let down by poor finishing. Then first game after he'd gone, we played shite, created two chances and scored them both. Go figure.

That's more on the players than on him isn't it, as the way they know how to play is what we're seeing now. I'd much rather have given him the whole season and next summer to rebuild the squad completely, getting rid of the brainwashed keep ball merchants the squad is full of.

Alright lads, I read it having just woken up and not being fully with it. It was only meant to be a joke (that's generally what the laughing emoji is for), I'm not actually accusing them of anything. Jesus Christ.

Thank god we chased out someone who wanted to rip up the players pedestrian football instincts and get them playing football with higher intensity and more individual autonomy about when/how they can move the ball forward.

Not the clearest way to start that post...😂

Nah.

We're worse than under Still.

Stoke basically paying us to shoot a hole in their dinghy. Cheers lads.

One game out of the team and people already playing down how monumentally shit Bazunu is. Hope he never ever plays for us again.

Can we admit our mistake and sack him please.

I'd be shocked it Bragg doesn't start.

Just seen the highlights. One of his strengths is meant to be that he's quick off the line and reads it well. 2nd goal today if he hadn't taken an age to react he'd have at bare minimum been able to smother the ball at the strikers feet, and quite likely been able to just claim the ball.

Is there anyone that still wants to try and defend him? Fucking absolute waste of space, I stand by what I said the first season he was here - a better keeper in goal and I think we'd have stayed up.

Good age, almost 150 games so not inexperienced. Know nothing else about him but it's just good to know the club are finally admitting Bazunu isn't good enough.

This is such a myth. The three seasons since he left us he played 34, 37 and 31 games, including a season as a first choice in Barcelona's midfield. He's nowhere near match sharpness because he is not only lacking a preseason but also the rest of the squad (and the league) were more than 10 games in before he even set foot on the pitch. He ain't gonna be the best midfielder in the league, but he will get up to sharpness and be an excellent asset for us. He won't have lost his physical strength and his greatest asset beyond that was his anticipation and reading of the game, which again he won't have lost - he'll just need time on the pitch to hone it.

Look at the bright side, that jumps Oxford above Pompey who drop into the bottom three.

It would be nice if he saved difficult chances from time to time.

Unsaveable that mate, world class strike. 🙄

To Oxford, love and kisses from a bunch of useless pricks.

Was gonna say I don't believe it but I absolutely do.

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Apart from repeatedly kicking it straight out of play the last couple of games. Even if his passing ability was to the level people try to make out, I would happily swap him for someone who can only boot it long up the middle but is an actual competent goalkeeper.

For what? The shoulder to shoulder between THB and Wright?

No, I'm saying that they were playing 5 at the back and sitting deep leaving no space for our players to get into to get onto the end of a cross.

But where strikers weren't because we don't have attackers who score regularly from crosses. Robinson has the close control that would challenge their defenders one on one in the box and in front of goal. They were more than happy defending against us out wide over and over.