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Top billing on Portuguese TV tonight, just above Manchester something …

Cross posted!

That B team is probably better than the team that played Saturday, obvs no Latvia but the rest of it shows how interchangeably rubbish the rest of our squad is. Maybe that’s the secret of our non-success, we employ two B teams and can’t put out a decent first XI?

Hard to think we are only 2 games past half way, that would normally be the table in early Jan. promoted sides currently doing well, none of Fulham, Forest, Bmouth currently cut adrift. Hard to see too much above Wolves going down, but, there’s ‘always’ a team that crashes and burns, Palace possibly? Realistically I don’t see Everton/Dycheball going down. Have to hope we can squeeze past Bmouth WHam Leeds …. big 6 points incoming next week!

SFC where AI stands for Absolute Incompetence. Incomprehensible what we have spent in two windows and ended up with todays starting XI

I reckon we will see his hands moving this afternoon.

Dodgy keeper, another cut and shunt back four, we will need to score three times to get anything out of this.

Here’s a genuine question, ‘everybody’ seems to want a high press 4-2-2-2, apparently our players are well-suited to it and have been recruited with that system in mind. Looking at the season now, if we get a good pressing manager, are the players currently fit enough to play that system? Looking at the way we often run out of legs at 65-70 minutes it would possibly suggest not? If new manager needs the players ‘fitter’ how quickly sports-science wise can players fitness be adapted (improved) while they are playing a full fixture list? Obvs doesn’t apply to next season when there is a full pre-season available.

Not having this, we buy players that suit only one system? so their resale value is tied to only selling to a club that plays a certain system? they will never play international football unless their.country is playing a certain system? I call total BS on this, if we sign players that can only play one way no wonder they can’t beat 11 v 10 with a goal start.

Not sure we will see much more of tall Paul, bought for GrahamTaylor/natheball tactics, struggled on Saturday where we tried to play to his strengths (overlapping wing backs and lots of route one) the Prem has moved on since the days of Graham West etc. Hopefully the new manager will be a touch more sophisticated.

The squad’s a better fit? what does this even mean? We recruit a manager based on the misfiring players we have, or we recruit the best manager we can get? hello new manager, the keeper is crapp, we play a different back four/five every game, our best midfielder has missed half the season, we haven’t got any strikers, you’ll do. Ridiculous mindset, somewhere in there is a reasonably competent first XI, we need to appoint a manager with no pre-conceptions who will find that team, an alchemist if you will, NOT nailing the new man to the failed old systems. Marsch is a strong no for me, even if he would “suit our squad’.

Just to stay with the positive Sunday morning feel, another club record incoming? will we be the biggest spending team to be relegated from the Prem (ie biggest spend in the season they were relegated in)?

No idea, just chucking out an anyone-but-Gerrard vibe.

reckon he was sacked when the second goal went in.

A left field suggestion that knows the championship, Rooney?

What’s with training ground free kicks x2?

Oh dear, bazunu….. see ya Jonesy

Way too negative, should have got right into them at start of second half and used the subs to keep the pace up. Tired, sat back and let them back in. Piss poor.

It’s the hope that kills your, comedy of defensive errors

Pmsl

Salish got lucky there, showed him right in on goal but did make the saving block

Costa, we need that second goal. Wolves have reset at HT, they have a decent manager.

Appear to have lost our front footedness so far this half che would get pelters for that

And breathe, enjoyed that !

Noticeably less sideways and backwards stuff, When Plan A is shit is it such a bad thing to go to Plan B?