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Watch his skills video - he is fantastic.

Would love to get James Garner. Worth watching his skills videos. Fantastic player with a tremendous all round game. Lavia is very young and with Oriel slowing down I think this guy would be perfect for us. Wouldn't mind betting he'd become one of the first names on the team sheet.

Perraud is a decent enough full back and we generally look better when he plays. He also has a shot like a sledgehammer so hopefully we'll see more attempts from him this season.

He'll almost certainly start with 3 at the back then change when we are chasing the game.

Maybe Bella Kotchop would be a good partner for Salisu - he looks good in the air so could be the dominant partner in terms of aerial battles. A bit like when Killer and Claus formed a decent pairing - Killer was always the one who'd go through brick walls to get his head on balls crossed into the box.

He looks strong, quick, skillful and decent in the air. Didn't show many of his goals though so that may be an issue.

But he may have gifted them one point and cost us two.

We don't have to shoehorn them into these lone striker roles, Ralph chooses to do that despite the fact that it doesn't work and just makes them look bad players.

Who has claimed they don't?

Ralph will have had a quiet word in his ear to put him right 🙂

Yeah, proof that the sarcastic comment from Semmens at the fans forum when he claimed if the fans don't show up the players don't show up was a piece of petty arrogance from someone who should know better.

So if it's about cohesion, being ready as a team and is going to take time surely it's better to use that time playing the system that suits us which is blatantly not 3 at the back. As said it's an excuse and we should be playing 4222 and integrating players gradually into that if they are not ready but, judging by the last 20 minutes yesterday, they are more than ready.

He's contradicting himself because previously he's claimed the new players would take time to adopt to this formation and cited that as a reason to play 3 at the back. Seems he's confusing himself as well as the players.

The frustrating thing is that the formation and style of play in the last 20 minutes is what many of us have been calling for. It made a world of difference so let's hope Ralph has learned a hard lesson. Hopefully Selles will be on his case because he seemed to be the one behind the formation change. How long before he takes over from Ralph?

Agree maybe worth trying JWP at right back with Salisu , Kotchop and KWP. I'd probably only go with one shielding and that would be Lavia. Then Aribo, SA and Djenepo who I think has a lot to offer offensively. Up top either Adams and Mara or Adam Armstrong.

This is my argument. Rather see us play 4 at the back and offer more in the attacking area than 5 at the back which still leaves us crap defensively but stifles any attacking threat we might have. Trouble is, we all know how stubborn Ralph is and he'll probably stick with it in the forlorn hope of proving himself a tactical genius.

Don't think you understand irony 🙂

Don't count on it.

You miss so many points. Won't bother trying to explain.

A decent manager with these players picks the right formation from the start and we win that game comfortably. Our clever clown outsmarts himself and very nearly throws away all 3 points instead of just the 2. Get him gone now and, if anything, this game only goes to reinforce how clueless he has become. Good fightback to earn a battling point, should have been 3 and signs of what we can do if the set up is right.

He shouldn't be given the chance. He's proved he's not the man for the job with his 3 at the back nonsense. He's the cause not the solution.

He's been playing in a ridiculous system same as the rest of them. Not until Ralph's hand is forced do we start playing the way we know we can.

This is how we play not five at the back. What a difference. If we don't win this it will be down to the starting line up.

Mr Stubborn goes to 4 at the back and suddenly we look better. Still, we all know he'll revert to 5 at the back next week.

In other words you've been a bit slow but you've finally caught on that Ralph is a fraud.