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Why have we turned into a prime Russball side? Walking football at the back, sideways, backwards...drives me nuts. I thought we'd seen the end of that rubbish. Every time Manning gets it he goes backwards, Quarshie and Wood both walking, only Edwards has got it right. Sort it out Will because this is not good enough. Showing why we will be well outside the promotion shake up come the end of the season. As for the finishing, Arma can't even hit the target from a softly awarded penalty. Big improvement and increase of tempo needed second half. Hopeless!

So was Stephens left out on Saturday because of this 'injury?' Will Still has not mentioned an injury to him in his press conferences. Strange.

Or ''Still City''

We've scored 8 goals in 7 games which kind of proves my point.

I struggle to see where our goals will come from judging by how we've lined up so far. Fellows will get crosses in but we've no big forward to convert them - we scored from his deflected cross on Saturday but that was the exception rather than the rule. To me chance creation and scoring goals is a massive problem and I'm not sure how Will Still addresses it with the players at his disposal.

Hopefully not to us.

That would have been a very brave thing to do but, in hindsight, probably the right call. What I would say is that it has taken far too many managers far too long before someone works out that we will play better without clunky Jack Stephens dithering and slowing everything down. Good lad he may be but decent footballer he's not. It's now almost like we're starting our season all over again and hopefully we'll build on the positives from the last two games without the handicap of JS, THB and Bazunu now that it's been worked out that you can actually drop those who have previously been viewed by some misguided souls as the mainstays of the team.

Or maybe it's because we have short players competing against giants.

Yeah because we don't score from crosses so no point putting a stream of them in with nobody to get on the end of them. For us to get the most out of Fellows we need him to score some goals because he aint getting many assists in this team. He'll have far more opportunity to score by cutting in from the left and shooting with his right. Liverpool do it all the time from both wings and it can work for us because we get nothing out of crossing as we have no dominant centre forward and mainly short forwards.

If it is us then maybe Will Still should tell the Chairman he has no confidence in some of the players and single out Capt Jack and THB plus others. It works both ways.

Watch him do the same against us next week 🙂

Surely Jason Wilcox will be looking to poach Russell Martin.

Clearly, unlike Russboy, they realised how fast and physical the PL would be 🙂

I'm hoping WS has made a big step towards improving the defence by dropping Stephens and THB. Boro scored a pretty lucky goal which seemed to just bounce into the ground and loop over AM. Don't think they created much else so a good start for Wood and Quarshie.

Swap the wide players over so that Fellows can cut into the box and shoot right footed.

Yeah agree, he's so brainless he's scored our last two league goals. Let's pick someone intelligent.

Why is a win on Tuesday essential? We are building and finding the best eleven and system to play. Progress made today especially at the back where we looked far more solid without Stephens and THB. We aren't getting promoted this season so it will be one where we evolve. No must win games because we're going to be mid table or just above.

Play him as a false 9 🙂

Agree with this starting eleven but we know Capt Jack takes his spot as always.

We'll see.

Wind your neck in. No need for petty personal insults just because someone disagrees with a stupid comment you made. It's a forum for different viewpoints. If that upsets you so much maybe it's not for you.

How can he be set to receive a ball that is passed straight to an opponent? 🙂

Agree, no need for personal abuse.

Me too but we all know Capt Shoehorn starts every game unless he has two broken legs. Why is anybody's guess.

Firstly he shouldn't be on social media if he cannot take criticism. Secondly he needs to do a lot more on the pitch - do that and he'll soon win the fans over. It's a rough, tough world and sulking, self pity and feeling hurt wont help him.