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I'm wondering if things could be getting toxic at SR. Dragan'a money, reported £2.5/4m compensation to Luton, Jones looks on borrowed time here, £10m ish compensation if he's sacked. If it was my money I'd be kicking over a few tables and chairs never mind throwing cups at the wall. NJ is talking about getting results and turning it around but it looks like he hasn't a clue how to select a balanced team of our best players. How's that going to work.

Reports we are looking at Maeda from Celtic. He would be a cracking signing on the other wing.

My biggest complaint is that he doesn't seem to realise that a selected team has a natural shape and will end up playing within that natural shape whatever the managers wish for it to play his preferred way. His team selections have been wish lists rather than setting up a team.The following is purely a framework of players that will naturally play 4-4-2 or with adjustment play 4-3-3. We have proved there is no dynamic in the centrebacks that allows them to play three together so forget it. Pick the best and quickest two. The full backs are not wingers and never will be, use them dashing forward recklessly and we will expose the centrebacks and goalkeeper. the full backs are defenders first and always so make them part of a back four that sets up that way and defends. The midfield is the real problem. Failing a new midfielder, Lavia and JWP. Orsic on the left and from S Armstrong, Edozie, New player similar to Orsic , bring back Tella (covers left and right). Up front Adams and a new striker. That to me looks like a team that will play to its natural shape with the wide players tasked to get back and double bank the fullbacks as required. It also demonstrates what a problem we have with the rest of the players apart from a fit Liveramento not worth a place. It also shows we could at the very least do with Orsic, new defender, midfielder and goalscoring wide player. Jones picks the numbers and shoehorns in the players he wants to play resulting in a disorganised mess followed by chaos after substitutions. Football is a simple game and dossiers etc just confuse the players. A well picked naturally balanced team especially if it plays better than the sum the parts will always outperform an overbriefed unbalanced team.

All's well here, how are you doing? Launceston is a nice place. Used to play cricket on tour around there, Bude, Launceston and North Devon. Nice to see you back on here.

I'd have Tella back in a heartbeat given his improvement, level of performance and pace. He is also getting clattered regularly and getting up and carrying on. He'd be great for the last 30 minutes against tired legs and good cover which we don't have.

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Reported completed first part and sorting paperwork.

You're having a bath, he is a weak character with some nice touches but a shirker and not going to get in where he might get a knock. What is it one assist and no goals to add to about a hundred chicken outs.

I just hope against hope we can pull out of it however unlikely it seems now. Where are you now Andy.

I looked the other day and it looks like they only have a cup game against unknown opposition and nothing until around the following weekend. If we haven't signed him by then. I agree I found it very strange they weren't looking for him at every opportunity or that he wasn't demanding the ball. Maybe he is a goal area player which we need. Add Beto and we could ditch Adams if he is.

Before I saw your last para I was already thinking Beto from his video.

Thankyou DinamoFan that is super resume for us.

I think that several things has got the NJ's and the boards attention not least the crowds reaction and an abysmal performance and defeat.

I'm wondering if last night's result concentrated the minds at the club. It moved from haggling to get it done. Orsic I hope is the first of 4 or 5 signings. At least it is a decent start.

Sky Orsic having a medical

Adams needs to just get on the last defender and get into the goal area. Forget about playing like an attacking midfielder. There to get goals so get as close to the goal as onside allows.

Personally I'm not sure anybody at the club realise or are prepared to admit as Ralph did that playing three centrebacks isn't possible with our centrebacks. Go to four at the back immediately. Full backs to play as defenders or it isn't four at the back. Stop selecting Elyonoussie, Lyanco, they are a problem. Try and get Ings back whatever the cost plus two more proven, quick, clever goalscorers. A dominant leader that is fluent in English. Either a centreback or Midfield, even a fullback. Money spent on the right players now may well pay off. Bring back Tella, Bednarek and Smallbone. Loan out Lyanco and Elyonoussie and anyone else surplus if we can. Lay it on the line to Nathan Jones, what is happening isn't acceptable and he's part of the problem and it's down to him whether he is given time to be part of the solution.

Last night the writing was on the wall as soon as the Manager's team selection was announced. Three centre backs again, including Lyanco. Elyonoussie and Mara selected. I'm not going to criticise Mara but this was an unfair Hail Mary selection of a young player without the background to cope. Elyonoussie on the other hand is a lightweight who shirks the hard things, tackles, busting a gut, getting in where it matters, determination and lacks sharpness and pace. Lyanco is hopeless apart from plenty of spirit he has no judgement, poor positional sense, poor in the air, slow on the uptake and gives the ball away costing us goals. Finally Che Adams, Chance after chance but misses virtually everything. He bustles about with plenty of effort. His positional awareness is poor. We haven't anyone else to play there. For me he is a bonehead, there is no cleverness evident. We need to rectify those obvious weaknesses immediately as there are twenty games left. However if the manager can't see that his selections and obsessive three centreback tactics are the problem. Either he changes or he has to go before the Everton game. Sitting on our hands won't cut it. When one looks at the substitutes it's more of the same. Somebody said bring back Bednarek. He is far better than Lyanco and that isn't difficult. Bring back Tella and Smallbone, they aren't the answer but A Armstrong, Aribo, Djenepo, Walcott, etc, really?. Solutions, break the bank and try and get Ings back, likely, sadly no. At least two proven goalscorers to play with Adams. A dominant leader preferably a centreback/defensive midfielder. One that takes no prisoners, no matter the age. We only need a couple of seasons. We can still get out of this. I don't want to hear how Jones was brought up in the tough Welsh Valleys. I want to hear sensible tactics that work with team selections that exclude the problem players. That or just go. Finally why no Stuart Armstrong? Elyonoussie no comparison.

CLUELESS !!!!

This manager has no idea what works and who are his best players/team. He left Elyonoussie on until the end and he provided 95 minutes of nothingness. Lyanco another that shouldn't even be at the club starting regularly, following his clusterfuck penalty last week he proceeded to dither and pass to the opposition and lost us the match. Bonehead Adams, better than Tella who said that. Another sitter missed. Jones throws a hail Mary in probably his most vital game of the season by giving Mara his first start which didn't work. Brings the useless A. Armstrong on to provide nothing, And to cap it all we helped run the clock down with three centrebacks passing it sideways ably assisted by JWP. The manager has to take a lot of the credit because his team selections look like they are pulled out of a hat.

This manager is an idiot, Lyanco ??????, Elyonoussi ?????, Three at the back. Mara and Adams have no idea. Adams misses another one on one. Half time switch to four at the back take off Elyonoussi and Lyanco. Bring on Armstrong and Edozie and go for it. This is another clusterfuck caused by an obsessive three centrebacks manager picking a team that doesn't work and two players that should never have been picked.

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I've watched Moffi playing (if you could call it that) for Lorient against Montpellier, bottom third, 0-2, and Anger bottom 2-1. If he touched the ball more than three times over both games I missed it. Never made it out of a trot and looked totally disinterested. Absolutely no goal threat. Lorient were poor as well. I thought we were bad but these two games took it to a whole new level of crap. Chez saw the same matches. He looked athletic but he'd make Moi look like an all action dynamo.

Adams is a poor finisher. Hard worker but a poor finisher. Tella has been really composed with his finishing plus he is much quicker than Adams who is not much better than the day he arrived. I'm not saying Tella is the answer to our problems but he would give us an extra edge when needed. He also plays from either flank and roams into the middle. He is obviously listening to what Kompany is telling him and consequently a much better player.

Weston Saint told me a transfer story he got from a Saints director he knew well. A club came to negotiate with us about a player that we wanted, the club wanted about £1m for him. We started the negotiations with something along the lines of, "Before you say anything I'm not going to pay any more than £2m" Apparently hand snatched and job done. Ron, was that near enough.