captainchris

Sorry but these players whilst not that good have not become twice a bad this season for no reason.... Ralph is completely clueless ?????

If we just take your suggestion in Gunn then that is bizarre on its own. You appear to be super defensive of Ralph’s team selection and it’s difficult to imagine why you would be given this season’s odd team selections. Still that’s your prerogative and I wouldn’t wish to deny you that...

I think you are taking things out of perspective there. It’s easy to beat a few cones in training but performing under pressure in a match is entirely different. Some players cannot do it when in a competing environment. So, no matter how god you are in training it means nothing if you cannot produce in the Premier League. If Ralph is like you and allows his judgement to be influenced by training effort only he will make the wrong personnel decisions and in fact has been...

Training doesn’t matter... If you are crap in a game time after time then you should not be in the team - simple as that. What this says is that Ralph has favourites and this seems to cloud his judgement to the detriment of the team which in turn messes with team morale which has looked low for a while now. Of course there are other factors too...

This is frankly drivel..... Ralph might work very very hard, however this just makes me more concerned with what he achieves with this hard work. He seems to be Manager who keeps doing what he has always done and then is surprised when he keeps getting the same results. He just repeats repeats. It’s the same bodies playing the same poor football picked over plainly better players... Ralph is just continuing to walk blindly on and seems oblivious to his mistakes. For this reason it concerns me that we are backing him to this extent, after all he hasn’t really shown any sign of improving what he has got. I am not sure if the new coach he brought in is his No2 or just another bib distributor... Certainly again no improvement shown since he was brought on board. You cannot run a Premier League football team without an assistant that is a definite.. I am not buying this King Ralph thing. If he’s working that hard and producing this dross how will he change? The wise guys don’t work harder they get cleverer.. Ralph can work 24 hours a day but if he’s making poor decisions the whole time he will still end up with same result...

Come on, Ralph has shown no skill or initiative in coaching these players. Time and again the common thread on here is that players have actually regressed since Ralph has lost Rohl. We are plainly getting worse and worse, if there was sign of improvement then fine, however there isn’t. Yes there are huge problems with ambition, losing mentality, recruitment etc but undeniably Ralph is bringing nothing to these players and the team. Even his team selection is completely weird, for example what exactly does McCarthy have to do to be picked with Gunn being abysmal for weeks. Sorry to say for many reasons that Ralph just isn’t at the races and clearly he has lost the dressing room too. One thing he is certainly not is the Austrian Klopp ....

Would a new man lose a game 9.0 even with this squad? We are in bottom 3 and lose 9.0 with players obviously not trying is that not a basis for grave concerns over our manager?

Wasn’t it Ralph himself who said we need a small squad? Whether we believe the alternatives are not as good our perseverance with certain current first teamers including the captain is proving to be a disaster. Ralph always seems blind to the needs of the team and prefers his obstinate personality driven methods which never work in any work environment. Ralph seems to have so many ‘issues’ going on with players that he is digging a big hole for himself with credibility in his squad and with fans and results he cannot be allowed to continue, the **** pile he has managed to construct is now too big.

Get him in now... We need a strong personality more than ever....

Too many people blaming anyone but Ralph. Ralph has been bizarre with his management this season. Poor team selections and strange obsession with picking players totally out of form in favour of plainly better players, tactics have been changing with bemusing regularity, coaching has been plainly NON EXISTENT, Ralph clearly does not grasp the marking theory or the fact that you must close space in the area south of the penalty area - we just don’t. We continually stand off - this is coaching. Ralph is clearly crap without his side kick... Sorry to say he is really lacking and the players obviously know he can’t hack it. There is also a major issue with the lack of a winning mentality at the club. This is very prevalent with the lack of a bullish attitude from top to bottom at the club, the acceptance of mediocrity from all levels of management, directors and coaching staff and actually even some supporters who claim to be better fans if they accept **** poor performance. In this life if you are not a winner you lose!

This post - Check !

To be fair Ralph has been abysmal on many levels this year and this has been coming with his very strange obsession with players in poor form continually being picked, confused tactics and on the evidence seen really poor coaching... He has to go....

Unfortunately true.....

Nice with chips then ..

Haven’t seen them but good call !!

The U21s actually are just as bad !

Whilst this is an element we have had a serious issue with player selection and obviously do not - have not had the correct skill level at the club to recognise a very good player when buying in. Looking at the under 23s this week this issue is reflected right through the first team squad and the under 23s who don’t have a single player within touching distance of the first team squad and I wouldn’t expect those players to cost 30m. The quality or lack of it on show was truly atrocious against Blackburn. Maybe this is coaching maybe it’s poor recruitment but we have one hell of a mountain to climb before we are anywhere near where we need to be as an organisation.

On the contrary, this is a senior Management/Director position and should not be a person that Ralph favours as Ralph will be reporting to him.

Nice sensible suggestions. Maybe 3421 would allow the wing backs slightly more licence and the CF to remain more advanced but the agree in general with the philosophy. Hoj probably needs a rest mind you, it’s not working for him atm...

Not you again! You seem to be a bit of a stalker which is very odd indeed.... Talking of ‘Oddballs’

Been listening for quite a while now and have enjoyed for the most part, however the propensity to try and extract positivity from obvious train crashes can be nauseating at times. Would it be more interesting and relevant if you discussed with open honesty and let’s hear more analysis of the rather numerous short comings which are causing us issues with the lack of coaching, tactical issues and our players turning their backs to the ball when facing shots like 8 year olds in a Tyro league match.... Too much skimming the surface and positive ‘spin’ Nice but not very nitty gritty.... Acceptance of mediocrity is one of the reasons we are lacking motivation and ambition leading to **** poor performance.....!

This

Blue eyed boys him and Bednerek both not up to the premier league and never have been...

Has Ralph left the building?

It’s much more about choosing wisely than paying over a certain figure for a player. Most of our choices have been poor recently and there is no excuse for that given the resource we have to thoroughly check a player out. Jo blogs off the street could have had that kind of failure without any black boxes and the Staplewood resource around him..