captainchris

Pathetic management and coaching. Poor choices, coaching is obviously atrocious and as for tactics - we don't have a tactic except hit it long and hope.! What on earth is going on. It's been like it for last 6 months! As Koemans influence has come more and more to the fore and it has become his team and methods we have got worse and worse.

We play at least three up front I am afraid. In fact usually 8 of our players are too far advanced leaving no defence and no Link up through midfield because too many players are too far away so we end up Playing it long or losing possessesion. This has been going on for months now but Koeman continues to do what he always does....

Entirely brought on by our own weakness and not being assertive with a big get lost ! We cave in every time so do you expect!!!! Poor management on our part it's no wonder we continue to get raided. Money is no use what so ever without class players..... Money cannot defend or score goals but our management are great at own goals! Draw a line in the sand or face the consequences !

I would venture to suggest that as we seem to think we are still well short of quality we are playing a very strange open form of football with too many attacking players and no midfield. If we are in such dire need why are we not thinking very hard about team selection and tactics which enable us to be tighter as a team! My concern at the moment is management/coaching decisions which are wide of the mark.... We are not employing a possession strategy with wide open spaces and no cover for the full backs? This is a much higher priority than new players; though yes some are not good enough...

Selling Cork was nothing short of a sin... The replacements are not in his league.

Omg the oldest trick in the book! Be a teachers pet and get picked. I am not in the least surprised to learn this as Tadic is just nowhere near good enough for us and yet continues to get picked!!!! It's like playing with 10 men he has been woeful since Christmas last season...

And lazy ineffective Tadic is top ten ???? However, as we have sub standard individuals we should have even more reason to protect the back four and keep it tight..... Surely we should have learnt that lesson after the Newcastle game....we are far too open....

To get back on topic. Just watching Villa on the box and they are just as bad as last year!! Jose would be mad to even give it a second thought!

Totally disagree with this comment... Just because he isn't a Fancy Dan doesn't mean he wasn't a very important player for us who was the oil in our engine.... It is interesting from time to time to watch certain players and what they do rather than the whole spectacle... You can learn and appreciate players good or indifferent in that way....

Step up on Forster without doubt

I saw what you did there - very good - a 'tad' !!!

Interesting quote but have you actually watched Tadic closely he stands around, doesn't tackle, doesn't show for the ball and falls over almost every time a defender comes within 5 yards of him! Better than JWP I don't think so....

Except Tadic who is a passenger....

Correct! Tadic is way short of the quality required for us...

A good player who was around ten times the player that D Fox was....

Nice summary...... I would only add that Tadic is a very poor footballer indeed.... He was carried all game by his team mates....did nothing but stand and watch the game...oh and fall over a lot... Our worse player by a mile. Wanyama was totally outstanding as was Mane....

This is a joke right....

The odd flash of quality is not enough for us nowadays..... Gaston is not good enough. He wasn't for us, wasn't for Hull and isn't for us now. He is careless with the ball and doesn't knit into a team.. Gaston is just not the wonder kid his billing lead us to believe ..

Errrrr Fox was slated and rightly so - where were you?

Danny Fox was truly dreadful it has to be said... Should never have ever played a single game for us...

Excellent accurate appraisal .....

We do seem to be terribly amateurish at the contract side of the business... This kind of farcical element in players coming and going appears to have a repetitive theme..... If Les is in charge of these matters then he maybe needs to delegate this side of things.... We need to sharpen up if we are to progress both on and off the field..

Pelle's flick on's are fancy flicks straight to the opposing team... They are basically useless...

Pass the bucket!