captainchris

Hi Russel yes he is but obviously you have forgotten again!

So Manning starts and Lallana gets benched when if ever there was a game we needed him this is it…. RM defies all logic on many levels.

‘Hope’ lol So not a strategic decision then …

AA totally ineffective why is he still on the pitch…

Exactly he is totally ineffective at centre forward but let’s keep doing this again again !

Armstrong is clearly not good enough for this league

Eleven changes

It’s three at the back in reality surely.

Shankland

Truly Dreadful…..

Well he’s a sub ..

No Stuart Armstrong again…. If Scotland are good enough not to pick Armstrong then they should be winning the Euros!!!

Totally disagree with all that I’m afraid.

Whoosh

Our defending has literally been non existent on many occasions to the point where you have to ask basic questions. Why no marking, why no closing down and engagement with attackers? It is either basic poor coaching or maybe even lack of fitness… Not forgetting a poor goalie…

Yes but RM has guaranteed the senior players total immunity. 🤷‍♂️ Weird….

RM hasn’t given our back four more than ten seconds coaching all season, agree totally with what you say in that it is a sackable offence on its own…

So RM has chosen to continue to tell our defenders NOT to engage with their attackers and not to mark up. What the hell goes on in training?

Rothwell is deemed essential though for some bizarre reason….

Patently not true…. Plus adds some variety in attack which would not go amiss particularly as Brookes as been relatively ineffective …. Edozie has shown to be a real threat and needs some minutes…

This certainly has some merit though Edozie definitely deserves to play his way back in the first team.

I want to see that RM has been coaching the defence for once as that is the key to his lack of coaching …

So much criticism of our possession football being the problem… It really isn’t our biggest issue though admittedly we are undone by teams who press us to some degree… The elephant in the room is our defence is appalling, just really really terrible. All five of them were total crap against Leicester. Martin cannot coach defenders that is the huge issue and he has obviously never coached defenders adequately. No matter who we buy, who we have in goal and if Stephens plays or not if you can’t coach defending you ain’t gonna win anything! Martin cannot coach defending and that is the issue. We either need to replace Martin or bring in a very good assertive defensive coach to show him how to get this right. if we don’t do one or both we are fucked!

Why are several people salivating over bringing Steve Cooper in ??? Has been struggling like mad and not playing particularly good football…? 🤷‍♂️

I think you are missing the point. It is not the number of goals we have scored which is the problem, it’s the number we have conceded….