StrangelyBrown

Thats a very strong team for this division. Shame they play like strangers.

The scene is set for one of shoehorn's "if you think I'm shite as a centre back you ain't seen nothing yet" performances at right back...

Brian Clough built his sides around a strong spine - decent keeper, decent defender to lead the defence, someone in midfield to control the game and a striker who could score. You can see where this is going....

I'm wondering whether this isn't as simple as Will Still being the problem... We have 2 coaches (Lallana and Martin) who have been present throughout our recent problems. We've brought in Paul Trollope to help Will Still. Someone who has basically followed Chris Hughton around and that's about it. Perhaps we've got a bang average (at best) team supporting a young manager who is finding his way. Perhaps we needed to surround him with better coaches? Something that could be fixed quite cheaply... This isn't a let off for Still. I think he was the wrong appointment for us to bounce back, but given our best shot now is scraping the playoffs maybe we need to fix other problems first?

Mass clear out of our deadbeat coaches required. They've instilled this losing mentality. To be honest, Spors can go too.

Enough is enough. Fuck off still

Can we have some proper coaches please? Fuck off Nivea Fuck off Carl Martin Fuck off Paul Trollope Basics just not being done. Close down the man with the ball FFS

Combs his hair, coats his face with moisturiser and practices his best rat impression?

At least 2: jander's horror miss and Scienza chipping the keeper.

We should have used the downs money for a striker...

Wow. Some staggering over-reaction on here. We absolutely battered Swansea, but are without any confidence and consequently nothing went in for us today. 20 odd shots - a lot on target and hitting the post twice (arguably 3 times). Some real positives: Scienza was fantastic, fellows was very lively when he came on, jelert and welington looked really good at wing back and the charles/Jander pairing is getting better. I also thought Archer looked lively enough, THB played some brilliant passes despite being a little off the pace and we kept a clean sheet. On the downside 3 CBs simply doesn't work because our players aren't good enough to recognise when we are being overrun in midfield and step up to help - whether that's one of the CBs or one of the wingbacks. Still needs to recognise this and do something about it. The other problem is confidence in front of goal - just a goal or two would fix this, but also St Mary's getting so edgy so easily can't help. The second half support really wasnt helping today.

On that basis you'd think that they'd recognise that putting the "assets" into the best environment to thrive would help maximise value... The vision (growth through selling talent) is ok but the strategy and execution is massively flawed.

Maybe it comes from the staff rather than the players? For example, I'm not sure Lallana and Carl Martin should still here after last year.

Agreed with this and also we don't have a leader - we need someone that looks after all the young players and lifts them when things don't go our way. Still alluded to the problem in the presser yesterday.

Agreed. You could see he had something, just didn't click right away. There us literally nothing about Downs. Is he related to George Weah by any chance?