StrangelyBrown

It's properly broken now. So Rasmus how do we fix it ...

Have you noticed how we are one person down in midfield and all the other managers have cottoned on to it because we're wedded to doing the same thing week in week out? It worked to begin with before other managers realised how to beat us. Now we just pass the ball across the back line a lot and that's it.

Back to the obligatory Sports Republic 3 at the back. Ekhart really isnt up to it is he???

His "best stuff" for us lacked any end product and was the very definition of "flattering to deceive". Somehow he got a pass from most fans for this. A top player should be able to adapt to playing in different ways and not need to receive the ball in a very specific way in a very specific part of the pitch. His "best stuff" boiled down to a bit of mazy dribbling and a couple of goals which in my mind doesn't get close to making a top player, just an entertaining and talented one. He's certainly got talent but I'm not sure he'll ever know how to use it.

True, but somehow this seems bleaker. I could accept we were financially screwed in those days. With SR they've spent money making us this depressingly bad and boring with literally no regard to the fans.

So the new SR strategy should be either to spend shit loads or nothing, whatever we do we shouldn't spend something in-between

Tells an interesting story. If footballers are as coin operated as they seem to be these days our strategy is all wrong. Perhaps we should pay much less in wages and much more in performance bonuses? Our players don't seem to have the chops to motivate themselves...

Why? We're not going up this season and we're unlikely to go down. What do they need our support for? The players attitude hasn't been good enough - why should we cheer them on? Ekhert isn't good enough why does he deserve support? I've supported this club through everything for a very long time, but I've never felt so detached from the team, manager and owners as I do now.

I'm wondering why Eckhart has again singled out defending set pieces as being the problem.... Just part of a bigger problem that our centre backs don't take responsibility for defending balls im the box (especially high balls) - this is exacerbated when we play with 3 at the back as each player is looking to the other 2 to do something rather than putting themselves on the line. Presumably set pieces show up on Eckhart's magic spreadsheet, but shite defending doesn't.

Having looked at the points required to either make the playoffs or the top 2 over the last 5 years... Top 2: winning all our remaining games wouldn't be enough for the last 2 years to get the points required historically to match 2nd place (100 and 96), and we would only be able to drop 2 points for 2 of the other seasons (91 and 91) and 4 points for the other. In other words we aren't making the autos. Playoffs: slightly better chances, but we are going to need something like 2 points per game - which we're not achieving at the moment so they're a very long shot. We would need between 68 and 77 points based on previous years. Now obviously this doesn't reflect him this season will go with so many teams fighting it out, but anyone looking at this statistically (i.e. SR) would already say the playoffs is unachievable without some kind of very significant change/miracle.

A bit more like it. He's been a feeble excuse for a journo until recently

SR signings back on track after a brief intermission of hope. "If it ain't broke break it and if it's broke break it better."

To be fair you did mention Zoltan liptak so I bit... But I don't disagree with what you are trying to say - he's definitely the worst player I've seen that has had a significant run in the team. What makes it worse is despite being young he's not improved one bit.

Worse than Tommy Fourpast? Anthony Pulis?

The same academy that made Sulemana the talent he is today....