StrangelyBrown

This is a stretch, but I've got a feeling the back 3 is Rasmus' fault and he's now been told to butt out and let Spors and Tonda get on with it having fucked up most of our season.

Fair play to Tonda - he got it right today. Very strong performances across the whole team and a deserved MotM for Azaz. Big shout out to our fullbacks who were both incredibly solid. Hopefully Rasmus' back 3 is behind us now.

I wonder if there is something in his contract about extra payments if he plays X number of Championship/PL games which is why we haven't seen him and why the club refuse to sell/loan him to an English side?

Maybe thats why Bazunu and Manning got a pass for so long - their xDoSomethingNotShit stats were really high

Not a lot of point until the club think again about structure, autonomy and this ridiculous over-reliance on data to make decisions.

How many chances did he have and what percentage of shots did he score? I agree his output has been prolific but he's required a heck of a lot of chances to achieve that output. In the PL chances are harder to come by which is why I think he'll never be good enough to make the step up. You could argue that he makes those chances with his movement etc, but equally you could argue that the team has been geared up to try and take advantage of his pace and movement. A more natural striker would have scored a lot more with those chances and I suspect this is what SR thought Archer would be. For me it's time to move on and start building a team for tomorrow.

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.