StrangelyBrown

Jack Stephens runs the club clearly as you say is a load of bollocks, but I'm not so sure about 3 CBs - Rasmus put Brentford's success in his Brentford days down to 3 CBs and we've had a weird obsession with the formation for a number of managers now despite it not working. Relentlessly playing this way makes no sense at all.

It has always been this way but somehow he's still here after a very long time

Did I blame him for the goals? It isn't just about goals. Having someone who is iffy a lot of time is going to undermine confidence and lead to us panicking. Did our defence panic yesterday???? Of course they did. Having a supposed captain who displays no leadership and goes missing a lot also is going to undermine our confidence. I stand by my point.

Until something is done about crisp packet hands and captain shoehorn we'll continue to be soft at the back.

Fitness issue? How many players can play with the level of running, intensity and involvement that Leo has been playing with for longer than 60 minutes?

He had a perfect cross aimed at him and he got no where near it. He also fell over his own feet off the ball with no one anywhere near him. He's simply not a footballer and it's time we gave up on him.

He had a perfect cross aimed at him and he got no where near it. He also fell over his own feet off the ball with no one anywhere near him. He's simply not a footballer and it's time we gave up on him.

Tonda has convinced me. It's not just the results but the manner in which were playing - front foot attacking football; attacking players taking people on and creating havoc and the speed at which we move the ball is sublime. A long time since I remember watching us and thinking we look like the real deal (I didn't ever have this feeling under Martin). Give him the job... He's earned it! The only thing he hasn't done is make Damion Downs look like a footballer, but he isn't a miracle worker

Tonda hasn't faced a team yet that have tried to dominate midfield, which had been our undoing under Still. It will be interesting to see if he has anything up his sleeve - I'm still convinced the formation is the problem.

And a LB and a CB (Manning and Stephens will inevitably cost us points if they continue to play).

I'm starting to believe, but I still think we're crap at the back and against a 3 man midfield I think we'll struggle. The goal we conceded today was a perfect illustration of how shit Stephens is - no where near the danger and simply ball watching. However, that 20 minute period was the best I've seen us play for a very long time.

At least Eckert has the balls to drop FD, just needs to drop Manning and Stephens too.

Let's not get carried away. He hasn't been tested yet.

It was a load of non-specific waffle from a very dull man. It's been a long time since we had anyone remotely interesting in charge.

Tonda or Potter?

Martin plays crap football too. Just a different type of crap. But he's also an egotistical bellend

I hate to say it, but I think we're going to get schooled by maad Nate. I fully expect us to continue to play crap football with 3 CBs meaning we surrender the midfield, AA runs around a lot for 60 mins and be replaced by DD who will do his best impression of a donkey all without threatening their goal, Scienza will try and beat Charlton by himself and we Baz will drop an absolute howler. We'll lose by at least 2 and Tonda will be given the job.

With Baz, THB and Stephens it will be - Lets get ready to crumble!

Playing 4 at the back isn't necessarily the "considered wisdom" as you put it. But we can see that no one has a clue how to play 3 at the back properly so that we don't get overrun in midfield. Perhaps our coaches could watch a Conte team and see what the extra defender does - this is clearly some education that is missing?

Proper tinpot behaviour

I know I shouldn't feed a troll, but seriously? Last ditch panic stations defending isnt defending our box properly. If either team had a half decent striker they would have beaten us. At the other end sub-bazunu levels ofinept goalkeeping gave us the win against QPR.

I'm not confident they'll make a decision - I think they'll continue with Eckert on an interim basis for the foreseeable

Not a bad idea - although in possession there is no one playing between the lines and we'd find it difficult to create overloads. Out of possession we could make that work if Scienza dropped into midfield to help out and the two up front grafted a bit (sadly one of them is Archer).

4-4-2 isn't the answer - it leaves us short in midfield and is very easy to play against. 4-2-3-1 would be much better especially if we genuinely want to play a high press. Interestingly, I wonder if there has ever been a side who've successfully played a high press playing 3-5-2 or 3-4-3 week in week out.

I'm not sure the manager chose the formation though. Just Google "Rasmus Ankersen 3-5-2" and make your own mind up.