S-Clarke

Someone mentioned Lookman on another thread. If we could sell Redmond and bring in Lookman I'd take that, massive upgrade imo.

I don't think anyone is going over the top about Adams, I don't think they ever have. The problem is that the more extreme views posted by the idiots (he's the worst player i've seen etc) are now being shown up, so they're peddling out their points in more vague ways to try and ensure they're still seen as right. It's ok to be wrong sometimes, just hold your hand up. Don't make it worse by trying to be clever and calling him 'chez'. As others have said, he's a decent support striker. You'll never get goals, goals, goals from him, but he works well with a mobile forward alongside him.

You're missing the point though, he's not a striker. He'd score 5-6 goals max a season, if that. If we replaced Ings with Lookman and relied on his goals, we'd be in deep shit. (as we've seen this year with no one else really scoring) Any money we get from Ings needs to be invested into a number 9. If we sold Redmond, I'd take Lookman as a replacement though.

No doubt he's got talent, he's very technical. I just don't think his mind or body works too well in this league. All a bit too quick and strong for him. His talent would be better shown off elsewhere and he could make a really tasty career for himself.

As per this season, always an injury to come out of a game. Not sure why we're so susceptible this year. Are recovery facilities really off bounds at Staplewood? (I keep hearing that). If that's the case the club are being utter moronic and need to give their head a wobble.

I'm not sure about Minamino tbh. I still think he looks like a player suited for a much, much slower league. I reckon he'll leave Liverpool in the summer but for La Liga.

Free hit. Who knows. It would just be typical of this season if we halt their winning run.

His direct running gives us another dimension, he was pulling their (non-centre halves, let's be fair) all over the place. But I expect no less tbh given how poor they were. But he took his chance, unlucky not to get at least a goal IMO. He's certainly played himself into the squad reckoning this year.

But look at Fulham FFS. They are winning every week! Oh, wait.

Take that, move on. blue line etc. Hard to read too much into it due to the absolute dreadful opposition. Worst PL team in a very, very long time. I think that Derby team had a little bit more about them? This lot are proper shithole cloggers. They'll struggle big style next year IMO. Long way back. Not really much to say, should have been more than 2-0, but I'd have accepted no more than a win today given the quality of the opposition. Confidence wise and rhythm wise we struggled, but once we got our noses in front and then a 2nd we had more confidence about us. It's amazing what confidence can do to an individual and a collective, as a team and individually we absolutely thrive on it. No-hit in the next game, let's see what happens next weekend.

Fulham have blown a great chance in their last two games. Played quite well I thought, unlucky if anything.

Struggling in relevance to their previous form, they've clearly dipped in my eyes because of the players they've lost. But not as much as us because they have that tiny bit more depth, so they can absorb it a little bit better. But they still miss Grealish and Cash.

What Barnsley are doing is insane, they're on course to make it 6 league wins in a row. Into the play off places now. They are this years 'came from nowhere into playoffs' side IMO.

Really positive! (Diallo and KWP particularly!!!) I hope we don't rush them back.....

Another team struggling with a couple of key players out. Leicester ditto.

What's their big incentive, exactly? I hope our fans don't start creating this all conquering Sheff U juggernaut which is clearly never going to drop a point again, just like Fulham.

I dunno, Villa reminded me of us really. Lots of huff and puff, but no real clear cut opportunities once they were against 10. Sheff U threw two banks of 4 in front of their goal and Villa didn't really know how to break them down. Villa brought on their new guy, Sanson, and he seemed to make them worse and they just couldn't sustain anything. Targett in particular was dire.

Blackstock and McGoldrick, those were the days. We had to remove the log jam of strikers to finally allow McGoldrick in particular his chance. If only we'd have kept both of them. Blackstock and McGoldrick front line, Jake Thompson on the right. Ollie Lancashire and Craine at the back. Leon Best on the bench. We'd have been heading for the title In league 2.

I agree, I think they'll appeal that and I'd expect it to be overturned. Bryan would have got there.

It stayed 1-0.

If he wants to play International football it's probably his best chance tbh. Cant see him getting back into the England reckoning. Not sure if/how you can change alliance when you've already featured at senior level for England though.

He's a massive confidence player is Adams. Not sure what you expected from him really, but he's always been pretty average. Nothing extraordinary about him technically, but he works well in a pair with a mobile striker alongside him. When we were clicking, it was often him using his movement to open space for Ings to get into. Or he'd use his movement to get the by-line and pass back to Ings to score etc. He's a decent support player for a more mobile player, that's how I'd describe him. We would hit massive, massive trouble if the club decided he was our Ings replacement though. He's a support striker, needs a better quality partner, in form, in order to be truly effective on a consistent basis.

I think we're in danger of overanalysing and reading way too much into things, in my opinion. I still see him encouraging and communicating from the touchline, as much as we can see from TV anyway. Key mistakes he's made, in my eyes - letting Valery and Vokins leave without adequate depth (but we don't know for sure how much of that was his call). Persevering with Bednarek at right back, when he isn't a right back. I know people keep saying it's excuses, but look at the injuries. We lost KWP, decided not to keep Valery...Ralph seemed to consider Diallo an option at RB due to his speed and agility. What's up with Diallo? Injured. Another option we have to put at right back (right wing back) is JWP. Can we do that? No, because Romeu is now injured so he has to continue in midfield. It really is a bit of a perfect storm at the moment. Compound that with Ings out of form and we are really in a pickle. That's why I think we're close to over analysing things. It really is quite simple in my eyes, we have no squad, no depth, no experience. When we have a mini injury crisis we will struggle. When we have an injury crisis like this (which ahs run over 3 months) we are in big, big trouble. As soon as we get players back, they're out again as we've had to rush them back. We've also run the core 11 into the ground truth be told. I still think JWP is some sort of cyborg though. Biggest lesson everyone needs to take from this season is that our squad isn't strong enough. There is no depth. Beyond the first 11 there is nothing and that is not sustainable at this level, so that needs to be addressed. How we can do that is the question. Ideally you'd replace Redmond in the starting 11 with a new player, Redmond drops to the bench. Replace Adams in the first 11, he drops to the bench. It's about evolving the squad now I think, and I hope Ralph is afforded the opportunity to do that.

Can you show me where he's highly rated, as I'm yet to see anything of the sort. That just strikes of re-writing something to make your point stand out more. Lots of very vague points there, truth be told. He's had injuries, we have no squad, the form has dipped as a result and the players are struggling to rediscover form. It hardly requires a complete redesign of the club.

Mathematically impossible tbf.