bugenhagen

So thats what has happened to most of our team...

You know the outfield players are putting on a real performance when McCarthy is MOM so far...

His performance can atleast improve a little...

A litte premature?

Tell him to change to a back four next time!

I do mind 5 at the back

I have every confidence that SR and Spors will get this right...

He is still one of the chinks in our armor. It’s just harder to see, as there are so many of them right now…

Didn’t Ralph have great success with playing all of preseason one way, and suddenly changing things up from the start of the season?

Maybe they were told by an inhouse MLG in the stats department, that goals from our forward line would not be a problem this season... I hope they are seeing what's missing so far...

When we signed them I thought they were more typical SR signings (like the City kids) where the new scouting team picked up som "cheap" gems they knew well, who might come good. That is why Solak had OK'ed them before any outgoings. Just an investment... I didn't think they were starters (or so I hoped), and we will get the players Spores will be judged on later in the window. I still hope me from back then was right all along, and not some naive idiot...

Yeah, and THEN Still will Revert to a back four...

Deep down I know what you say make sense, but I will still (no pun, an accident I swear) rather be going out with your sister Maggie May NOT tonight 😉

I agree with the start of your post if we are discussing the difference between a 4321, 433, 4231 or a 4222. A back five vs a back four changes so much more in my opinion. But I strongly dislike a back five, so I can never be rational. I even hated it when Koeman had a bit of a struggle, and changed to a back five for run of games to get our mojo back.

Same as has been for years. Who is our main man? The guy who bails us out when we need it, or puts away the early chances in the game when we are on top and kills it. Even when we win, we are usually not clear winners (maybe a couple of times two years ago?)

I destest football played with five at the back, so as long as he keeps doing this, I'll never really rate him. The three CB's usually means that one (or two) of them are not good enough. We keep chopping and changing, so whoever we play looks like a calamity waiting to happen. Find a good pairing in a back four and stick with them, that is always the key to building a team in my book. I have no idea what Will is trying to build... He keeps boasting about how the players are so much fitter than before, but every bloody manager who comes in to a new job says that. Doesn't mean shit. Maybe they can run longer, but there are no warriors out there, no fight. We were bullied today.

There is no way we score today, I'll take a stroll out into the nice weather instead of this shit.

I don't think Still sees "leading the line" the same way most of us do. To him it is more about pressing, having a good finisher inside the box when the chances come, and be able to break the lines with pace. Holding up the ball, being strong and good in the air are secondary skills and attributes. I do not agree with this, but there is no way Will looks at this role the same way most of us do, and continues to select Arma. Hei is neither blind nor stupid, and he has about the same understanding of football as most of us here😉

As I took it. Still said it in an answer to if it is frustrating to move players out. I read it as maybe Aribo, or one of our players that we have lined up a move for, only for it to halt, because of an international manager saying the league we are selling to, is not of high enough standard. Then Blackmore brought up the Championship in his next question, Still did not say the Championship was a problem, he just agreed when Adam did his normal routine of answering his own questions before he asks them.

I agree. One of the most satisfying things watching Saints, after winning, is watching talented players evolve and grow (for us). Sadly, as you start off with, not much of a chance. I am pretty convinced both will leave at the very end of the window. There will be noise every day untill the last few days of August, and then the real bids come that meets our vauluation, just before the window SLAMS shut, and leaves us scrambling, gambling and overpaying for their replacements...

Take the point. Today, every sub made us weaker unfortunatly...