DrunkenSaint

yep, should have Matsuki or another youngster on the bench instead of that waste of space, he's not looked interested at all.

This is who i want but we all know that they will go for the cheap option

because hes another Martin, plays slow boring football unless hes changed his style but managers rarely do.

Utter shambles as always, i still think that SR are getting involved way to much in tactics and formation and it wont change unless they either sell up or butt out. Will Still is out of his depth but i dont really know a manager who can come in and sort this crap out, we have a poor defence and non existent strike force. We need a manager with some balls and play a mixture of the youth (who will want to impress) and some of the first team for experience and try to avoid relegation and start again next season.

Carrick also plays a very similar style to Martin which is what fans didn't want, we need a high press coach in, even an unknown like when Bournemouth got in Iraola. Problem is, Will Still did play a high press type approach in France so is it SR that are demanding a different style to what he's used too or is it that all the players we have just have no idea how to high press? I will say one thing, our u21's play with more passion and energy than what our currant squad does, screw all our so called stars and get in a manager who plays the youngsters and builds a team around them and we will be sorted. Mitsuki and Robinson are far better players than Azaz and anyone in the u21 are miles better than what Downs will ever be.

Azaz terrible, we need someone behind the striker who has bags of energy to help the press and gets into space when the striker has possession, this place should be Robinson's or Mitsuki's. As for the striker, yet again we are here without one, whoever scouted Downs needs sacking, hes f'ing terrible, Ballard would have been a better choice instead of wasting more millions on yet another shite player. Now, Will says he wants his players to get the ball fwd quicker, well stop playing Manning, Stephens and Mads, all are very guilty of passing sideways and backwards far too often far to slowly. Give Edwards a good run in the team, he was probably our best defender in the pre-season.

shambles again

need to go with a back 4 and have another in the central midfield or drop bbd and get another CM in and play Fernandes as a Cam

only Armstrong and maybe Archer will fit into what WS wants, the others are far too lazy. WS likes high press, high energy making runs, cant see the others doing that.

Well it could be worse but im actually encouraged from what ive heard about him. Pressing football, organised defence, uses the wings a lot, wants his players playing fwd diagonal balls as much as possible, encourages his players to take on defenders to open up areas, likes the 4231/433 formation but will switch to a 352 formation when against certain opposition, much better than play my way or your out. Looking fwd to next season now.

Sounds all good, much better than that possession based football Martin insisted on, be interesting who he insists stays and who he wants gone. He will inherit a pretty good Championship side but for his high press to work he will need to get them 200% fitter than what they were this season, he needs young legs but maybe a few older wiser heads in their as well, be interesting how it all works out and if any of our so called stars would stay under a pretty unknown manager.

Aribo wants to go, Dibling wants to stay, id say if our owner shows some balls, we should keep him and try and keep Fernandes for one season and try and build a team like we once did. Selling and rebuilding isnt working, keeping a team together is the key to success, then staying in the prem will get him more money over time.

you do know most teams have gone to 3 at the back now, especially in the pressing style that he uses. He wants at least 1 CB to be aggressive when his team has the ball meaning he'll press into a midfield position to allow others to press high. He also wants his wingbacks to press high, so its more like 2 at the back when we have the ball, nothing wrong with that at all.

Maybe he will get Enter Sandman playing when the two teams come out to fire us all up, that would be great!

For me it has to be Rohl. I've always liked the high pressing style that Poch brought to us, you don't need "super stars" for it to work unlike the possession based system that Martin tried to make work, you just need super fit players that can just keep running and the knowledge to press in groups and rotate positions when needed. Unlike Ralph, he likes to use a number of formations, 4231 and 343 being his go to ones but he likes to switch it up depending on his opposition (plan b,c etc) which i think is great. He just has that Poch effect aura about him and im pretty sure if we go down, he would know the players he would like to keep to make it work in the championship. He's made Charles a bloody good player for them, something Martin couldn't do so who knows, he may even make some of our players into something good as well. We would need a new cdm as he likes to use 2, so that's at least one player that we would need to get in the window unless we have a recall option on Charles or we have a hidden gem in the academy?