DrunkenSaint

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?

We can only hope Villa don't turn up

That would be fine with me if they play a good style of football like the high press. The Bournemouth manager was pretty unknown and they play a good pressing style of football. I do wonder why we didnt keep following up by getting in high pressing managers, we bought it to the premier league when Poch came to us, Koeman played the pressing style slightly different and Ralph brought it back after a few disasters, that style of football is becoming pretty popular over in Germany. It's certainly a better style than the style we currently play now. Maybe there is a hidden gem abroad that would be willing to rebuild a team in the Championship, Leeds managed to get Bielsa so why not.

ive said this a thousand times, we probably had the best championship squad last season before he came in and he almost screwed that up with a horrendous style that never suited our players, we were promoted due to a few individual players that were just too good for that league.

agree, we have been lucky today

we have been very very lucky

yet another last minute loan signing that we didnt really need and yes he's pretty crap. We should of used Sam Amo instead and got him experience instead of giving experience to other clubs players.

He almost F@@ked that up as well when having probably the best squad in the league, yes we had a very good championship squad already in place and we still do and thats the problem.

Go all out for Potter and hope he can turn a bunch of championship players into something that is better than what Martin can muster up then let him have a massive say who to bring in next season like he did at Brighton.

Add Aribo and Armstrong to that list as well, Dibling and Fernandes for me needs to be starting every game.

This would be my midfield and im surprised that those 3 didnt start on Saturday. Having Downes in the squad would mean we have options, can always go 4231 and play both against teams that will probably attack us (top 6 teams) or attacking 433 when teams are more likely sit back playing for a draw or lucky breaks, meaning either Charles or Downes will drop to the bench.

Been saying this for a very long time, got to go back to the 4231 formation and get 2 real Dm's in there, Smallbone isnt a cdm he's a box-box, Acm type. Charles is a DM get him playing there and get someone else in playing alongside him. As it stands we have no protective shield for the defence, same as last season, until we get that sorted out, we wont get back to the premiership anytime soon.

so cb and dcm needs sorting but at least we are scoring some goals

Good result but still we lack the DCM that we lacked last year and with Lavia pretty much going we really need to get one in, the 3 midfielders that started today are not DCM, get a decent one in and that will help our defence and save a goal or 2.