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Gone backwards under MP. Very worrying as we just don’t look threatening at all. A freak finish from Yoshi doesn’t mask our constant lack of goals. Poor performance and, given the penalty miss, we really were well beaten. Hoping we can scrape to 40 this year as I see absolutely no reason to hope for anything more than that. Sad to see just how far we’ve regressed.

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Manager’s way out of his depth. Same turgid slow sideways no cutting edge **** game after game after game. We are in big trouble. At least with Puel we could defend, now we can’t score, can’t defend and serve up the same Shiite boring slow crap that’s easy for even the weak teams to play against. Spurs, City, Chelsea will tear us a new one if we don’t improve soon.

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He's going to have to change it. Redmond and Tadic IS NOT WORKING.

 

Will probably swap one of them for Ward Prowse which will make no difference. Where is the tactically astute, forward thinking manager we were lauded for appointing by people like Balague? Making Puel look good here.

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Looking at the positives -

Boufal looked good when he came on. Fingers crossed he gets given a run of starts now, as it's only fair after Redmond and Tadic have been untouchable all season.

 

...That's about it.

Oh, Forster seemed to be coming off his line for balls into the box a lot more.

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We're not in a relegation battle - we'll beat the teams worse than us, but I very much doubt a top half finish is on the cards. 13th is our level at the moment. Maybe scrape 10th if we have a good transfer window in January, and we do our business EARLY.

 

We didn’t been Huddersfield, we didn’t beat Swansea, we didn’t beat Watford and we didn’t beat Stoke...all teams I’d hope to be better than.

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Will probably swap one of them for Ward Prowse which will make no difference. Where is the tactically astute, forward thinking manager we were lauded for appointing by people like Balague? Making Puel look good here.

 

That's the issue - he doesn't have the players available at his disposal. That's an issue with Les Reed.

 

Boufal did make a difference today but he's never been consistent. He has one good game and then the next game has a stinker.

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Looking at the positives -

Boufal looked good when he came on. Fingers crossed he gets given a run of starts now, as it's only fair after Redmond and Tadic have been untouchable all season.

 

...That's about it.

Oh, Forster seemed to be coming off his line for balls into the box a lot more.

 

Tadic has played well last 3 games.

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We're not in a relegation battle - we'll beat the teams worse than us

 

Which ones are those? It's hard to tell at the moment, even though it's demented to be talking about relegation.

 

Massive amount of bed wetting on here.

 

If you are going to apportion blame, start (and stop) with reed and the board.

 

Yeah. We need to play Krueger in the hole, he's useless out wide.

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He's going to have to change it. Redmond and Tadic IS NOT WORKING.

 

Funny isn't it. He takes Redmond off and 8 mins later we're level. He's a sub at best at the moment. Stick Long in that position, simply because he works his ******** off, and play Gabbi up front.

FFS, everybody seems to be able to see where the problem lies except the manager, which is very worrying.

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That's the issue - he doesn't have the players available at his disposal. That's an issue with Les Reed.

 

Boufal did make a difference today but he's never been consistent. He has one good game and then the next game has a stinker.

 

I completely agree that Reed has dropped a b*llock (will probably get told off for criticising him) but MP has to make the best of the squad he has available. We’ve got goalscorers sitting on the bench and a man that now hasn’t scored in 19 games as the one up front. It’s poor management, plain and simple.

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Which ones are those? It's hard to tell, even though it's demented to be talking about relegation.

 

CP, Newcastle, Huddersfield, Brighton, West ham under Bilic are way worse than us. Then there are 3-4 on par at this point. We are a mid table team.

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No doubt we’ll get fed a video of Tadic and Boufal scoring beautiful free kicks in training and Redmond and Bertrand blasting in past Stuart Taylor, smiles all round as Davis shows awareness and calmness to slot home.

 

We’ll get a Cedric says “we need to work as a team” article and all will be gravy until next game when clueless MP shoehorns the wrong players into the wrong formation and we pass back to the halfway line every time we get into a threatening position. A couple of panic substitutions where we have 5 up front all swinging aimlessly at the ball in stoppage time should tie us over and give a glimmer of excitement until the next borefest of synchronized laziness from Tadic and his best pal Cedric down the right.

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Boufal gave the ball away twice that I counted, but in 20 minutes on the pitch showed more creativity and intent than either Redmond or Tadic have all season. Absolultely mind-blowing conservatism from the manager that he'd rather persist with the 'senior' players established under his predecessors than take a risk with the line-up to try and address our woeful attacking.

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