Will Still

[Football Special]

12 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

Watching the football league show, some of the League 2 football / goals look better worked out than what we've been served up with. 

Just watched that as well, love the EFL show, some great grounds / away followings in league two 👍🏻 

[Football Special]

14 hours ago, Saint86 said:

Sadly, the recent seasons are absolutely costing the club young fans. 

I feel that, see too many Man City , Arsenal etc at kids school, glory hunting cunts with poor family influences 

[Osvaldorama]

11 minutes ago, Football Special said:

Just watched that as well, love the EFL show, some great grounds / away followings in league two 👍🏻 

We’ll be able to enjoy them in person in a couple more years with these helmets in charge 

[Football Special]

4 hours ago, CB Fry said:

The flipside is we will win some games because we have a significantly better set of players than almost every other team. 

And this will be taken as proof that the manager is "on the right track" etc so will just buy more time. One win in every four or five matches and he stays in role until the January window closes and we're 12th ("only seven points off the play offs")

What a wasted pre season, a wasted window. And we are on the brink of a wasted season.

 

I know we've had this disagreement previously but I question this assertion that we have significantly better players, has last season and this season so far not sunk in yet? They certainly don't look like a cohesive team capable of playing good football , once they've provided some evidence of this superiority I'll start to believe in them 

Agree on wasted pre season. Regardless of the line up Still should have a system drilled into them and a clear plan 

[Football Special]

1 minute ago, Osvaldorama said:

We’ll be able to enjoy them in person in a couple more years with these helmets in charge 

Would be a small consolation but at least something to enjoy, EIEI EIO up to Barrow we will go 

[bugenhagen]

4 hours ago, Hodgey said:

Just saw the highlights - if you can’t deal with diagonal long balls into the box in this league expect trouble, and the half chances we created for Downs - I don’t think he is capable of finishing.

Agree with others - whatever Still is trying to do, is a puzzle as tactically it looks all over the place. He needs to quickly get across a style so fans can see where we are trying to go - think we can be more patient if we see some kind of goal that we are building towards. Liverpool reserves away with no real expectations is a great chance to show us - I want to see his best 11 playing a style he wants - the result isn’t important, the team he picks, performance and style is.

He does need more time though - Christmas is the time to asses.

Finally I wonder how much that South coast derby disrupted both teams as Portsmouth were equally dogshit at home which is actually very unusual for them.

The bigger problem is getting the players to see what he is trying to do. At this rate he looks to be losing them as well.

[Lord Duckhunter]

4 hours ago, Fabrice29 said:

This is exactly what people wanted though? Adaptability. No silly philosophy.

Ridiculous statement. Yes, we wanted someone to adapt to various tactical situations & not be wedded to one system come what may. Teams that play differently at different times, are still coached in the system they’re playing. They still look like they’ve worked on it during the week. It’s not one or the other, it’s not Martin’s ridiculous stubborness or a free for all. Watch Big Sam’s bit in the Martin thread. He changed tactics depending on who they were playing, they worked on it all week and were coached. We look like a pub team, like Weasley tells them where they’re playing & they just go out and play as the want. 

[Fabrice29]

5 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Ridiculous statement. Yes, we wanted someone to adapt to various tactical situations & not be wedded to one system come what may. Teams that play differently at different times, are still coached in the system they’re playing. They still look like they’ve worked on it during the week. It’s not one or the other, it’s not Martin’s ridiculous stubborness or a free for all. Watch Big Sam’s bit in the Martin thread. He changed tactics depending on who they were playing, they worked on it all week and were coached. We look like a pub team, like Weasley tells them where they’re playing & they just go out and play as the want. 

I think quite a lot of fans of clubs Allardyce managed, especially towards the end would tell you his teams looked like a pub team and not coached when they lost. I don’t think Allardyce is the pin up you think he is.

[Turkish]

8 hours ago, Football Special said:

I know we've had this disagreement previously but I question this assertion that we have significantly better players, has last season and this season so far not sunk in yet? They certainly don't look like a cohesive team capable of playing good football , once they've provided some evidence of this superiority I'll start to believe in them 

Agree on wasted pre season. Regardless of the line up Still should have a system drilled into them and a clear plan 

Of the team that started yesterday 6 were part of the squad that got promoted last time, admittedly Charles didn’t feature much he but he’s coming off the back of a great championship season. fellows are Azaz were considered top championship players in their postion, Roslev has played almost 100 premier league games and has also got promoted out of this league.  The other two one is a highly rated German U21 player and the other is Damien Downs. 
 

on the bench we had a host of experienced champship players 3 of which were in our promotion team, 2 new signings. Archer is proven championship striker. Then we had Aribo, Edozie and our new singing Quarsie who didn’t even make the squad. 
 

to say we don’t have the players is utter nonsense. 

[AlexLaw76]

10 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Of the team that started yesterday 6 were part of the squad that got promoted last time, admittedly Charles didn’t feature much he but he’s coming off the back of a great championship season. fellows are Azaz were considered top championship players in their postion, Roslev has played almost 100 premier league games and has also got promoted out of this league.  The other two one is a highly rated German U21 player and the other is Damien Downs. 
 

on the bench we had a host of experienced champship players 3 of which were in our promotion team, 2 new signings. Archer is proven championship striker. Then we had Aribo, Edozie and our new singing Quarsie who didn’t even make the squad. 
 

to say we don’t have the players is utter nonsense. 

Absolutely. Some people chat as if we have no chance, and other teams are made up of modern day Zidanes and Maldinis.

Hull beat us having spent £300k in the summer. Pompey bossed us for much of the game having spent roughly the same as we spent on Quarshie alone.

About 20 sides would absolutely cream themselves if they could spend £60m in one summer for a Championship promotion tilt. £60m to go alongside many players who have already won promotion out of the this league 2 years ago.