joey_big_nose

I dont think having a middle 3 including both Baradji and Cantwell when youre fighting for survival is a wise move. You need some more physicality. One of them fine, but not together. How both are still on the putch at 89 mins i cant fathom.

I dont think having a middle 3 including both Baradji and Cantwell when youre fighting for survival is a wise move. You need some more physicality. One of them fine, but not together. How both are still on the putch at 89 mins i cant fathom.

With Rowett hes got exactly the right sort of CV. Reminiscent of Eustace. Whats confusing though is why after Millwall he has struggled to get jobs? Just interim at Birmingham, then took the role at Oxford, which by some accounts he got frustrated with and effectively walk away from. I kind of feel like he will take on Rovers as hes struggled to get jobs before, and we are in a similar place to Oxford so fishing in the same pool, but when he is in the circus will quickly be looking for an exit. Feels very much like Eustace. But if he keeps us up I wont complain. Interested to see what he makes of Gestede and Suhail....

Yes Ohashi has one truly outstanding ability and that is to relentlessly press. To use him for anything else is a waste. We need to get a decent attacking setup without him and use him to close out games.

Taking a punt on robbie savage to me seems like a great shout from Suhail and Gestedes perspective - boss who will gett immediate buy in from the fans, would definitely take the job. But hes a bigger character than both of them and they wont want to have to deal with that. From my perspective when you are in a relegation fight promoting someone 3 divisions to become your manager to dig you out is a very confident thing to do....

Its not harsh - he routinely makes bad passes and runs, surrendering possession time after time - across the last two months. When he was doing the basics right back at the start of the season he wasn't attracting criticism. Baradji has similar issues. We cant keep on shooting ourselves in the foot in good positions, we do it time after time. Id take Cantwell out of the XI for a bit.

Hedges would transform our ability to stay up. Far far far away our best left sided player. Hes got his faults but he is a long way ahead of most of the squad.

Yes, I like Jorgensen runs, quite intelligent. Doesn't seem particularly quick or strong or technical though. So i wonder how he beats a defender. That said Gudjonsen looked a total passenger when he arrived, but as hes gone on his link up play and ability to compete with defenders have really improved. So all we can do is hope for something similar.

No way we can play Morishita at left wing back.... He can't get up and down, and even if he could he cant physically compete on the ball. Our only real hope for 352 - based on no evidence i can point to - is Afolayan can do it. But is he even left footed? This says no : https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/oladapo-afolayan/profil/spieler/487850 If we do try it I guess we might just use Pickering but expect him to tuck in and focus on defence, and give Alebiouso free rain down the right and let the LCM (Mori below) focus on getting forward in the left channel. Still its obvious for the opposition to target our left side in 352 as Pickering/Riberio can get done for pace easily, and De Neve has such incredibly poor defensive awareness. Toth Miller Carter Cashin Alebiosu Baradji Tronstad Morishita Pickering Jorgensen. Gudjonsen I think 352 goes in the bin till Hedges is fit or we use it to close out games. On the positive side having Ohashi to bring on fresh should improve our ability to close out games significantly. And I agree Cantwell needs to be dropped. Absolutely horrendous decision making and execution of passing recently, though cant fault him for effort. 4231 obviously suits us better defensively now. But then as we have no comfortable wide forwards, offensively it looks very unsatisfying. I guess we could just push Alebiouso forward... But his game is about the overlap. Gah, such horrendous squad planning. Toth Alebiouso. Carter. McLoughlin. Cashin. Baradji Tronstad Afolayan Mori Jorgensen. Gudjonsen

After poor start Cashin looks a much better defender than any of our other (many) left backs. Great in the air. Maybe not such a bad signing.

The key there was Eustace could see be had a good management team to work with ....

I don't think the likes of Martin would touch us even if we wanted him. It will end up being someone who would do well to get a job in League One, just because for someone whose can realistically compete for a decent Championship job will see taking us on as too risky for their career. A bad few months with us could knock them down a division in their next job. Its different in the summer if you have a window and a full pre seaso. But here anyone decent knows they will be hostage to the clown show. Not having any credible football people at all (such as Waggott like him or loathe him ) a manager has to ask himself will he risk their future success for Gestede and Suhail... Rowett has such a bad recent cv he might go for us in a desperate move.

Detached infamously bad owner + Terrible press about pitch + fan base in revolt + in ability to retain good players + lack of Championship experience in squad + joke of leadership team + no money to spend + transfer window already gone+ in relegation places + huge amount of injuries= manager who is desperate. We are shopping a level or two below Ismael. We are going to have to get very lucky.

Id say money is just part of it. Even more important is we have owners who know nothing about football and no interest. As a result we've ended up with absolute chancers top to bottom and run out of luck. Motivated interested owners with the same money available would do a lot better by making decisions based on some understanding of the game and reacting quickly and sensibly when things go wrong....

What i dont get is what manager walks away on a 2 year remaining deal when the next job might be months, even years away. Sort of feels like potentially ' 1) He had a no or small compensation clause in the contract if we fired him 2) We've paid him off on the condition it was reported as mutual agreement.