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I'll go ... here's 11 players i remember being at least okay. Sandomierski Baptiste. Berg. Van hecke Givet Elliott. J.jones Reed. Bentley Nonda. Graham Subs: Steele, tosin, kane, beck, morton, gomez, khadra, armstrong, antonsson, suker, Gallagher, Others not included: marcolin, Baggio, hakan unsal, babbel, boothroyd, trybull, cunningham, Harwood bellis, branthwaite, Douglas, spearing, villanueva, king, kazim Richards, biram diouf. Di Santo, sinama one goal. ,

Bang on. Sacking ismael in isolation doesnt actually change too much. The only thing that matters monish complete regime change. Tbh as much as the fans don't deserve this. Rudy and Suhail absolutely do, its just a shame that the crowd is too apathetic to give it to them both barrells.

Id argue it extremely negative when Spain did it in, especially in 2010 world cup (8 goals in 7 games). Early guardiola was more attacking and good to watch.

Must be handled correctly yes. The question is why did we choose to replace Travis with him when we knew about this issue. My guess is he was the first choice and they must've felt that someone else would get him if we didn't jump in now. But even so maybe we should've moved on to someone else.

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Watched him today. Played well and got an assist. We shouldn't have sold him only loaned him in my view. That may be an unpopular opinion.

Feel the same. I didnt anything when we scored or when we conceded. I've never been this disinterested.

Assuming Abeliosu is injured. So would go: Toth Miller. Mcloughlin wharton. Ribiero TGH. Tronstad Morishita. Cantwell. Kargbo Gudjohnsen

The comments section is overrun by bots. And you know what... it works. It does help guide opinion.

They aren't getting a penny out of me until they're all gone

What was the social media post that has since been deleted?

What was the social media post that has since been deleted?

No we are weaker. How much weaker will only be seen in time. If Wharton and Carter stay fit then the lack of a 4th cb doesn't matter so much. If tronstad isnt injured we arent having to test the depth in cm. If baradji is good and recovers quickly he could improve the team. We arent likely to finish above last seasons finish.

Think I must have been watching a different game

Ismael (and I'm assuming gestede) is claiming that the squad is better than last season, where we finished 7th. A decent press would be hitting him with this quote quite regularly, let's see if he's allowed to get away with it. As for the rest, it was a fan re-education piece presented as fan engagement. I'm at a real low in my engagement with the club. Rudy and suhail (trying to go back in the shadows) have reduced me to withdrawing ant financial support for the club.

My think was is often if you dont have two competent cbs you are better off playing 3 at the back to minimise the damage. Utilising full backs in the wider roles as something in between a proper centre back and a full back. I think my point would it be betyer to have pickering and miller playing as part of a back 3 rather than miller playing consistenly as a cb in a back 4.

My first thought is that with hyam gone we may revert to a back 3/5. Utilising miller and Pickering as potential wide cbs. Something like this Carter. Wharton Mcloughlin Abeliosu. Ribiero Miller. Atcheson. Pickering Gardner-hickman. De neve

So you'd start with 10 men? Bold strategy 😂😂😂

Pears as much as id like to see him leave cannot go without an adequate replacement. At the moment we are weaker than last season in the following areas: Right back (new lads looks promising but isn't better than brittain at this moment) Centre back (in the short term) Left back Centre mid Right wing Backup keeper (if pears goes) We are stronger in the following areas: Backup right back 1st change at Centre mid Backup striker (gudjohnsen over Gueye) Potentially left winger (new Japanese fellow) Potentially depth for the no. 10 (Swedish lad) I'm not fully sold on our business so far. We need a few of the new lads to be run away successes to consider that we have done anything other than regress massively. Still not sorted out tronstad and hyam either.

Tbf I thought tronstad was exceptional in the second half.

The usual suspects come out and start questioning the manager. Not defending or attacking VI but why dont some fans spend half as much time questioning the man who hired VI if you think he's the main problem and assembled the previous squad and out together this squad or suhail who has consistently worsened this club.

Based on last season he is the exact opposite person i would want to captain the side. A fair weather player if you ever saw one. However, we are lacking in genuine quality and there is a lot of talent in him. Giving him the armband looks to be a plan to get him to take more responsibility on the pitch. Saturday was a decent example of this. Ultimately if this form continues and the chips are really down. Is he someone you would want leading you into battle?

I'm trying really hard to not draw the same conclusion. My only defence of him is he's definitely not a right back. Looks mobile but not a lot else.

Can tavares and presumably baradji (or whoever) replace Travis's consistency and availability. Tavares doesn't have a history of playing a lot of games. Baradji is supposedly carrying an injury. Thats before we get into wether they can hack the pace of the league and gel in. Travis is a battle hardened championship centre mid. Who is available for 85-90% of most seasons.

I agree with all of this. Quality of the first 11 needs to be improved to save off the upcoming threat of relegation.