Oh dear, that’s torn it!

radio lancs speculating it’s Baker at AM and Hedges and Dolan on the wings

Burnley defended well (similar to our performance at Leeds last season) but Leeds are very predictable going forward. If you go there and sit back they struggle. I don’t think their manager will last the season.

Ah right, inverted full back normally means a right footer at LB and vice versa, or a FB that drops into midfield like JRC used to under JDT. Hipster football terms are confusing!

Baker at LM would be my guess with Beck flying up the wing. Or maybe Baker AM?

We don’t do the inverted full back under Eustace. We do an attacking full back on one side (Brittain) and a full back that stays back (Pickering). I think you’re right that today Beck will be the attacking FB and Carter will be the one stays back when we attack to make a back 3.

Presume Pickering and Brittain are injured? And maybe Siggy too? Carter at RB looks likely.

Exactly. The manager hasn’t proved himself according to RF99, but he can’t/won’t say what Eustace proving himself would look like. An exercise in futility if ever there was one, but always amusing coming from a poster who demands answers from others.

Leeds v Dingles at 12.30 today on Sky. Its not often I support Leeds….

And it’s ok to ask what success would look like to @roversfan99. I’m looking forward to his answer.

Wigan away is another one, Steven Reid piledriver notwithstanding. Bolton at home proved tricky in the Prem years, whereas we always seemed to do well at the Breezeblock.

Neither of Sheff Utds goals came from Hull playing out from the back. They came from Hull losing the ball high up the pitch and getting hit on the counter. And they got hit on the counter cos they left massive holes at the back. Poor team set up and coaching. Hull looked easy to play against without offering much going forward.

So not really a great record at home against them, but not a bogey team as such. And not a bogey team away either. What we can take from that is I’d created a false narrative in my noggin! It could go either way today. They’ve W1, D2 and L1 so far this season. I’ll go for a 2-1 home win, but they love a 1-1 so maybe it will finish as that.

Our away record at Bristol City is utter shite from memory, do we normally do well against them at home? I’ve always been of the opinion these things matter (bogey teams and grounds) but they possibly don’t🤷‍♂️

So he’s yet to prove himself, but you don’t know what proving himself should look like? Seems a strange position to take. Again though, where do you think he should be finishing this season, roughly? What would success look like this season?

Losing only 5 out of 20 when he took over a team in free fall is an excellent record in an ultra competitive division. Add in the fact he didn’t have much to work with in terms of squad depth and I think he’s earned the right to have a right good go at it, as Bowyer used to say! So when will you be able to say he IS the man for the job? What specifically are you looking for him to achieve this season and beyond?

Golf range out just in time for the winter. Word is the ski range is scheduled to drop next spring.

I think JDT was quite easy to read. He had an easy charm when it came to dealing with the media and was clearly very intelligent. He was certainly media-savvy. As a coach he was process driven, and if you couldn’t fit the process as a player you were discarded. He was a fantastic coach IMO, but wasn’t an ‘arm round the shoulder’ type when dealing with his players. Eustace appears completely different. He clearly couldn’t give a shit about how he comes across in interviews, and isn’t interested in giving ‘good copy’. I’d imagine the players like/respect him because he makes them feel valued. I’d also imagine he’s hard as nails when it comes to people not doing their jobs. He doesn’t strike me as the type to suffer fools. The ‘yes man’ tag was also utter bollocks. For all the warranted criticism of the club, I think we’ve made good managerial appointments from Mowbray onwards.

Have you got a link to that? Cheers

It’s irrelevant up to a point if the first XI is stronger on paper. It’s essentially a new manager using new tactics and employing the same players in different ways. You could have a weaker squad on paper and get better results if the manager is utilising his resources to the max and the previous manager wasn’t. I think squad depth, as you say, will be key. It’s far better than last season, and Eustace appears to have a canny knack of mainly making the right subs at the right time. I’m optimistic for this season. I think Eustace is a good ‘un.

I’d be Lyon if I said I knew.

It’s vital we loan out as many players as possible. I’d imagine Batty has learned and progressed more in the last 2 weeks in L2 than he has in the last 2 years in the academy games.

Is our No19 very far away?

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