Exiled_Rover

Bloody hell, what's with all these multiple week innocuous injuries?!

He's a confidence player and he's also a chaos engine. If you're going to play him he needs to start and you need to be during balls up to him / crossing balls into the box. Asking him to come on for 10 mins to chase hurried clearances upfield and close down multiple CBs on his own is setting him up for failure. He's 6'5" and strong as an ox. He's not a whippet like Ohashi - don't ask them to play the same way. It's not rocket science. And for clarity - I think he's a 10 goal a season striker if you played to his strengths, but he'd have a load of assists (and just generally disrupt the defence and cause chances to break for others).

Well he's not been allowed to play by the manager, so very little. Very difficult to do anything with 5-10 minute cameos.

That leaves you far too exposed in midfield.

I hope you take that approach to your own life - you're obviously hugely successful.

Gueye is the current scapegoat. He can't do anything right on this board.

The tax fiddle continues.

It's a long season and a ridiculous run of fixtures - you saw with Travis and Tronstad in January last year, you simply can't run the same players out there for 90 minutes every week. Ohashi will break down pretty soon if he's not given a rest. Gudjohnsen has been targeted twice for a rest in the last two games (of the pair of them). We need another CF in January to rotate in if we're sticking with this system.

I'm not sure what more they can do to put their thumb on the scale in our matches. Will be interesting to see.

Love that from Ismael. He'll be getting a fine next week from the EFL though.

He doesn't set us up well defensively. Everyone cuts us to ribbons on the counter. I'm amazed he's an ex-CB.

I think we'll just about scrape by, but we're bloody unlucky at times, get nothing from the refs and clearly only have about a 15 man squad.

I mean they did play 50 extra minutes with 11 men. I'd say the ref had a big influence on that result.

That's the problem though, isn't it? They slotted home their once chance of the game because they have that quality on the pitch.

Nah, he'll have said "stop switching off mentally. You've cost yourselves 4 points in the last 2 matches because you can't keep your concentration for 95 minutes. Enough."