roversfan99

I dont fail to understand. Just because I dont agree with you, it doesnt mean that I just have no understanding of the rules. For me, its not just about listing players which you repeatedly do. If there are 3 positions up for grabs, as far as you are concerned, if you can name 6 or more players who can play those positions, whether they are good enough, whether theyve proven themselves yet, whether they are constantly injured, it doesnt seem to matter to you. I am bothered about quality. I dont think we have enough. And how is signing first team quality players "wasting money?" We have so many players in the squad who are nowhere near the standard. Gueye, De Neve, Henriksson, Tavares, Kargbo. Conversations can be had, give them time unlike the disgraceful way we treated Sigurdsson. Say theres a big chance that you wont be registered if you stay, things havent worked out, you arent part of the plans going forward. Ribeiro I think a similar conversation because he no longer has a place in the formation. With Carter, hes a waste of a space to be honest. This wont happen by the way, we will end the window still full of crap in the squad. But it needs to happen.

You look through that list of players that need registering, so many are simply not good enough. Gueye, De Neve, Tavares, Henriksson, Kargbo, and then Carter who is no use to us. I think Pickering still has a use far more than Ribeiro who I would be happy to move on too. Strip them out and we have such a small core of players who actually have any use. Obviously you have to tell them at the start of the month, rather than repeat the shoddy Sigurdsson treatment, so they know where they stand. But we shouldnt not sign someone in favour of saving places for players like that.

You do this thing where you just list names without critiquing quality. Miller and McLoughlin are squad player level for me. Only starting every single game IMO out of necessity. Carter is an absolute write off, pointless even listing him. Asking for trouble if we do. Wharton is also really injury prone and wont be back until February and even then, we cant rely on him to stay fit. Pratt has done well, but obviously isnt at a stage where you can consider him a first team regular who can play game after game at this stage. So yeah, I think we need 2. We need a direct Hyam replacement after negligently letting him go, a proven player in the middle of the defence. McLoughlin isnt good enough for that, plus is poor in the air. He is more suited to being an option to the left. The options we do have seem to be predominantly left footer so we could do with a second right footer. 2 more proper first team quality players, McLaughlin, Miller, then Pratt and O'Riordan (if we recall him, if we got 2 I would happily keep him at Doncaster, but would maybe recall him during Jan as we know we will drag out deals so can just send him back at the end of the month) potentially as younger options. That seens much more reasonable to me. It wont happen which is why I think some understate what we need to try and bring it more in line with what might happen.

He was much improved last season. I didnt expect him to play such an important role in a team comfortably 5th in La Liga. A lot of people were prematurely suggesting that his agent didnt have his best interests at heart. I felt at the time that it was sour grapes and that the blame needed to be aimed internally at allowing the situation to end how it did. The move he has made couldnt have been much better for him.

Agreed on Toth being our best keeper and that he should start. But if you are referring to the backpass in the first half, theres no way that you can put it down to Pears not communicating. It was poor of Pratt to be playing that pass in that situation, it was always going to be awkward to deal with and its confirmation bias to pin it on Pears.

Selling Hyam how we did was negligent. To not bring in a senior centre back capable of starting games even in this window would compound that. If we dont, or we just bring O'Riordan back from a struggling League 1 side, its simply asking for trouble. Our centre back options are still sub par, I still think we are 2 short. Definitely someone to play in the middle too.

He is, but that balls always going to the far post. Gueye is always going to be the target. Players often purposely stand offside initially but has Gueye stayed onside, Ohashi would have been hoping for the ball to come across.

Oh the irony.

I suspect the main reason that Brennan Johnson and Richarlison arent in the team more is that neither are particularly good.

He tends to cause problems whenever he plays to be fair. Those problems though are sadly to us.

Defeatist attitude? He clearly isnt a player whose strengths include winning headers. Where he plays means that he rarely will be involved in winning headers. If suggesting that he shouldnt be marking a big, powerful striker who is really strong in the air from a set piece is me being defeatist, then fine. I never said anything about giving up either.

Another contrarian view. He clearly isnt a player who is going to win many headers nor should he be marking the oppositions main aerial threat known for scoring headers, if indeed he was.

No one said that he should have started on the bench on Saturday. The point is that as is the case in tbe majority of positions, we have no choice but to keep playing him until he breaks down. Thats unfair that he was playing within himself. His durability is an exception to the rule. Nothing that you can say will convince me that our squad is anything other than very thin in particular in certain areas.

I didnt say he wasnt injured, I suggested that he didnt go down the tunnel so I hoped that he was just tired. And yes, we have run numerous players into the ground because our squad is paper thin and we have numerous players unable to contribute. The front 2 have to play every game and it was imevitable that one would pick up a muscle injury soon.

Little wonder that Gudjohnsen has picked up a muscle injury. We have run him into the ground. I think I would rather go with 10 than play Gueye. I certainly wouldnt play Henriksson up front, I would rather add an extra midfielder and play Miroshita higher up.

Seems to be a few people saying that but he didnt look injured, just knackered. I dont think he went down the tunnel for treatment either but may be wrong and not seen anything post match. He is very limited in his all round game, but he does have a natural instinct for being in the right place at the right time and can finish which justifies his place in the team as its the most important part of being a striker.

Which costs money that isnt forthcoming.

What attributes does he have? Hes tall, not seeing much else.

Money.

He hasnt been mismanaged. Hes just really bad.

With what?

The owners should know but havent bothered coming over in a decade. They clearly dont care about the state of the facilities hence their denial of a full pitch revamp a couple of years ago.

We did well today. I read earlier in the week that Millwall have looked tired lately and have had issues with central midfielders in particular. Neil wasnt happy with their application today based on his post match interview. But we still took advantage and won comfortably. But the squad is still a state overall. Henriksson didnt do anything when he came on really. He isnt up to standard. We need 2 more strikers because Ohashi and Gudjohnsen are being run into the ground.

So if we signed 2 players from random foreign leagues on cheap fees and wages permanently and a loan, youd consider that as being backed? Either option would give a high probability of relegation.

Today we did well to get the result. Was a poor quality game but a comfortable win. But in general, yes. We are still near the bottom of the table. The squad is so stretched with very little quality.