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Alebiosu is very promising. Hes not perfect, technically he will do the odd loose touch, and sometimes you are just thinking run at your man a bit more and really believe, but hes become the most important attacking player in our team from right back and has been consistently very good. De Neve, I dont share similar encouragement yet. I dont recall these excellent crosses.

Is he definitely English and not a mathematical equation?

He is so one dimensional and lacks intelligence. He grafts, hes up and down and is fairly quick. But he just runs in a straight line and if he cant cross the ball doing so, he runs out of ideas, and when he does cross it invariably doesnt lead to chances.

We need more than one attacker and more than one defender to continue to play this way, well we need more than that anyway. Up top, we only have 2 and the 2 we have are really, really average. One stands on 2 goals, the other on 1. I thought Gudjohnsen was poor again until his goal, he frustratingly doesnt put himself about half as much as he should, or use his body. But we cant have 2 strikers for 2 positions. We also are devoid of pace in attack. Defensively, we have gone from being solid to being unable to keep clean sheets. McLoughlin is average, Wharton error prone and I am not having Miller. The balance of them with Wharton in the middle doesnt look right. And again, we have only those 3, Carter is a right off. So we would need 2 more there. The squad is so thin its untrue due to terrible recruitment. Where do you stand on Ismael now?

He wasnt as bad as Suhail. Your second paragraph is just you taking your own conclusions. He has been with Venkys throughout and I believe worked his way up from driver. Essentially an extension of the source of 15 years of hell.

It cant have been. There was a power struggle between one idiot and an evil and incompetent bell end far, far more destructive than him, and the latter clearly won.

It hasnt given him a stay of execution because he would have stayed regardless of todays result sadly. He seemingly played a big role in bringing/endorsing the signing of all of the dross on cheap wages that have come through the door this summer. Morishita was a player he flagged when he nearly got the Legia job, he scored on his first start and has been really poor since and he doesnt know what to do with him. I dont think its a failing of Ismael to get a tune out of Gueye though. Hes just particularly useless. He was for Eustace who tended to opt for Ohashi. But his record even with todays win is still terrible, but it doesnt matter here. Safe as houses.

Always satisfying to (finally) win a game and a desperately needed 3 points. Wasnt a very good performance but it doesnt matter. My fears over relegation havent been alleviated in any way or my concerns over the quality of the manager and players but its 3 points on the board. The 2 forwards I thought again were poor, especially Gudjohnsen but if he bags the winner then he can be as poor as he wants. The thing is, we have no reasonable alternative. The defence is also a bombscare, we wont keep many clean sheets this season. Happiness for Wharton personally that he is over his injury and also that one performance at Watford I think perhaps convinced people that he is better than he is. Has always been poor on the ball and has a mistake in him. Im not having Miller either, not a good defender. I dont think playing the back 3 helps them though. He is limited but I thought man of the match was probably Gardner Hickman who did well, either him or Toth. The game swung on those 2 poor misses by Armstrong but Toth did really well on both occasions. Hes such an upgrade on Pears. Alebiosu has had better games but is still our main threat. Fortunate with his goal (how bad is McCarthy for Southampton) but deserves it for his performances this season.

It wont be his last match, regardless of the score.

To be fair, he had every right to respond as he did today. You shouldnt be asking a manager about insignificant things like results and league positions.

At a normal club, maybe.

Hes rattled, everyone (bar chaddy) wants him gone, hes spouting shit in the (already diluted) media to neither expose his own shortcomings or those above him. But he neednt be. Hes safe as houses because hes at a club whose issues are those who own and run it who will accept such poor standards.

He did a really good job at Barnsley but Coyle also did a really good job at Burnley. Both have had careers with numerous clubs and otherwise have repeatedly struggled elsewhere which suggests that those spells where the exceptions to the rule. And its not even as if either came here off the back of those 2 good spells, where clubs could be forgiven for expecting them to repeat it. Both joined here with poor reputations, in positions where they would have little or more likely no chance of getting another job at this level, at times where things off the pitch have been particularly bad and weve got poor managers off the scrapheap to compound those issues.

Gueye is one of the few players that could make our team even worse. Ohashi is very limited but Gueye does not offer more than him.

Thats why I am not having this idea that its just bad luck and that "the data" suggests that things will start going our way at some point. If you repeatedly find yourself on the wrong side of these margins. You consider our patched up defence, our total absence of goalscorers, our lack of experience and our poor manager. Theres a reason we keep losing.

You make alot of good points but is Gudjohnsen's hold up fantastic? He regularly loses the ball when its played up to him and both Stoke and Swansea scored from his inability to keep the ball.

Ismael took over with them on 3 points from 6 games and having saved themselves at the death finishing 21st in the season prior. Even if Struber did lay some foundations, which dont seem evident from that, that is a hell of a season to finish 5th with Barnsley. Hes doing a terrible job here and got sacked within a year in his 2 previous Championship jobs. It seems weird to keep mentioning the one season where he did really well, if Barnsley fans dont rate him based on that then they must be bitter that he left. Did a remarkable job there but its an anomaly in his overall poor career.

He isnt wrong on Gueye. He is a shocking player and not only that, when he comes on he displays a terrible attitude and demeanour suggesting that he feels hard done by not to play more despite him being so useless. But again, saying it in public is not the right move. And its not the first time. I dont see any character or resilience in this sorry set of players, but it will only further decrease that when the manager is so public.

Gudjohnsen hasnt shown that he is reasonable outside the box. We have conceded 2 goals in his 4 starts and there have been other wasted opposition counter attacks as a direct result of his inability to hold the ball up.

If that is considered a striker playing well then it just shows how low the standard has dropped.

I dont have any, but I am not the one making weird claims specifically focusing on the one job where he actually had a massively successful spell there. How many people do you know that support Barnsley? Is it based on one or two, or loads? Either way, they clearly must be bitter that he left for "not rating him" because he did really well there. He finished 5th in the Championship with Barnsley. If they dont rate him specifically based off only that season then they are the ones who dont know anything about football. Ask fans of any of the clubs aside fron Barnsley and theyll think hes shit because he has done poor jobs everywhere else. I just cant get my head around why you keep going back to the one very good job he has done to try and prove he is a poor manager, when youve got numerous spells at other clubs were he has failed to go at. It would be like saying, Owen Coyle is rubbish, even ask Burnley fans.

You keep saying that Barnsley fans dont rate him. How many Barnsley fans do you know that have told you this? He had an outstanding season there, any Barnsley fan who doesnt rate him based on finishing 5th with them is clearly bitter after he ditched them. It was clearly very much the exception to the rule in his managerial career, he has failed everywhere since and hes a poor manager. But I dont get why you keep saying this and then avoid questions about it.

Alebiosu - good. Downgrade on Brittain and csn be clumsy but a Championship standard player and a good pick up De Neve - crap Tavares - cant even get on a bench that has 2 left backs, Forshaw and Montgomery on it McLoughlin - pretty poor. Can see why he never nailed down a central role at Hull Henriksson - crap Baradji - totally pointless Gudjohnsen - crap Miroshita - fallen out of favour Miller - pretty poor and certainly not a centre back TGH - pretty poor What an exciting window.

Absolutely. They try. Neither would be particularly good in League 1 which is a worry ahead of next season.

Ismael out yet? Gudjohnsen and De Neve are both massively short of quality.