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Just now, avfc1982am said:

McGinns been awful so far. Needs to get it together

When things get tough, our cap seems to go MIA.

Ollie comon!

Ollie is dying to score. We have to use him better.

Winning Olympiakos becomes more difficult.

1 minute ago, rbcuk said:

He’s at home from the pictures his wife put on Instagram this morning, Olsen will play 

We have to be able to win games with Olsen in net. We cannot be so weak that we can't. 

13 hours ago, foreveryoung said:

Corrected.

Same thing. VaR refs are part of the package. The whole process must work.

We will win and go through to the final. We beat Arsenal 0-2 for heaven's sake. We'll win as long as Emi plays (no dig on Olsen) and Unai sets us up to play attacking football, which I'm sure he will. If we start negatively, we're done.

10 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

As long as we beat them.

And no giving them the first game against us, Premier League Fixture Computer.

Let some other word removed have that.

Of course we will. They have no chance. But I have nothing against them.

I'm quite pleased Ipswich is back to highest level. A proper football club.

I have great memories from the 1980-81 season. Ipswich was second after a season long battle with Villa. Still remember Paul Mariner and John Wark, among others.

Welcome back Ipswich! Let's make 2024-25 as good as 1980-81!

Just get rid until it works properly. 

I love the comments from Spurs manager that they have not been positive lately, and he blames himself for it. 

The same goes for us in a way. Unai talks about being brave, but our worst games have come when he has set up the team negatively.

Positivity is the way to win things. We're not quite there yet, but getting closer.

10 hours ago, Jas10 said:

Guess we will just have to wait and see… I don’t imagine Olsen continuing as second choice regardless… at this point, he should not be playing for us  in the Champions League!!

I agree. I don't like the ridiculing he gets from his own fans, but time has come. Stats are there, for whatever reason. Sometimes things happen.

28 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

Conversely… if we had a decent second choice keeper, he would play more games than Olsen has… Emi could be rested in cup competitions and against weak(er) opposition…

The problem we have is that the drop off is too severe… so Emi HAS to play as much as possible, even if he’s not at 100%.

Can see a young keeper, possibly Gauci, getting much more game time (beginning next season) than Olsen has and who better to learn from and develop under than the world number 1??

A decent veteran keeper would still be better and bring less nerves and anxiety than he does too… but better and more beneficial to develop our future keeper who could, one day, eventually take over from Emi… or the roles become reversed…

sounds like “big club planning” to me…

I think Emi wants to play as much as possible. It won't help our search for a decent number two. We'll have to settle for someone we won't like.

12 hours ago, Jas10 said:

Yeah… I don’t think there is any getting away from this. We can back n support him (and he’s not solely responsible for defeats like this) but… there really isn’t any doubt that he is a poor goalkeeper and, despite some visible although slight improvements, just exudes and gives off negative vibes, anxiety, nerves… Emi brings so much positivity, leadership, confidence and a degree of comfort… the defenders know they can trust him, he is in charge (Robin never is, not at all commanding) and he will bail them out at times…

He’s not strong or confident enough… some very weak attempts at saves at times… lets in some really cheap goals…

Don’t think we can afford to mix up the defence if we have to play Olsen either… need our strongest and regular players to help him out. Lenglet was poor/rusty and looked scared/nervous too… Carlos was immense vs Arsenal but poor and “frazzled” vs Chelsea… it’s like Olsen makes our defenders error prone or just nervous too… his anxiety spreads to others…

Robin just injects anxiety and nerves into the side unfortunately and needs to be moved on…

Maybe Sinisalo is ready if Gauci is not…

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Regardless, he’s not the only one to blame nor the only one who deserves criticism but… there is a worrying trend or pattern and we look a different side when he has only more often than not…

We have to move on from him, he can be a liability and we’ve got to move on from that sort of thing… it’s why Chambers never really gets a look in really.

 

I was really disappointed in McGinn and Luiz btw… we needed control of that midfield but they failed… but… they will be back and much improved. Been brilliant much more often than not… players seem drained, mentally as well as physically… need one final push from them.

Sinisalo won't come here to play a couple games a year like Olsen. Nor will anyone else half decent. That's the price we pay for having Emi.

16 minutes ago, sidcow said:

I can't see how people can blame him for the goals. It's insane. 

Made some great saves and pulled some tricky  crosses out of the air. 

Very nearly batted out the one which took a vicious deflection.

There's about 6 players needing criticism overast night in front of him.

People have a quite weird obsession with hating him. 

They love hating him. Weird.

I have come to the conclusion that we will reach the final. We are a much better team with easily the better players. Everything went wrong yesterday that could go wrong. If we dominate from the start, like we can, a win of 0-3 is very possible. Actually I expect us to do it. Forget that it's away, so was Arsenal. 

I'd like to win something first and then play "champions league".

But I'm old, I know.

5 minutes ago, Villa87 said:

You’re a bundle of joy this evening mate

I know, I'm so pissed off I can't go to bed. I will close this bloody computer now though.

I want us to be fourth, but not really fussed about CL.

4 minutes ago, El-Reacho said:

Emi is the reason it’ll be difficult to recruit a decent No.2. We’re trying to convince top class keepers to come here knowing they’ll only get a look in if Emi is injured or suspended. It’s why Brentford were able to sign that keeper in January despite us wanting him.

This is unfortunately so. we will probably also lose Viljami Sinisalo, who had a very good season at Exeter.

1 minute ago, Pinebro said:

No way we are getting anywhere close to 80M for Luiz

You guys are crazy

True. But maybe 40-50 mill?

If we need serious money in the summer, Luiz is the first to go. He's a fine footballer, but really nothing special, not irreplaceable at all.

8 minutes ago, Genie said:

6 people voted Olsen as MOTM  

As good a choice as any other "player".

This was tough to take. Can't even be happy about the spurs loss. 

8 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

He wasn’t. He’s been poor for a few months. 

All of 2024 basically. He should sit the rest of our games.