Nabby

I really don't know why Smith and team discuss on the sidelines regarding subs , they make the same ones at the same time every game.With the 5 subs their is more flexiabiltiy to make earlier changes ..we don't.I don't think we have made the first sub in any of the games since restart. I agree about breaking up the play , as soon as Everton miss that first chance yesterday we should be making a sub.Slow the game down , have the player coming off stroll off the pitch etc.The game management is appalling ..Send Lansbury on tell him to just kick people in the middle of the park and give away free kicks anything Brentford are on the verge of Automatic promotion because they can now defend we can't it's not a coincidence .

Take him out of the team since the restart and no one would be saying our defence had improved.He singled handily has been the difference in us looking slightly better in defence.He is also really the only player who seems to have come back from the break any better. Will struggle to keep him as I think City will buy him back for the agreed fee and either loan him out or sell him on for a profit.

If scoring goals for blose is the main requirement we can just keep Hogan. Samatta dog shit , I would say he started off ok and got worse as season has gone on not helped by us using him as a targett man to hold the ball up which is clearly not his game.

This he has come from a team top of league dominating games to a team struggling .Look how long it's taken Luiz to get up to speed.

IMO the majority of the improvement is down to Luiz being MOTM in every game. The defending has improved as he is stopping attacks in midfield or is in the right place to get the ball away in the box.Take him out and we would still be all over the place. I don't think overall the defending is much better , its more we sit deeper to stop counters now especially the full backs.Indvidual wise attacking we have been poor but I also think as a team with carry little threat the Grealish /Targett combo on the left has not been effective , though I think this is down the fullbacks not venturing forward as much.

We have looked a bit better at the back but its come at the cost of our attacking threat.Cross's we get into the box come from deeper positions , we don't get to the byline and get balls in very often as the fullbacks sit deeper now particularly Targett. My issue is we are labouring , 10 mins to go and they have used 5 subs.We have 3 to make and he does nothing and yes I know he doesn't have a great degree of options but at that points it more about fresh legs to chase and win the ball than anything else.It's also about stopping the game..bring on 2 then wait a few mins bring on another break up the flow of the game. This not a dig at Smith but we seem to be one of a only a few clubs who have zero talent at the 18-20 age group level.Everton tonight for example had Braithwaite and Gordon.Are they current crop so bad none of them are good enough to run around with some energy to win the ball back or chase balls down the line ?

So in the entire season you are going to use 2 games in which Pep and Klopps teams had nothing to play for .In particular Liverpool conceded 2 goals from 2 huge errors from Allison and Van Dyke who in a game of any importance would never have made those errors. We where decent , we where the better side but we let it slip because this team and IMO this manager is unable to coach/manage a side to be tight at the back.

The MF where out on their legs magnified when Everton freshened that area up.He did nothing again

Once again sit on his hands and does nothing when we are losing control of the game.FFS just make a sub kill the game for 30 seconds take the sting out of it

Yes and look where he ended up . He didn't go to a club in a decent league as no one wanted him.He is another like Whelan etc people have decided could of done a job despite them leaving and going to lesser leagues or basically retiring

I think alot of that comes down to Jack having so many different manager's in his career and some of them terrible ones.Can imagine if we went city under Pep he would improve massively

Apparently he wanted 2 year deal we only offered one

Our fitness levels are terrible all over

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Throw-ins are a shambles , we take ages oever them and give the ball away alot of the time , as you say its basic stuff. Lack of change's is another so many times a player has been struggling or us as a team and he does nothing , the opposition score and then we change. Bournmouth away down to 10 he keeps 3 cbs on pitch when we need a goal ..

Interesting and some of it's where I stand.I watched a Brentford game recently and continually in the commentary they mentioned how much better Brentford are at the back now and that was why they have been able to push for promotion.

I'm sure the contract extension was reward for promotion

Nuno was the 3rd manger at Wolves under new owners IIRC so it is tough to get it right

Had another stress fracture ,didn't train during lock down only once they got back to group work hence his lack of match fitness From Smith interview in the DT

He has the same issue as Smith his teams are poor at defending but he has better players so as won games , but has done worse than Sarri who was sacked...

Shef united are well drilled in defending and can counter from there Our improvement in defending is down to us sitting deeper and having less attacking threat.Our full backs are deeper and one of them is a CB. Also on Shef United they loaned in Henderson which will likely benefit Man United in the long term but it helped them short term...we were so bloody arrogant in stating we wouldnt loan as we were too big to develop other teams players.

Purslow takes the most blame He was the one who decided on the transfer policy ie young and no loans He appointed Suso and Smith and then sat and watched them fail and did nothing His comments preseason look laughably now and it looks like the Liverpool fans where right about him ...I think he talks a good game and on an admin/marketing level he may be good but I think his football knowledge is clearly lacking.He is starting to look like another Tom Fox

Terry might be a crap coach but he is only part of the team ...I'd love to be Richard O'Kelly as this point he seems to be getting away scott free in the blame game. I wonder if I went on any other clubs forums how many would have thread dedicated to a coach and slating him/praising him for the clubs position

If this was Bruce 1)Terry or any assistant manager /coach would not be taking the abuse Terry is at the moment 2)Suso may be critized but as many would be saying the players are poorly coached by Bruce 3)100% No on would be saying stick with Bruce he knows the championship he will bring us back up

It is a poor league , which makes it worse that we are where we are