AndyM3000

That Champ team was ass and held up by loans, the team being promoted to the Prem was in a state and we needed a whole new squad with 100 odd million, it's sod all. 10 x 10m players will get you relegated. I can't see him being sacked, who will we get in? We need someone that fits the philosophy of the club, do we give a relegation specialist a 1 month contract? Meh, then I think all motivation goes for everyone.

He's certainly at fault, he's the manager after all but when we have to start Nyland, Konsa at RB, Hause, Hourihane, Davis and also bring Taylor on after 10 mins then I don't think it matters too much who is in charge. We just badly lack any quality, it's not like he hasn't tried to change the formation, nothing seems to be even looking like working. We are way too easy to defend against and with who we have available I can't see that changing.

If we get relegated I imagine Man City have a cheaper buy back price, which I think they will take. If they get banned from Europe they will take him regardless IMO, Pep always rated him.

JT will be in charge next season I think

He's easily a top 6 player that's playing with 6-8 players who aren't even Championship standard. He's getting fouled even more now because we can't even take a freekick properly.

Can't even launch it into the box. Comical

There's just zero game plan

Almost impossible to head a ball in from the areas we are crossing it from.

Make a change, we have no hope here

PUT AN ACTUAL RIGHT BACK ON, HOLY

Even Tonev could take a corner

We cant even take a corner or freekick, we are so bad.

McGinn and Elmo on please.

We haven't created anything, lack of movement. We need to win games, 6 left after this including Arsenal, Pool and Utd. We are too afraid to lose the game and won't start playing until 1-0 down.

It will be fine once we make a few changes, Benteke and Laursen must be on the bench

Bit off topic but if Man City get banned from Europe they will buy him back no matter what IMO.

The lack of movement off the ball is shocking

Half this team I wouldn't want starting for us next season if we got relegated, the fact they are playing now is why we are ****.

If this is a 4-4-2 diamond I will eat my hat. They have such dangerous wide players and we would just be giving them the freedom of Villa Park doing that. I assume it's a 4-3-3 with Grealish/Samatta out wide and with Konsa still at RB we can make that 3 players out of position. I cant see this working but I liked the Newcastle line up and that was no good so what do I know? Here's to hoping..

40 points is easily doable, can be some big swings in this. The issue is how similar everyone's team will be, captain choices are important.

2nd in this league but that's about as high up as I will get, first is miles ahead.

Well I wanted to see the wingers in action together and they were absolutely dreadful, I don't want to see them again. Having only two proper wingers and them both being awful is a big problem. Shift to a 3-4-3 and use Jota & Grealish with Davis/Samatta and the full backs on either side of the 4 or use the 3-5-2 with wing backs. Either way it's desperate enough that I want to see Elmo or Jota in the next line up.

It's because he's not a right back. I can't stand this playing people out of position lark, CBs > RB especially annoys me. Cuellar got shifted to RB, Axel got shifted to RB. When has a CB ever moved to RB and been good?

Been saying this for a while, if we get relegated I'd be concerned if these lot are playing for us in the Championship. Nyland is battling it out for our 3rd choice keeper spot, Hause was a squad filler, Elmo was kept purely because we had to keep some players. We got promoted too quickly, the squad needed a good shake up in the Championship, it needed obliterating when we got promoted and we just couldn't afford to do that. Smith is certainly at fault, we can't have a CB playing RB, it never works and it ruins any threat down that right hand side. We have Elmo on the bench but a CB out of position is a better option? This is an issue. We have to score goals, we have a big man up front who can head the ball and nobody to cross it in for him. I thought Trez and El Ghazi would be decent options for us but El Ghazi has been below average and Trez outright awful. Our inability to defend has also caused us to not take as many risks going forward and we started packing the CM more, it hasn't really helped. We need to win games and you can't do that without scoring goals so we may as well go for it now. Elmo, Konsa/Hause, Mings, Targett as a back 4 until Fred is back. Let Luiz just sit in the middle with McGinn and Grealish, stick Trez/El Ghazi on the wing with Davis up top. We need more of a threat, they might be crap wingers but with two of them on and proper full backs behind them they might get more space and means their defenders have something else to worry about, it will free up space for Grealish. I'd rather go down trying to play some football than this shit we have to watch.

Time to get him off the wing. Was fouled a lot in half decent positions and we take quick freekicks, we need to starting loading the box and hope it creates a chance.