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  1. Rav unquestionably looks a case above but he will fall victim to Project Hoyte either this summer or the next. Roger's already gone and not been replaced - which is unsurprising because I don’t think he did much for us in the league. ELL in a coin flip on what happens to him. I suspect he improves and goes - but at this point he’s not a raging obvious success. That’s three selected players from a list of how many? I noticed you didn’t mention Boyd Munce, Conteh, Hoppe, Gilbert, Glover, Jones, Barlaser, Bangura, Silvera who all are short of being championship quality let
  2. I don’t think it’s asset stripping as such but the reality we are in. We are selling club. This summer McGree and/or Hackney will leave. A small amount of the money raised will be invested and that will have to find half a dozen or so players. These will likely be gambles and generally inferior to the people that have left. as far as I can see that’s where we are now as a club.
  3. I’m on the flip side I am dreading the summer. Project Hoyte will continue and the few players we have with anything about them will be gone.
  4. With that record the one team you would want to play is Boro add a striker who hasn’t scored in ages and a bookie wouldn’t lay bets. blackburn at 3/1 looks like printing money.
  5. I bet Forss is up there with goals per minute. I think with the right strike partner he could be a real asset up top.
  6. Pep is the master of this. His sides are so well drilled that it looks like free flowing football. It’s all about trusting your team mate to be in the right position. He does this for 2/3’s or 3/4 of the pitch and allows freedom in the final third.
  7. To be honest the season has largely gone as I expected. We’ve downgraded in a number of areas and haven’t address the issues on the pitch. Cup run was a highlight in an otherwise predictable season. i think Sunderland was quite predictable as well. Selling Stewart and loosing Sims always going to make it a challenge. Loosing Mogga wasn’t unexpected really just surprised the bosses did act in the summer. Awful decision to appoint Beale. I can’t see next season being much fun for either of us as we both sell out better players and shop on wish for replacements.
  8. I think the issue I have is that fans take a binary approach. It’s as though you can’t be attacking and still know how to defend and vice versa. You look at most league tables and you will see the top performing teams score the most and concede the least. If you wanted to be binary then we have a big issue because we aren’t doing it at either end. We aren’t loosing games 4-3 we are largely being easily beaten. I think at this point there’s a strong argument to tighten things up. Give us a platform to build on. For me it’s about shape, positioning and probability a bit on the men
  9. I think it’s going to be spread quite thin again this summer. We need a right back (Djik isn’t good enough, Ayling surely won’t be offered a contract and Smith is a permacrock). Two or three centre midfielders. We are already short here especially of quality but Howson and O’Brien will leave. Barlaser is league one standard and that’s before whatever happens with Hackney. 2 strikers. I said in the summer you need three strikers and I stand by it. ELL has a lot to prove but I would stick with him. Add two for competition and cover and let Josh go out on loan. Thats just a st
  10. He’s assembled a bunch of league one players. Barlaser, Hoppe, Gilbert. Silvera, Glover, Jones, Engel and more. Window on window our squad and first team gets worse. We haven’t addressed serious issues over multiple windows. How many windows have we been looking for a striker - this one will be what the 4 or 5th. We went into the start of this season with an untested striker, an injured youngster and Hoppe. Not absolving Carrick of all blame there’s obvious weakness iin how he sets up. I’m not sure that any other manager would get much more out of this squad. It’s upper midtable
  11. Play our woeful permanent signings over woeful loan signings.
  12. I would be very surprised. He wasn’t the main man at Norwich and hasn’t done anything here.
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