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I didn’t once mention putting it into the mixer. That’s his idea of width, not mine.

To be honest, the investment question has been done to death on here. It’s old ground. I personally feel our expectations should’ve risen after spending more than any other club in world football, and many others disagree with that stance and enjoy being a club with zero expectations. Both...

No one says you have to loop high awful crosses into the box just because you play with width. This isn’t the 1970s. Football at its heart is a simple game. It’s about creating space when attacking and minimizing space when defending. You can do that vertically or laterally, or both. Lateral...

I have my own frustrations about our recruitment - for £200m, I think we’re nowhere near good enough for the investment - but tactically we make the same mistakes at home as we did in FHs first home game. He’s not adapting. He’s not developing tactically. That’s on him. He’s just not very good.

Stretched them out of shape, isolated full backs, offered overloads in wide areas with attacking full backs giving our wingers multiple options in possession which they don’t currently have, open up space in the middle. There’s so many benefits. The problem is that our wide men are never high...

It’s unfortunately all structural. The same problems keep creeping up tactically and that’s on the manager, however much many on here don’t want to lay the blame at his door.

The issue isn’t the wingers being inverted, it’s how you structure the rest of the side to get the best out of those inverted players making the movements they make. A large part of our issue this year is that a) our wingers aren’t actually that high or that narrow, and b) there’s no one going...

Pretty much every substitution he made yesterday was mind blowing.

Every other ref in the league would’ve done what he did with all their play acting, and it was a penalty. I’m not really sure what the issue was.

I’m glad at least one other person was watching the actual game yesterday. The work he put in was incredible. Unfortunately, he kept receiving the ball on the half way line with their whole defence lined up in front of him, because it takes us an age to get the ball to our wingers, and it’s...

Interestingly, I think your post is a load of bollocks. Veltman was our worst player today from the starters, and was lucky to stay on as long as he did, particularly when Lamptey was somehow pulled before him. He offered absolutely nothing going forward, often causing moves to break down and...

Lamptey or Baleba for me. Pretty much everyone else was a 4/10 or below, with some not even reaching that.

Were they really well drilled? They didn’t leave their third of the pitch for 99.99% of the match. It’s really not hard to defend like that. They basically played like a L2 side coming up against a Premier League side, and were expected to applaud them for that?

Exactly.

He spent most of the first half covering Veltman who had a stinker. When he did get the ball facing their goal it was either in our half or just over the half way line. What the hell is he supposed to do with that?! The only time he got space, he beat 3 players and won a free kick. The problem...

You’re telling me that you think Naylor, the represented club journalist for 20ish years, just released a piece of news without verifying it with the club which could potentially cause a rift with the club and affect his ability to do his job? And you reckon he did this on the basis of an...

Most of the players were poor today, but he and JP were right at the top of that list.

Exactly. Don’t be so naive. It’s appalling communications management by the club and appalling management of the player. Really, really embarrassing, particularly after a performance like that, to try to pass the buck.

Where do you think Naylor got his information from? His dog?

It feels to me like a pathetic move by the club to throw a kid under the bus following an abysmal team performance where he barely played. We really are becoming classless in how we manage the media and communications.