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Rivaldo, McManaman, Weah. Oh, and Redondo.

On the basis of we only play one pivot and he’s not a 10, nor does he have the legs to press. He was all at sea in that very role at the start of the season.

And I respect your right to not have raised your expectations. I work with a guy who always wants to do the same thing, who never wants anything to improve as long as his status quo is kept the same, and I respect him for that, but I balance this part of him out by driving new projects...

But this works both ways, and that’s the point no one else seems to be considering. You could reverse these points for Veltman. Excellent defender. Awful, L1 at best going forward. Offers zero support for the winger. Zero progressive passes. Slows us down and makes our right hand side...

But that’s the point of my post. If you know he’s good going forward and not the best defensively, you adapt to that. You don’t sit there slamming the guy for not being as good as Veltman defensively, you focus on how much better offensively he is and then cover his defensive weaknesses. It’s...

To be honest, I disagree with a fair bit of sentiment on here, and I’m surprised that so many have reveled in the party line after how badly the past few games have gone. The reality is, we were the biggest spenders in Europe. You can dress it up however you want, but that’s the case. With that...

Lamptey is an effective right back, just in a different way to how Veltman is an effective right back. He’s had 2 assists and a goal in 4 or 5 appearances (statistics that I don’t imagine - although I’ve not checked this - Velts has matched in his entire time here). His attacking output is...

Of course it has. But it’s not the reason we lost yesterday. We had our first choice gk, our first choice defence apart from Lamptey, our first choice wingers, arguably our first choice midfield based on this season, although Ayari is up for debate, our record signing and our best player in JP...

It is, but how long do we go on blaming injuries for our poor results? Call me crazy, but I’m pretty sure we’ve been having this issue since the COVID season.

This is a naive post at best. We did have defensive players in form. That got broken up by injury, but the back 4 we started the season with, which FH was forced to play because they were the only fit players, was in form. We then established a back line that was getting used to playing...

I think the biggest issue with the City win, and I said this at the time, was that the thing he did that day was bring on our best team. He didn’t do anything miraculous tactically. He just brought on better players. But the first 30 minutes was the most one sided 30 minutes of football we’ve...

Amazing what happens when you don’t have a 30 yard gap between the defence and forward line…

I’d love to know when Ruttner did this seeing as he didn’t complete a dribble all game…

I have, thanks.

I don’t think either of them have been good. But you didn’t say that. You said he hasn’t contributed as much. Whereas, in terms of output per minutes, Minteh is contributing more than Georgino.

That team isn’t THAT inexperienced. The defence, Lamptey aside, is our strongest defence. The biggest problem is we’ve got a tactically inept manager and the players who we’ve spent big on, who were supposed to come in and improve our first 11 as established players, have either been woeful...

You mean Georgino, who has 2 goals and 2 assists in 900 minutes in the league, compared to Minteh who has 2 goals and 1 assist in 550 minutes in the league? Or were you talking about his twin, Ruttner?

I think it always used to be for me, it’s just less of a release now because of the frustrations I have. Having our new seats be in the WSU rather than the middle of the North Stand has had an impact too - I used to spend most games standing up, singing. Now I can see every tactical detail, get...

What would really be useful here would be to superimpose the Palace, Forest, Southampton, Ipswich and Wolves line ups, formations and tactics on to this diagram, and then show FH these five diagrams so we can talk him through the reasons he’s looking tactically inept at the moment.

I got on the HH bound train home as it was delayed, without having to wait at Lewes for too long. From a football perspective, Baleba, Enciso and Gruda. And hopefully we won’t have Michael Oliver refereeing our games again any time soon.