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As much as I think he's promising, JFC tends to disappear from the line-up when he disappears on the pitch. All I'm really saying is the next step he needs to take is to impose himself more on the game, and take a few risks with his passing. I suspect he has good vision, but see little evidence...

Fair enough. Perhaps unfairly, however, I do want to contrast 'Olly's tactical switching with Gus' approach, which seemed to me to be far more like sticking to one approach, and eventually grinding down the opposition, based on the principle that they'd become increasingly tired because we'd had...

Without wanting to stir up a hornets-nest, I thought he was out-thought by Holloway over both legs. In the first leg, we were on top and Zaha was getting nothing out of Bridge. 'Olly shifted Zaha from the right to the left, put him up against Calderon, and from thereon we were no longer on top...

When compared with your previous manager -- who is a fascist, and I think far more of an egoist than Poyet -- there are no downsides with Poyet. There's a lot of vitriol to Poyet on this board, because he's very ambitious and treated the club as a stepping-stone. I'm not too bothered by that, as...