So on Saturday I'd put Cooper and Wober in defence, move Koch to midfield with Greenwood. Drop Roca and McKennie and Aaronson..... ah we're ****ed, doesn't matter what he does.
On a positive note our esteemed leader radz, god bless him, has tonight saved himself 45m in stay up bonuses
Just back from ER and as tonight was a game we were always going to lose there were no surprises really. Of course the most damaging thing is the nature of the defeat which could prove catastrophic for morale, somehow we'll have to find a way to bounce back for the weekend or we're probably fooked. The most shocking news however is that Opta index have us at only 22% chance to be relegated, which can only mean they employ statistitions and analysts who are worse than our defenders.
I found Marsch quite annoying over time to be honest, and I didn’t love the football. I Get why they sacked him. He was a one trick pony and couldn’t get his side to be effective enough breaking down opposition that set out to block and counter. He also didn’t prioritise/insist on the defensive recruitment I personally felt we needed. But, on the other side, we were awkward to play against and we didn’t get the breaks this year… and there’s plenty of evidence to back that up that many are either blind to or simply couldn’t care less about. But you know what, I agree, it’s tedious. For me too. Thanks for showing such admirable restraint.
I’m frustrated with Radz but he has opened his wallet, it’s the wasted funds that grinds my gears. Whether it be the signing and sacking of coaches not good enough, the farce that was JKA or throwing money down the drain with James and Rutter (at the top of the spending tree), we’ve not spent well or wisely and how Orta is in a job still is even more staggering. I sound like a stuck record, but the job of a director of football is to provide smooth transitions between new coaches, not sign every player a new coach requests because they can’t work or coach we’ve what we’ve got. I know Gracia wasn’t first, second or third choice, in fact he wasn’t or shouldn’t have been a choice full stop but even he drops Summerville, Gnonto and Rodrigo three who performed okay under Jesse. Our replacement coaches have been poor, our player signings shocking but at least we’ve spent money. Radz is guilty of trusting Orta too much in my opinion but I can’t hate him for not spending because he has
It’s radz who employed and still employs orta so he’s equally to blame. Don’t worry yet, we’ll probably hang on by the skin of our teeth an we’ll sign a few more duds and another dud unemployed manager in the summer. At least radz had a nice meal
Well that's the goal difference gone as i predicted. Rodrigo lost his fitness due to marsch. Adams out is a massive loss and i fear only getting wober back is not enough. We needed Adams as that weston roly poly kid is junk. Say what you like about Roca but at least he puts a boot in. Cooper must now play some part at Fulham. Play 5 at the back as we get overun down the flanks. Grab at least a point and try to go all out and beat Leicester.
I don’t disagree that it’s his blame too for not learning lessons this season. You have to admit though, if he’d said in January, enough is enough I’m not throwing more money down the drain (assuming it’s his and not the 49ers) we’d have been on his case. We were all excited about McKennie and Rutter, me less so with Rutter if I’m being totally honest, and I feared the amount being spent on the one for the future approach, specially when we had a coach in name only, this lad wasn’t going to improve under Jesse. I understand Bielsa exceeding expectations on season ones return so Radz thinking let’s have another go, I don’t understand any of it from the day after Bielsa leaving, I understand why they sacked Bielsa but the 15ish months after that have been agonisingly painful and confusing
It’s not the money thing mate. It’s leaving orta with control season after season. This is their pathetic squad between them with addition of a fourth choice manager. If same crew are around after the summer it’ll be rinse and repeat
