As long as they win by 2 or more goals we increase our goal difference against Ipswich. It would also mean Ipswich no wins in three
It's not so much him not rotating the squad, it's his lack of reaction to what he sees in front of him. It was obvious to anyone watching that game that Millar was the only danger for them today and that he had the pace to just burn past Archie at will. To not change that part of the pitch at all for a whole game is negligent. It was clear and obvious to me that Spence and Gray should have been switched or Firpo to even come on in place of Gray and switch the pacier Spence on to Millar. Anything would have done to be honest, even Anthony on for Dan James to provide a little more defence to that side. Just change it. He didn't and Millar ended up with an assist and a goal. It really wasn't a suprise. On another note I'm hoping Darlow takes his chance in goal now and we can relegate Meslier to the bench although Darlow hardly inspired confidence in his couple of games for us previously.
There u all were, giving it large about only being only 4 points behind us but it's actually 8......mind the gap!!
The biggest laugh will come at the end of the season, when you’re still in this division and your coach leaves. You’ll start trying to convince everyone it’s work in progress and a few years down the line you resign yourself to mid table championship football whilst you watch Norwich plugging away for a top 6 finish reflecting how you threw it away in the 2023/24 season
Agreed, however Archie could have got much tighter and also forced Millar down the outside rather than repeatedly allowing him to come inside onto his stronger right foot. Let's face it if that was Ayling allowing that to happen he'd be getting slaughtered but now it's all Farke's fault and Gray gets the free pass. The fact that Gray didn't tactically foul Millar at any point whilst Summerville and Rutter were getting repeatedly kicked was also more poor defending from our talented youngster.
I say it in pretty much all my match ratings that Gray is no full back. The lad is a midfielder. I also regularly say that as a 17 year old midfielder trying to play out of position at right back that he is doing exceptionally well. If he has a bad game I generally put it down to Farke tbh. Same with Piroe. We buy a 9, play him in midfield and then wonder why he isn't performing that great. That's on Farke too. To be honest, we aren't in that bad a position. It's just getting to the point where we are just repeating the same decisions away from home and dropping points because of it. It's frustrating.
He would have kept us up. When he left we weren't in the relegation zone. It's been downhill ever since we sacked the guy. At least he brought lads like Gnonto and Summerville through in to the first team before he left giving us a fighting chance in the future. We should be forever grateful for that.
From what I have seen of Spence he couldn’t put an unused Xmas present back in it’s box, he backs out of tackles, hasn’t got a real deal of pace either.
