Slater is always dire. He is total **** at this level. Yeah, he's worth more than £50k. He ain't a promotion chasing midfielder...and he won't be a relegation fight midfielder. He literally hides from the ball.
Unfortunately, I don't think we have someone. But do those players really exist these days? Look at most teams. I don't really see players that I'd class as "captains" from the days I played etc. The games changed and so have the players. There's of course exceptions, but on the whole the game and the players have evolved
Maybe, in time. He's too new to the club, too young and, alarmingly, has never played on a winning Hull City side.
last time he was in the champ he got relegated id love to know his winning % in championship games must be a record low (nope im not blaming him syd)
i agree in a way i think slater can work well but in this current squad hes far too much of a passenger, same with puerta etc slater was far better when seri and morton etc where along side far too many of our midfielders have zero impact on our games which is massively amplified with awful strikers
Having been doomscrolling through this thread I can see that the season is over and we might as well just give up now. Or, alternatively, maybe things aren't actually as bad as that. We have been terrible for a while, but the idea that the players are all useless and incapable of keeping us up seems ridiculous. I do wonder if there's a bit of 'I can't be wrong about sacking Rosenior, I can't be wrong about the new manager, therefore all that is left is to lump the majority of the blame onto the players.' I think mostly we have mid-table players, certainly not top ten, but not bottom three either. We are in desperate need of a better striker, but the rest of them are capable of manufacturing enough points to stay up, using the cunning strategy of getting slightly more points than the other poor teams at the bottom end. Add a new LB, holding mid and winger to the striker in January and I think we will comfortably avoid relegation. That's a glass half full opinion I guess, which probably should lead to a month's suspension as a City fan.
Why can't people just leave the LR stuff alone, he's gone. The decision to sack him. Doesn't influence anything. If his replacement came in and we were in the top 6 people would say it was a great decision but because we aren't people will say it was a bad Decision.... Looking at things with hindsight always works that way unfortunately. We are in a bad place through extremely poor recruitment and a poor coaching choice. Do we have enough to stay up ATM, possibly, but I wouldn't put my trust in this squad to do it. Fortunately we have the Jan window and we do have money available to spend, which should see us sign players ( LB, 2xCF and a proper cm as minimum ) that added to a better head coach ( we hope ) will see us stay up comfortably and build for next season. I just really hope we've learnt lessons from this summer's recruitment and we do it properly moving forward, but I'm not sure we have or will. The evidence so far under acun isn't great. The new head coach has one hell of a job, let's hope he gets the support he needs to bring in HIS players to play HIS way and this last few months and the summer becomes a harsh learning experience for all involved and makes up ultimately better
Agree with all of this. To add I hope that if Selles does a decent job but we fall short I hope he’s given the chance in league 1. We need some continuity for once
I find it funny reading this, when I honestly see it far more the other way around. There's a core of people that wanted Walter out from before the word go because they didn't like the fact Rosenior was sacked. Our performances and results have been largely the same all season, even in the two games post Walter, yet suddenly his bashers now think we're playing well and we're just unlucky etc, which is what some of us were saying months ago. It's just tribalism at this point. Nothing more, or less. The squad is clearly lacking, partly due to injuries, but even if the quality is there and just not showing at the minute, it's entirely down to overhauling near enough the full squad over summer. It can take a long time for players to learn each other's wavelengths and start to gel to the level we see from other teams each week. I remember getting laughed at a few times for saying this previously because surely it must have all been Walter's fault. He wasn't great but still, nothing has changed and it doesn't much look like it yet either.
Was thinking the same, looks like he might have a bit of a gob on him, but as Ernie says probably too soon.
Nothing has changed in the 7 days since he left and we haven't had a single training session with Selles? Who's got the blinkers on? Many of us thought it was a mistake to sack Rosenior with no need for hindsight. For it to be the right call we needed a marked improvement in performances not the complete collapse we got. We had more shots on target against Blackburn than just about Walter's last 3 games combined. Not quite sure you can watch that and not see greater attacking intent and tempo.
Yet we failed to score, ****ed up numerous chances and cocked up at the back to concede again. Same old, same old, regardless of mental gymnastics. We had plenty of games like that under Walter where we should have been home free by half time, but weren't - and we'd end up losing after unforced errors.
i hereby pronounce a 7 day ban of the words rosenior,rosie, walter and tim the season restarts now in selles we trust, onwards and upwards
Exactly....first day of the new season today. Fortunately we don't have to sit through pre season haha
I wanted Walter ****ed off as early as early August because I could see he was a useless, clueless ****. I was right. **** all to do with LR or tribalism, Maybe others were desperate for him to stay for, yet “another international break”, because they had barked on, & on, & on about how **** LR was & were subsequently embarrassed by his replacement but had a tribalistic allegiance to him. Emperor’s new clothes syndrome, so to speak.
If you can't see any difference between Walter's last three games and the two we've had since then then that's quite astonishing. Sheff Wednesday was the worst performance we've had in years. We certainly played well and lost at times under Walter, but by the end we were absolutely lost.
Not every mention of Rosenior has to be picking apart the ‘was it right to sack him or not’ argument. Sometimes it’s just a comparison between this season and last - as we’d do any normal year. Later this season we’ll get comparisons between Walter and Selles. It’s normal and doesn’t have to turn tribal unless people turn it into it themselves.
