Confirmed: Will Still sacked

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Sack now?

  • Yes

    Votes: 84 79.2%

  • No

    Votes: 22 20.8%
  • Total voters
    106
I get everyone’s frustration. It has been a bad year. We all hoped the championship would be an instant change, but we are a mess.

I would argue we have actually hot worse every window since Puel!
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ian Thumwood
Le Tissier's Laces said:
It wasn’t scattergun. We were all very happy with the window as we signed experienced Championship players and young talent. One thing it wasn’t was scattergun, we went out and got what the manager wanted.
Click to expand...

It’s always exciting buying players because fans are generally optimists and dreamers. So yeah we were all happy. The reality is though that we knew very little about any of the players coming in (save perhaps Fellows and Azaz).

We only needed a couple of new players imo; not nine or however many. Now we just have a team of players totally unknown to each other and playing like it.

Is Roerslev and improvement on Bree? Quarshie an improvement on Bednarek? Downs an improvement on the strikers we already have?

Jay Robinson was breaking through and looking great. Now he’s back down the pecking order. Not saying I’d send Scienza back or anything, but it does make you wonder sometimes whether or not we’d just be better off trying to build an actual team rather than replacing most of them every year.
 
  • Like
Reactions: AberdeenSaint
Che’s Godlike Thighs said:
Out of curiosity, what do you predict for us over the next few weeks/months? When will Still turn it round?

For me it will happen if and when we start playing two up top; Stewart with Adarma/Archer. One striker is too easy for other teams to defend against.

I don’t think Still will do it any time soon though. I think it’s more likely he will go back to 3 at the back.
Click to expand...

The issue I have regarding Stewart is that I just don't know if he's any good or not. From what little we've seen, I'm yet to be convinced. But he's played so little - especially in terms of getting a run in the side - that it's really difficult to know.

But I do absolutely believe that there's a huge Che-shaped in our attack, which desperately needs to be filled. And maybe, hopefully, that can be Stewart.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Saints_Alive and Che’s Godlike Thighs
Che’s Godlike Thighs said:
Out of curiosity, what do you predict for us over the next few weeks/months? When will Still turn it round?

For me it will happen if and when we start playing two up top; Stewart with Adarma/Archer. One striker is too easy for other teams to defend against.

I don’t think Still will do it any time soon though. I think it’s more likely he will go back to 3 at the back.
Click to expand...

I don't think it's so much that one striker is too easy to defend against. Solo strikers have caused our defence all sorts of problems this season already. It's just that we don't have the striker to play that role effectively. And if this is the formation we were planning on playing, then it's another massive failure of a transfer window to not recruit a striker that fits that role as it's so integral to this formation working (not to mention Stills favoured tactic of just slinging a million hopeful crosses in the box).

So yeah, I'm with you. You've got to play with what you've got, and so we probably need to play 2 up front. In theory, and depending on the opposition. 4132 might be worth a go. Might help Azaz too having another midfielder working closer to him, and more than one striker to work with. Would probably suit Downes if you just tell him to sit in front of the defence, mop up and play it simple too.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Brizzletiss and Che’s Godlike Thighs
Che’s Godlike Thighs said:
It’s always exciting buying players because fans are generally optimists and dreamers. So yeah we were all happy. The reality is though that we knew very little about any of the players coming in (save perhaps Fellows and Azaz).

We only needed a couple of new players imo; not nine or however many. Now we just have a team of players totally unknown to each other and playing like it.

Is Roerslev and improvement on Bree? Quarshie an improvement on Bednarek? Downs an improvement on the strikers we already have?

Jay Robinson was breaking through and looking great. Now he’s back down the pecking order. Not saying I’d send Scienza back or anything, but it does make you wonder sometimes whether or not we’d just be better off trying to build an actual team rather than replacing most of them every year.
Click to expand...

Downs is a work in progress, and though he may not be an improvement, we're not exactly looking at quality up top there with the others at the moment either. I still think it's a case of chance creation with the strikers more than anything (though a little bit of desire and McBurnie ****housery would go a long way). We did need a clear out. People wanted out, and we needed to try and purge a bit.

Quarshie is an interesting one for me. He may not be as polished as some of the others (yet), but he has that aggression and will to win that the others don't, so I'd like to see him in the team just for that. Scienza has a bit of the same too. I'd want them both starting the next match personally.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Toss saints, Brizzletiss, Che’s Godlike Thighs and 1 other person
Le Tissier's Laces said:
Downs is a work in progress, and though he may not be an improvement, we're not exactly looking at quality up top there with the others at the moment either. I still think it's a case of chance creation with the strikers more than anything (though a little bit of desire and McBurnie ****housery would go a long way). We did need a clear out. People wanted out, and we needed to try and purge a bit.

Quarshie is an interesting one for me. He may not be as polished as some of the others (yet), but he has that aggression and will to win that the others don't, so I'd like to see him in the team just for that. Scienza has a bit of the same too. I'd want them both starting the next match personally.
Click to expand...

Quarshie vs Isak.

I’m getting behind the sofa for that one!
 
  • Like
Reactions: thereisonlyoneno7 and Le Tissier's Laces
Saints_Alive said:
He's got the speed in his legs but not in his brain atm, could be a liability right now but there is lots of promise there.
Click to expand...
He has played 270 minutes, during which we conceded twice. I think people have invented some alternative history where he was a liability. The worst defending this season has come from THB.
 
  • Like
Reactions: AberdeenSaint, Velcro Roy and Le Tissier's Laces
Wood had seemed solid when given a chance. And Edwards is adored by QPR fans for a reason.

I agree that we need to look at our CB pairing, but I don't agree that we need to be looking in Quarshie's direction.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Saints_Alive and Che’s Godlike Thighs
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back