Let's face some facts here. Without Mon's appointment in December, I think we would have been relegated this season without a shadow of a doubt, or at the very least, we would have been in the bottom 4 or 5 fighting it out for the trapdoor places. He has inherited a mess of a situation and a squad of players that simply are not good enough. He inherited 11 points in our first 14 games and a team totally without direction or confidence. What he has achieved thus far is miraculous. As we sit here tonight, in the top half of the table and safer than a Virgin in a puffs bedroom, we can look forward to an easy April and May And a fresh summer of speculation, safe in the knowledge that our EPL place is well assured. Okay, they are the positives. Now for some negatives. Our squad/team are quite simply not good enough for the tasks ahead. For me, there are no players I would break my heart over if they left and I do include Sessegnon in that. If we can recoup good money for Mon team rebuilding I'd settle for that now. Mon has squeezed every possible ounce of sweat and ability out of this set of players but to be very blunt, they are poor players. Larsson, Gardener and McClean were awful today. Richardson slipped back to very poor, turner is a clumsy big plank who just hoofs the ball and MIGs kicking is amateurish. Bendtner and Sess are not potent at all at this level, on any kind of shape or form. We need 3 or 4 incoming players and 6 or 7 outgoing ones this stones and again in January to get us back on track IMO. Mon is a top manager but its going to take him time to rid us of the real Bruce legacy of a poor squad, with no pace and no real ability. They can turn it on for certain games but have no consistency for a 38 game slog. I look forward to Marty's team over the next 2 years and towards far better days than the shambles of today. The season has ended for sure now but I'd still hope to see a top half finish. 9th or 10th is where we currently deserve to be. No lower but no higher either.
Mclean was ok today, cept for his shooting. When we are relying on a winger to score the match winner for us, you know there is a problem.... I was really annoyed with Mig today, hoof balling it too many times. When he did throw it out and get it to one of our players, we caused Wolves a lot more problems. Ricco seems to stay too defensive for some reason, and didnt get forward enough. I would have swapped Colback and ricco around in the 2nd half. Larsson has been poor the last few games, he has no energy. I would of taken him off and left Gardner on.
If it wasnt for Mon today would have been 19th vs 20th. Agree the he has squeezed everything he can out of this set of players. That performance was all down to the players today. Not one showed any real desire to go and get the win. Think there'll be 5 or 6 go out and 3 or 4 quality acquisitions in the summer. Hope that includes two strikers
Im not downhearted over todays scoreline, or lack of it. We could quite easily have been relegated by now, and lets see who Mon brings into the club. I think we all prety much know who will be leaving.
Pretty much this. We need 4, we are far from a bad side, we just need a bit of polish. We'll get there.
People seem to forget we never seem to get anything against wolves. Im the only one who wasn't disappointed with the result it seems. The performance wasn't great but I'm still not too bothered though. I'm just waiting for next season after our fa cup exit. Hope the currently bottom three go down. We don't get much out of wolves or Blackburn. Want Bolton to stay up though, we get a decent return off them
He has worked wonders with effectively Bruce's team and got us safe, which in all honesty is the best I was hoping for after the ****e start we had. Next season will be about rebuilding the team for the third season in a row (not MONs fault), the season after that will be the decider. We are safe and agree that if SB was still with us and we got a 0-0 against the bottom club we would be happy as pigs in ****, it's a funny old game this football lark.
Strikers are what we need, the defense has been quite solid most of the season and considering all the changes in the back 4 it's a real positive. I think we will see the loanies go and another 2 or 3 leave. MON will bring 4 or 5 in. A striker will be a priority.
