Only change I’d make is if you are playing 2 up front, 10 is your target man and 9 is your nippy striker I don’t think it’ll be a case of not letting Rosenior go - more that the people content with him were probably expecting 6th at least with Liam in charge and would be disappointed if that isn’t the progress we actually end up seeing this season. I think it’ll only start getting toxic if we really do go a few weeks without being competitive. If it’s fun football and we look like we are improving I hope we’ll see patience.
I think some can’t wait to jump on Walter in favour of Rosenior at the minute. They also want to give him all credit for transfers still (which has since been discredited as an argument in the recent days) Like you say most can understand the context of the present situation but obviously under Rosenior we’d have been much more risk averse. Literally anything could happen today and it’s both incredibly exciting and terrifying
I haven’t been reading in depth, but have people really been jumping on Walter? I’ve more seen understanding that he hasn’t got the players he needs. I think he’s actually come across pretty well so far.I hope it works out because it’s been a long time since we’ve bucked a playing style trend (if ever - maybe Bruce leaning into 3 at the back or Brown’s attacking line ups in the PL?)
No one has been jumping on Walter but people (Slater’s dad included) have been concerned by the goals conceded in pre season. So will be an interesting one today for sure. I personally believe that most of them won’t have been playing at full due to Walter not wanting injury
I think they'll really struggle this season unless they bring in more quality. They spent about £6m last season, which isn't a lot relatively speaking, but you've got to ask where the £38m from selling Alex Scott, Antoine Semenyo, Kasey Palmer and Dan Bentley went.
Great to see the club get Liam Millar over the line, 3 good signings in the week, it is starting to look much better. I am all for waiting to get quality players in, even if it does take a bit of time. Quality over quantity.
I always feel like they’re a bit of a bogey team for us in recent years. We last beat them under Shota which was a dodgy penalty and a deflection. 1 win against them since we were relegated from the premier league just checked
That’s wrong, numbers were always: 1. GK 2. RB 3. LB 4. CB 5. DM 6. CB 7. CM 8. RW 9. CF 10. CF 11. LW
Although just looking at an old match day sheet, what you have is how City lined up, so my apologies on that front.
Nearly there... 1. GK 2. RB 3. LB 4. CM 5. CB 6. CB 7. RW 8. CM 9. CF 10. CF 11. LW please log in to view this image this is the way I remember playing it as I was always 5 or 6
I think they've made some astute signings, I think Mayulu is a good striker, and rate Manning as a manager.
I don't understand the point you're trying to make? Are you suggesting we're going to be forced to play him in the XI? If he's **** or slow to get up to speed then he won't start. If he's good he'll start and that helps our team. That's all there is to it.
Ah , so we’ll score lucky goals , Pandaur will make lucky saves and our defenders will make lucky tackles and interceptions, football isn’t it?
Given the likely starting XI in a few hours will have scored essentially no goals over pre-season nor last season, with virtually no goals created either, yes I think if we were to suddenly click and score goals against Bristol City it would be quite fortunate.
1. GK 2. RB 3. LB 4. CM Ashbee. End of discussion. 5. CB 6. CB 7. RM 8. CM 9. CF 10. CF 11. LM Corrected it for you
I still think he's a weird signing from all sides. He's coming in to back up a CB who doesn't miss games and whilst he could break through in midfield, he's got Simons and Zambrano to get past. I still think we'll bring in 2 more CBs if Macca also leaves. I get that it's a body and someone with utility but I don't get why Man City would send him here to get limited minutes when he could be going back into L1 and playing weekly for a promotion-hunting side. He's only played something like 8 games at CB, so I'm sure they'd be keen for him to get some proper experience in his natural position.
