I know you should never underestimate a team in the premiership, but Wolves look down and out. Maybe this is the time for MON to change it around, especially after lasts nights performance. Maybe Gordon should be given a chance, as IMO Mig was to blame for the first goal. The defence cannot really be changed, perhaps but Bridge at LB? Midfield is where the changes need to be made. Personally I would drop Larsson. Apart from the Man City match he hasn't done anything in the last 5-10 games. I would also drop Vaughan as he seems to have went off the boil a bit. Now the big decision I would make would be to drop McClean. He has been great, however he has been fairly poor recently (par QPR) IMO. I think teams have sussed him, so its up to MON and the backroom staff to help him. Upfront is hard, but I would go with Wickham & Sess. Gordon Bardo..Turner..Killa..Bridge Elmo..Catts..Colback..Rico .....Sess...Wickham......... I know it isn't the best, however I think we need to freshen it up a little. I think Colback can be a little more adventurous, I personally think he has it in him. What team would you play, and who would you give a chance to?
I don't think we will see massive changes, MON seems like he likes to give the players on a bad defeat the chance to redeem themselves. The Wolves game is a 3 point game and I cant see us not having an easy win because Wolves are gone. MON is on record about giving some players game time so a few changes maybe and Gordon could well be one of them.
Difficult to drop McClean, especially for Elmo. Catts and Bardo are clearly struggling and went in to yesterday unfit - so Gardner to RB and Ricco to LB. Agree about Wickham but then you needs Larsson to provide the ammo but bring in Meyler n the Catts role so something like: Gordon Gardner, Turner, Killa, Ricco McClean, Meyler, Colback, Larsson Sess, Whickham
So you wouldn't play a midget up front, alone? No-one would be that foolish Please no Elmo, i'd rather give that cat that ran across Anfield, a game instead. Two wide eyed scared creatures running around in circles..
haha no I wouldn't play a midget upfront. I think what made it worse is we were lumping it up field. The most frustrating thing for me is Mignolet. I wish he would not hoof it up. As a keeper I like to play from the back, there is no reason to lump it up to a midget. With regards to Elmo, I would play him for a run out. I know he was bad under Bruce, but players seem reformed under MON so you never know. I just cant see who we can play on the RM - unless McClean plays there and Richo on the left. I think maybe Catts and Bardo should be rested, as said above they clearly look unfit.
I think Elmo's future can be guessed by the amount of games he has played under MON, just cant see him being here next season.
I agree, but doesn't that show how poor our team is with the fact we don't have a back up RM. The only other option maybe put Sess on the right, or play 4-3-3 - because quite simply Larsson needs a rest, simple.
I think this could be the perfect time to give Wickem a run out. Wolves are low on cofidence and if he can put himself about a bit he could ge in amoungst the goals. It doesnt look like we will sign Bendtner so we should start developing Wickem. We paid a fair wedge for him and sooner or later MON has to give him a run of games to show if he can handle it.
If Bendtner plays we will win. If he doesn't i can't see us scoring. This highlights how weak we are in the striker department. Watching the championship highlights last night I think nearly every team in that league have two better strikers than Ji and Wickham.
We have had some poor results lately and I have tried to analyse why. A factor has to be tiredness, so the question. That then arises could/should MoN have made changes as tbh Moyes did (5 starting and 3 later). MoN likes to play the same team and tbh our squad is not that good so perhaps that is why he did not. Against Wolves players should be more refreshed but if Bendtner is not fit we have problems Sess is not a lone striker, I would lay RICO at LB Colback DM with Meyler,, if Bardo is carrying a knock play Gardner at RB, Sess and Wickham up front anid also see if Ji could be RW and MCClean LW. I reckon this close season recruitment is going to be interesting.
Larsson was awful against Everton, I can remember him being involved in one attack all game. Its a shame, cos in that one attack he showed how good he can be. He looked very tired. Should have come off at half time imo. 4-5-Sess has worked before under MON. Its not the best solution, but the reason it was so crap against Everton is that we couldnt keep/get the ball on the ground. Fellani was winning everything in the air, so we resorted to hoof ball straight to Sess (or rather to an Everton defender). Ji and Wickham need to go out on loan. They could become very good players, but they will not get the run in the team they need to do so.
UTD fan in peace I think MON's weakness is his ability to change things around TBH. I agree with the view that MON is old school and like sto stick witha first 11. This is why you see his teams (villa) tailing off by the end of the season due to tiredness At UTD we get frustrated with SAF 'tinkering' virtually every game, but it explains (IMO) why we get stronger towards the end of the season, basically the playyers are fresher. With ALL due repect (and I have a soft spot for SAFC), if you guys focus on the league under MON you will do well season after season. Where you will struggle under MON is if you start fighting on different fronts/trophies Just an opinion
If we had a bench / squad as strong as SAF has to call on there wouldn't be an issue. I really don't buy this "tired " road we keep going down. If the head guy's at the prem ended the league today would we say thank god for that what a long season it has been. I don't think so ,we would all say WTF that was short.
A slightly unusual choice of words... Forgive me if I'm wrong however it sometimes appears to me that for whatever reason your positioning yourself in such a way that you can justify being critical if we don't beat Wolves. With 6 games to go Wolves are fighting for their premiership lives.... As it stands today, Wolves are 6 points from safety with 6 games to go and a possible 18 points are available for them. Wolves will be fighting tooth and nail for every loose ball that is on the pitch come this Saturday. The next two games for them are likely to determine if they are able to survive. To suggest that this is a straight forward 3 points is quite bizzare. We gave Bruce 2.5 years before we made our minds up that he wasn't what we hoped he would be and Martin O'Neill deserves to be provided with the opportunity to build his own squad over a similar length of time before we start being overly critical. Thats only fair don't you think?
Thats why I think he should get some game time now Syd. He was given a chance at the start of the season and he failed to take it in spectacular fashion. He is going to be moved on so lets put him in the shop window and we might get our money back if he gets his finger out and turns in a couple of decent performances. I would play him instead of Seb as JM needs all the time on the pitch as possible as he still has much to learn.
If MON is keeping him on the bench, MON cant have decided elmo is a complete waste of space? He could play Sess and Campbell on the RW if needed, so he cant be keeping Elmo on the bench just for the sake of it - otherwise another player could sit there. By the logic of "judging by the number of games played" then Meyler will be off this summer as well (I hope not).
Just picking up the point of the hoofing of the ball upfield by Mig towards Sess, what is the point, a couple of games ago he did start to roll it out, why had he stopped it is so stupid to persist in the 'hoof'
