Liam Manning's Worry

It’s odd how he shored up the defence really well when he came in, an area that Nige couldn’t get right (despite him and CF being defenders), yet this season it’s been all over the place.

 

And the goals have dried up

 

Quite probable Dickie's the reason why our defence tightened up.

 

It wasn’t tight vs Millwall when Dickie was playing - albeit one of their goals was a very dubious penalty…

 

I think that was mainly due to Nige, it wasn’t anything LM done on that one.

 

R&W ffs, that was 1 game.
He's been a great signing.....we've shipped 6 in 2 games since he's been out.

 

Personally I’d prefer LM to be successful, because that’ll mean BCFC are successful, and besides if he goes I’ve no confidence that we’d appoint anyone better.

He does need to get things sorted quickly though. He’s been backed so he needs to start picking up points pdq.

 

I’ve wanted this for every one of our managers who set foot in BS3.

 

It was 1 game where we conceded 3 goals.
Since then we have conceded 6 more in 2 games.
Of course we need Dickie back, but I’m saying that even WITH Dickie available we were shipping goals at an alarming and unsustainable rate.
It’s got worse with him missing but it was still bad.

 

I seem to remember we had a similar issue under NP, he then went to a back 5 to sure things up defensively, maybe LM needs to try something similar or put Two defensive minded midfielders in front of a back 4? . So bird and another siting in front of the back 4, I’d then have twine as the 10 and a front three with Sinclair/ Mayulu central and two from Mehmeti, Sykes, Yu, Bell as the wide players.