Meyler

Not even close - he has finally got to play for the ROI instead of having to sit there looking at the likes of Glen Whelan playing the ball sideways game after game after game. He needs first team football regularly to consolidate this new found status. If the Slut won't play him, O'Neill & Keane will have second thoughts too.

 

Except they've not even connected hands yet in that picture so he's looking right where he needs to for that specific moment in time when the picture was taken. Talk about reading into something that isn't there...

If I post a picture of Ehab looking down are we going to assume he's thinking about the size of his penis?

 

Well, he probably is. That's why he bought a Lambo.

 

No. He'll be reflecting on what a ****er he has been.

 

Looking down towards where he's eventually heading, more like.

 

What worries me is that if Myeler or even Dawson are having to give the team a talking to at half time then what does that say about Slutsky. How much influence and respect does he get from them. I am beginning to think he is out of his depth.

 

I have heard that the players don't like Slutsky and they think he is a bit of a knob. I don't know if anybody else has heard similar.

 

It is becoming clear that Leo just doesn't understand what is needed to succeed in the Championship. Meyler is just the sort of player needed, but Leo just doesn't seem to far to rate him. Maybe after Saturday the penny might have dropped, but it is rather worrying that up till now he has gone with Henrikson and Larsson in midfield.

 

Maybe a lot of it is down to communication (or lack of it). His presser for this game was nigh on unintelligible. It's obvious his English is not great, so he may have difficulty.

Maybe we need a team of Russian-speakers?

 

You may well be right Stan. It was just something I heard over the weekend.

 

Like when Davies talked to the players in the FA cup semi final?

 

Yep.
He's really going from hero to zero isn't he with some fans.
He is having to learn. What looks good in training is nothing like the reality of a championship game.
Maybe the formation caught out Burton and Bolton.
Better teams like derby, with better players under achievers they maybe. Know how to handle it.

He's pushed his principles/belief in his system and it seems to have dawned on him it won't work. At least I hope he has.

 

Said this the other day, despite him being an experienced and successful manager, he is still serving some sort of English football/Championship apprenticeship with us.

We’re stuck between not wanting (or not being able) to pay for that, but also giving him enough time to prove himself (I think, all in all, most realists would settle for consolidation this season providing things were moving forward).

From the slight amount I know of him, he seems to have adapted in his life and career before and has also shown that he can reinvent himself and learn (his life changing completely when falling out of a tree for example).

We’ll see but I think any flirtation with relegation around the onset of winter probably could/should be the end, as the team (despite what the crayon jokers may say) is a lot lot better than a bottom half Championship outfit. If we’d still had Hernandez – well …

 

Bit harsh on Slutsky I think. Most of these players have had nowhere near as long to get to know how each other play yet. We had such an overhaul that it'll take time to gel like most other teams in the division.

It wasn't long ago people were arguing the formation hardly mattered... now it's being used as a noose for the manager a few short weeks after he's found out what he has at his disposal until January. Injuries haven't helped either. I think Slutsky will get there, but more time is needed yet before we jump on his back.

 

My point was other managers have let players step up and deliver home truths.

 

This.

 

Gosh how unexpected.

 

Do you know for a fact that actually happened?

 

I'm prepared to give him time Leo that is. Given that fact he's having to work for a completely clueless ****wit. He needs to just not pick Henriksen in a withdrawn midfield role. As for Kingsley I'm at a loss, Swansea fans rated him, he just looks hopelessly lost as a left back. I'd rather play Clark at left back as first choice.

 

Apart from Bruce and Davies discussing it at length after the game?