meanderson93

That'd be a dreadful appointment. Football he played is dire, effective in his set up against us, but that isn't much of an achievement.

Wouldn't be surprised if Wagner's odds shorten, the Markham connection is there, wouldn't surprise me.

Was that not Mark Noble?

So, Schumacher then?

Think it'll take a while to look back and find the fondness, it just went on for too long and got too sour. It's the correct decision, just come far too late, a massive dropped bollock by this board. Let's see and hope they recover well.

Very naughty from Matete that, wouldn't be surprised to see a retrospective ban. Deservedly so.

When it's such repetitive failures defensively, the blame really has to fall on the manager. We're not talking the odd individual errors, it's a consistent failure to be prepared and organised defensively.

Best we've played in a long while when we finally have bodies in the midfield, but the same old mental fragility of an Evatt team show up tome and time again. Just hope this doesn't give him licence in his mind to revert back to more forwards and less in the midfield.

Type of player we should have been spending a couple of mil on, rather than positionless, low sock, flouncers.

Nothing to it... Apart from the bit where he's telling fans go fuck off because they're giving him some much earned criticism. Nothing much else though.

With the squad balanced the way it is I think a 4-1-2-1-2 is a dreadful idea. It's the exact same issues we have now, asking the full backs to add the width, except this time it's whilst losing a central defender to cover the space left behind.

I honestly can't understand why. He's a bellend.

The condescension is getting tedious. I don't know why you think an average fan can't have an interest or an understanding of the tactical side of the game.

I don't want to retread old ground here too much, we've had the diagnosis before but as you say, Evatt can't seem to find a cure. But, for me, that isn't exactly how we were found out, probably more of the opposite. In our worst games it was painfully obvious the issues. Oppositions were dropping a single striker off the press and eliminating the entry pass into Sheehan, who was essentially acting as the quarterback for everything we did in possession. They were then playing very narrow width wise when we had possession and triggering the press when the ball was played to the left and right centre backs, essentially taking away the ball wide especially when Toal was playing at LCB as he couldn't move the ball efficiently enough to counter it. So we were left with the now infamous image of Santos stood on the ball and Evatt watched his entire ethos crumble in front of his eyes. In theory though, in that final, if he hadn't been completely shell shocked and actually made effective changes. We could have switched the midfield 3 so Sheehan goes to a 10 and Maghoma and Thomason drop deeper to offer two angles of entry pass and forcing their striker to actually have to choose a passing lane rather than just man mark Sheehan. You'd have then brought Iredale on and switched Toal to RCB and had a much more fluid passing out from the defence to the wing backs that would have given us even more options to bypass their press. Easy to say now looking back I suppose, but the worrying thing is that it hasn't been easy for Evatt to see that and plan his squad accordingly. As you say, he's actually gone the wrong way entirely and somehow made us even easier to play against. When adding depth and quality to midfield and more focal points in the forward areas to give the defenders more options of passes to relieve pressure was the obvious choice.

Is Lankshear definitely the one? I thought maybe from the comments it could be Mubama from City now they've signed the Egyptian striker.