I’m sure I saw a thread for the Boxing Day game already? Must be going mad.

Anyway, Evatt has confirmed that Tutte and Kioso are back, thank god. In my opinion we should be able to put out our current strongest 11.

I’d go with the usual back 3, Kioso back in at right wing back, move Jones back to the left, Tutte and Thomasson in centre mid and Sarcevic further forward behind Doyle and Delfounso.

Saying that, with how inconsistent we are we could play our best team and lose 4-0. If we can start quickly and get an early goal then a comfortable 2-0 win is my prediction - another kick start to the season!

14 minutes ago, dusan nikolic said:

 

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Just now, hughmungus said:

And you are ?

Not happy that we are losing unlike some?

Fuck me!!! This performance would do a disservice to a pub team, utterly terrible. 🤬

Does Evatt actually do any research on opposition teams before we play them?

It feels like he just thinks his set up is good enough regardless

4 minutes ago, jules_darby said:

Why pick on him though? 
 

We just struggle when aggressive teams press us

RUR2R made an observation that he was too slow.

11 minutes ago, RUREADY2ROLL said:

Thomason too slow 2-0 WE ARE FUCKING SHIT

 

This is not even non league standard

I wouldn’t say that was “picking on him” as much as an observation. 
 

Other posters have made comment about other players but nobody jumps to their defence.

With nearly half the season gone, it’s clear 15th or 16th is as good as it will get this season. At least two transfer windows will be needed with some inspired signings before even the play-offs are a realistic proposition.

Wrong timing for IE

coming in with his pep ideas it’s fucking league 2 does what it says on the tin

Teams have sussed us if he doesnt change this system we will be in a relegation battle yet again 

2 minutes ago, jules_darby said:

Yeah I know it wasn’t TBF pal and I kind a agree; just everyone then starts to ask for old Managers every time we get beat. Does my head in

 

I still say this pressure isn’t cos of style as they scored before we’d even started. 
 

I completely get what he wants to do and I’m all for it and what I wanna see. But as much as he’s tried they obviously not getting it. Half of em can’t trap a bag of fucking cement so change it and stop asking them to do things they clearly can’t 

just be a little bit more pragmatic really 

1 minute ago, jules_darby said:

Yeah I know it wasn’t TBF pal and I kind a agree; just everyone then starts to ask for old Managers every time we get beat. Does my head in

 

I still say this pressure isn’t cos of style as they scored before we’d even started. 
 

What is it about us not starting though? You could blame it on the wind today, because we literally can’t get out, but it happens time after time. I can’t remember us coming out flying and going at a team but we often seem to spend the first 5 minutes hanging on or worse like today - probably goes back to my previous point about battling and leaders, but there’s also got to be some blame with the manager if he’s not getting his team going 

1 minute ago, Spider said:

Does Evatt actually do any research on opposition teams before we play them?

It feels like he just thinks his set up is good enough regardless

I said it last week, he is an arrogant man, and unless he changes soon it will come back and bite him on the arse.  Unfortunately at our expense as well as his.

Just now, Rizlar said:

Teams have sussed us if he doesnt change this system we will be in a relegation battle yet again 

That's my main gripe with him , he hardly ever mixes it up regardless of score/ performance. 

Carlisle obviously don"t need to play any football at all to be 2 -0 up.

1 minute ago, MickyD said:

RUR2R made an observation that he was too slow.

I wouldn’t say that was “picking on him” as much as an observation. 
 

Other posters have made comment about other players but nobody jumps to their defence.

A few have leapt on him today when he’s not even been a focal point 

they’ve also said he’s non-league. That’s more than an observation and is barely giving him chance  

 

The referee’s a wanker!

We should walk off; being cheated like I have never seen

Stonewall pen, ref shit out of it and looked at his linesman, linesman didn’t have a clue

Fucking ref is a cunt, pen one end not given, soft foul given fuck off

Very obvious penalty. 

2 minutes ago, barrycowdrill said:

I completely get what he wants to do and I’m all for it and what I wanna see. But as much as he’s tried they obviously not getting it. Half of em can’t trap a bag of fucking cement so change it and stop asking them to do things they clearly can’t 

just be a little bit more pragmatic really 

I’ve no issue with that and I agree. Think it’s part of IE’s learning curve unfortunately for us. BSA was a master of getting the most out of the abilities of the players and understanding you have to play within their limitations 

1 minute ago, Eddie said:

What is it about us not starting though? You could blame it on the wind today, because we literally can’t get out, but it happens time after time. I can’t remember us coming out flying and going at a team but we often seem to spend the first 5 minutes hanging on or worse like today - probably goes back to my previous point about battling and leaders, but there’s also got to be some blame with the manager if he’s not getting his team going 

That’s got to be mentality hasn’t it. Wouldn’t mind but the likes of Sarc, Doyle, Baptiste- we’ve a spine that have all been there and done it....they particularly need to look on the mirror for me

A great team has leaders all over the pitch. “Everyone is a captain” is an oft used phrase in the game 

Sadly we look like we have none, Gilkes excepted maybe

3-0 😂😂

These Carlisle commentators are a bit full of themselves, Cheltenham ones were the same

Words escape me

Ref is poor but that’s really not the issue here 

3-0   Carlisle fans singing sacked in the morning to evatt