Want to give your fullbacks more protection? 4-4-2. How is 4-4-2 offering the full backs more protection when that's what we play now? It's not necessarily the formation that is the issue, it's the way the players are being asked to play and the players we have available. No point trying to force p...

Burnley have had the Manchester pair and Spurs in their first 5, as well as a good Villa team. Their most favourable fixture was Forest away where they drew and were unlucky not to win. They have the best chance of the 3. Wolves, Everton and Bournemouth are all at risk. But agree Luton and Sheffiel...

Did Dellor also ask Selles about his current all-time favourite player Tom Holmes and criticise him for not playing him or was it the usual case of him endlessly harping about it on air and then not having the balls to say the same to the manager face to face? Tim did ask if Holmes was likely to be...

Agreed the formation needs to change away from home. 4-2-2-2 offers the full backs no protection, and if teams beat our press Savage and Hutchinson get overrun. It was 5-3-2 second half yesterday - perhaps that is worthwhile from the start next time. Though in our 2 worst away games (yesterday and ...

I know you don't like Sterling, Victor, but he's been in excellent form this season, and whilst you might wish his England days over, I'd venture he has a lot of caps ahead of him yet. Admittedly, I’m not a Sterling fan either so this may come across, but from the games I’ve seen he’s had one excel...

Arsenal haven’t really clicked yet this season - a bit slow in their passing in and around the oppo penalty area, but still picking up the wins. Super finish by Trossard. Dreadful game following another dreadful game of Bournemouth v Chelsea. I know there are conditions of the TV arrangements for s...

All this and we still have Smith and Wing to come back in the next couple of weeks, who are both proven performers at this level. Christ, even Ejaria could become a decent option if he is ever fit and his mind is in the right place. So many positives on the pitch right now. A win on Sat and people ...

It’s part of the entitled culture surrounding football, which extends all around. Partly driven, IMO, by this constant drive of pointless statistics that is thrown in your face. People become so obsessed over tiny metrics without understanding the whole picture. Indeed. I'm getting fed up with read...

Someone who can press hard but also get on the end of a cross - him and Kelv offer a bit aerial threat (unlike Vickers/Azeez for example) Oh I know what he should offer and expect him to. My point simply was that when a player is out and something is "missing" that player often becomes be...

Re Southgate's supposed 'safety first' approach, it is noteworthy that he has the second highest win percentage of any England manager except Fabio Capello. And at 2.2 goals per game, we score more than under any England manager except Walter Winterbottom, who left the role in 1963. And excluding M...

Where I think Southgate did make a mistake last night was putting Maguire back in the firing line. Southgate doesn't come across as the belligerent type, but it did feel like he was trying to make a point, and for no good reason really. Was a great opportunity to give Tomori or Colwill 45 minutes o...

Crikey people like to overreact to a bad England performance. It was a tricky game, we were way below our best, we still didn't lose. Move on. It's very rare for any team to have a 100% record in qualifying. Henderson can't continue though. The opening goal was in the space he should be covering, a...

We didn't play our game. Seems like they rattled us. Perhaps that Millwall performance was possible in a half empty stadium where the fans didn't care. I'm not panicking yet as I never expected immediate promotion. But we need to use these 2 weeks well ahead of Bolton. Millwall committed numbers fo...

God Twitter really is full of gimps. People that think one of worst teams in the champ gets relegated and become world beaters. The team is so young and learning, we’re going to have results like this. I didn’t think it was bad, mostly, but no clue why kelvin didn’t start. I don’t like hutch or Aze...

Think Camara is a bit of an unsung hero in this modern 4-2-2-2 style. Picks up pockets of space well higher up the pitch. Coincidence or not, our record stands at 3-0-0 when he’s started and 0-1-4 when not. Elliott does the job fairly well but really struggling with what Knibbs is supposed to be off...

Not sure what the latest with Wing, Bindon, Camara and Mukairu is but suddenly we have options again. Assuming none of them make it, would go: Button Mbengue Dean Abbey Bola Hutchinson Savage Elliott Knibbs Vickers Ehib CBC, McIntyre, Yiadom, Craig, Azeez, Tuma, Ballard Add the aforementioned four b...

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Ten Hag seems a tad deluded / bitter doesn’t he? Garnacho not offside and Hojlund should have had a penalty.... Ok then. The new Mourinho? Definitely deluded. He even said that Martial had a good game but it was only around the 30th minute that I noticed he was playing. Gary Neville going on about ...

He seems rather twitchy and intense (as well as deluded). Pretty early days still, but I’m not sure he’s going to work out. Man Utd fans must be a bit envious of Spurs, Brighton, Man City, Arsenal and maybe even Liverpool and Newcastle, who all have managers largely playing “progressive”, exciting ...

Eddie Howe will be under some pressure soon It’s not just that they’re losing, it’s the manner In fairness to Howe they have had a hard run of fixtures but if results don't get better both here and in Europe it will be interesting to see how ruthless the owners are , after all executions are not un...