Championship - 2022/23

Yea but without Eriksen……

 

We can’t compete with Brentford, we only have about 5000 more seats than them.

 

How many major traffic flyovers essentially woven into the fabric of the stadium do we have, though?

Ah HA! Thought not.

Checkmate.

 

A pub on only one corner? We're so tinpot.

 

A number of mid table to lower Prem sides (Newcastle, Palace and Southampton being others) have shown how to get results against City without completely parking the bus throughout. It seems the tactics are to accept that you are going to get sub-30% possession and City are going to rain 25+ shots on your goal, BUT if you defend well, en masse
at times but intelligently and manage to keep the losing margin (if there is one) down to no more than one goal and restrict City’s multiple shots to only a handful of clear-cut chances and/or shots on target you might be able to frustrate them into playing sloppily and conceding chances of your own. Easier said than done of course, but it seems against City on most occasions we weren’t even trying to do that!

 

And even in the home games when we didn’t lose by much (save the one in the Pozzo debut Prem season) the scoreline flattered us thanks to Foster or uncharacteristically poor City finishing (Bachmann played in goal last season but I don’t think that really made any difference). The away games up until the relegation seasons we were more defensive than really outclassed but it was still the usual zero points and next to no attacking threat.

 

We can still catch Brentford.

 

A draw would have been preferable. The game changed when Gallagher went off injured.

 

I think we'll get 5 or 6 points on current form and with current injury list.

Hopefully some time with Bilic will help improve us over the next month.

 

Edwards the front runner for the job down the road, very interesting, on the one hand, **** him if he takes it, on the other, what do you expect when you treat someone so disposably!

 

Hope they treat him better than we did.

 

Personally don't give a ****, but we reap what we sow, this is what happens when you go through managers like confetti

 

He was treated appropriately. He failed his probation period and left - same as any walk of life.

 

All our managers fail their probation period though, which suggests the problem is closer to home…

 

Absolutely. Pozzo's have created an impossible environment. I'd like to think Bilic is tough enough to deal with their **** at least.

As for Edwards - nice person, but scum for eternity if he goes to them.

 

Unless he finishes in the bottom 3 then he'll be OK by me.

 

He'd be a fool to take that job.

Lose 3 games on the bounce and the scummers will be howling.

The same as we would if that little shortarse beardyshit in the anorak had come here instead of going to Southampton.

 

I think his system will be a good fit for Luton who frequently played a 3 at the back system under Jones. However I feel Jones was a superb motivator who often got another level out of that Luton team, I don't know Edwards personally but to me he seems too nice and lacks that little bit of aggression that Jones has that he instills on his players which may lose them a little bit of an edge.

 

If we're honest, other than half a season in League Two, Edwards has shown nothing that indicates he is a decent coach. He smiles a lot, is media trained to an inch of his life and has read a few management skills books.

He'll go there, suck up to their fans and ultimately fail once he is called upon to do things like get his team to play in a defined, recognisable system with a coherent style of play and make in-game changes when his side are struggling. Can't wait.

 

Perfect description Clive. I shall have to wean myself off my own very bland 'Merthyr Midget' tag I've been applying to NJ. Thank you!

 

You might well be right generally Reids about Bedfordshire's Mr Motivator but I'm equally sure there would be quite a few players listening to that whiny, entitled, excuse-riddled shortarse for just a few seconds who would be more than willing to punch his lights out too. Just a thought!

 

Sooo... What's your plan for the World Cup?

 

Absolute Super Scum

 

Have a horrible feeling he may do well. Hopefully proved wrong

 

I'm the opposite. Nathan Jones and them were a perfect fit and he got them doing far better than they should have done. I can see them struggling now (hopefully)

 

Yep good point regarding NJ. If he doesn’t get a good start things could get tricky for him