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Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #900 on: December 21, 2019, 05:17:34 PM »
Season has totally changed because of today. I worry today's result will do untold damage in the coming months.

We've been very lucky not to drop into bottom 3 last two weeks. Now we're in the drop zone and now all of a sudden 3 points off 17th.

We're going into crucial matches without our spine as I doubt McGinn will be back anytime soon. As much as him and Mings have lost form in recent weeks we looked a championship 11 out there without either today.

Not good is it? The frustration is it didn't have to be like this. It's different to 2015 when the club really was on its knees at this level and begging to get relegated.

Maybe we came up too early. It's looking that way with the manager really struggling now to stop the poor form.

I have to say one wish for me whoever the manager is during January is we finally stop talking and go out and sign some proven players. Believe it or not but they do sign for clubs threatened by relegation.

People like to mock Wolves on here but they went out and signed Neves, Jimenez, Rui Patricio and Joao Moutinho. Top class internationals. Three were signed when they were newly promoted.

Wolves to me don't just talk about doing stuff, they go out and sign that and with them in knock outs of europa and not far off top 4 they're not too far off what we were in 08/09.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #901 on: December 21, 2019, 05:17:42 PM »
Okay, worried now.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #902 on: December 21, 2019, 05:20:48 PM »
Masssively worried.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #903 on: December 21, 2019, 05:30:19 PM »
Who are we going to haul back into the bottom three? They all keep winning at least once every so often.

That's the main worry for me.

If Southampton sort out their home form they could well make 40 points as they're decent on the road.

Everton picking up points regularly and that will surely continue with Ancelotti. Probably same for West Ham aswell.

Likes of Newcastle, Palace and Burnley all in 25 point range although history shows a team around that figure can plummet. We did it one season under Lambert and Brighton did it last season.

Bournmouth look most vulnerable currently but they did beat Chelsea away just last week.

We could easily get another 20 points and still go down. Worry is on paper the second half of the season looks much harder than what we've had so far.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #904 on: December 21, 2019, 05:42:51 PM »
The players have absolutely no confidence at all in what they are told to do week after week. When your best player is on the wing despite being one of the best central attacking midfielders in the country and we continue to persist with a CF who is useless, or at least useless being played as a target man then players are left frustrated. We cannot defend crosses. We don’t have any midfield cohesion or structure. We constantly punt long balls down the flanks and defences have wised up, dropped deeper and push our wingers wider and wider so they have no space. The manager has no flexibility at all in his approach. Picking Wes today was a fucking joke of a decision. I’m done with it.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #905 on: December 21, 2019, 05:46:15 PM »
Some very poor signs on the pitch today. Players not wanting the ball, injuries, a lack of confidence, an intransigent manager. Not good signs at all. I’m sure our chief executive is also aware of it too. A decision of stick or twist will need to be made before the January window opens.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #906 on: December 21, 2019, 05:49:17 PM »
The players have absolutely no confidence at all in what they are told to do week after week. When your best player is on the wing despite being one of the best central attacking midfielders in the country and we continue to persist with a CF who is useless, or at least useless being played as a target man then players are left frustrated. We cannot defend crosses. We don’t have any midfield cohesion or structure. We constantly punt long balls down the flanks and defences have wised up, dropped deeper and push our wingers wider and wider so they have no space. The manager has no flexibility at all in his approach. Picking Wes today was a fucking joke of a decision. I’m done with it.

Its that god damned 4-3-3. Your most central player has to be a defensive-minded holding midfielder. Which leaves Jack to create something from the outside. Its a sin to have him out there in a formation like this, with Wesley to play in to.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #907 on: December 21, 2019, 06:36:05 PM »
I have been worried all season, today is the day it's hit us all in the face. We are currently not good enough.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #908 on: December 21, 2019, 06:37:13 PM »
Yes

Offline levico

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #909 on: December 21, 2019, 06:45:19 PM »
I think the owners (unless something remarkable happens next month) are going to reap what they sowed. They showed a lot of sentimentality in keeping Smith despite his lack of PL pedigree. I’d have probably done the same thing tbh. As things stand we look odds on to sray in the bottom three for the duration.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #910 on: December 21, 2019, 06:47:40 PM »
I have been worried all season, today is the day it's hit us all in the face. We are currently not good enough.
Same here.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #911 on: December 21, 2019, 07:12:22 PM »
Beyond worried. We look like relegation dead certs at the moment.

Offline Rigadon

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #912 on: December 21, 2019, 07:15:23 PM »
We need to grind out a couple of results and then buy a centre forward.  And a winger. And depending on SJMs injury, a centre midfielder. 

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #913 on: December 21, 2019, 07:22:24 PM »
3 big ticket signings in January are essential. If we don’t sign them we’re planning for life in the championship next season.

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Re: Anyone starting to get worried?
« Reply #914 on: December 21, 2019, 07:27:09 PM »
4 points from 27 and the lack of progress has relegation written all over it, if the owners can’t see that then we really are doomed.

 


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