Being fair, Elmo was at times last season struggling to look like he was a good Championship player, he should be nowhere near a Premier team's line up. Smith just looks like he's shuffling the pack and hoping to hit something. There's 10 games left and he doesn't know which formation suits the players he purchased or his best 11. It's pathetically poorly organised.
Quote from: PaulWinch again on March 10, 2020, 06:33:52 AMWe are consistently terrible. It is unacceptable.I’ve watched Norwich more than I’m comfortable with this season and you get the impression that they are a little unlucky to be bottom, that they are one or two players away from being a reasonable side.We have no shape, allow teams to completely dominate us, give space in the box and are completely one dimensional in attack.I have zero belief in this side.
We are consistently terrible. It is unacceptable.
Quote from: aj2k77 on March 10, 2020, 09:32:47 AMBeing fair, Elmo was at times last season struggling to look like he was a good Championship player, he should be nowhere near a Premier team's line up. Smith just looks like he's shuffling the pack and hoping to hit something. There's 10 games left and he doesn't know which formation suits the players he purchased or his best 11. It's pathetically poorly organised.Maybe the tools he has at his disposal just aren't good enough. We're getting found out the longer the season goes on which isn't a surprise really, it often happens with newly promoted sides. I was just too optimistic earlier in the season as I felt we'd do ok and that Sheff United would be the ones found out, however, their strength and system has really helped....
The form guide over the past number of games has to give us hope, particularly if we can tighten the defence, the Man City defeat has quite an effect on the goal difference).Matches Position4 17th (lower than Southampton, West Ham and Brighton and above Norwich on goal difference)6 20th (lower than Watford, Norwich, Bournemouth and Brighton on goal difference)8 18th (lower than Norwich and Bournemouth on goal difference)10 16th (lower than Newcastle on goal diffference)
Contracted to the club, we had two players of good Premiership quality, maybe 4/5 that should be useful within a squad at this level and one or two promising kids. And that was literally it. That scale of rebuild is pretty unprecedented. Could the recruitment have been better? Yes. Were we naive to ignore some aspects of the market? Almost certainly. We gambled that the players would improve enough and come together across the season and at the moment it looking like it won’t quite work but it was a really tough position to be in and a difficult job to get right.
Could the recruitment have been better? Yes. Were we naive to ignore some aspects of the market? Almost certainly. We gambled that the players would improve enough and come together across the season and at the moment it looking like it won’t quite work but it was a really tough position to be in and a difficult job to get right.
So basically, whilst the only change is the 4 match streak, it really isn't good viewing. We're in the shit on recent form is the takeaway fact.
Athletico winning through means Liverpool don't have to take the Villa game so easy. Would rather have them distracted by the European champions league