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And there is the point proven.

It’s why they’ve hashed together what they have in 2030. Takes UEFA (Europe), CAF (Africa) and CONMEBOL (South America) out of the picture in one fell swoop. CONCACAF has the 2026 World Cup so the only ‘option’ is AFC (Asia) or Oceania (don’t know their federation) for 2034. It’s purely by...

Not easy to cross the ball to the one player we have in the box, surrounded by 3-4 defenders.

So using that logic, why aren’t we playing the ball behind the opposition defensive line for him to break onto and hopefully cross first time?

That’s as I see it. Not sure he’s got particularly sharp acceleration to find the space. The frustrating thing is we should be looking to cross earlier as a result of this but we don’t commit bodies to the box to allow for this.

Interesting many are picking up his lack of movement. Thought he moved plenty far earlier on in moves, as if he wanted a direct ball. When it works to the edge of the box, as we did a million times, he didn’t really offer anything. Watched the chances back and the main one everyone’s speaking...

I seriously think he backed himself into a corner spending big on 2 strikers. It’s understandable that he wants to make it work and justify his spending but we’ve lacked control in the majority of games this season. A return to the box is inevitable. The one thing I will say is the playoff...

Next culture war: time.

Oh the irony of ‘Mardi Gras’ being spelt correctly but ‘butchered’ not.

I don’t see it as that far removed from our issues (save the £980m additional spend!). Too many players to keep happy, no real idea how they want to play or what their best team is.

Waste of time. Stop giving this crossover nonsense oxygen.

I’ve had time to reflect on Wednesday’s performance and it probably wasn’t as bad as people are making out. Ok, we have some very very(!) flat spells, but we did create chances. There’s more to be done, absolutely, but I don’t think we’re miles off where we need to be performance-wise. As ever...

I seem to recall that didn’t score as highly as I’d thought at the time. Just checked, possibly wrong on that? It scored 0.68 so just over 1/5th of his total xG.

Out of the strikers, this would be correct. Surprising!!

Once you realise ‘possession’ is just number of passes completed it makes more sense.

Using the Rotherham game as an example, Dasilva delivered 4 crosses into dangerous areas that we won first contact on: 54: Simms’ headed chance 85: Sakamoto glanced wide 95: O’Hare glanced wide 96: Thomas put header wide I don’t think his delivery has been particularly lacking in many games.

One other thing actually. Plenty saying Eccles is too samey to Sheaf. I don’t think that’s the case at all. Eccles is playing far too advanced for large portions of games and we’re losing structure and control due to this. He seems to be underlapping MvE a lot in games which means reduced...

Play the box midfield. Work the ball into the lone striker’s feet far earlier in the move and allow him to pop off to one of the AMs. Wing backs higher up and attacking the space behind opposition full backs. We need to be more direct. The amount of times a ball was on to Godden or Simms last...

I’ll qualify this by saying I haven’t listened to it (yet), but 80%+ of fans are absolutely clueless and make Andy Turner look like Jeremy Paxman.

Keep the back 3/back 5/however you wish to define it. What I want to see, though, is the ball played between opposition CB and FB for either MvE or Dasilva to run onto. Should do it from far deeper before the opposition defence has time to set.