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As I see it, and this isn’t borne from outright fact just observation, I think Lawrence was a defensive coach less in term of ‘coach of defenders’ and more an ‘out of possession’ coach. The difference in terms of pressing patterns when he came in was very noticeable. Likewise, I get the...

This is one of the things I’m clinging to regarding Lampard. That first game v Cardiff he had us pressing really high up the pitch, first time during the season I thought we looked really good. After about 20 minutes everyone was fucked. If that’s the way he ultimately wants to play then it’s...

Fairly entertaining read…. “Golding had previously been a member of the neo-Nazi National Front and once attended a Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday wearing women's underwear on his head.”

Disagree. Poor on the ball and fucking hates closing a cross down.

Can someone say ‘elite tactician’? It’s unnerving me.

If you have had experience of this issue then how are you posting on SBT from beyond the grave?

What a fucking strange signing that has turned out to be.

A recent issue: every time I try to watch a YouTube video embedded on here they want me to sign in to confirm I’m not a bot. Why would a bot want to watch a video of Gary Neville discussing Man Utd’s tactical failings?

See if I was in charge of recruitment, I’d be running a bloated squad from the summer window, where it’s far easier to bring players in for lower cost, and selling 1-2 in January each year where you can generally command a higher premium. It gives you the opportunity to bring in the eventual...

Happened last year v Hull.

Come on, that’s bollocks.

Will hugely disappoint me to lose him, but it will happen by the summer you’d expect. Think it may start a redesign of the defensive side of our game - given our frailty I wouldn’t be averse to playing 4 CBs across the back line a bit like Arsenal, but with the ball-playing capability to move...

Right, I think O’Hare post-injury is a shadow of himself. However, as good as it is that Rudoni is outperforming him in the G+A stakes, he doesn’t replicate large parts of what O’Hare brought to the team. We need to find that drive from somewhere both in attack and defence.

Our approach today played out the way I feared pre-match. With EMC out and Rudoni shifted out wide to drift inside, I thought the onus would be on Bidwell a lot more to provide the width and we’d end up compensating elsewhere. Eccles played a lot deeper than the other day and MVE barely got into...

They are very compact. Every time we create an overload out wide we go the other way. Poor decision making, far too slow and risk averse.

Oh it absolutely would be. I just think you’d struggle giving Dasilva away to the circus as it is.

Think Michael Keane is out of contract in the summer and would have worked with Lampard at Everton.

Daft as it sounds, I doubt he was signed for his finishing ability. Would imagine he was seen more as a defensive forward who would press and stay positionally disciplined, replacing what Godden gave us there but with more pace. As it happens, we then signed Bassette which made the whole...

Personally not that keen on him anyway. Not saying he’s a bad player, and he’s definitely our best LB at the moment (although I keep saying I’d be interested to see Binks there). I think his defensive abilities are overblown on the count of him ‘looking hard’, he’s not great on the ball and he’s...

Not a great goal, but a great collection of one-touch finishes. Hugo Sanchez, 38 goals in a season all first time finishes.