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Anyone fancy defending Wright?

Don’t usually attend Dhillons on match days, but guessed it’d be good for atmosphere. Beer choice is still absolutely shite, musics a bit loud, but decent enough atmosphere. Wright, please have a game where you actually turn up.

Not convinced at all by Wright up front, especially against a team with a low block. However it could certainly give O’Nien a bit of a scare after the last time. Hoping Simms starts up top with Wright on the left - and both actually turn up tonight!

Can I just shock you; the better that managers tactics, the more likely a positive result. I also stated the big players need to turn up as well as getting the tactics right. Poor trolling, especially for such a big match.

The big players need to turn up and Lampard needs to get the tactics right. That happens and we win. Wrong selection and half arsed performances and it’s a repeat of Friday. Wright, Grimes, Simms, Sheaf all need big performances after recent poor ones. Sakamoto needs another game where he’s on...

They’ll give it all the faux apology stuff, especially Hamer, and people will embarrassingly lap it up. He’s a great player but he pissed us around more than COH, who seems to be the hated one.

Feels very Mike Bassett, but I’d go 4-4-2. It’s a bit of a waste of Rudoni, but if we’re so poor against a low block we need to try something different. So I would play direct with Simms and Wright up front. Everyone knows how poor O’Nien is, give him something to worry about all game...

I think we controlled the game and didn’t really look under pressure, however there’s a difference between controlling the game and doing something with that control. Game plan was ponderous and slow, which then lead to passing to the FB/winger who was isolated/outnumbered. And repeat. Did we...

Still massively frustrated this morning. BTA starting was a mistake and it was obvious to the world after 10 minutes he’d be ineffective against a low block. Grimes is a good player (I’ll caveat that before I get called out) but playing as a third CB and slowing it down against a low block is...

Feels very Mike Bassett, but I’d go 4-4-2. It’s a bit of a waste of Rudoni, but if we’re so poor against a low block we need to try something different. So I would play direct with Simms and Wright up front. Everyone knows how poor O’Nien is, give him something to worry about all game...

I know I’m in the minority here, but Grimes ain’t all that. He’s great on the ball, he just receives it way too deep and is not adventurous enough. Receiving the ball deeper than the CB’s against a low block and then slowing it down is mental.

Not been this pissed off after a game for a long time. Wrong tactics, wrong selection and way too many anonymous performances.

Call it agenda if you want, but we got that so, so, so wrong.

Or Grimes? Playing as a CB against a low block is nonsense.

Anyone fancy defending Wrights performance tonight?

Not sure how it looks at home, but they are 100% in Wright’s head.

They’re all targeting Wright and not convinced he’s giving it back yet.

We struggle massively against a low block.

EMC

Posted a few days ago about how big an early goal for us would be mentally and the impact it would likely have on Sunderland. On a similar point; we faced the pressure of a season defining game last weekend, they haven’t for a long, long time. The mental side of the game is significant and I...