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[fatso]

There are a lot of things I find troubling and confusing about this summer. Our first choice CB pairing from last season having been entirely replaced by two players that barely got a look in last season is high amongst them.

Agreed, to me it sounds like a fall out behind the scenes. (Based on nothing other than confusion over the selections)

 

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[fatso]

Worrying for me was the passive nature of all our players.

Norwich didn’t really threaten, came with a game plan to stifle, press our full backs, commit niggly fouls (and plain assaults) and time waste.

Fucking worked tho-and we sat back and let them do it. Rolled over got shagged from behind while they tickled our tummy.

Could have been different if Simms had connected from that flukey Bidwell pass in first 10 mins or the header.

Forced Norwich out.

But again worry for me was lack of intensity or urgency. Lack of creativity for our front players-no good blaming Simms if he’s given scraps-he can’t work with that! Simms came off and the front three had exactly the same service as Simms-nothing.

Robins had 5 coaches and they have the international break to sort this out.

We’ve played 3 teams with a plan to stifle us and our formation-and we haven’t had a plan B.

Fucking go to 3 centre backs and give the oppo something to think about!! You know the old saying-definition of madness is to continue down the same path but expect different results.

City have continued with this shitty formation/game plan and it HAS NOT WORKED.

Players are all over the place and look lost-that’s on Robins and his coaching staff.

Can’t blame the fans when there’s literally nothing to get worked up about in a game when we had two shots. (Not counting the blocked ones).

It’s been a tough start but we have the personal and the manager to get us going again.

I just hope we don’t carry on sleep walking to more defeats like today-very frustrating!


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You want a plan B?

I'd be happy if we had a plan A

We look fucking clueless.

 

[Hobo]

Shows how much we are missing Dennis and Adi.

We had a poor start and poor finish in the League last season with Adi.

 

[fatso]

What really pissed me off today was when Doyle crunched Saka,and did his ankle. Took some nice handslaps from his fellow centre back as he resumed his position, with a big smile on his face.
Simms and Wright just calmly stood around watching, instead of strolling over and and telling the shit what he was gonna get.

Agreed, we are team of pussies at the moment, wright should of used his elbow at the next corner, and splattered Doyles nose across his face.

I doubt that Thomas and Kitching would of let the incident pass.

 

[Winny the Bish]

I hate the “we’ve got a young squad” excuse that Robins trotted out last night. Sunderland are top of the league with multiple teenagers starting and a new manager, playing the best football they have in years.

 

[Sky_Blue_Dreamer]

I’m not buying this too many cooks synopsis.

I’m sure bigger clubs than us I.e Man City Utd etc etc, in fact probably all of the premier league clubs have more staff than we do. This isn’t Sunday league.

They have more coaches, but they're usually for specialist areas and have a defined hierarchy. As has been mentioned, we've had a number of coaches on the touchline shouting instructions. It should be one designated coach, or Robins, that gives touchline instructions to prevent potential confusion.

I have seen it mentioned that the GK coach is currently in charge of defensive coaching, and to be honest I'm not convinced given how we've struggled keeper wise in recent years.

Of course this isn't the only problem and I think of equal influence is the Stamenic transfer as it was obvious where we needed to strengthen and that resulted in us losing out on TWO targets who looked like they'd have made a difference, albeit in different ways.

We always seem to take a couple of months to figure out the problems and see a formation change that alters our fortunes. But that leaves us a lot to do. Strange as well given that we looked a lot more cohesive and flowing in pre-season.