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Sitting here feeling like I'm at a wake. It's got to be said. In my extremely humble opinion, the blame lies fairly and squarely on Poch. He may be great at getting the best out of young players but this shit we're watching is down to him. He leaves great players on the bench, plays 2nd stringers and clearly has no tactical vision whatsoever. Leaving out Verts and CE, playing that lumbering idiot, Sanchez......it's been going on for 2 years and shows no sign of changing. He also allows personal feelings to influence his team choices. O-1 down to The Barcodes. How is that possible? In the run up to this game, I was one of the more circumspect people, not predicting huge wins and lots of goals. I didn't say anything because I didn't want my head bitten off by all and sundry but this has gone on long enough. We should be looking at Poch with a much more critical eye and asking ourselves some very uncomfortable questions.
Nothing else is working so fuck it.I just don’t know how you could excitedly bollock someone , unless you’re talking teabagging but I can’t see that motivating the players.
Worth a try , I guess
Now would be a good time.Fair point, at some stage the question has to be asked ....When do we put poor performances on Poch's doorstep instead of simply criticising the players ?
NO we had 5 guys standing NOT marking , Davidson can see no-one in front of him other than toby so pick the player up who's behind youThat goal looks worse and worse for our defence everytime I see it.....
We had 5 on 1......
Bring on Ben Stokes.Nothing else is working so fuck it.
So why do you love Poch when you’ve just named three reasons why you think we are losingLove poch but jans our best defender & we need him out there. & Eriksen is what makes us tick so should be playing too. Lamela just looks average again to me. You lot get my hopes up that he would be running the game & we would be few up by now.
It means nothing.
You can’t compare our performance by shots on target against two different teams
ShutUpPatrik made a good point that jan is the general of all our defenders. The organiser. Maybe Toby is less susceptible next to janJan maybe, Toby plays like a newbie at times.
It also helps that Jan literally screams instructions to the other defenders for the entire game when he plays. He leads the line which none of our other defenders do. Toby as the senior defender should be giving Davinson instructions as soon as he drifts out of position.
I think Toby is so focused on being a 1 on 1 defender that he forgets that he has a partner that he needs to look out for. Which works with Jan who is the one in control of the duo.