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  1. I think he will be good with some be faces. Our attack is dreadful. Disagree it is all tactical that the strikers don’t score more. They get no tap ins whatsoever. Service is from Knight Bell Cornick and Mehmeti. None of them can beat a man to the byline and cut back for someone. My opinion anyway. We need two wide players. LM has also tried different set ups. I think we have good players but few compliment each other. I am happy with the back 4 and keeper. We need to be better technically and athletically in front of them. So for me, get to safety. Idk 52/53 points should do it at most. Isn’t pretty to look at but still think there will be 3 teams in the 40s point wise come end of season. Want him to experiment a bit more with players that will be here or could be here. Drop Knight a bit deeper with TGH. Get Twine behind the striker. Get Medube 4-5 games in a row. Poor or not just see how we look so we can make informed decisions in the summer. Without a Pearson/Manning argument, we are likely outside the playoffs regardless. Both would need funding this summer. Think NP did a good job rebuilding the back and he probably viewed team building that way. Back to front. Now let LM build the middle to front in his mould and judge him on that. 2 wide players and a striker. That is on top of bringing Twine in who I think is needed. Keep SPH around next year and let him battle with a new striker and wells. I would explore deals for Mehmeti, Cornick and Conway. Open to resigning James if he wants on top of bringing in Bird. I think performances will pick up with Sykes back to full fitness and Twine back. Rightly or wrongly players will probably feel not much to play for. Performances often drop this time of year. I think strong character to win that game Sunday from what I have heard and read about the atmosphere. I think if we had a quiet board it wouldn’t be so hostile. It is unfair on anyone calling it a top 6 squad. 2-3 good starting players away from even really being considered. We just get drip fed how good these players are when, especially up front, they are not.
  2. Cutting in and scoring was my point. He doesn’t do it. His goals have been tap ins and getting in behind. He got found out and thats why his goals have dried up. He can’t go left and isn’t quick or tricky enough to go right. If you can’t see defenders are more afraid of Mehmeti than Bell then it is a you problem. Now it is really moot because both aren’t good enough wide players at this level. However Mehmeti has a quick enough burst to get a shot or cross away. Where they are going no one knows but he has a bit more to his arsenal than Bell and might be worth nurturing long term. Bell can finish but can’t see him ever being able to play centrally well enough to make the most of that. All in all, 2 players that probably don’t make it at this level. Someone mentioned Bell and Burns in the same sentence. Burns had real pace and that is the difference. You might even be able to say Bell and Mehmeti both technically better. However, Burns is bigger stronger and faster and that is a type we haven’t recruited for awhile and imo is a big reason we don’t compete at this level. Hopefully the new lad on loan can be some of that. Pring can’t cross or pass very well but his pace and power makes him stand out at this level. Need to be more athletic all around the pitch.
  3. Not so sure on that. Recall most of Bell’s goals coming from set pieces and getting some luck with loose ball dropping to him. Certainly do not remember him cutting in and scoring. Not that Mehmeti does it well but do think he is more of a threat to score from it. Bell often lazily goes left and clips a very uninspiring cross in with his left. Show me Bell’s goals cutting in and scoring. Even his goals in the cup last season weren’t that.
  4. Mehmeti’s lack of pace is a real problem out wide for sure imo. He has ability but not sure he can fulfil it playing out wide long term.
  5. We looked just as unlikely in a 433 as the 5221 or whatever you want to call it. I think we may go back to 433 4231 once the new lad is settled but for now with the injuries it probably suited for what we have available. We haven’t seen it with Sykes and Twine both fit and the last couple have been without both! Our two best creators out I think is more the problem with our attacking play rather than Bell as a RWB for 20 minutes. Also, Bell is much better on the right either way so for me it has made sense.
  6. Who would you prefer there? It is clear it is a position that needs to provide some athleticism and width. Sykes has been out and McRorie just back. So who? Everyone in agreement Tanner a better RCB. You prefer Cornick then? I am not selling either unless we get a good fee. They have another summer to develop physically. Both may never make it but both have roles to play for a team that can’t afford 24 experienced championship players and their wages.
  7. He doesn’t have to be Guardiola level good to be a star here. He was good enough to go for 2m euros without a senior game player. I think it is safe to assume the talent is there and up to Manning to get his confidence going
  8. Probably the type of business we need to be doing. Has all the good upbringing. So you know the ability is there just needs the right environment. We can’t buy proven for the same money we’d sign this lad for. We have a try before buy and a coach that likes to develop. It is an ambitious move for us which makes me think we are moving in the right direction as a club.
  9. Maybe Knight has talked up the squad and manager? Seeing us play well against West Ham. Not miles off playoffs now and he’d expect to make us better and he will play with James and King going. Probably Williams too I would think. After his injuries here he may just want to take his chances closes to home imo.
  10. Bingo and it allows us not to be blown out of the water in the summer by a relegated prem team or something too. It is smart business imo. Obviously depending on the fee too but if it guarantees a signature from possibly out top summer target then it makes sense
  11. And there in lies the problems with stats. And I love a stat but your eyes can tell you more. Under Pearson, Conway had no service. Under Manning, getting plenty of chances where he only has the keeper to beat. Under Pearson, Mehmeti was lost completely out on the wing and no chemistry with Pring. Under Manning, Mehmeti has the freedom to tuck inside and Pring sees it and will overlap more. Under Pearson, Knight was just a central player and a forward one at that. Under Manning, he is popping up everywhere. On the wing, in the box and at times dropping deep to keep the play going. I think we look a lot more well drilled and organised in possession under Manning than we did under Pearson where it felt like we needed to beat teams with set pieces or individual brilliance(which we lacked thus not scoring in open play much). I haven’t seen any noticeable regression in anyone. Have seen plenty of improvement in individuals though. Yes, we will still struggle to break down teams at times because we don’t have any difference makers in the front players. I’ll see how Twine gets on and on one game is encouraging that he can maybe be that for us. Still, the best sides have more than one in the team and we need to do more in recruitment if we can.
  12. Twine had a great chance in open play. The goal was from pressing. We had chances from set pieces too. So still a threat on set pieces and better pressing and sharper passing in the final third. Idk how that is a bad take
  13. Spot on. Am convinced anyone who can’t see it either watches on tv or has never played football before. We were pretty much exclusively a threat from set pieces or long throws under Pearson. Got people asking if it coincidence we have had 3 penalties in 15 games under LM and went over a whole season without on under NP. Not coincidence at all. We are much sharper in the final third. Tommy Conway getting a 1v1 with the keeper nearly every game now. Also not coincidence. Unfortunately mate, you are arguing with a bunch of dinosaurs that are stuck in 1991. More in love with the bloke NP than the manager. The board actually getting things right and it is the most negative on here as I have ever seen it. Have someone now actually on the grass and you only hear great things from the players yet they know better on here.
  14. Idk I looked at it more as 3421. Yes Mehmeti ended up wide more but natural for him.
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