Davefevs

Very mature interview from Alex Scott.

Yep, there was nothing he could do to change the squad last season, no window, etc.

Antoine is great on Robins TV....just said about teams leaving poo in the toilet!!!

No, its fickle, its knee-jerk....to any excuse they can find. Not everyone of course, some will back up and have good rationale....but some comments are pathetic.

Such fickle fans.

Disagree, he can write whatever he likes....he's writing for his audience in this piece, the fans....not to Nige. If he does that in a media interview that's very different. Huge difference between both channels.

NP: Callum not worth risking with games Tues / Fri...will need squad over this next 7 days.

Nige said not in contention, at least a couple of weeks away, and will be careful about how he managed in his come back. For me, no point risking him this side of international break.

If O’Dowda is fit then I think 10/11 start….my only question is who plays “just off of Martin”….Scott, Palmer or Wells. If O’Dowda not fit I see Palmer playing there. Im happy with any 13/14 permed into 11 though. I doubt Nige wants to sell Kalas, but it could give him the option to recruit what he needs. Fans will need to be mindful of what level of CB he can bring in….1) depends how much he wants to spend on a striker and 2) convincing a CB to come if Baker and Atkinson are first choice. Interesting times. Of course it could be a load of tosh.

Pretty much 442 imho, Scott played closed to Martin. But I actually recorded it as 4411. It’s not a 1 striker 3 forward 4231 imho. But I ain’t gonna lose any sleep over it, ok, maybe a bit ? In terms of fluidity, no surprise that Weimann often ends up centrally. Just take the goal: Martin in the Blackpool sandwich but it’s Scott the furthest forward, Weimann waiting to pick up loose ball on right side. You can see shape, back 4, King and James CM, Palmer LW, etc. King crosses, he has Alex Scott on right wing outside him, who’s made a 30 yard run wide, Vyner beyond everyone on the overlap. Weimann has run offside but attracts Martin’s marker, who lets Martin peel off the back of him. Edge of box, Palmer and King. One other thing (that I didn’t notice when doing these) is that both Baker and Dasilva are t stood hands on hip on halfway line, they are squeezing too. So we attacked with 7 players, the front 6 and the RB. Scott is now RW, Weimann CM, James box-2-box. Much more fluid from a basic set up.

It probably won’t be then ??? I don’t see Nige playing Wells left wing. He’s got plenty of other options, he won’t pi$$ about just to fit Wells in. Wells either starts as one of two “forwards” or not imho. CB pairing unlikely to be changed, Kalas has allegedly handed in a transfer request. ??

I’ve read the pre-match presser transcript and i thought the questions and answers were fine. Will listen later to see if anything in the tone. But a pre-match interview is a different beast to a reporter’s article suggesting a different set-up. Nige really isn’t gonna be reading this type of article. It’s an article for fans, Gregor’s audience. I doubt he even reads the pre-match stuff. As such I have no problem with the article. Personally I didn’t quite get his arguments for the system he was proposing. I think someone earlier mentioned that Holden’s system was very different (5122) so trying to use that as a foundation might be flawed.

Agree in the main….the Man Utd game / performance wasn’t what we saw each game, some were very workmanlike, attritional victories, especially at home. They key for me was how condensed we were and able to pressure teams on the ball, and keep the pressure on when we had it. The personnel changed as you say….but those autumn months were great to watch from my point of view, because I saw a “team” and what looked like a plan.

For info, he wasn’t suggesting Dasilva and Pring as the two WBs, but one of them….then suggested finding a RWB might be easier than a striker.

One less stick to beat Nige / media team about for some.

It’s why I have Astro-turf ? (true) There is of course the argument that as the number of SOD and Cotts players left, we got poorer. I kinda see it a bit like Marty McFly’s photo in back to the future, that with every event that differs from the real one a bit more of the photo disappears. Johnson did some good things, between him and Ashton they generally recruited poorly, wasting millions in the process. He wasn’t shit, nor was he managerial genius either. If he was he wouldn’t be in Lg1 now.

Yep to both….unashamed hindsight as I said.

Prior to last night I wanted a mini-cup run to get players minutes, ease into the season etc. But with unashamed hindsight (?) there is a big part of me that thinks it’s perfect. Nige gets to focus on the league, focus on competition for league games only. You could argue a couple get to coast knowing they will get minutes in the Carabao Cup. Not any more they won’t. 18 shirts to fill each game, there are gonna be a good few not getting kitted up each game wondering where their next minutes are coming from. They will either react positively (good thing) or Nige will see that they aren’t what he wants…and help in determine where to trim the numbers. It wasn’t the plan but I can see it being a positive.

Out of interest, how do you evaluate that? Which chances do you recall in your opinion being better than ours?

Jeeeez

As radio commentary goes, Pring, Simpson and Wells and obviously Janneh sound like they’ve played well.

Nice goal, lovely cushion pass first time from Palmer.

Initially did thigh, but then hamstring, during rehab, then hamstring again on return to playing.

Ah, see above.

Meant to be ok for weekend