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In a must not lose game I don’t think the manager will be thinking about giving Maja minutes - that ship’s sailed for the season I’d say.
I racked my head trying to work out why he selected MP as he hasn't done that much since his return from injury which has disappointed me. I was hoping there was some news of Fellows that I had missed which would explain it
Valerien Ismael took Barnsley to a play of semi final. That’s great he overachieved with a really average Huddersfield team but what you’re not understanding is you’ll never get promoted playing like that at WBA. We need a coach who is comfortable coaching a possession game as most teams will come to our place and defend in a low block. Where is the evidence in Corberan’s coaching career he can do that?
2 wins in 11 with Olympiakos.
First thing Shilen Patel needs to do at this club is to impose a policy of no signings over the age of 25 and no contract extensions over the age of 30. If the recruitment team or any head coach don’t like it they can get out too.
Since Pulis came in I’ve been banging on about this. And a decade later we’re still a retirement home hemmorhaging wages and signing on fees to the point we were on the brink of administration.
It's becoming a real issue. Said it in M'Vila's thread, but we're pretty unique at this level as a club in constantly needing to sign all these old players to fill in minor squad roles rather than just trusting some academy players to do some minor roles.
It's not like the academy players need to even be good enough for this level, they just need to be able to take on some minutes. Would we really be worse off if say Caleb Taylor who's at minimum a very good league one centre back had taken the minutes we gave to Pieters this season for example?
Not really. Johnston played in the 4 games prior to that; Blues, Cardiff and Soton at home and Plymouth away. We only conceded in the Soton game.
I think it's more to do with mental/physical tiredness than it is to do with Johnston.
I do agree in that at times we leave the midfield light particularly away from home. Stoke and QPR are two games that spring immediately to mind where we could've done with an extra man in there and reverting to a 433. We do have the personnel to do that now we could easily add M'Vila alongside Okay and Mowatt but it doesn't appear to be an option CC favours.
It's just a bizarre shout. McKenna is the clear winner for manager of the year, but even Ipswich have spent money. Corberan has done it without spending any money, using the same players that Bruce had bottom of the table.
Or we could give Caleb Taylor a chance? We have to become self sufficient as some point and all we're doing is stifling his development.
Our resources should be used to get Kipre on a new long term deal. Any wage drop that Bartley takes is still likely to be more than what we can afford.
This isn't about CC in particular but one thing that comes up often is out away record. We are much better at home, but it's interesting when you look at who we've played at home Vs away
We have played every team from 23rd up to 12th at home, only losing once (Huddersfield). Conversely, we have played 23rd through to 19th away from home.
On the flip side, we've played 9 of the top 12 teams away from home (we can't play ourselves so that's only 2 games to go), only beating Preston and Coventry.
Al this is to say - is our good home form because we are good at home, or because we've basically played the whole of the bottom half of the league? And is our patchy away from more down to us playing most of the top half? The three losses Vs Blues, Swansea and Blackburn really sting, though
Both new signings are cup tied
I’ve just realised we will have 0 attacking options from the bench.
Worrying.
Total garbage from what I have been told.