by Snowball » 24 Sep 2023 12:48
by Sutekh » 24 Sep 2023 13:05
Snowflake RoyalWestYorksRoyal Mola clearly has pedigree coming through the Chelsea academy, playing for England U21s and being signed by Stuttgart. But Blackburn fans had nothing good to say about him, and so far he's done little to prove them wrong. I'm hoping that he's still getting up to speed and will improve in the next month, but I can't help that think he was a bit of a panic signing who we wouldn't have gone for without the Dai imposed restrictions.
I agree out of position McIntyre could be the best option there for now.
I'd go Guiness-Walker. He's not the best defensively, but he's better than Mola and he can get forward well. He does at least try to stop crosses.
McIntyre in at CB alongside Abbey. Yiadom can stay RB for now. (If NGW is injured then McIntyre @LB phasing Carson in slowly & Holmes with Abbey)
Wing and Savage in midfield. If that doesn't work, Rushesha or Craig an bring some hustle and bustle to the game.
Away from home I'm dropping Ballard and putting in an extra midfielder.
by RoyalBlue » 24 Sep 2023 14:04
SutekhSnowflake RoyalWestYorksRoyal Mola clearly has pedigree coming through the Chelsea academy, playing for England U21s and being signed by Stuttgart. But Blackburn fans had nothing good to say about him, and so far he's done little to prove them wrong. I'm hoping that he's still getting up to speed and will improve in the next month, but I can't help that think he was a bit of a panic signing who we wouldn't have gone for without the Dai imposed restrictions.
I agree out of position McIntyre could be the best option there for now.
I'd go Guiness-Walker. He's not the best defensively, but he's better than Mola and he can get forward well. He does at least try to stop crosses.
McIntyre in at CB alongside Abbey. Yiadom can stay RB for now. (If NGW is injured then McIntyre @LB phasing Carson in slowly & Holmes with Abbey)
Wing and Savage in midfield. If that doesn't work, Rushesha or Craig an bring some hustle and bustle to the game.
Away from home I'm dropping Ballard and putting in an extra midfielder.
Implication from the post match with Tim was that NGW has been injured rather than not in plans. Tim asked and Monica said NGW should be back in a week or so.
by YorkshireRoyal99 » 24 Sep 2023 16:21
by Mid Sussex Royal » 24 Sep 2023 16:35
by tidus_mi2 » 24 Sep 2023 16:51
Mid Sussex Royal Ady Williams saying on Twitter we should start TMac and Holmes next week, the guy is clueless, BBC Berks needs a complete overhaul.
by Clyde1998 » 24 Sep 2023 16:56
Mid Sussex Royal Ady Williams saying on Twitter we should start TMac and Holmes next week, the guy is clueless, BBC Berks needs a complete overhaul.
by leon » 24 Sep 2023 23:27
Clyde1998Mid Sussex Royal Ady Williams saying on Twitter we should start TMac and Holmes next week, the guy is clueless, BBC Berks needs a complete overhaul.
One bad result and we should make huge changes to the team seems to be a line that gets repeated a lot on BBC Berks. The reality is we've got a largely young and inexperienced team - these players will improve and learn from playing regularly and require serious match experience in order to reduce the chance of making mistakes.
We've also had players like Wing, Smith and Camara missing for most/all of this season - all three would benefit the side when they're back being available regularly.
Additionally, we've got a run of games now where we could very realistically get nine points: Burton, Northampton, Leyton Orient. Then, assuming the Oxford game gets moved for internationals, Charlton and Fleetwood, where another four points is very possible. We could be very comfortably in a mid-table position by the end of that run. I think most people would be happy with a mid-table finish this season.
It's a complete over-reaction to a poor performance and result.
by Snowflake Royal » 25 Sep 2023 07:15
Clyde1998Mid Sussex Royal Ady Williams saying on Twitter we should start TMac and Holmes next week, the guy is clueless, BBC Berks needs a complete overhaul.
One bad result and we should make huge changes to the team seems to be a line that gets repeated a lot on BBC Berks. The reality is we've got a largely young and inexperienced team - these players will improve and learn from playing regularly and require serious match experience in order to reduce the chance of making mistakes.
We've also had players like Wing, Smith and Camara missing for most/all of this season - all three would benefit the side when they're back being available regularly.
Additionally, we've got a run of games now where we could very realistically get nine points: Burton, Northampton, Leyton Orient. Then, assuming the Oxford game gets moved for internationals, Charlton and Fleetwood, where another four points is very possible. We could be very comfortably in a mid-table position by the end of that run. I think most people would be happy with a mid-table finish this season.
It's a complete over-reaction to a poor performance and result.
by Sutekh » 25 Sep 2023 07:51
RoyalBlueSutekhSnowflake Royal I'd go Guiness-Walker. He's not the best defensively, but he's better than Mola and he can get forward well. He does at least try to stop crosses.
McIntyre in at CB alongside Abbey. Yiadom can stay RB for now. (If NGW is injured then McIntyre @LB phasing Carson in slowly & Holmes with Abbey)
Wing and Savage in midfield. If that doesn't work, Rushesha or Craig an bring some hustle and bustle to the game.
Away from home I'm dropping Ballard and putting in an extra midfielder.
Implication from the post match with Tim was that NGW has been injured rather than not in plans. Tim asked and Monica said NGW should be back in a week or so.
Did Dellor also ask Selles about his current all-time favourite player Tom Holmes and criticise him for not playing him or was it the usual case of him endlessly harping about it on air and then not having the balls to say the same to the manager face to face?
by Royal_jimmy » 25 Sep 2023 07:51
by Snowflake Royal » 25 Sep 2023 08:24
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Implication from the post match with Tim was that NGW has been injured rather than not in plans. Tim asked and Monica said NGW should be back in a week or so.
Did Dellor also ask Selles about his current all-time favourite player Tom Holmes and criticise him for not playing him or was it the usual case of him endlessly harping about it on air and then not having the balls to say the same to the manager face to face?
Tim did ask if Holmes was likely to be involved next week and Selles said that Holmes has been involved with the u21s and that he thinks the current team needs to "find its way", so take that as a "no" then.
Ady took a call after the game from someone who said Holmes was an OK defender but just not as good as all that and Ady said he agreed with 95% of what was said(!) but then said - in his opinion - that Holmes would go to a Championship club - completely missing the point that he was at a Championship club last season and looked poor much of the time (though to be fair the "negative nancy" of a manager and poor defensive unit around him didn't exactly help him).
by URZZZZ » 25 Sep 2023 08:28
WestYorksRoyal Agreed the formation needs to change away from home. 4-2-2-2 offers the full backs no protection, and if teams beat our press Savage and Hutchinson get overrun. It was 5-3-2 second half yesterday - perhaps that is worthwhile from the start next time.
Though in our 2 worst away games (yesterday and Vale) we started well, and if you score early the game is different. 5-3-2 or 4-5-1 hands initiative to the opposition from the start.
by Hound » 25 Sep 2023 08:36
by YorkshireRoyal99 » 25 Sep 2023 08:39
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Did Dellor also ask Selles about his current all-time favourite player Tom Holmes and criticise him for not playing him or was it the usual case of him endlessly harping about it on air and then not having the balls to say the same to the manager face to face?
Tim did ask if Holmes was likely to be involved next week and Selles said that Holmes has been involved with the u21s and that he thinks the current team needs to "find its way", so take that as a "no" then.
Ady took a call after the game from someone who said Holmes was an OK defender but just not as good as all that and Ady said he agreed with 95% of what was said(!) but then said - in his opinion - that Holmes would go to a Championship club - completely missing the point that he was at a Championship club last season and looked poor much of the time (though to be fair the "negative nancy" of a manager and poor defensive unit around him didn't exactly help him).
Holmes is a lower end Champ / upper end L1 defender.
He's been screwed over by the appalling defensive set piece management of Paunovic and dreadful negativity of Ince, picking up bad habits and losing all form.
But if he can ever recover from that he's plenty good enough and Ady is right.
Selles can say the current side need to find their way all he likes, but for the last two games, Bindon and Abbey have looked every bit as ropey as McIntyre and Holmes did together last season. Only they have pace, which was the more senior pairs big weakness.
It's not like Selles wasn’t willing to drop Holmes and McIntyre after one bad performance against Vale. Or Carson after two.
And no, Dean is no more the answer, just because Reading fans didn't see his failures at Birmingham.
There needs to be a change at CB or CM, probably both. But making a change doesn’t mean you're writing a player off for good.
No one should be expecting Bindon especially, but also Abbey, to be making 40 senior starts this season.
by URZZZZ » 25 Sep 2023 08:40
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Did Dellor also ask Selles about his current all-time favourite player Tom Holmes and criticise him for not playing him or was it the usual case of him endlessly harping about it on air and then not having the balls to say the same to the manager face to face?
Tim did ask if Holmes was likely to be involved next week and Selles said that Holmes has been involved with the u21s and that he thinks the current team needs to "find its way", so take that as a "no" then.
Ady took a call after the game from someone who said Holmes was an OK defender but just not as good as all that and Ady said he agreed with 95% of what was said(!) but then said - in his opinion - that Holmes would go to a Championship club - completely missing the point that he was at a Championship club last season and looked poor much of the time (though to be fair the "negative nancy" of a manager and poor defensive unit around him didn't exactly help him).
Holmes is a lower end Champ / upper end L1 defender.
He's been screwed over by the appalling defensive set piece management of Paunovic and dreadful negativity of Ince, picking up bad habits and losing all form.
But if he can ever recover from that he's plenty good enough and Ady is right.
Selles can say the current side need to find their way all he likes, but for the last two games, Bindon and Abbey have looked every bit as ropey as McIntyre and Holmes did together last season. Only they have pace, which was the more senior pairs big weakness.
It's not like Selles wasn’t willing to drop Holmes and McIntyre after one bad performance against Vale. Or Carson after two.
And no, Dean is no more the answer, just because Reading fans didn't see his failures at Birmingham.
There needs to be a change at CB or CM, probably both. But making a change doesn’t mean you're writing a player off for good.
No one should be expecting Bindon especially, but also Abbey, to be making 40 senior starts this season.
by Franchise FC » 25 Sep 2023 16:55
Hound Just swapping back in Holmes, TMc or Dean won’t fix anything in itself. Personally I’m not that keen on playing two such inexperienced CBs and would swap TMc, Hutch or Dean in for Binden - but think that’d only make a marginal difference
The set up is too open away. We’re asking the full backs to do too much - it’s no wonder they keep getting called out as having bad games in away games.
Hutch and Savage are both good players but aren’t providing the protection. I’d strongly consider either Rushesha or Craig as they seem more natural in that CDM position
But yeah Selles needs to tweak the formation. To what and without changing too much I’m not too sure but he needs to give that back 4 more protection
It’ll come though, we’re wildly inconsistent and struggle generally when we go behind but it is a mid/long term plan. Don’t chop and change too much now
by Hound » 25 Sep 2023 17:13
Franchise FCHound Just swapping back in Holmes, TMc or Dean won’t fix anything in itself. Personally I’m not that keen on playing two such inexperienced CBs and would swap TMc, Hutch or Dean in for Binden - but think that’d only make a marginal difference
The set up is too open away. We’re asking the full backs to do too much - it’s no wonder they keep getting called out as having bad games in away games.
Hutch and Savage are both good players but aren’t providing the protection. I’d strongly consider either Rushesha or Craig as they seem more natural in that CDM position
But yeah Selles needs to tweak the formation. To what and without changing too much I’m not too sure but he needs to give that back 4 more protection
It’ll come though, we’re wildly inconsistent and struggle generally when we go behind but it is a mid/long term plan. Don’t chop and change too much now
And last season we were set up too negative ?
Maybe we are simply not yet good enough because we keep having to take players that others don't want.
This summer was a little better because we seem to have picked up some with potential. The 'problem' with potential is that you have to be patient while that potential is realised
by Lower West » 25 Sep 2023 17:18
Clyde1998 The reality is we've got a largely young and inexperienced team - these players will improve and learn from playing regularly and require serious match experience in order to reduce the chance of making mistakes.