andyjm1983
First Team Squad
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I'd rather have signed Bette Davis.I don't get why Cooper wanted Wood so much? 4m loan fee and 15m to sign perm is ridiculous on a 1 year deal. I'd have rather signed Keinan Davies
Let’s be honest any opposing midfielder looks class against us. Lets not kid ourselvesThe problem regarding Garner and a permanent move was… Man U.
They f**ked us about and we had to go elsewhere.
Exactly this. Wood needs to f*** right off and Cooper should watch some videos of late Totti era Roma where Totti played as a false 9 with a runner on each side.Wood, built like a target man but never wins a header, and has the first touch of an elephant. Is less mobile than Daryl Murphy in concrete wellies, and has zero pace
Anyone and everyone can see it, yet we continue to aimlessly lump balls vaguely in his direction expecting something to happen. Insane
To make it worse, I don’t see what else he offers. I’m not having the get crosses in and he’ll get on the end of them argument either. He’s either offside or hiding behind a defender. Never makes any effort to get in front and back to the concrete wellies, can’t jump.
Maybe he was effective 3 years ago at Burnley but Newcastle are still laughing at us signing this waster.
I’d rather have a traffic cone on. It might at least get in the way every now and again
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MGW is not a winger and needs to be central. He also needs to give his head a wobble and learn when flicks and tricks work and when the simple pass is needed. Still, with currently available options, I’d have him in the middle with Elangs and CHO either side. But tell them both they need to help their fullbacks. Crosses just aren’t being blocked at source and we can’t defend them centrally either
Edit: Having read the rest of the thread, you recognise that we can have an effect on the atmosphere where as others are as passive as a Chris Wood attack so I'm DEFINITELY not having a go Dan!Yes, that's what we did last season. When the team was struggling, as they clearly were today, the crowd became the twelfth man.
Today there was just murmurs and grumblings about players being shit.
Pathetic.
Just got back, bloody freezing and feeling so fed up watching that terrible performance.
Dyche definitely stifled our midfield and Cooper had no answers, playing MGW out wide is a waste of time and he should have made changes at half time, it was a shocker and I am sorry to say I think we are going to be in trouble
Absolutely - and some of the blame for that lies with the players, but some must also lie with the man at the helm. If he didn't specifically tell them to lump it long to Wood (and who knows if he did), it's pretty clear he also didn't tell them specifically NOT to do it, which he should have done as it patently never worked.The side doesn't look like it has a real grasp of whatever it's gameplan is. The amount of times the ball was given away by players firing long passes to an everton player, despite having red shirts around them, was really frustrating.
Everton didn't really have to work for the win as we gave them absolutely no trouble.
Agreed. When we win Cooper gets praised a lot on here.Absolutely - and some of the blame for that lies with the players, but some must also lie with the man at the helm. If he didn't specifically tell them to lump it long to Wood (and who knows if he did), it's pretty clear he also didn't tell them specifically NOT to do it, which he should have done as it patently never worked.
There is a material difference.Agreed. When we win Cooper gets praised a lot on here.
It can't be when we win it's Cooper and when we lose it's the players.
As he was when he played for Wolves.Agree, MGW is ineffective and wasted on the right (goal against Brighton aside)
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It was a good strike and a good goal, simple as, I'm afraid.Serge should have done better with the goal. Seemed to duck under it, not helped by having his hands behind his back!
Possibly unsighted the keeper as well.
I thought that too, though maybe it was the camera angle?Serge should have done better with the goal. Seemed to duck under it, not helped by having his hands behind his back!
Possibly unsighted the keeper as well.
The performance of the team is ultimately the responsibility of the management. And we're in free fall at the moment with performances getting worse by the week.There is a material difference.
You can at least see what the players did or did not do.
You have no idea what Cooper did in preparing them for the game.
So criticism of him is based on your own speculation about what you think he did or didnt do (and using concepts you learned from Mark Lawrenson and Alan Hanson on MOTD).
But fill your boots.