Do we actually think he starts Branthwaite next week? .. we know how stubborn he is & Southampton (cos they are bloody awful) didn’t create a lot.
I’m honestly not sure he does.
He should be throughly embarrassed that someone as poor as Beto is coming on and making 10x the impact. Been absolutely woeful this season, you think he’d be playing to put himself in the shop window to get himself a lucrative move in the summer.
It’s performances like today and particularly the style which dictates that he simply cannot be our manager long-term. You should not be parking the bus at home to a team that will probably come about 6th.
The result was fine.
The “style”. It’s absolutely grim. Treating them like title contenders. Players lacking in backing pass and move skills. Full backs not crossing the halfway line.
Keane is going to play. No one wants it but make peace with it now before the team announcement fume. O’Brien hasn’t even been called up for a woeful Ireland squad.
We know he isn’t good enough but he did look a level above O’Brien last night. Very early days for O’Brien as he finds his feet in the league, settles into a new club. Etc.
Need Branthwaite back ASAP, so the Keane or O’Brien decision can wait.
Sick to death of people talking about the fixtures we’ve had. They’ve not been easy obviously, but we haven’t even played the likely 3 best teams in the league for a start. How many games are we going to write off exactly?!
Ipswich have already played City and the RS for example. And got a draw...
Parking the bus and conceding 13 goals in 4 games.
And I can just imagine him talking to “Woany” about how we’d be more solid if he took Ndiaye out for another yard dog.
Absolutely miles off it today, nowhere near his usual energy. Like someone in his mid 30s who’d just come from playing two games for his country and travelling to Africa and back.