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2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

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Gwladysstreetlad said:
And some morons on here are slagging off the fans who pay obscene money for the "privilege" of watching a team full of clueless, heartless, gutless and disinterested mercenaries. Give your heads a wobble you utter embarrassments.
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All I want is effort. Nothing more, I’m not asking for trophies or fancy football, just effort. If you get that the rest will take care of itself.
 
brieverton said:
There are basic levels of effort, organisation, and discipline that we are not seeing, and that's week in week out.

Everyone recognises the difficult circumstances that any manager will face, the bar is actually quite low but we still seem to sink below it almost every time.

I would rather we were compact and organised and be dull and boring if it meant that we were drilled and hard to beat. You build from the back.

Silva is offering nothing at all.

We were playing a decent side today but they are not Barcelona. We looked cowed against them.

There is no progress and we look ever more fragile mentally, if that's possible.

Silva looks finished here and he doesn't seem to have anything like the force of personality and assuredness we need.

More and more, we require a big personality. Someone needs to dominate the squad and have the gravitas to demand respect and total effort.
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Ok, I guess the problem I have with that is that we were the WORST team in the entire league in goals conceded in open play. We were top 10 coming into this game, there has been clear improvement on the defensive end, in structure as well.

But the team we played today, I mean COME ON. A central midfield of Gomes and Tom Davies isn't acceptable, especially when we are already mediocre at CB. Walcott? Baines? Leighton freakin' Baines? Cenk Tosun? How many legit top 10 side PL players did we have on the pitch today? Not that many. Now you put Bernard and Gana in there and it's a bit different. Digne is a good player, he's a massive upgrade over Baines.

But we've still got massive holes that will take another couple windows to fix.
 

TyphooToffee said:
Watford sacked their underperforming manager, sold their best player and brought in a (it now seems) a manager better suited to the Premier League. If we had waited to see how Silva's Watford had fared the whole season, rather than assumed he was the best thing since sliced bread based on about half a season's worth of games managing two different teams, then maybe we would have looked elsewhere.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
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Can't disagree with that.

But Watford have sacked managers when they've actually done well - Flores after they finished 13th and a cup semi final
 
Papa Shango said:
Our main problem is that our players are talented idiots.

On paper this team is fine, loads of talented players in there. However they lack brains to a staggering level.

Take the Millwall game, Digne, one of our better and more talented players, did the same foul twice both of which resulted in goals.

Keane pulled a Huddersfield player down in the box last week in injury time, he got away with it, this week he pulled down a Wolves player for NO reason, they scored from it.

Our players can not seem to do such simple things as passing the ball in front of a player so he can receive the ball in his stride thus slowing our attacks down.
The amount of times we do this is quite frankly amazing for professional footballers.

Richarlison throwing himself to the ground when we are 3-1 down at home with 5 minutes to go. This does not benefit us in any way shape or form.
Pickford often receives passes back to him on his weaker foot (basics that) which he then proceeds to pump out of play. For some reason this never changes.

Our players never move into space, often get caught offside for no reason, never give an option for the passer and lose possession.

In short our players are THICK.

Give me a team of 11 intelligent players rather than a team of 11 talented players any day of the week. Talent will only get you so far and it causes a problem, going back to my original point, because the team looks alright on paper so we give them more chances.
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Utter nonsense. It all comes down to coaching and the style of play they are being told to play under. What happens if a player makes a “great run” he ends up out of position and because of that a goal is conceded - he gets all the blame. It is not a schoolboy match where the players can just go out there and enjoy themselves. All of the players have roles they have to carry out.
 

blue to the bone said:
We have got progressively worse as the season has gone on. That tells all you need to know. I would still not sack him til the end of the season as managers we may want more then likely won't leave current jobs now to take over this mess.. But i would think that brands will be already drawing up a list.
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Cocu or De Boer, here we come!
 

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