2018/19 Marco Silva - New Poll Added

[davek]

No thought or logic behind Koeman and Walsh's decision making with transfers, we probably would have ended up with a 60-70m flop had they got a striker last summer, then again Walsh wasted 20+ on Tosun last January which is bad enough. Any ideas who you want in striker wise mate?

It could well be we need an effective winger like Zaha to make sense of this attack.

 

[BlueStevie35]

He should be at any well run club. He's safe here because we have lower standards. That is all.

Which is why we need a competent back up not an aging Dutch clown or an untried Portuguese youngster, we all saw what happened with not getting good back up for Tim Howard and history looks like it might repeat itself

 

[dano195]

Mate was in one of the corporate boxes today. Said after the game he apologised for the performance and said we are in the market for a striker. Seemed absolutely gutted.

 

[nsno-chris]

I haven't acted like we've torn through teams. But it's not wrong to say we've created gilt-edged chances that we've missed?

We are where we are because, in the last three homes games against sides we should beat, we haven't done the job. I get that. But we haven't been far off getting much different results. It's not like under Koeman where we were not even in games.

And just five games ago there was a clear direction. A clear set way of playing. We have lost that and need to get it back.

It’s very wrong, maybe a point at RS. The other games we’ve been very lucky to come away with something: Cardiff, Watford, Palace and Newcastle all deserved more from the games here and in all of them we played poor tippy tappy crap that was tedious to watch.

 

[Groucho]

We had the boring but solid girlfriend who would do the washing/cleaning and dinner. Everything was well organised. If we had shown her a bit more affection and appreciated her efforts she may have gone on to do better.

Instead we ran off with a pretty young girl we didn't know much about. A few months later we realised that there is no substance to her whatsoever.

Thing is we aint a 40 year old fella with his brain in his nether region. We should have a sound upper management structure.

What are you on about?

 

[davek]

Not just him who is safe either. Agree with that.

We pretend to be a big club but we really aren’t in the way we act and run the team a lot of the time. Yeah we pay the big bucks for players. But it’s increasingly the wrong players (and potentially managers) and it’s going to severely cost us.

I think there's a lot of pressure on our managers to go toe to toe with just about every team we face - top three or bottom three. The players we buy aren't up to going toe to toe with the elite. That's why I was so impressed with RMs first season here: he was plaiting sawdust with that lot getting them to compete. Didn't last long though.

There is no answer other than to find a financial backer with unimaginable wealth. We got Moshiri....

 

[BlueToff]

It’s very wrong, maybe a point at RS. The other games we’ve been very lucky to come away with something: Cardiff, Watford, Palace and Newcastle all deserved more from the games here and in all of them we played poor tippy tappy crap that was tedious to watch.

How is it wrong? We created two sitters that we missed v the RS, we created three really good chances at the Etihad, two or three at the Emirates, had 14 attempts at Old Trafford. Had two good chances at Stamford Bridge. I could go on...

I'm not saying we would have won those games had those gone in. But it isn't wrong at all to say we missed those chances and those chances could have, realistically, made things different.

We weren't 'lucky' to come away with a win v Cardiff, ffs. We dominated and deserved the win. Just because we didn't score 6 doesn't mean we didn't deserve it. We dominated v Newcastle but didn't play well. We dominated Palace and deserved the win. We relied on Pickford to make a good save because good keepers do that.

Jesus, go watch an RS game and tell me they deserve to win half of what they do. They get so lucky it's unimaginable.

 

[davek]

Which is why we need a competent back up not an aging Dutch clown or an untried Portuguese youngster, we all saw what happened with not getting good back up for Tim Howard and history looks like it might repeat itself

I'd give the youngster his chance. I dont see what we have to lose. Pickford is an unfolding and never ending disaster.

 

[ijjysmith]

I think there's a lot of pressure on our managers to go toe to toe with just about every team we face - top three or bottom three. The players we buy aren't up to going toe to toe with the elite. That's why I was so impressed with RMs first season here: he was plaiting sawdust with that lot getting them to compete. Didn't last long though.

There is no answer other than to find a financial backer with unimaginable wealth. We got Moshiri....

It’s ok, Usmanov will be here....oh who am I kidding.

We’ll be having these exact same discussions same time next season.

 

[nsno-chris]

How is it wrong? We created two sitters that we missed v the RS, we created three really good chances at the Etihad, two or three at the Emirates, had 14 attempts at Old Trafford. Had two good chances at Stamford Bridge. I could go on...

I'm not saying we would have won those games had those gone in. But it isn't wrong at all to say we missed those chances and those chances could have, realistically, made things different.

We weren't 'lucky' to come away with a win v Cardiff, ffs. We dominated and deserved the win. Just because we didn't score 6 doesn't mean we didn't deserve it. We dominated v Newcastle but didn't play well. We dominated Palace and deserved the win. We relied on Pickford to make a good save because good keepers do that.

Jesus, go watch an RS game and tell me they deserve to win half of what they do. They get so lucky it's unimaginable.

Haha behave. We had a grand total of about 10 shots on target in all them. Just coz we arsed about with the ball doesn’t mean we dominated them

It was tedious boring football

 

[BlueStevie35]

I'd give the youngster his chance. I dont see what we have to lose. Pickford is an unfolding and never ending disaster.

I wouldn't say disaster but that Derby mistake has knocked him in a major way, I'd consider Virginia over Stekelenburg for the Lincoln game for sure though

 

[davek]

I wouldn't say disaster but that Derby mistake has knocked him in a major way, I'd consider Virginia over Stekelenburg for the Lincoln game for sure though

Hopefully we see a very good display from one of them and they then keep the jersey.

 

[HKIV]

Still people on here talking about us creating chances and not scoring in our big moments.

Simply dilusional.

0 shots on target 2nd half v Lpool
0 shots on target 2nd half v Brighton.
0 shots on target first half v Leic.

V few chances in other halves of late as well, What are you watching?

Combine that with big ricks regularly from the keeper and hopeless defensive organisation = plenty more pain.

 

[maccavennie]

Still people on here talking about us creating chances and not scoring in our big moments.

Simply dilusional.

0 shots on target 2nd half v Lpool
0 shots on target 2nd half v Brighton.
0 shots on target first half v Leic.

V few chances in other halves of late as well, What are you watching?

Combine that with big ricks regularly from the keeper and hopeless defensive organisation = plenty more pain.

Richarlisons shot was saved onto the post against Brighton.

 

[BlueToff]

Haha behave. We had a grand total of about 10 shots on target in all them. Just coz we arsed about with the ball doesn’t mean we dominated them

It was tedious boring football

I mean, we did dominate and we created plenty of chances for it to be more against Cardiff alone. Off the top of my head, Gomes' cut-back, Lookman's shot that was saved, Lookman's cross that Tosun hit wide, Gylfi's shot cleared off the line. And to back me up, here's the stats (Cardiff in brackets)

70% possession (30%)

16 total shots (7)

8 shots on target (1)

17 open play crosses (3)

54% duels won (46%)

517 passes (220)

80% passing accuracy (52%)

But we didn't dominate?