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Ah, ok. 79 mins.
Recruitment has been appalling & coaching/management seem clueless.
Yeh Alvarez, Kudus, were stupid, brainless, but this is becoming a regular thing....
Sad, worrying times at our club IMO..
Teething problems, I don't think so....
We are regularly letting in 3-4 goals and were lucky to get a win last week. In 10 EPL games we have only played well in the Ipswich game. We have gone backwards and will be fighting for survival unless manage is changed now. He has had 10 EPL and 2 FA Cup games to show his pedigree but hasn't shown much.
As for Alvarez that's two idiotic sending offs for the same thing, the guys a liability now and may have passed his medical upon signing but clearly no one checked his brain.
Unless the manager nobbled him, I think this is one thing he's off the hook for :-)
Why are we so bad? This is no better than the last half of last season. I hate blaming managers and it’s still early but , as others have said, there seems to be no plan formulating. The new players ( apart from Kilman) have not improved us. Personally I would give the manager to the end of the season but I don’t think he’ll get that if there’s no improvement by the new year.
I have no idea game by game what the plan is.
But today Alvarez had a shocker. Such a poor decision to make that tackle.
Every team I’ve ever seen or played in wants to win for the team. Whether they’re good enough or not to do that is a different point.
I think that’s just a media soundbite tbh.
If they can beat us and be 3rd spending so little you have to ask questions
I think you have opened out my view to suggest that being described as a group of players may indicate a lack of the will to win for the team, but I haven't done that and I don't doubt each player in the group wants to win each game, my point is that team spirit is a variable, as no one would suggest any team as identical team spirit at all times, and my view was I am not sure we look to have the team spirit we have benefitted from recently, which even when out of form was never in doubt from my view.
I always felt Moyes created a great team spirit, helped by Noble initially and then Dec, and I am not sure we have that at present. A part of it would be very explainable in that we have a lot of new players who don't know each other so well yet, but it could be more and a result of a few things such as a new Captain, as they play a huge part in that respect, or it could be that Moyes was very good at that or even just the struggle to really get our season going isn't helping. But I respect if you don't see a change, or even that team spirit is not a variable in your view.