Regulus Arcturus Black
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I didn’t used to be a fan, these days though
What do you like exactly? We have loads of people on redcafe who can run a press conference with all you want to hear mate. He's shown nothing so far. Absolutely feck all.I really like him. Everything he says is assured and with the confidence of a man who knows what he's about and what is needed. I would back him over these players any day of the week.
He may or may not be able to make significant improvements in the next few months because there is something seriously wrong at this club, but I like the idea that at season end he is going into a consultancy role and he'll know exactly who and what the problems are.
Football is fine margins.
We could have easily shipped four or more against Villa tonight, we could have lost to Newcastle and Norwich (or drew) and lost to Wolves at home. We were lucky against Young Boys, too, despite it being a second string team.
The only convincing wins and performances were against Palace and Burnley.
Our style of play is the same, despite RR constantly talking about control on and off the ball.
With out proper MF he cant change any thing ...Hope he gets Zakaria who can bring in some balance
He said post match that we won because we desperately wanted to win, and that there was more intensity. But no pressing.
Hes an interim manager. We need to reel in our expectations a bit.
I did but you seem to be intentionally missing out the decent to good Ole performances between those games. We had good wins vs Spurs and Atalanta in between the terrible Liverpool and Leicester games.Nonsense. Did you not watch Watford, City, Liverpool, Young Boys, Leicester or our match against the same opposition as tonight in the league?
You’re suffering from severe recency bias.
He messed up the summer recruitment and paid the price, fairly so. But the upheaval midway though the season has left us in a big mess.Guilty as charged, and I hold my hands up for giving you shit about it.
I still maintain Ole was horrendous though, and RR is vastly outperforming him so far despite Covid issues, little time to train them, and inheriting a squad devoid of confidence mid-season.
What is this squad suited too? The poor players in our team will let us down no matter who is in charge.So you want to sell all the players and mid season at that? If we're getting a fecking interim, get one who's suitable for this squad of players.
Needs to do what Moyes didn’t do and sell some so called characters ASAP. Would happily sell Maguire and AWB and bring in replacements in Jan.
Do you think they are this bad? Do you really believe all the premier league teams have better players in every position than us? The players are fine talent wise, of course some positions could be improved upon, but the problem is motivation and morale and a common goal. Then you implement tactics and what not.What is this squad suited too? The poor players in our team will let us down no matter who is in charge.
I did but you seem to be intentionally missing out the decent to good Ole performances between those games. We had good wins vs Spurs and Atalanta in between the terrible Liverpool and Leicester games.
RR has been shite in all games bar 30mins vs Palace.
Have you just learnt the term recency bias?
True, but if you look at the amount of space we leave, I could easily see Liverpool or City beating us 5-0. I am very worried about Ralf. He speaks complete sense during the press conferences. He analyses the games perfectly but then come game time all of that goes out the window. If we play like that vs Villa on Saturday, they will beat us, simple.That's just nonsense.
I'm severely underwhelmed by Ragnick and you can argue things haven't improved but absolutely no chance were we performing better under Ole in the last few weeks of his reign.
Have you forgotten just how bad it was? 5-0 down to Liverpool by half time at home? 4-1 at Watford? Failing to beat utter dogshit like Everton?
We could hire prime Alex Ferguson and I think it makes no difference, these players are the pits in attitude and self entitlement
I did but you seem to be intentionally missing out the decent to good Ole performances between those games. We had good wins vs Spurs and Atalanta in between the terrible Liverpool and Leicester games.
RR has been shite in all games bar 30mins vs Palace.
Have you just learnt the term recency bias?
True, but if you look at the amount of space we leave, I could easily see Liverpool or City beating us 5-0. I am very worried about Ralf. He speaks complete sense during the press conferences. He analyses the games perfectly but then come game time all of that goes out the window. If we play like that vs Villa on Saturday, they will beat us, simple.
We are certainly not any better. To many long balls, team not compact enough to many gaps inbetween our lines, one part of our team seems to always be in the wrong posistion weather its the defence to deep or the attacking line to high and we don't press any more effectively than we did under ole don't look any better defensivly and look worse offensively and even more confused and error prone.
I would expect something posistive to cling onto now, in all honesty I'm beginning to wonder if RR might be out of his depth. To early to really tell but its creeping into my mind somewhat.
What formation did we play I thought it was 4231?
Probably 0 unless SAF comes back. I think RR is starting to see that and will try or already trying to fix it.Realistically, how likely is it that the next permanent manager is going to play this 4222 formation? I’d say pretty low. Would we not be better spent transitioning from 4231 to 433? That would give the next manager a lot more tactical flexibility to work with.
Purely based on this quote I can tell you that RR will fail here as an interim.
We could hire prime Alex Ferguson and I think it makes no difference, these players are the pits in attitude and self entitlement
Yep I thought that about Spurs. Then they got Conte.
You can only compare him with Ole if we get to Oct 2025...this our price for being too sentimental and keeping someone at the helm far too long.He's been kind of poor so far. Ole was saying the right things at the start too. Something clearly isn't clicking even if it's still very early.
We need Ten Haag in the summer for a true cultural reset.
I think conte would do better with the same set of players, because we are a counter attacking team. But its short term gain.
In the long term we have to back Rangnick if we want to see a change in how we play. It took Klopp two years and guardiola won nothing in his first year.
Having said that it is worrying the lack of application. Only the palace game was something close. But i think that is because of the lack of technical ability of the players signed by the previous counter attacking managers.