Recent content by MadDogg

Different Technical Directors and Director of Footballs can have quite significantly different roles at different clubs (including being the same thing at some). Nobody on the outside can know for sure what their specific roles will be at Utd. But considering Wilcox's history, he will certainly...

With Martial, it's more that he was well worth a spot in the team up until 20/21, at which time he was destroyed by injuries so it would've been impossible to sell him since. No club would have been willing to give us a transfer fee while also having to cover his wages.

I've never paid that much attention to Tuchel. I know he tends to fall out with the upper management of the club, but how about the players? Does he tend to cause drama in the dressing room or is it just the higher-ups?

:confused: We're on track to equal our worst ever goals conceded in PL history (57 goals in the Ole/Rangnick season of 21/22), and the fact that we seem to be getting worse as the season wears on and we've got quite a tough end of the season means we are very likely to beat it. And that's just...

No he's not. However he is also quite clearly not coaching them to keep the ball or setting up a system that allows them to control a match when we are under pressure. These things should be getting drilled into players so it's second nature and they do it without even thinking, and there's...

We were in complete control in the first half as Coventry sat back and basically allowed us to do what we wanted. At halftime they changed their system a bit and came at us more, and from then on it was 50/50. So it was at that point that we 'lost control', although Coventry wasn't in control...

We weren't seeing these huge gaps last season because we were still playing a very similar system to what we had under Ole. A 4231 that was mostly counter-attacking. ETH changed formation and style this season to a 4141 with a huge gap between the back four and the attacking five, with one...

SJR probably doesn't want to (and shouldn't be) making the football decisions himself. That's what he's hiring the experts for, to make sure it's done right.

We didn't control the game after halftime. From that point forward it was pretty much 50/50 between the two teams, and then as we took off Garnacho and Mainoo it swung further and further towards Coventry. Even when we do have good periods in games, it's a running trend that the opposition...

While there obviously is a big difference, that one's a bit extreme as the girls were basically kids at the time. From memory Serena was a 16yo making her Open debut, and Venus was only 17. They were nowhere near the players that they would become (especially Serena).

I wouldn't hold your breath. I expect it'll be more of an LVG situation where it's announced after the final.

'Best in class' managers are very unlikely to choose to come here considering the current mess. They will have better options that are closer to the finished article and won't take a few years to start competing for the biggest trophies. We need to steady the ship, get ourselves in a strong...

It's not just the players. We dominated the first half because of the opposition set-up. At halftime Robins made a tactical switch to have a go at us, and right from that moment we lost control of the match. A mid-table Championship team able to go head-to-head against us and it was at best...

We don't deserve that. I could never believe that a FA Cup semi final win would feel so hollow.

It's a possibility, but unlikely. ETH played him mostly as a DM in their first season together at Ajax, but then moved him into the defence and said that Martinez doesn't have the running power to play in midfield. If ETH felt he struggled at it in the Eredivisie, it's highly unlikely that he...