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Makes complete sense to keep playing it then.
I think if they do move ETH on, any top manager coming in will want to know that there's resources available, even if they're not controlling who to buy. Anyone looking at this squad will want to move 5 or 6 on and bring in 3 or 4, I'd expect.
As I said, we haven't executed it well but he was going off the back off 5 wins in the bounce into a game at OT.
The 5 wins were very fortunate, many of us saw yesterday coming a mile away.
Thats said almost every game. Think it was you that backed us to lose to Villa after we beat West Ham 3-0.
Yep and I'd fully expect us to lose if we played them tomorrow. So would the non biased majority and the bookies, because they know what they are looking at with our performances.
You do understand you have no credibility if you keep saying you expect us to lose, get right one time out of 5 and say "ha I told you!", right?
This notion you have is mental. If he is here next season, and it's anything like this one, he'll be long gone before the season ends.
They’re not our kids. What a stupid tweet/comparison.
You realise you lose all credibility of knowing what you're talking about when you think 5 games is a good sample size?
And what about Dunk and JPVH? Brighton play a high line and squeeze the pitch. Regardless of personnel.
Eh? Teams rarely go on more than 5 wins on the bounce in the Premier League. How the feck is it a small sample size? Saying we lose 1 out of 6 like an "I told you so" is such a weak argument
The way he talks about those 5 games gives me a whiff of someone who didn’t watch them, only 1 of those games was convincing, villa outplayed us in every department bar goal scoring we were tumescent in that game wolves stayed in the game, Luton dominated the game after 15 mins Luton and it was only 4 wins on the bounce in the league.
To answer your first sentence, again, both faster than Lindelof at Full back and Maguire at CB. The rest I feel is a bit of a car crash of a post. Brighton have been caught open and overloaded and thrashed a few times this season.
You're such a bad poster aren't you
None of them were convincing, all could have easily gone either way.
Dunk is slower than a snail.
Maguire and Lindelof are also snails, yes.
I really don’t think we need to be convincing in performance right now, we only need to win. We aren’t on a title charge, we are limping over the line for top 5. That’s all that matters. 3pts in as many matches as possible between now and the end of the season. We can work on being convincing in the off season for a better run next term.
Worth noting not every team is convincing of late. I think Spurs limped over the line in a few games recently too. They lost to wolves, needed to defend last minute punts to Brentford and were quite fortunate for a final minute goal vs Brighton.
Yep, Villa have slipped up too. We have an easier run in too so we just need to grind out the points. Boohoo if it ain’t pretty!
I think the overall point is that after 20 months and 400m spent, the Head Coach should have us playing a coherent and sustainable style of play.
Not if the structure is bollocks and he has an injury crisis. I don't care if our manager spends 1bn, if it's spent on clowns and crocks then there's a wider problem before we consider discussing coaching and tactics.
What are you seeing that we're suddenly going to start grinding out more points per game than we have done all season?
@Leftback99 So you agree we should look at large sample sizes to see if Ten Hag has been decent?
What has been our points per game in the last two months vs the two month period before that?
Honestly we have three first team players out now. It’s not an injury crisis anymore, even the most devoted ETH backers cannot really claim it is. If we genuinely need every single player healthy for it to not be a massive, insane, huge crisis then there’s no point.
Go for it. Whats our goal difference in his time here again? You'll understand points and wins which you'll try throw back at me are far more subject to variance right?
How does the ‘structure’ (whatever people mean when they say that magic word) prevent him from coaching the side?
We have the back up left back out. We also have the back up to the back up out.
He can't reasonably progress the team to an actual attractive style of play if his squad is shit.
Left back is out of choice though. We knew Malacia was out and we knew Shaw was injury prone yet we still sent Reguilon away. I don’t know what went behind the scenes but I like to think we consulted our manager before making a decision like that.
1st 13 games 1.85 ppg, last 13 games 1.54.
And you think that was his choice? The man said he even tried to ask for a second striker before martial was injured and it was shut down for FFP. The shit show the club is run has caught up, and it predates Eric ten hag. Big wage players that aren't sustainable like Maguire, Ronaldo, Sancho, Varane didn't help. Together with the failure to renew some sponsorship deals and being hit by covid accounting.
Sorry so from Nov-Dec it was 1.85ppg?
In an ideal world yes, but the last 20m has been anything but ideal.
You’ve seen the video of the passing drills comparing his Ajax team to United when he came in, right? Our squad looked amateurish at best. We struggle to string passes together so how can he implement a style (other than counter attacking long balls)
