Quote Originally Posted by Eric the Half a Bee View Post
Fair play, that's a steaming pile of shit.

1. Stop talking about finishing 12th as the benchmark on which to base how we should do this season. We all know that, bar the opening 3 months, we were utter shit. Working out how we'd do from August 2024 based on how we did between August - October 2023 is complete nonsense. For 6 months we had the 2nd worst defence in the Championship, 3rd worst attack and lost more games than anyone bar Rotherham. Every fecking time you fail to take this into account. It's entirely because of that form I predicted a lowly finishing position - finishing 12th was totally false, based on some excellent results early season. It's why bookies etc predicted we'd struggle. You thought we'd progress from a top half finish and didn't take into any account what had happened for 6 months. You got that spectacularly wrong.

2. Squad limitations - particular weakness in terms of creativity. Let's see. We're ranked mid table for goals scored from open play while only 7 sides have scored more in the Championship than us since Riza took over. Admittedly our defence has been our biggest problem, scoring goals has been less of an issue than it was previously. So, to suggest creativity is a particular weakness of ours, that's not really true. Don't confuse that with me suggesting we've got a great attack, but it's not a particular weakness as you agree with Chat GIT.

3. How does a manager solve individual defensive lapses?
He works with them, picks his best four in the correct best positions, and lets them build an understanding with each other and the keeper. It's one area of the pitch that no proper Manager fanny's around with.