| Big questions will be asked now 09:12 - Feb 2 with 1111 views | ibbleobble |
Not because we’re in the relegation zone but because of the defeat to a side we need to and should have beaten, as per KM’s assessment. Whether we like it or not, and KM’s job is still safe this season regardless, these are the big topics the board will now have at the forefront of difficult discussion now boos are starting to ring out:
1 - We’ve invested £140m and although we anticipated being in a relegation battle, we’d expect that investment to yield better results against sides like Southampton at home. Why have we not improved?
2 - Pereira and Moyes have given both their clubs a lift and put them on an upward trajectory. What are they going differently and what can we learn from?
3 - We’ve invested heavily in an ex-England International who is seeing limited game time for an ageing midfielder. What’s the rationale for this?
4 - Sone of the recruitment has been poor and while we expect not everything to work out, what mitigation plans are in place and what do we need to do in the market in the remaining hours because after it closes, the pressure is really on. |  | | |  |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:01 - Feb 2 with 996 views | bsw72 |
I don't think there are any more questions being asked now than before we played Chelsea.
1 - Hard to say whether we have improved as the competition in this league is a step above where we have been playing. The Southampton result was poor, but cannot be looked at in isolation, we have had better performances and results than yesterday.
2 - Both Everton and Wolves were underperforming, but had established PL squads built over more than one season - the managers they have brought in are therefore working with different tools, and are far more experienced than a manager in his 3rd full season.
3 - How much are we paying, and would argue that 29 is not aging? Before we judge I'd like to know the ££ invested in him.
4 - The strategy was to buy young talented players who has performed in the Championship, and obviously loan in more experienced players. On the whole I think we have a solid core of the squad, but the gap in established PL squads vs promoted squads means there is little opportunity to allow a squad to gel.
I would like to know why we have persisted with players like Morsy and Davis every week rather than trying something different . . . I'm all for loyalty but we seem to blindly pick those two week in week out irrelevant of form. |  | | |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:06 - Feb 2 with 978 views | ibbleobble |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:01 - Feb 2 by bsw72 |
I don't think there are any more questions being asked now than before we played Chelsea.
1 - Hard to say whether we have improved as the competition in this league is a step above where we have been playing. The Southampton result was poor, but cannot be looked at in isolation, we have had better performances and results than yesterday.
2 - Both Everton and Wolves were underperforming, but had established PL squads built over more than one season - the managers they have brought in are therefore working with different tools, and are far more experienced than a manager in his 3rd full season.
3 - How much are we paying, and would argue that 29 is not aging? Before we judge I'd like to know the ££ invested in him.
4 - The strategy was to buy young talented players who has performed in the Championship, and obviously loan in more experienced players. On the whole I think we have a solid core of the squad, but the gap in established PL squads vs promoted squads means there is little opportunity to allow a squad to gel.
I would like to know why we have persisted with players like Morsy and Davis every week rather than trying something different . . . I'm all for loyalty but we seem to blindly pick those two week in week out irrelevant of form. |
Point 3 is about Morsy being the ageing midfielder, not Phillips. The Phillips needs a solid run of games and perhaps even the armband in Morsy’s absence. We have to go for broke soon and our biggest players need to show what they can do.
Bottom line of that OP is that for the investment, they need an upturn otherwise they’ve ’lost’ or over invested - neither are good words when hedging. | | | |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:12 - Feb 2 with 932 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
To your first point, I'd argue that we have improved - although we beat Southampton twice last season, they looked the better team for much of both of those games, and we arguably got results that were not consistent with the overall balance of the games.
Yesterday we looked the better team for most of the game.
So, the question is why didn't we get the result? We're not clinical enough for one, and too many lapses in concentration. We have the spine of a good team, but need to address those two points. | | | |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:17 - Feb 2 with 890 views | Blue_Heath |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:12 - Feb 2 by SuffolkPunchFC |
To your first point, I'd argue that we have improved - although we beat Southampton twice last season, they looked the better team for much of both of those games, and we arguably got results that were not consistent with the overall balance of the games.
Yesterday we looked the better team for most of the game.
So, the question is why didn't we get the result? We're not clinical enough for one, and too many lapses in concentration. We have the spine of a good team, but need to address those two points. |
The spine of a good team, we have no goalie and can't defend, plus a very non existent central midfield, only Delap is good. | | | |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:20 - Feb 2 with 866 views | LA_Tractor_Boy |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:12 - Feb 2 by SuffolkPunchFC |
To your first point, I'd argue that we have improved - although we beat Southampton twice last season, they looked the better team for much of both of those games, and we arguably got results that were not consistent with the overall balance of the games.
Yesterday we looked the better team for most of the game.
So, the question is why didn't we get the result? We're not clinical enough for one, and too many lapses in concentration. We have the spine of a good team, but need to address those two points. |
Team spirit and a never say die attitude got us over the line in many games last season, including Soton.
This season that doesn't exist. | | | |
| Big questions will be asked now on 12:11 - Feb 2 with 664 views | bsw72 |
| Big questions will be asked now on 10:06 - Feb 2 by ibbleobble |
Point 3 is about Morsy being the ageing midfielder, not Phillips. The Phillips needs a solid run of games and perhaps even the armband in Morsy’s absence. We have to go for broke soon and our biggest players need to show what they can do.
Bottom line of that OP is that for the investment, they need an upturn otherwise they’ve ’lost’ or over invested - neither are good words when hedging. |
Fair enough re point 3 - I've been saying for weeks that Phillips should be starting but this loyalty to Morsy is a big contribution to our current position imo.
Not sure we can judge whether we have over invested at this stage - if I look at who we have bought it has never felt to me that we had purchased with a focus on Premier League survival but more about the future with avoiding relegation being a bonus.
We have purchased players with potential vs established / experienced, and tried to loan in a couple more experienced.
I'm disappointed with yesterday's result, but actually not hugely with the a lot of performances and generally the way the season has gone overall, we have been competitive in more matches than we haven't.
January was always going to be awful with the volume of games over Christmas/New Year taking the toll on an inexperienced squad followed by games against Liverpool and City. | | | |
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