| To many people on here living in Cuckooland 09:52 - Aug 24 with 1083 views | ATL |
Lets just face the truth.
Something drastically wrong at the club.
We are not good enough and McKenna is out of his depth. His body language and interviews tells all. Too many excuses and no solutions.
We receive about £100million in Parachute payment
We've had over £70 million come in, in transfers (accepted not all profit)
We've spent just over £20 million (£10 million on a Leicester squad player surplus to their needs!!)
Mike Ashton gone very quiet |  | | |  |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 09:55 - Aug 24 with 1027 views | blueislander |
A new candidate for the top bed wetting league. We are three games into the season , and have drawn against two sides destined to challenge for promotion. | | | |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 09:55 - Aug 24 with 1025 views | redrickstuhaart |
What an utterly stupid post. Looking at the history, there is a whiff of trill about this one... [Post edited 24 Aug 10:00]
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| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 09:57 - Aug 24 with 1002 views | Clutch |
God I hate what Mike Ashton is doing to Ipswich! Whys he so quiet?? |  | | |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:03 - Aug 24 with 900 views | jasondozzell |
I give up.
Bring back the 10,000 at home crowds, at least they were knowledgeable even if the footie was dire.
Presumably half of these posters would vaporise on first contact with actual tough times like when Milts was asking people for fivers for the academy, the youth team didn't have kit, Leon Best was the marquee signing and our fitness coach was doing the job remotely fom a karate centre in Glasgow. |  | | |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:16 - Aug 24 with 784 views | WestSussexBlue |
Get a grip Man! Stop blowing everything out of proportion.
We’ve risen from League One straight through the Championship and dropped back from the Premier League all in 36 months. The turnover of players and adjustments to systems, styles and individuals make for a challenging period.
Expecting everything to be stable and rosy “ain’t gonna happen”
We’ve all enjoyed the rise, now we have to ride the waves and stick together. | | | |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:18 - Aug 24 with 769 views | bsw72 |
Odd. How can McKenna be out of his depth in a division in which he got us promoted from.
There’s some proper cockwombles on this board currently in danger of making it unusable currently. |  | | |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:18 - Aug 24 with 767 views | EdwardStone |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 09:55 - Aug 24 by redrickstuhaart |
What an utterly stupid post. Looking at the history, there is a whiff of trill about this one... [Post edited 24 Aug 10:00]
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Have an Uppie
"Whiff of Trill" has made my day |  | | |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:25 - Aug 24 with 687 views | BloomBlue |
Cuckoo is an unusual bird, a bit like a canary - a lot of canaries about today |  | | |
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| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:29 - Aug 24 with 647 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
Is Cuckooland that village just by Cloud Cuckooland? |  |
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| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:31 - Aug 24 with 619 views | ITFC_Forever |
And despite all that, you’re still only one point ahead of us.
Keep clinging on to the 16 years myth. It’s all you’ve got, and soon you won’t even have that. |  |
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| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:33 - Aug 24 with 595 views | pointofblue |
What I don't like is the blaming of connections and insistence we need more players. Matusiwa was the only player who started yesterday who wasn't at the club last season. Practically every team in this division would love our depth yet we're failing, at this very early stage, to take advantage of it and are instead claiming more is needed
The biggest issue is the failings are obvious yet McKenna seems to think just playing certain members of the squad will get them out of the funk rather than having to considering our basic system may not suit them.
O'Shea is probably the best defender we've had since Mowbray. But we are not as comfortable playing out of the back with him and Greaves. Add Palmer and, although he one improving game on game, Matusiwa to the mix as well. When you look at the ease with with which Hladky, Woolfenden and Morsy managed this, the difference is stark.
Plus our centre backs do not compliment each other. It's been obvious since the middle of last season that O'Shea & Burgess looked good, Woolfenden & Greaves looked fine but something is off with O'Shea & Greaves together. Switch to a free, bring in Kipre, do something about it, rather than try the same thing over and over expecting it to magically change. Or spend massively again (for a CB at this level) on someone who looks good but will be another gamble and sell the one player at the back who knows and works in the system.
Davis - why is he now an inverted full back? He looks utterly clueless in the role and like he's seriously regressed from the player of two seasons ago.
Johnson - at what point does McKenna accept he's decent going forward but poor at the back? Again, replace him with Young, who has looked far more comfortable in the role , or change to a back three to give him more support behind.
The fact Taylor has had to start games when he is a back up player at best in the second tier spells out our doomed transfer policy. I wasn't, and am still not, against letting Morsy go, but it should not have been before we got cover in. Going into the Birmingham game with available options of Matusiwa, Taylor, Humphreys and Barbrook is close to unforgivable. Where was Humphreys yesterday? Thought he'd be on the bench yesterday ahead of Woolfenden.
Then we have Clarke, Philogene and Szmodics who ripped up the Championship last time they played in it but, again, seem to be being asked to do different roles and have no idea how to play them. Plus Clarke, Philogene and McAteer have no real physical strength to hold off defenders meaning they are dispossessed far too easily, resulting in moves breaking down.
Add to this Hirst seems isolated and his touch has deserted him. I was in the minority of being critical of him against Southampton and yesterday was similar. Perhaps he does miss Chaplin in the ten - though he had a rare bad game yesterday when he came on - but that doesn't answer the question why he now has the first touch of a trampoline.
McKenna will presumably continue to push this system and hope it works. For all of our sakes I hope he's right. For me, more is needed from him to fix it though it is possible. It will take admitting we made a huge mess of last year's transfer window to do it. | |
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| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:35 - Aug 24 with 562 views | TractorJack |
So, so bored of these. There are plenty of talking points from an actual game of football yesterday you know. |  | | |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:37 - Aug 24 with 543 views | redrickstuhaart |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 10:33 - Aug 24 by pointofblue |
What I don't like is the blaming of connections and insistence we need more players. Matusiwa was the only player who started yesterday who wasn't at the club last season. Practically every team in this division would love our depth yet we're failing, at this very early stage, to take advantage of it and are instead claiming more is needed
The biggest issue is the failings are obvious yet McKenna seems to think just playing certain members of the squad will get them out of the funk rather than having to considering our basic system may not suit them.
O'Shea is probably the best defender we've had since Mowbray. But we are not as comfortable playing out of the back with him and Greaves. Add Palmer and, although he one improving game on game, Matusiwa to the mix as well. When you look at the ease with with which Hladky, Woolfenden and Morsy managed this, the difference is stark.
Plus our centre backs do not compliment each other. It's been obvious since the middle of last season that O'Shea & Burgess looked good, Woolfenden & Greaves looked fine but something is off with O'Shea & Greaves together. Switch to a free, bring in Kipre, do something about it, rather than try the same thing over and over expecting it to magically change. Or spend massively again (for a CB at this level) on someone who looks good but will be another gamble and sell the one player at the back who knows and works in the system.
Davis - why is he now an inverted full back? He looks utterly clueless in the role and like he's seriously regressed from the player of two seasons ago.
Johnson - at what point does McKenna accept he's decent going forward but poor at the back? Again, replace him with Young, who has looked far more comfortable in the role , or change to a back three to give him more support behind.
The fact Taylor has had to start games when he is a back up player at best in the second tier spells out our doomed transfer policy. I wasn't, and am still not, against letting Morsy go, but it should not have been before we got cover in. Going into the Birmingham game with available options of Matusiwa, Taylor, Humphreys and Barbrook is close to unforgivable. Where was Humphreys yesterday? Thought he'd be on the bench yesterday ahead of Woolfenden.
Then we have Clarke, Philogene and Szmodics who ripped up the Championship last time they played in it but, again, seem to be being asked to do different roles and have no idea how to play them. Plus Clarke, Philogene and McAteer have no real physical strength to hold off defenders meaning they are dispossessed far too easily, resulting in moves breaking down.
Add to this Hirst seems isolated and his touch has deserted him. I was in the minority of being critical of him against Southampton and yesterday was similar. Perhaps he does miss Chaplin in the ten - though he had a rare bad game yesterday when he came on - but that doesn't answer the question why he now has the first touch of a trampoline.
McKenna will presumably continue to push this system and hope it works. For all of our sakes I hope he's right. For me, more is needed from him to fix it though it is possible. It will take admitting we made a huge mess of last year's transfer window to do it. |
Connections and patterns are obviously a massive thing here. Its not a case of blaming them, but acknowledging the very obvious facts.
Those patterns and movements are very much part of KMs approach and right now, there is not a slickness and confidence to them. That comes with time, practice and familiarity.
That said, I agree that Johnson isnt good enough, Philogene gets in Davies' way, and Chaplin should start. | | | |
| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 11:01 - Aug 24 with 386 views | Guthrum |
£100m in parachute payments? Since when?? |  |
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| To many people on here living in Cuckooland on 11:05 - Aug 24 with 335 views | baxterbasics |
Be gone, mewling quim. |  |
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