Forget that game immediately and move on.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Ayew was more on the right wing, Olise shouldn't be risked against these teams from the start too easily muscled off, he should come on for the last half an hour, Schlupp had an absolute mare and was way too easily muscled out of the game by Forest who beat us up easily throughout, we played well enough for a point Zaha needs to be more careful.

Yes, sorry meant LW, where Wilf should be

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Out all day yesterday thankfully and caught the highlights this morning. We are so disjointed between midfield and attack, I’m getting a bit fed up of seeing the same poor decision making and general lack of midfield quality.

Having seen the experiment 6 or 7 times now I’m pretty convinced you cannot play Eze Olise Zaha, Schlupp and Ayew in the same team, it just looks so unbalanced. I wouldn’t be surprised if Doucoure puts in a transfer request because he is being asked to do 3 players jobs.

Massive expenditure required in midfield. Jairo, Milivojevic and Hughes all need to go, Schlupp and Ayew should become impact players. Replace those three suggested with 2 decent central midfielders and we might have a half decent side.

This was a forseeably frustrating game. As PV said there was much that was good - and a missed penalty gives you little chance of the consolation point we might otherwise have got. But it would only have been a consolation for the win which should have been secured during the first half which we dominated. Truth to tell we haven't had a player able to convert possession to goals since Benteke at his best or Jason Puncheon. That more than anything was why Hodgson elected to play low press and counter-attach with a team that was allowed to go downhill while academy development was prioritised; he did try at times to exploit our capability to dominate possession but abandoned it because we usually failed to score in such games. We have done well in rebuilding the team since he left and PV has proved able to keep it punching above its weight while being admirably stubborn in looking for a more attacking style. But the rebuild is a work in progressand still well short of the quality which achieved notable runs under Allardyce and in Hodgson's first year. We are two players light since the end of last season and the transfer window may help. What would help more is learning that against sides who are diligent in putting two men onto our flair players whenever they get the ball, our players should pass quickly as soon as they have drawn the defenders to enable others to exploit the defensive gaps which must inevitable have been left. That's partly a matter of always making sure they have the clear pass to make under pressure.

Edited by Charles (13 Nov 2022 5.43pm)

PV is obviously a slow learner, you can play, Wilf, Eze and Olise, but neither Ayew or Schlupp, Edouard or Mateta and Luka or Hughes

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn