All Aboard the Slot Express

[Nineteenx]

He cooked up playing the outdated in so many ways Dutch system when he was drugged up in Ibiza no doubt

[sydenham red]

You actually end up doing more running and longer sprints by not picking up and pressing and counter pressing 😮*💨

Why can’t anyone get this?

Ok this season how many times did we lose possession not be in a counter pressing position and have 8 or 9 players sprinting all the way back towards our box

Which do you think is more tiring and puts more strain on thr bodg, picking up and doing short sprints to regain possession or join an attack or sprinting the length of the pitch

I really shouldn’t be having to explain this all the time it’s quite simple

Its only simple to you within your engrained way of thinking. I thought the stats showed we were covering less kms this season. I believe his high possession % is designed to lessen fatigue, it isnt the prettiest to watch and we have been caught badly on the break but just maybe we are showing signs of turning the corner. Once we get Leoni, jacquet, Bradley and Kerkez playing together things will hopefully tighten up at the back. We can rest virgil now and again, konate most likely gone by then. Still need at least 2 more mids into the bank of players if that effective pressing is to come back in all the time.

So just wait, if we were to win the CL great but if we dont but do finish 5th (or better) we'll maybe just have to accept that as a transition season. If we do neither then Slot is at the mercy of Hughes judgement.

[Nineteenx]

But we had most possession loads of the time pressing and countering pressing it

Counter pressing is only picking up a player while being place to join the attack if it opens up that way or to quickly win the ball back if we lose it

The only difference between that and now is we have had too many players looking to be in space wrong side of the ball and not enough picking up, they’re not running any further by being in a counter pressing g position but they are stopping easy counters and transitions

[JockStrap]

With any luck we'll get most of our players back before the end of the season and get a glimpse of what our full team will look like going forward. Drop Salah, get Frimpong and Isak in there and see how we do.

There has been far too much disruption with injuries this season. Even the likes of Bradley won't be ready until mid-way through next season.

[JockStrap]

I posted this in another thread but it feels more appropriate here.

Our results haven't been good enough and our form for most of the season has been poor. Happy now? I'm sure I've said that before.

I can understand why we're struggling though. That's the difference. Many of our experienced players are either in poor form themselves or in permanent decline. Add in new players trying to settle and constant injuries and it's not a surprise to me. As I keep saying, if you can't see that stuff then you're watching the wrong sport. Which is most fans unfortunately.

I want to see this team play a number of games together before I go deciding that the manager is crap.

Alisson

Frimpong Konate VvD Kerkez

Grav

Slobo Jones

Wirtz

Ekittike Isak

How many times have we seen those players on the pitch at the same time this season? Can't be a lot. Then I want to see us strengthen the wide areas in the summer and bed in one of the new defenders.

I remain positive and refuse to get drawn into the negativity. Slot won the league last season. That will do for me. When his time is up the club will make the decision. Until then I'll continue to support him and the team.

[Nineteenx]

Les’s points in the last 20 games than Hodgson

If he’d have gone by the end of October I’m sure we’d be involved in the title race

These players are used to a manager who trusts and encourages them and gives them positivity and e energy

Slot turned to a micromanager

[JockStrap]

6 wins in 20 is poor. No doubt about it.

Do any of our esteemed members want to have a guess at the last manager with a worse record?

[Kev0909]

6 wins in 20 is poor. No doubt about it.

Do any of our esteemed members want to have a guess at the last manager with a worse record?

before my time unless it was Roy or kenny in 11/12

Been a while, we might have a record low-finish this season.

think we'll beat 52 pts and 8th place mind

probably more like 2015–16 season, 60 pts but i'd say 6th or 7th not 8th.

[Steveo]

We must have had a similar run in our last title defence. We had no CB’s. After falling off the top spot at Christmas we must have had a similar run over a similar number of games.

BUT that team had just completed a marathon 97 and 99 points consecutively AND won a 6th Big ears.

that team was smashed- yet still finished 3rd…. What would we give for that eh.

[JockStrap]

Good guess but no, we've had worse runs than that.