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Chance of back to back wins?

Town Win
9
64%
Wolves Win
2
14%
Draw
3
21%
 
Total votes: 14

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Post by Blue Wilf » Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:52 pm

Good first half. Outplayed second half - as usual, we didn't turn up. How McKenna could not see Enciso was hopeless all game is beyond me - subs were too little, too late and without a real plan for me. We could all see the goal coming but he did nothing - an easy £5m a year for me and I am done with it. I now want McKenna to commit to us for next season or f*ck off - will he/won't he go between now and the start of the season will be more than we deserve. Lets hope Postecoglu gets the bullet quick (as it is coming) and McKenna goes sooner rather than later so that we can plan for the future. Highlight of the day was meeting Liz (hallamblue)! We are down and I am OK with it - even if it is to avoid the farce that is VAR as much as everything else. COYB's.

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Post by Shed on tour » Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:16 pm

Blue Wilf wrote:
Sat Apr 05, 2025 5:52 pm
Good first half. Outplayed second half - as usual, we didn't turn up. How McKenna could not see Enciso was hopeless all game is beyond me - subs were too little, too late and without a real plan for me. We could all see the goal coming but he did nothing - an easy £5m a year for me and I am done with it. I now want McKenna to commit to us for next season or f*ck off - will he/won't he go between now and the start of the season will be more than we deserve. Lets hope Postecoglu gets the bullet quick (as it is coming) and McKenna goes sooner rather than later so that we can plan for the future. Highlight of the day was meeting Liz (hallamblue)! We are down and I am OK with it - even if it is to avoid the farce that is VAR as much as everything else. COYB's.
Said the same thing to Liz and Mike before the game, the last thing we need is another off season of will McKenna stay or go. As for today’s game thought the 2nd half performance was dreadful but was not surprised as it has happened so often this season.

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Post by hallamblue » Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:44 pm

81st min, McKenna takes Townsend off for Davis. 3 mins later Wolves score their equaliser from the left babk side of defence....8 mins later they get the winner, down the left back side of defence. Bloody clueless.


0n 58 mins Delap's game was done. He wasn't chasing down, wasn't keeping the ball, was no threat. He needed support ..... but once again, like he does week after week, McKenna leaves it until the 80 + mins before he brings on new forwards. WHY ????????? , but he doesnt CHANGE anything. No tactical change, just a swap of tired legs for fresh legs.

By the time he makes his usual "swap" of the forwards, the game is done.

Half time: Town took ages to re-appear. I thought, here we go, were going to go at thrm. Nope, not a bit of it. Wolves manager had tweaked his team's tactics, and were makinv inrodes and starting to actually cause us problems. Its 20 mins before McKenna reacts to this. He brings on Taylor, who chases down Wolves defenders.

Where was Hirst?, Where was Chaplin. Why weren't they brought on, on 60 mins. WTF is McKenna expecting our players to do in 10mins? They're mentally and physically cold to the game.

Mckenna is displaying week after week and tactical inability. He's still doing the shame thing he fud in league one and Championship, but instead of doing it on 70mins, he's doing it at least ten mins later in the game. WHATS THE POINT??

He never changes his approach. Never plays our teo strikers together when we clearly by 60mins have no choice but to go for it.

I am SO frustrated with McKennas approach. He doesn't, " read" the game DURING the game. As one caller said on Suffolk radio. The game is over coached, ( and he's right).


There's no spontaneity ON the pitch, by the players in RESPONSE to how the opposition change their game. In fact t Town are so over coached, I doubt these players have the ability to play off the cuff despite their supposed individual flair.

We epitomise everything that is wrong in the PL. It's plastic football, spineless, gutless, and lacking in true individuality know how or true inspiration or individual ability to have a go at anything. It's like watching paint dry, it's predictable.

I suspect We all know virtually every pass in order, in our build up play. We're that automatic and practised in our clockwork style. If opponents change their approach we are incapable of reacting to it because....." mckennas says it must be done this way, and in this order".

The season can't end soon enough for me.
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Post by Bluemike » Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:44 pm

Just what was that second half? Sadly McKenna cannot motivate players in massive games and its happened way too often for me.

Again the subs are just bizarre, its also no coincidence Davis enters the fray and they nab a goal from down that side almost immediately.

We were down months ago and I can't wait.

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Post by Cabanas Blue » Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:51 pm

hallamblue wrote:
Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:44 pm
81st min, McKenna takes Townsend off for Davis. 3 mins later Wolves score their equaliser from the left babk side of defence....8 mins later they get the winner, down the left back side of defence. Bloody clueless.


0n 58 mins Delap's game was done. He wasn't chasing down, wasn't keeping the ball, was no threat. He needed support ..... but once again, like he does week after week, McKenna leaves it until the 80 + mins before he brings on new forwards. WHY ????????? , but he doesnt CHANGE anything. No tactical change, just a swap of tired legs for fresh legs.

By the time he makes his usual "swap" of the forwards, the game is done.

Half time: Town took ages to re-appear. I thought, here we go, were going to go at thrm. Nope, not a bit of it. Wolves manager had tweaked his team's tactics, and were makinv inrodes and starting to actually cause us problems. Its 20 mins before McKenna reacts to this. He brings on Taylor, who chases down Wolves defenders.

Where was Hirst?, Where was Chaplin. Why weren't they brought on, on 60 mins. WTF is McKenna expecting our players to do in 10mins? They're mentally and physically cold to the game.

Mckenna is displaying week after week and tactical inability. He's still doing the shame thing he fud in league one and Championship, but instead of doing it on 70mins, he's doing it at least ten mins later in the game. WHATS THE POINT??

He never changes his approach. Never plays our teo strikers together when we clearly by 60mins have no choice but to go for it.

I am SO frustrated with McKennas approach. He doesn't, " read" the game DURING the game. As one caller said on Suffolk radio. The game is over coached, ( and he's right).


There's no spontaneity ON the pitch, by the players in RESPONSE to how the opposition change their game. In fact t Town are so over coached, I doubt these players have the ability to play off the cuff despite their supposed individual flair.

We epitomise everything that is wrong in the PL. It's plastic football, spineless, gutless, and lacking in true individuality know how or true inspiration or individual ability to have a go at anything. It's like watching paint dry, it's predictable.

I suspect We all know virtually every pass in order, in our build up play. We're that automatic and practised in our clockwork style. If opponents change their approach we are incapable of reacting to it because....." mckennas says it must be done this way, and in this order".

The season can't end soon enough for me.
Townsend was taken off because he had a hamstring problem.

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Post by Charnwood » Sat Apr 05, 2025 7:44 pm

Cabanas Blue wrote:
Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:51 pm
hallamblue wrote:
Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:44 pm
81st min, McKenna takes Townsend off for Davis. 3 mins later Wolves score their equaliser from the left babk side of defence....8 mins later they get the winner, down the left back side of defence. Bloody clueless.


0n 58 mins Delap's game was done. He wasn't chasing down, wasn't keeping the ball, was no threat. He needed support ..... but once again, like he does week after week, McKenna leaves it until the 80 + mins before he brings on new forwards. WHY ????????? , but he doesnt CHANGE anything. No tactical change, just a swap of tired legs for fresh legs.

By the time he makes his usual "swap" of the forwards, the game is done.

Half time: Town took ages to re-appear. I thought, here we go, were going to go at thrm. Nope, not a bit of it. Wolves manager had tweaked his team's tactics, and were makinv inrodes and starting to actually cause us problems. Its 20 mins before McKenna reacts to this. He brings on Taylor, who chases down Wolves defenders.

Where was Hirst?, Where was Chaplin. Why weren't they brought on, on 60 mins. WTF is McKenna expecting our players to do in 10mins? They're mentally and physically cold to the game.

Mckenna is displaying week after week and tactical inability. He's still doing the shame thing he fud in league one and Championship, but instead of doing it on 70mins, he's doing it at least ten mins later in the game. WHATS THE POINT??

He never changes his approach. Never plays our teo strikers together when we clearly by 60mins have no choice but to go for it.

I am SO frustrated with McKennas approach. He doesn't, " read" the game DURING the game. As one caller said on Suffolk radio. The game is over coached, ( and he's right).


There's no spontaneity ON the pitch, by the players in RESPONSE to how the opposition change their game. In fact t Town are so over coached, I doubt these players have the ability to play off the cuff despite their supposed individual flair.

We epitomise everything that is wrong in the PL. It's plastic football, spineless, gutless, and lacking in true individuality know how or true inspiration or individual ability to have a go at anything. It's like watching paint dry, it's predictable.

I suspect We all know virtually every pass in order, in our build up play. We're that automatic and practised in our clockwork style. If opponents change their approach we are incapable of reacting to it because....." mckennas says it must be done this way, and in this order".

The season can't end soon enough for me.
Townsend was taken off because he had a hamstring problem.
You probably watched the sand live coverage I was following where the commentator picked up that Townsend was struggling with his hamstring a few minutes before McKenna took him off. This was definitely a forced change and not by choice.

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Post by hallamblue » Sat Apr 05, 2025 7:59 pm

Oh goody, ANOTHER hamstring injury.

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Post by The Odious Mr Rossi » Sat Apr 05, 2025 9:52 pm

Quite simply, we didn't offer enough. Sadly, that's been the story of our season.
The change of tactics that their manager employed for the second half totally out-thought KM, and he had no answer.
I hope we can hang on to as many of our players as possible next season; as I'm sure that GC will take any profit made on player sales, plus the parachute payment, to recover the £120m they have wasted this season.

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Post by arana peligrosa » Sat Apr 05, 2025 11:20 pm

Fucks sake, where to start, They were value for it, caught highlights and they had more of the ball, created more chances, more often than not looked more likely to score than ourselves. That's about us done now, it's just not going to be enough to save the season. Up until today it was the hope that killed you not the despair. 1 win all season at Portman Road at the penultimate month of the season, it's bullshit. Many could argue on that alone we don't deserve to be a top level club name.

The defending at times was in so many words, (and once again) sub-standard. Palmer had a moment of madness that were more coco the clown that an improved goalkeeper following Muric and the second goal they got that beat us, hell it were messy to say the least. There's been one or two standout players for us this season that have risen above all others like Delap for instance but the rest of the squad is arguably largely too ineffective or simply not of the caliber to compete at this level.

McKenna as always plays one in attack, any article suggesting anything other is fantasy, this was a game today were three points were imperative and extra players in a forward position, greater emphasis on attack etc was going to be needed to really go at them and provide us a chance.

Why were Hirst and Chaplin not featured before they came on, why was our highest paid player in Phillips not even feature at all. It's all kind of mystery and asks certain questions but at the same time kind of academic at this stage of the season. Waited 22 years for a top league return and a small handful of results and scores aside it's been by and large abysmal. Does McKenna really need to be here for the Championship next season, some by now would advocate he's done as much as he can in his time here. We're not going to run riot in lower league like before and get an automatic promotion whether he's here or some other name in place. Just irritated the season has taken the path it has, today just encapsulated the misery and frustration that has been just about prevalent at all times since August.

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Post by mendipblue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:52 am

Charnwood wrote:
Sat Apr 05, 2025 7:44 pm
Cabanas Blue wrote:
Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:51 pm
hallamblue wrote:
Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:44 pm
81st min, McKenna takes Townsend off for Davis. 3 mins later Wolves score their equaliser from the left babk side of defence....8 mins later they get the winner, down the left back side of defence. Bloody clueless.


0n 58 mins Delap's game was done. He wasn't chasing down, wasn't keeping the ball, was no threat. He needed support ..... but once again, like he does week after week, McKenna leaves it until the 80 + mins before he brings on new forwards. WHY ????????? , but he doesnt CHANGE anything. No tactical change, just a swap of tired legs for fresh legs.

By the time he makes his usual "swap" of the forwards, the game is done.

Half time: Town took ages to re-appear. I thought, here we go, were going to go at thrm. Nope, not a bit of it. Wolves manager had tweaked his team's tactics, and were makinv inrodes and starting to actually cause us problems. Its 20 mins before McKenna reacts to this. He brings on Taylor, who chases down Wolves defenders.

Where was Hirst?, Where was Chaplin. Why weren't they brought on, on 60 mins. WTF is McKenna expecting our players to do in 10mins? They're mentally and physically cold to the game.

Mckenna is displaying week after week and tactical inability. He's still doing the shame thing he fud in league one and Championship, but instead of doing it on 70mins, he's doing it at least ten mins later in the game. WHATS THE POINT??

He never changes his approach. Never plays our teo strikers together when we clearly by 60mins have no choice but to go for it.

I am SO frustrated with McKennas approach. He doesn't, " read" the game DURING the game. As one caller said on Suffolk radio. The game is over coached, ( and he's right).


There's no spontaneity ON the pitch, by the players in RESPONSE to how the opposition change their game. In fact t Town are so over coached, I doubt these players have the ability to play off the cuff despite their supposed individual flair.

We epitomise everything that is wrong in the PL. It's plastic football, spineless, gutless, and lacking in true individuality know how or true inspiration or individual ability to have a go at anything. It's like watching paint dry, it's predictable.

I suspect We all know virtually every pass in order, in our build up play. We're that automatic and practised in our clockwork style. If opponents change their approach we are incapable of reacting to it because....." mckennas says it must be done this way, and in this order".

The season can't end soon enough for me.
Townsend was taken off because he had a hamstring problem.
You probably watched the sand live coverage I was following where the commentator picked up that Townsend was struggling with his hamstring a few minutes before McKenna took him off. This was definitely a forced change and not by choice.

Exactly 🙄 lets stick to facts. They equalised in the 72nd minute. 4 subs made by Town in the 81st minute, one enforced due to Townsends hamstring problem 🫣 their winner came in the 84th minute. 😫

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Post by Frosty » Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:14 am

IMO one of the biggest issues throughout the season is we are simply not a big enough side physically to compete with our opponents. The amount of times we are out muscled by bigger opponents happens time and time again.

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Post by hallamblue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 8:24 am

Spot on Dave, and i made exactly that observation to Mike during the game. We've always been a lightweight team, not just thus season.

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Post by mendipblue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 8:39 am

Frosty wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 2:14 am
IMO one of the biggest issues throughout the season is we are simply not a big enough side physically to compete with our opponents. The amount of times we are out muscled by bigger opponents happens time and time again.
Yep, can't disagree with that. But losing 25pts from winning positions have not helped either 🫣

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Post by Bluemike » Sun Apr 06, 2025 8:48 am

Townsend may have had an injury but the point is Davis appears and a weakness is instantly exploited, Townsend hasn't made a single mistake and yet has been used sparingly, its gone on all season.

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Post by hallamblue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:00 am

This post on twtd is 100% on the money and encapsulates everything I feel and have tried ( far less eloquently) to say....


For two and a half seasons, McKenna was lauded as a tactical genius for 80+% of the time. During stick spells in L1 and tge Championship, there were some who said he was too inflexible, there was no plan B but ultimately the mantra of 'trust the process' proved successful. This season, however,and more especially since the turn of the year, this inflexibility has probably been a big part in our undoing. No doubt injuries have played a part but the insistence on having one striker with three behind, more often than not with just two midfielders (i know sometimes 3 at the back or 5 if you like) and a back 4 has looked painful to me. Starting from the front : Delap has been so isolated at times and I feel this has almost forced him into feeling he has to do it on his own and his form has suffered. Surely Hirst has warranted more game time and with Delap acting as one of the 10s, coming from a bit deeper we might have had a bit more power and physicality than a very lightweight three we have had behind the striker which just hasn't delivered for 90% of the time.
Looking at the midfield two next. Whatever combination has been used, they've always looked overpowered, overstretched and at times knackered on about 70 minutes. Not once have I seen this counteracted tactically by putting a third midfielder in there to solidify things up a bit. Instead our substitutions are almost always just like for like. Is this not symptomatic of tactical rigidity?
As for our defensive unit. Davis has continued to play in the same manner as in tge Championship and L1. He is no better or worse player than last season, but those gung ho overlaps, charging upfield straight from the kick off sometimes, have simply left us defensively exposed and ultimately punished by the better quality of Premiership teams. Let's, face it. Even last season, as brilliant as it was, we were exposed by Leeds twice, Saints for about 45 minutes, West Brom and for periods by Leicester in both games. The better sides exposed us and we conceded a lot of goals for a team that finished so high. We have never settled on a central defensive partnership and persisted far too long with Muric.
Most observers can see we needed a third option up top, that we were light in midfield and the signing of Philogene in January has added all but nothing to our survival hopes. I know we chased him for several windows but he was definitely not what we needed at the time of the signing.
We live and learn though.

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Post by Blue Wilf » Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:55 am

Maybe I am reading more into it than I should but having watched KM's post match BBC interview, the very last section starts to set a scene for me. He had been talking about the journey over 3 years etc and then, pointedly for me, he refers to a good future ahead for the dressing room and the club but was careful not to include any reference to his own position/feelings regarding the next phase. I firmly believe he will be off if he gets a PL club in for him - no question. Like I said yesterday, if that is the case, fine - but if he leaves us hanging on his next decision throughout the close season, it will taint the great things he has done. Just my observation - let's see what transpires.

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Post by Mach_Polish_Blue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 10:15 am

Only last January we and Wolves were on the same level points wise.

Had a look in their team and two of their January additions played full 90 minutes yesterday. One of them was 16m addition in Agbadou. They had found him in France. Massive, muscled, powerful central back.......almost the same amount of money we had spent on Greaves last summer 😡😡😡

Moreover.....they brought this defender last January and who did we bring in? Godfrey 😡😡

Another of their signings last January was forward Munetsi. Also played 90 mins yesterday.....they paid less for him than we on Philogene 😪😪😪

Has McKenna or any player said yesterday that we'll learn from our mistakes? Would love to hear that for the 35th time this season.

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Post by Shed on tour » Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:07 am

7 points out of a possible 48 from home games is atrocious. I know we have had discussions about Town fans and their support in the past but one thing for sure is that despite this dismal home record the crowd have generally continued to back the team. Certainly at many other clubs the atmosphere would have been far more toxic.

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Post by The Odious Mr Rossi » Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:40 am

Blue Wilf wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:55 am
Maybe I am reading more into it than I should but having watched KM's post match BBC interview, the very last section starts to set a scene for me. He had been talking about the journey over 3 years etc and then, pointedly for me, he refers to a good future ahead for the dressing room and the club but was careful not to include any reference to his own position/feelings regarding the next phase. I firmly believe he will be off if he gets a PL club in for him - no question. Like I said yesterday, if that is the case, fine - but if he leaves us hanging on his next decision throughout the close season, it will taint the great things he has done. Just my observation - let's see what transpires.
Absolutely he would. Thing is, can you see any other PL team coming in for him, given his dire PL managerial record? I can't.
Manager?? In my opinion, at PL level he couldn't manage a quick sh*t.

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Post by EveryoneKnowsaDave » Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:05 pm

I hope he goes personally and he can take his stupid smarmy superior faced grin with him.

He'll be lauded for 'look what hes done with a league one squad', but this misses the fact that the squad at the time was recruited for the Championship largely by someone else and hence was a Championship squad anyway really. It's also irrelevant as its now a Premier squad or should have been with the right additions which is largely where this has gone wrong. Inherited a decent squad, got the strengthening of it wrong for the most part. Add a sprinkling of bang average tactics = relegation.

Atleast 50% of this has been down to him and so it's time for a change.

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Post by Blue Wilf » Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:28 pm

The Odious Mr Rossi wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 11:40 am
Blue Wilf wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:55 am
Maybe I am reading more into it than I should but having watched KM's post match BBC interview, the very last section starts to set a scene for me. He had been talking about the journey over 3 years etc and then, pointedly for me, he refers to a good future ahead for the dressing room and the club but was careful not to include any reference to his own position/feelings regarding the next phase. I firmly believe he will be off if he gets a PL club in for him - no question. Like I said yesterday, if that is the case, fine - but if he leaves us hanging on his next decision throughout the close season, it will taint the great things he has done. Just my observation - let's see what transpires.
Absolutely he would. Thing is, can you see any other PL team coming in for him, given his dire PL managerial record? I can't.
Manager?? In my opinion, at PL level he couldn't manage a quick sh*t.
I kind of agree but you know how barking mad the PL teams and their leadership are. Incan certainly see Spurs being tempted (as they are probably the most desperate) and they will be under the false impression that with better players, KM could get it right (which he may do - but of course we know his other, significant weaknesses). I also see a Leeds or Sheff Utd being tempted as their managers have failed in the PL before as well so if they wanted a change, why not to someone with the most current experience (albeit of failure!). I don't care where he goes if he does indeed go - I just hope he does it quickly (ie before the season ends, or at least makes it clear he is going at that point). If he wants to stay to get us straight back then I am also OK with that as we know it is within his level of competence.

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Post by marko69 » Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:38 pm

:lol: Wilf & his groundhog day “reel” in his head. 🤦‍♂️ :lol:
Your new name is Blue Media. You ARE the very epitome of the modern day media, Wilf. Saying stuff about “where he’s going” when no one else is even mentioning it.
At least give the owners and Mashton the benefit of the doubt by letting KMcK finish the current season and see what transpires over the summer.

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Post by mendipblue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 3:17 pm

hallamblue wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:00 am
This post on twtd is 100% on the money and encapsulates everything I feel and have tried ( far less eloquently) to say....


For two and a half seasons, McKenna was lauded as a tactical genius for 80+% of the time. During stick spells in L1 and tge Championship, there were some who said he was too inflexible, there was no plan B but ultimately the mantra of 'trust the process' proved successful. This season, however,and more especially since the turn of the year, this inflexibility has probably been a big part in our undoing. No doubt injuries have played a part but the insistence on having one striker with three behind, more often than not with just two midfielders (i know sometimes 3 at the back or 5 if you like) and a back 4 has looked painful to me. Starting from the front : Delap has been so isolated at times and I feel this has almost forced him into feeling he has to do it on his own and his form has suffered. Surely Hirst has warranted more game time and with Delap acting as one of the 10s, coming from a bit deeper we might have had a bit more power and physicality than a very lightweight three we have had behind the striker which just hasn't delivered for 90% of the time.
Looking at the midfield two next. Whatever combination has been used, they've always looked overpowered, overstretched and at times knackered on about 70 minutes. Not once have I seen this counteracted tactically by putting a third midfielder in there to solidify things up a bit. Instead our substitutions are almost always just like for like. Is this not symptomatic of tactical rigidity?
As for our defensive unit. Davis has continued to play in the same manner as in tge Championship and L1. He is no better or worse player than last season, but those gung ho overlaps, charging upfield straight from the kick off sometimes, have simply left us defensively exposed and ultimately punished by the better quality of Premiership teams. Let's, face it. Even last season, as brilliant as it was, we were exposed by Leeds twice, Saints for about 45 minutes, West Brom and for periods by Leicester in both games. The better sides exposed us and we conceded a lot of goals for a team that finished so high. We have never settled on a central defensive partnership and persisted far too long with Muric.
Most observers can see we needed a third option up top, that we were light in midfield and the signing of Philogene in January has added all but nothing to our survival hopes. I know we chased him for several windows but he was definitely not what we needed at the time of the signing.
We live and learn though.
Yawn yawn 🥱 😴 💤

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Post by hallamblue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 3:20 pm

The biggest yawn on here mate, is YOU!

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Post by marko69 » Sun Apr 06, 2025 3:52 pm

hallamblue wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:00 am
This Let's, face it. Even last season, as brilliant as it was, we were exposed by Leeds twice, Saints for about 45 minutes, West Brom and for periods by Leicester in both games……
Its not “yawn” , Hallam but the problem with these long winded posts from wannabe managers on the internet is the fact that no one has the time or indeed the inclination to check things like that part i’ve highlighted. Who the hell remembers this stuff? Other than people with not much else happening in their life, and thus have plenty time to type up long winded posts about “what the management need to do” ?

Then there is the “gung-ho” attacking chats whilst whinging about “sideways passing” at the back. 🤦‍♂️

It really does border on “yawn” at times.

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Post by Mach_Polish_Blue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:17 pm

mendipblue wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 3:17 pm
hallamblue wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 9:00 am
This post on twtd is 100% on the money and encapsulates everything I feel and have tried ( far less eloquently) to say....


For two and a half seasons, McKenna was lauded as a tactical genius for 80+% of the time. During stick spells in L1 and tge Championship, there were some who said he was too inflexible, there was no plan B but ultimately the mantra of 'trust the process' proved successful. This season, however,and more especially since the turn of the year, this inflexibility has probably been a big part in our undoing. No doubt injuries have played a part but the insistence on having one striker with three behind, more often than not with just two midfielders (i know sometimes 3 at the back or 5 if you like) and a back 4 has looked painful to me. Starting from the front : Delap has been so isolated at times and I feel this has almost forced him into feeling he has to do it on his own and his form has suffered. Surely Hirst has warranted more game time and with Delap acting as one of the 10s, coming from a bit deeper we might have had a bit more power and physicality than a very lightweight three we have had behind the striker which just hasn't delivered for 90% of the time.
Looking at the midfield two next. Whatever combination has been used, they've always looked overpowered, overstretched and at times knackered on about 70 minutes. Not once have I seen this counteracted tactically by putting a third midfielder in there to solidify things up a bit. Instead our substitutions are almost always just like for like. Is this not symptomatic of tactical rigidity?
As for our defensive unit. Davis has continued to play in the same manner as in tge Championship and L1. He is no better or worse player than last season, but those gung ho overlaps, charging upfield straight from the kick off sometimes, have simply left us defensively exposed and ultimately punished by the better quality of Premiership teams. Let's, face it. Even last season, as brilliant as it was, we were exposed by Leeds twice, Saints for about 45 minutes, West Brom and for periods by Leicester in both games. The better sides exposed us and we conceded a lot of goals for a team that finished so high. We have never settled on a central defensive partnership and persisted far too long with Muric.
Most observers can see we needed a third option up top, that we were light in midfield and the signing of Philogene in January has added all but nothing to our survival hopes. I know we chased him for several windows but he was definitely not what we needed at the time of the signing.
We live and learn though.
Yawn yawn 🥱 😴 💤

Yawn yawn mentipblue? Seriously?

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Post by Mach_Polish_Blue » Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:23 pm

marko69 wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:38 pm
:lol: Wilf & his groundhog day “reel” in his head. 🤦‍♂️ :lol:
Your new name is Blue Media. You ARE the very epitome of the modern day media, Wilf. Saying stuff about “where he’s going” when no one else is even mentioning it.
At least give the owners and Mashton the benefit of the doubt by letting KMcK finish the current season and see what transpires over the summer.

“If he leaves us hanging around and waiting, and if he talks to Spurs …….” :lol: Jaysus H.
He's no super David Gray isn't he?

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Post by marko69 » Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:30 pm

Mach_Polish_Blue wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:23 pm
marko69 wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:38 pm
:lol: Wilf & his groundhog day “reel” in his head. 🤦‍♂️ :lol:
Your new name is Blue Media. You ARE the very epitome of the modern day media, Wilf. Saying stuff about “where he’s going” when no one else is even mentioning it.
At least give the owners and Mashton the benefit of the doubt by letting KMcK finish the current season and see what transpires over the summer.

“If he leaves us hanging around and waiting, and if he talks to Spurs …….” :lol: Jaysus H.
He's no super David Gray isn't he?
Hey!!! That’s SIR David Gray! Get it right, MPB.

Thats football though. Still got the texts from mid November from the premature ejaculators on the whatapp. …… “We’re relegated, get him sacked! Sack the board.”
Similar to the TWTD site (and a few on here) after the Brovers game in 2023.

If i were bearded Mash……. Id be asking Mckenna to stick around for 25/26. Prove there has been no flash in pan stuff going on at PR. Get some para-dough, buy a few non-Muric’s and go again.
To just LEAVE now, after a well and truly predicted relegation season would be insane.
In my opinion of course.

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Post by The Odious Mr Rossi » Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:40 pm

marko69 wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 4:30 pm
If i were bearded Mash……. Id be asking Mckenna to stick around for 25/26. Prove there has been no flash in pan stuff going on at PR. Get some para-dough, buy a few non-Muric’s and go again.
To just LEAVE now, after a well and truly predicted relegation season would be insane.
In my opinion of course.
We are assuming that whether he stays or goes is KMs decision to make.
Maybe not - if I was a big American executive that had provided KM/MA with £130m and yet seen failure, I would be making heads roll. No ifs, no buts: it would be "You f*cked up, Buddy - now f*ck off".

Forget the para-dough - I suspect that will end up in the pension fund from which it was taken :)

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Re: Premier League - Ipswich Town vs Wolverhampton Wanderers Preview & Matchday Thread.

Post by Blue Wilf » Sun Apr 06, 2025 5:24 pm

marko69 wrote:
Sun Apr 06, 2025 1:38 pm
:lol: Wilf & his groundhog day “reel” in his head. 🤦‍♂️ :lol:
Your new name is Blue Media. You ARE the very epitome of the modern day media, Wilf. Saying stuff about “where he’s going” when no one else is even mentioning it.
At least give the owners and Mashton the benefit of the doubt by letting KMcK finish the current season and see what transpires over the summer.

“If he leaves us hanging around and waiting, and if he talks to Spurs …….” :lol: Jaysus H.
Believe what you want. Heaven forbid someone may have an opinion that doesn't match yours... 🤷🏻‍♂️

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