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Absolute joke

Title says it all really. The formation doesn't / isn't working! Nobody had a clue apart from Nugent.

King, Gallagher, St Ledger, Fernandes and were awful. Waghorn comes on and gets stuck on the right wing!
Players are not on in their natural positions! You wouldn't play Schmeichel up front or Nugent in goal!

We are a laughing stock at the minute and I personally think the players that were so bad against Reading should have started again tonight instead of leaving them on the bench, especially £5.5m of the £10m we've spent.

For the 1st time ever, I'm starting to question Sven!

posted on 17/8/11

To be honest, I expect us to lose so anything else will be a bonus. No faith at all right now.

I just hope Sven doesn't use the excuse that we need "time to gel"! They are professional footballers and get paid to play. End of!

If they aren't playing well it's because of the formation or playing in wrong positions!

posted on 17/8/11

To be fair, spoon, Sven has never claimed the "gelling" excuse. So it's the formation and/or the positions and/or (may as well face it) not all of the players are good enough. Few seemed good enough tonight.

posted on 17/8/11

Dyer and St Ledger were awful.

For a winger, Dyer never is on his wing. Hope all the clamour for him stops now, he's shocking!!

Gallagher didn't play great, but did play a few good balls.

Nugent and Kasper are our best 2 players by a country mile.

posted on 17/8/11

Not been this frustrated for a while! Perhaps I let the pre-season hype get to me...

The formation clearly doesn't work, and the players look lost - a lack of confidence or a lack of belief in the system their being asked to play. Call it 4-3-3 if you want, to me it looks more like 4-5-1, at home.

Player wise, yet to see anything decent from Fernades - all he seems able to do is pass back towards goal. Kingy looks leggy, and Wellens, is not Wellens at the moment.

I wonder what dropping Mills will do to his confidence after it was ripped to shreds on staurday - his replacemnt, St Ledger didn't really inspire.

The positives, well Nugent is off the mark, and he worked hard again tonight and his goal was a cracker.

I know it frustraing, I am as you can guess from above - but still think it's a shame we booed our own players, 3 games into the season - they may have been poor tonight, but there our players, poor or not.

posted on 17/8/11

"For a winger, Dyer never is on his wing. Hope all the clamour for him stops now, he's shocking!!"

What a load of crock, Dyer being a natural left winger with pace to confidently as attack any right full back is continually played on the wrong wing by Sven, Ok maybe a few minutes swap over to confuse the defence but not the whole blooming game. Dyer played where he was told otherwise it would have been sorted, blame the incompetent manager not the player.

The obvious thing when losing is to bring more attack minded players on, what does Sven do, he puts Waghorn on wide right!!!!

What clever new tactics will be deployed against Forest but then again there doesn't seem to be a plan B, just more of the same rubbish witnessed last season.

comment by MGLCFC (U4958)

posted on 17/8/11

I felt Fernandes does his role well - again King offers very little, one decent cross but he never commands the midfield. Waghorn is just poor, irrespective of him playing out of position - his free kick barely reached the wall and his follow up shot was a repetition of his half time effort that injured someone in row Z. Pluses are Nugent, getting better every game and Schmeichel looks consistent. Dyer is just that - wasted his big chance to impress and Gallagher is a very poor man's David Beckham, who is too lightweight. Wellens huffs and puffs but doesn't seem as creative. St Ledger probably no better than Mills (horrendous error) and Peltier is ok, but nothing to shout about - we'll be bringing back Oakley and big Steve soon.

posted on 17/8/11

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posted on 18/8/11

Normally elmondy I'd give you some banter back but I think you have a point apart from saying we've bought standard average championship players. They are all good signings but aren't in their right positions.

One thing I have just wondered...when has Johnson gone?

posted on 18/8/11

Err 666 and Elmondy, it's only been 3 games. Are you allways this premature?

posted on 18/8/11

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