loki679 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 19 hours ago, AyeDubbleYoo said: Win the FA Cup and stay up, job’s a good ‘un. Is there a plan B? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shearergol Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I feel quite a few of our players have realised they’re not wanted. It’s gonna be a huge positive to get them away from the club now. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Menace Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 No idea what the plan was for second half, they dealt with us very comfortably. The players still seem to have the same defeated attitude they had prior. I'm very worried. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 4 minutes ago, neesy111 said: I was happy with his appointment, but I'm getting concerned I have to say. Saying it's the squad only this result is making excuses for him today. We looked very predictable for most of that match. Spot on. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thumbheed Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Don't think there's an issue with how Eddie is training and managing the team tbh but as I've said before, if he doesn't recognise the strengths of his attacking players sooner rather than later he's gonna bomb. Even trying to play Joelinton further up the pitch was the wrong decision, and yet inspite of watching him absolutely excel in a deeper position he still managed to end up upfront. That's inexcusable imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRaspberryJam Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 2 minutes ago, loki679 said: Is there a plan B? Spend spend spend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I haven’t liked his team selections since he came in, must admit. I’m happy to defer judgment till we’ve made a few signings this window. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 100% agree with people letting off steam but personally I'm not blaming anyone who joined the club over the last few months Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ste Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 As soon as Eddie Howe said in his press conference that he'd been hammering it home all week that this game was must win, I was worried. These players cannot deal with expectation. They have no drive or standard that they strive to meet. Most are here because they were offered a contract and they knew the club would, at worst, yo-yo between the top two divisions. No disrespect intended to Cambridge whatsoever, but you'd be fuming about this result as a bottom half Championship side, never mind a team that is supposed to be fighting for their future. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaqen Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Regardless of the selection or tactics it's kind of irrelevant when most of the players our there looked like they'd never controlled or passed a ball before. The amount of bad touches and overhit balls was like a Sunday league team. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufcjb Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I hope for his sake, PIF are not like Watford's owners. We haven't seen what PIF can or may do but if they are anything like the Watford owners, Eddie should be getting worried he won't last long here with shit results like this today. He better hope PIF can tolerate and be patient. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amir_9 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Second half totally out of ideas and he did fuck all of worth to change anything about it Eddie, if you weren't already fucking aware, Willock and Almiron are not players who you can rely on to score you goals and the sooner you fucking stop playing them altogether, the better. What an embarrassing result, abysmal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lush Vlad Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 8 minutes ago, WarrenBartonCentrePartin said: Got to agree here. He didn’t seem to see the biggest problem was we had no out-and-out striker He took Murphy off who had actually looked alright through the middle. Much better than ASM, anyway. Not saying it was purely down to that. But after that double sub. We looked clueless. I thought we were ok enough up to that point. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
nemtizz Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Just now, Jaqen said: Regardless of the selection or tactics it's kind of irrelevant when most of the players our there looked like they'd never controlled or passed a ball before. The amount of bad touches and overhit balls was like a Sunday league team. Surely confidence and cohesion stems from the manager? Admittedly I don't like any of our current squad (Tripps aside). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Klaus Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Just now, Lush Vlad said: He took Murphy off who had actually looked alright through the middle. Much better than ASM, anyway. Not saying it was purely down to that. But after that double sub. We looked clueless. I thought we were ok enough up to that point. I didnt get this at all. Longstaff was having a mare and should have been off. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGuv Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Must say I was disappointed that he didn’t start or bring on Anderson and the other kids. I’m sure they’d have put up a better fight Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thiago Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I think he's shown today that he won't be the manager if/when the team is pushing for big things. The bloke simply can't coach in a proactive way. It's easy to put out nice patterns when your opponent is coming on to you and they leave spaces, but Cambridge (rightly) did not do that. From the moment the goal went in we passed it around the perimeter like a frustrated basketball team before throwing it in against three massive defenders. He';; get a pass to a certain degree for as long as we have the Ashley era shite in the team, but the awful part of my brain keeps whispering that it would have been better under a Rafa type. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATF Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I think people are always free to make comments on a manager for his selection, setup and subs. But it seems clear to me that a result like this is not "on him" at this stage. The actual ire seems merited elsewhere, even if you make the case that he too had a poor game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Boon Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 1 minute ago, TheGuv said: Must say I was disappointed that he didn’t start or bring on Anderson and the other kids. I’m sure they’d have put up a better fight this f*ckin club doesn't do blooding new talent Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
matta Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Signings need to come asap zulu for this to go. VAR errors or not, losing here is embarrassing. Time to step up. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
54 Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Personally starting to think if the players are phoning it in, and arn't caring due to all the noise in the transfer market. These seem like the bunch that instead of going "I'm going to make myself undroppable, fuck these new guys" they're going "We'll im getting replaced anyway so what do I care". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomson Mouse Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) 25 minutes ago, neesy111 said: I was happy with his appointment, but I'm getting concerned I have to say. Saying it's the squad only this result is making excuses for him today. We looked very predictable for most of that match. Way to early to say you’re concerned. The guy is trying to turn 2.5 years of Bruce around and has shown good signs so far. Edited January 8, 2022 by Thomson Mouse Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRon Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I like him, and that's not going to change while he's forced to play this bunch of losers, but it was a dumb idea to start with such a strong team, if only because they aren't that strong anyway. And why on earth didn't he use Anderson in a team that can't shoot for shit? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanj Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 He put out a team of premier league players and they lost. Simple as that. Embarrassing loss and everyone needs to hang their hand for that. But the next PL match matters more. Hopefully we’re days away from bringing in more and more starting quality players. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantail Breeze Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I don’t get why he waited until we went 1-0 down to change anything. Should’ve done so at half time, we weren’t exactly playing scintillating football. He’s still trying to put square pegs in round holes and is playing players in positions and tactics they’re unable to fulfil. Said that for weeks and he’s persisting with it. We need five or six players to suit his style (in addition to Trippier), or he needs to adjust the way we play to suit the players he has, otherwise we’ll end up with shit like this regularly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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