Funsters (H) 03/01/26

[Arabdownsouth]

The manager needs to stop making out like we're a good team just because we beat f*cking Livi! They have less than a thousand fans,f*ck all of a budget, we should be f*cking beating them! This team needs so much improvement it's embarrassing!

[Arabdownsouth]

Talking of defensive mistakes though,thats a f*cking belter from Arsenal 🤣

[Stoke_Arab]

Awful from the manager awful from the players. Big defenders that can't win headers, two tactics second half, ball out wide and cross, long throws, they were defending their box easy.

In hindsight it looks like Goodwin got lucky on Tuesday. Lucky that he chose the correct lineup and they actually played passing football. Lucky that Livi were so poor.

So what does he do?
Start the bombscare back 3
Start a Haddie at centre forward
Leave 2 midfielders up against 3

As Shedka says Ross Graham starts we most likely do not lose. Sam CH also, these players don't get caught out of position badly the way that Iovu Esselink and Keresztes do with the kamikaze high line.

You sold the shirt today Jim, not for the first time.

[Arabdownsouth]

Should be sending that f*cking Esselink out on loan or just back home tbh and keeping SCH here.

[Arabs4ever]

Anyone else see the Goodwin hand go out to Dolcek but he totally ignores it, when coming on. Not a happy squad I think.

[Arabs4ever]

Should be sending that f*cking Esselink out on loan or just back home tbh and keeping SCH here.

Goodwin prefers foreigners over Scots. Esselink is going in my Dutch back three of Benneker and Van der Meulen.

[Stoke_Arab]

We should keep Goodwin.

Today was terrible though.

The 3-4-3 does not work against the weaker teams

You're 100% correct.

Time and time again Goodwin has started home games 343 then had to change it to get something from the game after we go behind. Time and time again he does this despite what history should be telling him. How can he not see this? How???
He's playing his own stubborn game of Football Manager with our club and it needs to stop.

[arab777]

Yet another game at Tannadice where we are lethargic in the 1st half and have to chase the game in the 2nd.

[Utd83]

This one is on Goodwin again. Esselink gets picked again by Goodwin ahead of Graham. When is he going to realise he ain’t good enough. Graham must be thinking how bad am I if that’s what the managers picks ahead of me. As for watters he brings nothing. Is a lazy player at best and does nothing, can’t jump, can’t tackle can’t run. But time after time he gets picked by Goodwin. I am done with Goodwin. Time for a change. He post match interview says it all. Jim we never looked like scoring all day long.

[Arabdownsouth]

We should keep Goodwin.

Today was terrible though.

The 3-4-3 does not work against the weaker teams

If Goodwin can't see what is blindingly f*cking obvious to your average fan and continually does the same thing and expects a different result then what's your reasoning for keeping him?

[Dode craigie]

Graham starts that then different result

Esselink shouldn't get any more minutes

They'll think they are good now too, ffs

Still better than your mob today , happy new year spin doctor

[Arabdownsouth]

Still better than your mob today , happy new year spin doctor

Still below our mob too, dont get too excited eh lad 👍

[JUSTaway]

Deluded interview by Goodwin afterwards, pointing out their goal was their only shot on our goal first half, well sure only because of their finishing, they must have missed 3 sitters. They had as many chances as us second half for all our possession, when we were totally predictable.

[davydook]

Deluded interview by Goodwin afterwards, pointing out their goal was their only shot on our goal first half, well sure only because of their finishing, they must have missed 3 sitters. They had as many chances as us second half for all our possession, when we were totally predictable.

100% Correct

[Arabs4ever]

I wonder if Sevelj was on the bench just for numbers. Pulled up at Livingston. We had two keepers on the bench against the Sheep. Surely they can put a young lad on the bench to give him a boost on how he has been performing.

Scouting is all done differently now. Not an actual scout going out and watching a player with their own eyes. We've signed a lot of players who aren't suitable for the cut and thrust of Scottish football.

Playing a higher line, having a sweeper keeper, inverted wingers, wing-backs. I'll gladly take a keeper catching a ball. Full-backs over lapping a winger or right/left sided midfielder. A midfielder who will create time for spreading the ball about for a teammate in space. A twin pairing strike force that will occupy the opponents centre-halves and create an understanding with one another. Not much to ask for, but it seems these ways aren't the way football is to be played these days. 343 wildly exposed and once the opposition have the lead we offer the same meek predictable offerings time and again.