Quote Originally Posted by hopelesslyoptimistic View Post
Agreed - he speaks fluently but after a while when you analyse what he is saying it is the same old same old that bears little resemblance to what is happening on the pitch.

The blaming of the young players for being naive just has no basis from what happened in the game. The key problems being no left back, Cooper, JMs own tactical naivety and making ludicrous changes bring off Roca, weakening the midfield and not refreshing up too earlier when Rodrigo was clearly knackered and Aaronson having run two marathons in the game was also flagging.

If he actually believes half of what he says that is even more troubling.
He is also undermining our pitch to young players as a gateway to first team football and they just don’t get the minutes they deserve or expect.

Some may point to Summerville and Gnonto but they only got game time through injuries to others and not through inspired tactical substitutions and in case of Summerville even the blinkered JM couldn’t drop him after how he performed.

He is in danger of ruining Joffy as Joffy looks to be becoming more and more disillusioned.

WTF with Hjelde too - he plays LB for the u21 and did so well for us in the nightmare Jan 2022. Whilst he is not an all out LB he is more suited there than Struijk who is such a good CB.

Ayling was hopeless when he can on too, deflected their third goal and was running away from play for the fourth.
NFGE
However, I do appreciate your absolute & thorough commitment to not liking our current Coach but taking away all Jessie's PR 'mental-floss' - tactically we still are a big time canvas of pure 'Monet' with our ludicrous defending strategies, if you get me drift.

Surely JM can now see that amongst our Rubik cube squad possibilities it's just a simple matter of picking the correct players (as we actually DO have them). So still frustrating as presently his various concoctions resemble one of those double-sided jigsaws for no logical apparent reason.