why change it

[GrayBlade]

yet again he changes it and we phucking lose . keep leonard out of the side ffs. play the side thats just won,to mant swapping n changing . having said that clarke is garbage at the moment .

For me it wasn’t so much him changing a couple of players Twirls, it was that he changed the way we normally play against a bottom 4 team albeit they’ve got a decent home record.

I understand it might have been different if Brooks and Holmes had been fit, but nobody will convince me that the players weren’t instructed to lump it forward from the off. I think the idea was that with 3 ball winning midfielders we’d control that area and then get the ball wide to the wing backs but all three had a mare. We should have stuck to our normal game, we couldn’t possibly have done any worse.

[Holden_C]

Wilder thinks comments about formations, selections and tactical changes are pretty much rubbish. As he says, when players are under no pressure and fail to make simple passes again and again, he can't account for that when picking a team when he's watched them manage it many times before.

He also said why he keeps picking Leon.

[tomytony]

So far CW's signing's have made the step up needed and maybe that's suckered him into thinking it will work for them all.

Patently it has not. It's early days with the JTW mob but, integration into the side notwithstanding, they don't look the part at all.

That's why the close season will be critical, both in terms of money available and QUALITY of players recruited, not quantity.

[GrayBlade]

It does amaze me how (depending what camp we’re in) that we can go from ‘beat Hull and we’re right in the mix and either way, it’s been a good first season back’ to ‘we’re completely fecked this season and even worse is coming next’.

I think the reality probably lies somewhere in between the two views.

[tomytony]

Just posted this on the Report from the sofa thread-

Splitting the season in half ( almost) to date , we garnered 33 points from the first 16 games when, as almost everyone agrees, we took the league by storm, the new kids on the block surprised everyone.

In the next 17 games to date, including Hull, we have garnered 19 points at an average of 1.17 points per game.

Extrapolating that to a full 46 game season gives us just shy of 54 points.

Obviously that's a simplistic view but we are where we are and the recent results are more pertinent than those of the early season.

Maybe there is a bit more cause for concern than we think and, with the ownership shenanigans, will the money be there to improve the squad sufficieently?

[GrayBlade]

Just posted this on the Report from the sofa thread-

Splitting the season in half ( almost) to date , we garnered 33 points from the first 16 games when, as almost everyone agrees, we took the league by storm, the new kids on the block surprised everyone.

In the next 17 games to date, including Hull, we have garnered 19 points at an average of 1.17 points per game.

Extrapolating that to a full 46 game season gives us just shy of 54 points.

Obviously that's a simplistic view but we are where we are and the recent results are more pertinent than those of the early season.

Maybe there is a bit more cause for concern than we think and, with the ownership shenanigans, will the money be there to improve the squad sufficieently?

I did the did the same thing TT but I took the post Coutts injury losing 5 on the bounce out of the equation and it puts us in 12th in 2018. I think that’s probably a fair assement of where we are right now and it’s not just us who’s form has dipped hence we’re still hanging in there.

The main thing we all (and Wilder) want now is clarity from the board and owners, but I don’t think I we should write us off getting into the play offs just yet...even if Wilder says he has.

[tomytony]

I did the did the same thing TT but I took the post Coutts injury losing 5 on the bounce out of the equation and it puts us in 12th in 2018. I think that’s probably a fair assement of where we are right now and it’s not just us who’s form has dipped hence we’re still hanging in there.

The main thing we all (and Wilder) want now is clarity from the board and owners, but I don’t think I we should write us off getting into the play offs just yet...even if Wilder says he has.

I've just posted a reply on the 'from the sofa' thread, in response to Chips, and said I expect 70 points as a conservative estimate this season ( that's the 52 so far plus 1.3 per game from the last 13) . Hopefully it will be afew more and we'll be in the play offs

When things are going so well, why is it only SUFC that could end up with an ownership issue, unsettling the most productive manager we've had in years, producing lingering uncertainty just when we have a shout of stepping up?

[shorehamoldboy]

were better than leeds and their still hoping to make it to the play offs so no the season isnt over by a long way but do think we need 4 points this week