V Villa

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Malan who is hardly quicksilver had Esteve on a butty, Ekdal must have upset Parker because he was fully fit but was not even on the team bus never mind the bench.

[ballcock]

Your right, he was crap last season.
But we bought Broja the bench warmer for 20mil, and Flemming the bench warmer for 10mil the season before.. 30mil wasted
Calum Wilson and Calvin Lewis both where free.. both hugely experienced..
But to the board only like to buy sick notes and waste endless amounts on foreign failures.

That is exactly what Wilson and Calvin Lewis are sick notes

Unfortunately you don't get much for 20 million at this level as Broja and Foster prove.

Broja is a gamble who has played little football over the last 3 years and will need a run of games to get going, if he ever does. That is the reason why we supposedly paid 18 million euros and not 60

[ballcock]

Malan who is hardly quicksilver had Esteve on a butty, Ekdal must have upset Parker because he was fully fit but was not even on the team bus never mind the bench.

Esteve doesn't know is arse from his elbow playing with different formations and defenders each week.

This defencive mess lies at the feet of Parker

[wmdave_b]

Parker is a bit conservative atm, perhaps it's due to the quality of the opposition. Whilst Malen scored a couple, we did manage to keep Watkins and Rogers quiet.
I agree with an earlier post about Laurent, for me it's proving pointless as we are still conceding, and it is helping to stifle our attacks where we need more bodies. Foster or any of the other 2 are always going to have the same issue playing more of a midfield role tracking back too much.
I think we have some over reactions here, massively. We have had a really tough start, some slightly easier games to come and then we can have a balanced view, but not yet.

[outwoodclaret]

Parker is a bit conservative atm, perhaps it's due to the quality of the opposition. Whilst Malen scored a couple, we did manage to keep Watkins and Rogers quiet.
I agree with an earlier post about Laurent, for me it's proving pointless as we are still conceding, and it is helping to stifle our attacks where we need more bodies. Foster or any of the other 2 are always going to have the same issue playing more of a midfield role tracking back too much.
I think we have some over reactions here, massively. We have had a really tough start, some slightly easier games to come and then we can have a balanced view, but not yet.

I agree with you wm that people are rushing to judgement here. Even worse on FB with some Parker Out posters. You probably need ten games at the start of the season to form a good judgement of how your season will go. There are some concerns obviously in defence where we have been leaking goals away from home. We were simply asleep for Villa’s first goal.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

We cannot get undone by one pass. We are $hite offensively and the stats prove it.

Parker’s EPL stats are worsening by the game.

Bad luck to lose Ekdal at the last minute but we need to revert to 4-4-2 and play Florentine and Ugchukwa in the middle with Captain Cullen bossing it.

Front three is anybody’s guess, I noticed Anthony was getting the full treatment from the Villains and our Italian black chap lacks just about as much as Foster who is totally ruining my holiday.

[army88]

Parker is a bit conservative atm, perhaps it's due to the quality of the opposition. Whilst Malen scored a couple, we did manage to keep Watkins and Rogers quiet.
I agree with an earlier post about Laurent, for me it's proving pointless as we are still conceding, and it is helping to stifle our attacks where we need more bodies. Foster or any of the other 2 are always going to have the same issue playing more of a midfield role tracking back too much.
I think we have some over reactions here, massively. We have had a really tough start, some slightly easier games to come and then we can have a balanced view, but not yet.

At last a sensible post

The formation for me anyway isnt working and like it or not laurent is out of his depth at this level ( doesnt mean hes a bad footballer ).

The system ( Parker’s doing ) isnt working and we have two big strong boys

lesley and florentine ( they need to play together )

We need a win tbh but we ain’t getting it setting up like we have been doing we’re playing defensive with a 5 and still conceding goals

On Esteve a lot of way out of order comments on here - he had a shocker at city and it’s affected him but he’ll come back

I seem to remember Michael Richard’s quoted as I did Esteve is a rolls Royce and has a massive future in the game. ( he needs to shake of the bad performance ).

I also think Parker should pick his strongest 10 outfield players in a formation that gives us a chance to win games - you don’t need to be Einstein to work out if you don’t threaten the oppositions goal / shoot you won’t win many games

[FromTheDarkness]

I am not Parker out, basically because I cant see any manager keeping this squad up. So its a huge waste of time. We need to Stick it out with Parker.
How ever, I do see him dieing on his sword really, We play very basic defensive tactic every single week home or away. 5 at the back with a close 4 in the middle 1 upfront, with Antony as the long ball/ attacking threat.

- can you remember a attacking, cross or assist coming from the right wing? I struggle to even remember who plays there - The guy we resigned (looks rubbish every time)

Players, Fans, the board are understanding Parkers reason for this horrible defensive long ball tactic in a bid to survive... but we are not we are not picking up points, some say we have had hard games. I say every game is hard. atm we are not keeping up with Leeds and Sunderlands points and that is a issues.
Its a long season, but by Xmas the players will realise either this isnt working or we have a chance of staying up.

[sinkov]

So far we've played five teams in the top half of the table and two in the bottom half, I'll wait until that evens up a bit before searching for the panic button.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

No panic button for me mon ami, we are going back to the Championship, the only question is will it be before Easter or after it.