It’s not even hard - sorry to be harsh. Fred. Done. Next discussion. We signed 3 first team defenders that played in a back 3 last season and somehow have ended up with a misfit back 4. Manager is a dunce. Rice is a thicko. We have to stop allowing this. No win in 11. Dodds out. Rice out.
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Getting better each game. Shoot me.
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Are we? Or have we just played 2 of the worst teams in the league at home for one whole point?
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Lowry is a work in progress; Mullins is the finished product.
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Perfect 
Yes.
Rice is an absolute fraud. Hopefully Lomtadze will pay attention to his side-project at some point and get him replaced by someone with a track record in the game, who’ll clear out the iPad men and their leader Dodds.
Reading were piss poor and we struggled for a long time in that game. Giving it a go in the final 15 is not enough.
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So fornation wise its either
Van sass, Allen, Casey, Anders, harvie, Fred, CBM, Magnus, mullins, Hendo, Fink.
Or
Van Sass, Back, Allen, Anders, Harvie, CBM, Magnus, Mullins, junior, Hendo Fink.
Maybe, but never getting them all fit.
Wait for it…Trev is sharpening his pencil…
Surely it’s Taylor ahead of Casey in team 1? Casey doesn’t look remotely up to League One level.
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Players showed some good determination and spirit at the end. Proud of them for that.
Another goal that has come from quick, direct play. If Dodds had any intention of adapting our style based on what actually works, he could learn a lot from it.
Instead we’ll hear another post match about how he’s committed to this style, as if he’s solved Pi and found an infallible tactic, and it’s everyone else’s problem that they can’t see how amazing it is.
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Yep, forgot him. I think Casey is fine, if played as a straight CB.
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“I believe 100% in what we’re doing and I won’t be betraying my principles.”
Maybe he’ll pull put his classic Sunderland quote “I’m not the kind of manager you can judge by points.”
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I dont want to be an absolute Dodds apologist, but what does another manager do to fix the problems?
Whoever we would hire would still pass the ball out from the back, and look for nippy play. They’d still have to deal with a lack of steel in the middle, and no number 9.
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Let the hand brake off before the 75th minute would be my suggestion.
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I cannot wait to see Henderson and Mullins on the pitch together.
If it wasn’t for that 25 mins in the first half we would have won that comfortably. It’s like they saw Udoh win the ball after a long hit forwards and forgot what they are meant to do with the ball For the rest of the 1st half.
Back to the passing around in the second half and as the confidence grew, after it would have taken a huge hit from those two quick goals, there was only one team in it for me.
Dodds has come under fire for not being able to change a game but I think the two subs at half time were exactly what was needed and again, subs in the second half turned the tide towards us.
We need wins, 100%. But they are going to come.
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I think the way we scored the equaliser is Plan A. However, because if a gelling squad and everything needing to be perfect, it doesn’t come off as much as we need it to.
The knocking it around the back is to draw people out, so we can pass through the lines quickly.
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Ainsworth had a bunch of no marks and got them up to the championship.
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Agree completely with this. I don’t personally have much faith in Dodds, but I have even less faith that Rice will employ anyone better. The style of play is set in stone, we won’t be employing someone who’ll change this. We’d be looking for another inexperienced coach, or a European coach. Whoever it is will be a novice to League 1.
The players do seem to to be playing for Dodds at least (even if not especially well). The hope is that with the likes of Henderson and Fink to come in and hopefully a new signing or 2 we’ll start to see some improvement in results.
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Fred may not be “done” but he has certainly been disappointing/underperforming of late! Apart from scoring what, let’s face it, was an extremely important goal in terms of laying at least one niggling bogey and, if only briefly, giving the team greater confidence. I honestly don’t think he justifies being virtually guaranteed a place in the starting lineup.
On the back four conundrum, I see it as a real positive that we have central defenders that are confident enough on the ball to carry it well forward, including one (Taylor Allen) who can double up as competition for Harvie and is also, as we saw today, comfortable playing much further forward (as is Harvie of course but he wouldn’t be an obvious choice as a left sided centre back).
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