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Ian Evatt sacked according to Pete O

Possession, as Gaz brilliantly said, can do one. I would amend that to "possession without purpose can do one". At the moment, we seem to have got the balance about right.

We're currently a touch above 50%, which can't have happened for yeaaars

Bakinson has been a regular squaddie, whereas Butcher has barely had a look in.

But as long as Westergaard is up to speed early doors, then between he and Leahy-Scowen-Humphreys, we probably only need 1 of the 2 as cover for what we hope is just 20 more league games. Plus 3-4 more FA cup games 😘

Tough job for the lads. One game is emergency stations, operating on fumes, but if it's Saturday you'd imagine it's the Saturday/Tue combo and all of a sudden it's a different level of pressure.

It is good we're taking our time with it though. Nothing worse than a rash appointment, as the scrutiny levels would be huge.

Where/when has that style of play worked in the EFL? Genuinely. Remember how we laughed at Rochdale, Forest Green, Carlisle, etc, when they tried these tactics and looked comical. And even Oxford under Robbo, when they would spend all game against us knocking the ball around their back four, barely get near our goal, and then concede a couple on the counter attack.

It is terrible to watch, and it is a ticking time bomb for lower league defenders who don't have the quality on the ball of a John Stones or Nathan Ake

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Do we have the quality to try and have 75% possession every week? I'm not convinced. Watching CBs pass it to each other all day is boring, it's boring when teams do it against us and it would be boring if we did it

Strongly disagree. I watched his Southampton side in a Championship game last year. It was possession for possession's sake. Absolutely tedious. And their suicidal playing out from the back led to them conceding two calamitous goals. All the Saints fans around me were furious. I would hate to watch us play like that

I'd keep Butcher if he's happy, can never have too much MF depth